A Winona man was sentenced to 27 years in prison for using social media apps and sexually extorting dozens of girls — many of them preteens — across the country and abroad. Valentin Silva Quintana, 31 ...

It will be up to U.S. District Judge Jerry Blackwell to decide her sentence after a pre-sentence investigation is completed, and he’s not bound by the sentencing guidelines. Blackwell said what ...

Read more on Duke Today. Federal judge Jerry W. Blackwell stood in the pulpit of Duke Chapel during a Sunday commemoration service for civil rights martyr Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and offered a ...

Authorities said thousands of images and videos were discovered, including some he had edited with photos of other children.

Judge Jerry Blackwell, a member of the prosecution team that won a murder conviction for the killing of George Floyd, will deliver the keynote talk at Duke University’s annual MLK Commemoration on ...

Judge Jerry Blackwell urged congregants not to give up hope amid America’s time of anxiety and fear, and instead shine their lights to overcome it. (Photo: screengrab from service livestream.) Judge ...