John Harvey Butts, 93, of San Augustine, Texas, passed peacefully into the presence of the Lord on November 24, 2025. Born on July 8, 1932, in San Augustine, he spent his life rooted in the community ...

That wasn’t much of a jail break. A convicted New Jersey Ponzi schemer who was sprung from prison after a pardon from President Trump during his first term is headed back to the slammer for running ...

The court in People v. Sin allowed evidence of uncharged sexual assaults to show the defendant’s intent, because he claimed his actions were consensual. The article argues this blurs the line, as such ...

Patricia Smith, a Princeton professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts, has received a National Book Award, the 2025 award for poetry, for “The Intentions of Thunder: New and ...

In March 2022, the end of Kelly Clarkson's marriage to Brandon Blackstock became a national spectacle, not just for its celebrity drama but for the legal and financial complexities that played out in ...

A New Jersey man convicted of defrauding investors of roughly a quarter-billion dollars is among a growing number of people granted clemency only to to be charged with new crimes. By Tracey Tully and ...

Twice-convicted NJ fraudster “Eli” Weinstein is sentenced to 37 years for a new $44M Ponzi-style scam. ️‍♂️ Prosecutors say Weinstein, using an alias, secretly ran new investment schemes. ⚖️ Weinstein ...

TRENTON, NJ — A New Jersey Ponzi schemer, whose 24-year prison term for fraud convictions was commuted by President Donald Trump in 2021, is headed back behind bars for another multi-million-dollar ...

A New Jersey man whose sentence was commuted by President Trump during the tail-end of his first term was imprisoned again on Friday for his third fraud conviction. Eliyahu “Eli” Weinstein, a ...

TRENTON Lakewood Ponzi schemer Eliyahu "Eli" Weinstein, freed from custody when President Trump commuted his 24-year prison term for defrauding $230 million from investors, has now been sentenced to ...

A New Jersey scam artist whose federal prison sentence was commuted by President Donald Trump in 2021 is headed back to jail for running a new Ponzi scheme after he was freed. Eliyahi Weinstein, 51, ...