Ex-union official sentenced in federal corruption probe
DETROIT (AP) — A former United Auto Workers official convicted of accepting bribes from Fiat Chrysler executives has been sentenced to a year in prison.
The U.S. Attorney’s office says a federal judge in Detroit also ordered Nancy Johnson last week to pay a $10,000 fine. Johnson pleaded guilty in July to violating the Labor Management Relations Act.
She and others were charged in a scheme to strip millions from a Detroit worker training center financed by Fiat Chrysler. The leader, former auto executive Al Iacobelli, was sentenced in August to 5 1/2 years in federal prison.
New sentence with chance at parole given to man for ‘86 slaying
ANN ARBOR (AP) — A man who was 16 when he killed a 13-year-old girl in Michigan is getting a new sentence with a chance at parole.
The Ann Arbor News reports 48-year-old Christopher Machacek was resentenced last week to 37-60 years in prison for the 1986 shooting death of Mary Ann Hulbert in a field in Washtenaw County’s Superior Township. She had told Machacek she might be pregnant with his child.
Before the decision by Washtenaw County Trial Court Judge Darlene O’Brien, Machacek pleaded for mercy but acknowledged he wasn’t sure if he deserved it.
Machacek was sentenced in 1988 to life in prison without parole, but the Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that no-parole life sentences for juveniles are cruel and unusual punishment.
Court orders prison system to share more lethal drug records
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that the state prison system must share more requested records on the acquisition and supply of its lethal-injection drugs.
The high court decided Friday that the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction could not claim certain documents were entirely exempt from open records laws because they contain information that could identify those who participate in manufacturing or supplying drugs used in executions. Instead, those records should be released with such data redacted.
Lawyers initially complained in 2016 that the state failed to produce a complete set of records about the drugs, including who made them and when they expire.
The department claimed other records were exempt from open records laws. Last December, the court ordered the department to provide records for justices to review.
Aquarium apologizes for tweets about sea otter
MONTEREY, Calif. (AP) — California's Monterey Bay Aquarium has apologized after some people perceived a tweet about a sea otter as body-shaming.
The aquarium tweeted a picture of Abby, an otter who helps train orphaned otters how to survive in the wild. The tweet featured social media words and phrases such as “thick” and “c h o n k,” which are used to describe someone who is overweight.
People took offense. The next day, the aquarium tweeted an apology that it called a “learning moment.” It apologized and said it was unaware of the connotations associated with some of the memes.
The aquarium says “Abby is looking fit.”
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