sentencing

A Utica woman was sentenced Thursday to 72 months in prison for her role in a major Fentanyl distribution ring in the City of Utica.

A Utica man will spend 50 years in prison after pleading guilty to child pornography charges.

Three men have been sentenced to long prison terms for last year's kidnapping and killing of a man whose body was found buried in a backyard in Rochester.

A 15-year-old boy who shot and killed another teen has been sentenced to 10 years to life in prison.

A 31-year-old central New York man has been sentenced to 10 to 30 years in prison for killing three young people by crashing his car into their vehicle while he was drunk and high on drugs.

A former prominent neurological researcher at Yale and New York universities avoided prison time Wednesday for stealing research funds, but a judge said he must play piano for indigent elderly people in Connecticut to make amends.

Ex-New York Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver must report to prison as scheduled next month after a judge Monday denied bail pending the appeal of his corruption conviction and seven-year prison term.

A 31-year-old man has pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular homicide for a crash that killed three young people near Syracuse earlier this year.

A judge has called the upstate New York man who was convicted of killing a 1-year-old boy a "monster" as he handed down a sentence of 25 years in prison.

A 51-year-old man has been sentenced to more than 25 years in prison for killing his girlfriend by leaving her bound and gagged in their Rochester apartment for about two weeks.