• Associated Press

    Ippei Mizuhara, ex-interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtani, pleads guilty in sports betting case

    The former interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani pleaded guilty to bank and tax fraud Wednesday in a sports betting case where prosecutors allege he stole $16 million from the Japanese baseball player to pay off debts. The scandal surrounding Ippei Mizuhara shocked baseball fans from the U.S. to Japan when the news broke in March. Mizuhara exploited his personal and professional relationship with Ohtani to plunder millions from the two-way player’s account for years, at times impersonating Ohtani to bankers, prosecutors said.

  • PA Media: UK News

    Two arrests and hundreds evacuated after bomb squad called to former pit village

    South Yorkshire Police said the Wednesday morning evacuation came after ‘a number of suspicious items’ were found at a property.

  • Reuters

    Man who murdered, stabbed homeless New Yorkers gets 25 years to life in prison

    A New York man who murdered a homeless person and wounded two others as they slept outdoors on park benches in a stabbing spree over several nights in July 2022 was sentenced to between 25 years and life in prison on Wednesday, prosecutors said. Trevon Murphy, 42, had pleaded guilty in January to one count of murder in the second degree and two counts of attempted murder for the attacks. "New Yorkers who face the painful and difficult experience of being unhoused shouldn't have to simultaneously fear for their safety," District Attorney Alvin Bragg, the chief prosecutor for Manhattan, said in a statement.