Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman sentenced to life in prison
NEW YORK – Mexican drug kingpin and escape artist Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was sentenced Wednesday to life behind bars in a U.S. prison, expressing no remorse over his conviction for a massive drug conspiracy that spread murder and mayhem for more than two decades. Instead, a defiant Guzman took a parting shot at a judge in federal court in Brooklyn by accusing him of making a mockery of the U.S. justice system in refusing to order a new trial based on unsubstantiated allegations of juror misconduct.
WASHINGTON – New York businesswoman Scherie Murray announced Wednesday that she is running for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-cortez’s congressional seat in 2020. In tweets announcing her candidacy, Murray, who emigrated to New York from Jamaica when she was 9, said Ocasio-cortez was more “worried about being famous” than representing her constituents. “There’s a crisis in Queens and it’s called AOC,” the Republican said. She said the freshman Democrat “thinks public service is not about serving the public, but herself.”
ST. LOUIS – Former St. Louis police officer William Olsten was charged Tuesday with three felony counts of third-degree assault accusing him of pepper-spraying protesters and a videographer in 2017. Prosecutors said the incident happened in September 2017 outside Busch Stadium during a protest after the acquittal of Jason Stockley, a white former police officer who had been accused of murder in the death of a black suspect. A charging document said tempers flared after an officer used a stun gun on a protester.
LONDON – The two men competing to be Britain’s next leader have held their final televised event in front of Conservative Party members who will decide the winner. Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt, the former and current foreign secretaries, spoke and answered questions in front of hundreds of Tories at a London conference center Wednesday. Johnson, the strong front-runner according to pollsters and bookmakers, repeated his vow to take Britain out of the European Union on the scheduled date of Oct. 31.