Jonathan Bolar, the former Gretna city councilman whom voters ousted from office on the eve of his federal corruption trial four months ago, was sentenced Monday to 17 years in ...

Williams-Bolar was sentenced to 10 days in county jail followed by three years of probation. Her father, too, was jailed, despite being in his mid-60s and in poor health.

Call me a racial pessimist, but when I first heard the story of Kelley Williams-Bolar, a single mom from Akron, Ohio, who has been sentenced to 10 days in jail and three years probation for lying ...