Mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner, who resigned from Congress in disgrace in 2011 after sending lewd messages to women online, has admitted to sending additional sexual messages that surfaced on the Internet this week.
Irma Navarro, a Southern California mother accused of shackling her 10-year-old son, has pleaded not guilty Monday and will be released from custody with an ankle bracelet.
24-year-old Marte Deborah Dalelv, a Norwegian woman at the center of a rape claim she made only to be given a 16-month sentence for reportedly having illicit sex, has been pardoned and is free to leave the country.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Nalvany was released one day after a court in the city of Kirov found him guilty of misappropriating about $500,000 in a lumber deal when he was an advisor to the region's governor. The 37-year-old is one of Russian's President Vladimir Putin's fiercest critics. He predicted he would be convicted to prevent him from running for mayor of Moscow, but denies any kind of wrongdoing. His conviction, some claim, is Putin's attempt to silence another critic of his presidency
