Disgraced former Queens state senator Shirley Huntley was sentenced to one year in prison, and three year probation. She pleaded guilty to mail fraud conspiracy last winter, after admitting to embezzling nearly $88,000 from a state-funded non profit she controlled.
Days before his death in 2009, Michael Jackson told his producer/director Kenny Ortega that "God keeps talking to me." Ortega and associate producer Alif Sankey testified on Wednesday that they became increasingly alarmed at Jackson's frail appearance during his final rehearsals. The lawsuit, brought by Michael Jackson's elderly mother Katherine on behalf of the singer's three children, alleges that privately-held AEG Live was negligent in hiring the physician convicted in 2011 of his involuntary manslaughter to care for her son while he rehearsed for the series of 50 shows.
An 83-year-old nun and two other nuclear protesters convicted of breaking into Y-12 National Security Complex and defacing the walls of a uranium processing plant are seeking release from jail even as they await sentencing.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bombing suspect, has been buried in an undisclosed location outside Worcester, Massachusetts. Sgt. Kerry Hazelhurst said the body was no longer in Worcester, and has since been entombed, and police have not specified where the body had been taken.
