Derrick Lew, a veteran police officer in San Francisco, was appointed as the city's next police chief and pledged in a statement to "continue acting with urgency to get more officers into the department, to attack the drug crisis, to improve street conditions and to ensure San Francisco remains one of the safest cities in the country."

Jafar Panahi, a Gotham Award-winning Iranian director, was sentenced in absentia to a year in prison and had a two-year ban on leaving his home country imposed on him after being convicted on charges of "propaganda activities against the system," his attorney Mostafa Nili said on X.

Stephanie Dorisca, former director of nursing at Techni-Pro Institute in Boca Raton, Fla., faces up to 20 years in prison as she was convicted of conspiring to commit wire frau

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