The Queens District Attorney’s office is prosecuting a New York City taxi cab driver who allegedly avoided $28,000 in tolls on the RFK Bridge by tailgating closely behind the car in front of him and crossing through the bridge’s tollbooth before the barrier came down.

A Missouri appeals court must decide whether a convicted armed robber who was sentenced to 13 years behind bars in 2000—and spent those 13 years living the life of a free, model citizen after he never received instructions to report to prison—can be forced to serve his sentence now that the Missouri Department of Corrections has finally discovered the clerical error that let him slip through the cracks for so many years. So reports ABC News.

Michigan’s Judge John McBain told a 31-year-old woman who received a life sentence in his courtroom for brutally murdering her boyfriend by stabbing him 11 times "I hope you die in prison. If this was a death penalty state, you'd be getting the chair." So reports WJBK News.

President Obama shortened the sentence of a convicted drug dealer who would otherwise have been destined to serve a 15-year prison term. So reports the Associated Press.