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NASSAU, BAHAMAS - Bahamian murder accused Shelton Thompson will serve no additional jail time in the U.S. after being sentenced in a federal gun case.

NASSAU, BAHAMAS - A man already on bail for a 2021 murder has been denied bail by the supreme court.

NASSAU, BAHAMAS - Prosecutors are making a third attempt to retry a former police officer and two men linked to a $64,000 cocaine seizure at Lynden Pindling International Airport in 2013.

NASSAU, BAHAMAS - A former accounts clerk at the Bahamas Islands Co-Operative Credit Union is accused of stealing more than $1.2m over a 10-year period.

NASSAU, BAHAMAS - A night involving alcohol, a stop at Goodman's Bay and a secret entry into a woman's home became the focus of an indecent assault case that ended in an acquittal.

NASSAU, BAHAMAS - A man and his aunt are facing charges after a woman was allegedly attacked during a dispute over parental access to a two-year-old child.

UNITED STATES - Convicted cocaine trafficker Jonathan Eric Gardiner is fighting to have key evidence in his New York drug case thrown out — and to get back some $30,000 seized by U.S. authorities.

NASSAU, BAHAMAS - Justice Dale Fitzpatrick agreed that the state was entirely responsible for the delay, particularly its failure to produce a pathologist's report for more than five years.

NASSAU, BAHAMAS - Former Georgia beauty queen Lindsay Shiver is expected to stand trial in January after losing her bid to have a murder conspiracy case against her thrown out.

NASSAU, BAHAMAS - A Grand Bahama businessman has scored a legal victory against the police after the supreme court ruled that he was unlawfully arrested, detained and maliciously prosecuted.