Former Postal worker, Brenda Sue Cox was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Anchorage on Monday by Judge Sharon Gleason after pleading guilty to charges of Drug Conspiracy and Possession of Stolen Mail.
A federal judge sentenced a former Guatemalan Army officer to the maximum 10 years in prison Monday for immigration crimes, ruling that the ex-commando obtained U.S. citizenship by concealing his role in the massacre of 250 men, women and children in a Guatemalan village in 1982.
Washington state's Democrat Governor, Jay Inslee announced on Tuesday that he was suspending the death penalty in that state. He said he came to his decision after months of review that included victim's families, law enforcement and prosecutors.
After a two year investigation into cocaine and heroin trafficking by U.S. and Italian authorities, 24 mafia members in Italy and New York were arrested it was announced by the FBI on Tuesday.