Charlotte Cassez, mother of Florence Cassez, sentenced in Mexico to 60 years in prison for kidnapping, gives a press conference in Lille, northern France. A Mexican court on February 10, upheld the conviction of a French woman who is serving a 60-year prison term for kidnapping. Diplomatic relations between France and Mexico deteriorated into a crisis Friday, after a Mexican court upheld a 60-year... 

A Czech court said it sentenced three men, members of the Gypsy minority, to four years in jail each for beating a man on racial motives. The two Gypsies, calling the victim a “white swine,” beat the 35-year-old man in a town near Karlovy Vary in western Bohemia, 50 miles west of Prague, in December 2007. The third man, a police officer at the time, was accused of trying to cover up... 

Three people have been charged with capital murder and armed robbery in Brookhaven. Assistant Police Chief Nolan Jones says the charges are related to Wednesday’s shooting death of 21-year-old James Braswell. Jones says charges were filed Thursday against 17-year-old Latonio Terrell Hamilton, 20-year-old Tygwan L. Berry and 19-year-old Marvin L. Truss, all of Brookhaven.  Read More »