Former radio show host Bernie Ward sentenced
SAN FRANCISCO Former radio talk show host Bernie Ward was sentenced in federal court in San Francisco Thursday to seven years and three months in prison for sending child pornography over the Internet.
Former House majority leader Tom DeLay, the brash Texan who helped build and tightly control a Republican majority in his chamber until resigning in 2005, was sentenced by a state judge yesterday to three years in prison for illegally plotting to funnel corporate contributions to Texas legislative candidates.