Cody Skaggs was emotional in Kent County Circuit Court as he pleaded for help. He served 27 years for a 1996 murder before being paroled and committing new crimes last October.

A Northern California man found guilty of a murder-for-hire plot involving the estranged husband of a California Highway Patrol captain was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday.

A man accused of shooting and killing a 38-year-old man in Over-the-Rhine has learned his prison sentence.The shooting happened on Aug. 20, 2024, around 11:50 p.m. in the 100 block of East Clifton Avenue.

A former bookkeeper was sentenced to prison on May 27 for embezzling over $130,000 from local alt-weekly newspaper "Eugene Weekly." Elisha Joe Young, 39, pleaded guilty March 24 to two counts of first-degree theft and three counts of first-degree aggravated theft.

A judge sentenced a man to prison for a fatal head-on, drunk driving crash. The crash happened near Lovers Lane and Rawson in November 2024. He admitted he thought he was impaired when he got behind the wheel.

American Kouri Richins, who published a children's book about coping with grief after the death of her husband, has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The verdict was delivered on May 13,

Omar Brogdon of Michigan was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, according to court records viewed by PEOPLE