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    BATON ROUGE — Christian King, a Texas lawyer seen on surveillance video setting fire to his ex's house in 2023, accepted responsibility for his crime Monday.He pleaded guilty to aggravated arson and was given a 20-year sentence with 17 of those years suspended by Judge Eboni Johnson Rose.She gave him credit for time served, reducing his remaining time in jail to just a few months.But all of that was undone shortly after, when the East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney's office claimed...

  • Sacad Ali: Two teenage boys plead guilty to murder of man, 24, in Sheffield park as woman pleads innocence

    Two teenage boys have pleaded guilty to the murder of a man who was stabbed to death in a Sheffield park. Sacad Ali, aged 24, was found with multiple stab wounds in Ponderosa Park, in Netherthorpe, on March 9, 2024. He died of his injuries the next day. Subscribe to The Star’s newsletter for all the latest news in Sheffield delivered direct to your inbox Today (May 24), two youths - aged 16 and 17, who cannot be named because of their ages - pleaded guilty to his murder at a hearing at Sheffield...

  • Mississippi woman pleads guilty to stealing government funds

    A Mississippi woman has pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally taking unemployment benefits, authorities said Tuesday. Misty Burgess, of Plantersville, entered the plea to one count of theft of government funds in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi, State Auditor Shad White said in a news release. MISSISSIPPI WOMAN FOUND GUILTY OF THREATENING FEDERAL JUDGE WITH VIOLENT EMAILS Burgess applied for unemployment benefits in May 2020 using her sister's personal...