Joan Orie Melvin, a former state Supreme Court Justice, was sentenced Tuesday to house arrest and community service in soup kitchen, as well as ordered to send handwritten apologies for her crimes on photographs of herself in handcuffs in the state. Melvin was sentenced to three years of house arrest, followed with two year on probation.
Oreck Corporation, the Nashville-based manufacturer of upright vacuums and cleaning products, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and could reach an agreement to sell its assets in a few days, court filings revealed, as reported in The Tennessean. A Chapter 11 filing will allow Oreck to consolidate its assets and restructure its finances as part of an effort to sell the business, the company said in a statement released Tuesday
Pat Smith, whose son Sean Smith, a State Department information officer killed along with three government employees at the consulate in Benghazi Libya on September 11 last year, has blamed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a CNN interview.
Authorities were investigating the bodies of two adult men and one woman whose bodies were found on a rural property in an eastern Kansas. Friends of the residents called police to report a foul site at the site.
