Chance Grooms, 25, has been sentenced to serve 75 months (6 years, 3 months) in prison for first degree sex abuse arising out of a 2025 incident involving a special needs adult under his care.
(The Center Square) - New analysis from Washington Policy Center’s Director of Public Safety Solutions is casting doubt on the success claims of a program to reduce arrests, prosecutions and incarceration for individuals involved in drug-related crimes.
Jacob Tunget, 28, was sentenced today to serve 100 months (8.3 years) in prison for first degree rape arising out of a 2024 incident which occurred behind the Safeway supermarket in Dallas.
(The Center Square) – Minnesota is increasing penalties for Medicaid fraud as state and federal officials continue prosecuting cases involving millions of dollars allegedly stolen from taxpayer-funded programs.
Advocates and lawmakers in Oregon have introduced bills to allow judges to reduce a sentence based on how coercion and abuse played a role in the crime these laws in three legislative sessions, but political opposition stopped them from moving forward.
(The Center Square) – Eight men have now been indicted by a federal grand jury for charges related to an alleged plot targeting the UFC cage-fighting event at the White House in June.Â
(The Center Square) – A Minnesota woman has pleaded guilty to threatening Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth after leaving a series of violent voicemails earlier this year.
A Payette County grand jury has indicted former Payette resident Andrea Shaw, 23, on two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of her 18-month-old twins. Shaw was arrested June 30 in Boise without incident and is awaiting extradition to Payette County, where she will be arraigned.
THE DALLES — For multiple sex offenses committed against a 4-year-old child in the spring of 2024, Judge John Wolf sentenced Lucas Blevins to nearly 23 years on June 9.