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Richard Reid, the al Qaeda follower who tried to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight with explosives hidden in his shoes, is sentenced to life in prison. Reid gets the maximum sentence after declaring himself a soldier of war. NPR's Tovia Smith reports.

The man arrested after a deadly attack and standoff at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs Friday is Robert Lewis Dear, 57, officials confirm.

Bernard Ebbers, who as the once-swaggering CEO of WorldCom oversaw the largest corporate fraud in U.S. history, wept in court Wednesday after a judge sentenced him to 25 years in prison -- the toughest sentence yet in the string of recent corporate scandals.

An Afghan judge sentences three Americans to lengthy prison terms after they were convicted of illegally detaining and torturing Afghan civilians in a freelance hunt for terrorists. Hear reporter Rachel Martin.

A White House spokesman says the president's thoughts and prayers are with the family of an Iranian-American journalist who has been sentenced to eight years in prison in iran for espionage.

Chauvin "treated Mr. Floyd without respect and denied him the dignity owed to all human beings," wrote Judge Peter Cahill, adding an additional 10 years to Chauvin's presumptive sentence.

A hearing will be held Tuesday to determine whether a man convicted of murdering a University of New Hampshire student will be allowed to skip his…

Lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his partner Adam Kidan are sentenced to nearly six years in prison for committing fraud in the purchase of a gambling fleet. But they were allowed to remain free while they help a corruption investigation targeting Congress.

It's been a decade since the first permanent International Criminal Court was created. On Tuesday, it delivered its first sentence. The Hague-based court ordered Congolese warlord Thomas Lubango to serve 14 years in prison. He was convicted in March of recruiting and using children as soldiers in his militia.

Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein confirms in court that he approved death sentences for Shiite villagers in the early 1980s, saying they were guilty of attempting to assassinate him. A day earlier, the government filed charges of genocide against Saddam for his treatment of Iraq's Kurdish minority in the 1980s.