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An elderly US couple charged with spying for Cuba for almost 30 years has pleaded guilty in the conspiracy, with the husband agreeing to serve a life sentence, the US Justice Department said.
Two Democratic senators and two congressmen Saturday pledgedtheir support to turn the mostly unused Thomson Correctional Centerin Thomson, Ill., into a federal prison that also would house someterrorist detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
No, it wasn't more early morning fog you spotted over Centennial Park. It was the smoky haze of the 11th annual Cigar Heritage Festival, which drew aficionados of all things stogie to the Ybor City park today.
Many in baseball believe either the Yanks or Sox will sign Aroldis Chapman, a 21-year-old left handed pitcher who has hit 102 miles per hour on the radar gun.
Today marks the 46th anniversary of that horrible day in 1963 when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. It was a watershed event in American history and it occurred during a time of extreme international tensions in the middle of the Cold War. Many have speculated that, had he lived, Kennedy would not have escalated the war in Vietnam, as did his successor, Lyndon Johnson ...
UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- The world's nations need to work harder to safeguard citizens from disasters caused by climate change, a United Nations official said in New York.
Cuban star Chapman switches agents
HAVANA (AP) — The husband of an acclaimed dissident Cuban blogger was punched and shouted down by a pro-government mob Friday after he challenged the presumed state agents who earlier roughed up his wife to a street corner debate.
Cuban pitching phenom Aroldis Chapman has fired the representative who helped him gain free agency, his former agency confirmed Saturday.
The endless tangle of bullets, trajectories, wounds, time sequences and inconsistent testimony that has surrounded the JFK assassination will probably never be satisfactorily resolved.
A former State Department employee and his wife have agreed to plead guilty to spying on the U.S. government and providing the information to Cuba. Walter Kendell Myers, 72, was known as Agent 202 and agreed to a life sentence without parole and agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors. His wife, Gwendolyn Myers, 71, agreed to a sentence of 6-7.5 years in prison.
Parents will soon be making three decisions about the leadership at the Marco Island Charter Middle School. The school board has three open positions -- one parent position and two non-parent positions.
An elderly US couple charged with spying for Cuba for almost 30 years has pleaded guilty in the conspiracy, with the husband agreeing to serve a life sentence, the US Justice Department said.
HAVANA (AP) — President Barack Obama has answered questions submitted by a celebrated Cuban blogger, saying he isn’t interested in “talking for the sake of talking” with Raul Castro and indicating he won’t visit the island until the communist government changes its ways.
WASHINGTON (AP) - A retired State Department worker and his wife accused of a decades-long plot to spy for Cuba pleaded guilty Friday in a deal that will leave him behind bars for the rest of his life but gives her a chance at freedom in six years.
(RTTNews) - A former US State Department official and his wife have admitted spying for Cuba for about three decades, reports said. In guilty plea agreements, Kendall Myers, agreed to a sentence of life in prison, while his wife Gwendolyn, will serve a term of no more than seven-and-a-half years.
