The South Carolina teenager accused of plotting to blow up his high school is expected to plead guilty to federal explosives charges. Prosecutors and defense attorneys say 19-year-old Ryan Anthony Schallenberger will change his plea to guilty during a hearing in Florence Wednesday. Update: Schallenberger has agreed to serve 10 years in prison.

Attorneys for the South Carolina teenager accused of plotting to blow up his high school say their client will plead guilty to federal charges next week. Attorneys for 19-year-old Ryan Schallenberger would not say after a brief hearing in Florence on Friday which charges would be part of a plea agreement.

A Salley, South Carolina man pled guilty to several sex crimes on Wednesday, even though they actually happened in the late 70’s and early 80’s, according to the ‘Aiken Standard’.

The trial of a former South Carolina high school band director is scheduled to begin Monday.

Bernard Madoff has been sentenced to 150 years in prison for his multibillion-dollar fraud scheme. U.S. District Judge Denny Chin handed down the sentenced in New York on Monday.

A dump truck driver who hit and killed a hospital chaplain in April has been sentenced to two years probation.

A former Georgia Tech student has been convicted of plotting to aid a terrorist group by videotaping landmarks in Washington, D.C. U.S. District Judge Bill Duffey found 24-year-old Syed Haris Ahmed guilty of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorism in the U.S. and abroad.

A former South Carolina county councilman has been found guilty of using spyware to scan another county employee’s computer and e-mails. The Greenville News reported Thursday that attorneys for former Greenville County Councilman Tony Trout said he’ll likely appeal the conviction. He faces up to 16 years in prison when he is sentenced later, but attorney Benjamin Stepp said he will try to convince the judge that Trout doesn’t need to go to jail.

An Augusta woman could get 15 years in prison for credit card fraud, and identity theft. Vickie Parks Shepard pled guilty in federal court, on Wednesday.

Mississippi basketball coach Andy Kennedy has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of disorderly conduct in his cab driver assault case. Kennedy avoided trial and possible jail time with the plea deal Monday in Hamilton County Municipal Court in Cincinnati. He will be on probation for six months and must perform 40 hours of community service.

Music producer Phil Spector has been convicted of second-degree murder in the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson at his mansion six years ago. A Los Angeles Superior Court jury returned the verdict Monday after an estimated 29 to 30 hours of deliberations.

According to a press release e-mailed to WJBF News Channel 6, Edmund A. Booth, Jr., United States Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia, announced that Daniel Webster Cason, the Public Works Director for the City of Harlem, Georgia who is responsible for the operation of that city’s Wastewater Treatment Plant, entered a plea of guilty today in U.S. District Court in Augusta before U. S. District Judge J. Randal Hall to three counts of making false statements in records and reports regarding the Treatment Plant’s measurements of fecal coliform and biochemical oxygen demand in violation of Title 33, United States Code, Section 1319(c)(4).

Former Atlanta Falcons linebacker Ken Tippins has been sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to cocaine possession. Alapaha Chief Assistant District Attorney Charles Stines says Tippins will serve four years followed by six years of probation. In exchange for the cocaine plea, a marijuana possession with intent to distribute charge was dropped.

A 28-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty in Hall County Superior Court in the June 2005 rape-slaying of a 4-year-old girl. Cornelio Zamites, a farm worker, was charged in an 18-count indictment that also included child molestation, false imprisonment and kidnapping in the strangulation of the child.

A New York judge had to rein in a courtroom packed with seething fraud victims during the hearing in which Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty to what may be Wall Street’s biggest ever scam.