An American man was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison after pleading guilty to cyber extortion in the mass data breach of a student information system used across Canada.  Court documents show Matthew D. Lane was sentenced in a Massachusetts court after he pleaded guilty to charges relating to the cyber extortion of two […]

HIGH POINT, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina state House member has been charged with sex-related crimes involving a teenager earlier this year, court records show. Six-term Democratic state Rep. Cecil Brockman, 41, of High Point, was arrested Wednesday on two counts each of statutory sexual offense with a child and taking indecent liberties with […]

Two police organizations have announced charges against five men in connection to separate extortion cases in Surrey, B.C. The Surrey Police Service announced on Monday the arrest and charges against three men believed to be linked to an extortion investigation in the city. The RCMP said hours later that charges had been laid against two […]

SYDNEY (AP) — The only Australian soldier to be charged with a war crime in Afghanistan pleaded not guilty Friday, but a prosecutor said he is unlikely to stand trial before 2027. Oliver Schulz, 44, is accused of shooting Afghan man Dad Mohammad three times in the head in an Uruzgan province wheat field in […]

BERLIN (AP) — A man suspected of gathering information on Jewish locations and individuals in Berlin for Iranian intelligence, possibly with a view to attacks, has been arrested in Denmark, German prosecutors said Tuesday. The Danish national, identified only as Ali S. in line with German privacy rules, was arrested on Thursday in the Danish […]

A Fort Providence man was sentenced to 30 months, minus time served, and barred from owning a firearm for a decade after pleading guilty to possession of crack cocaine in Deline. In territorial court on May 16, John Minoza, 37, of Fort Providence, pleaded guilty to one count of possession of a controlled substance for […]

The case law looked real to Fraser MacLean.  It was December 2023 and the Vancouver-based family court lawyer was reading citations in an application by opposing counsel Chong Ke, who wanted an order allowing the children of her client to visit him in China. “I read it there in the courtroom for the first time, […]

In one corner of the battle are criminals using artificial intelligence to generate child sexual abuse material — and in the other, AI is being used to help hunt down the offenders. The rise of artificial intelligence has kicked off an arms race between perpetrators and police in Canada. The RCMP’s National Child Exploitation Coordination […]

DETROIT (AP) — A judge entered a not-guilty plea Monday for a former Baltimore Ravens and University of Michigan assistant football coach who is charged with hacking into the computer accounts of thousands of college athletes to find intimate images, primarily of women. Matt Weiss’ appearance in federal court in Detroit was brief and came […]

NEW YORK (AP) — As CBS corporate leaders ponder settling President Donald Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit against the network’s “60 Minutes,” America’s storied newsmagazine has produced some fast and hard-hitting stories critical of the new administration in every episode since Trump was inaugurated. The latest was Sunday, when CBS News helped facilitate a performance featuring […]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia couple received the maximum sentences of decades in prison Wednesday for abusing their adoptive children, which included heavy labor, locking them in bedrooms, forcing some to sleep on concrete floors and making them stand for hours with their hands on their heads. Jeanne Kay Whitefeather received up to […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Democrats on the House Judiciary and House Oversight committees have filed a lengthy Freedom of Information Act request questioning whether the Trump administration’s DOGE Service is operating “outside the bounds of federal law,” The Associated Press has learned. Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland and Rep. Gerald Connolly of Virginia are seeking […]