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HARPER, Maryland County — September 7, 2026: The Fourth Judicial Circuit Court in Maryland County has sentenced Dougbe Newton and Friday Newton to 30 years in p…
MONROVIA – The legal team of Former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor has shifted its strategy from preliminary examination to trial amid a dispute over eviden…
Former Vice President Cllr. Jewel Howard-Taylor has been granted compassionate medical leave from pre-trial detention by Criminal Court “C” Judge Ousman F. Feik…
Monrovia-Fear and confusion briefly gripped the courtyard of the Monrovia City Court on Monday after a Liberia National Police officer unexpectedly discharged a…
Monrovia-Lawyers representing former Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor have withdrawn their request for a preliminary examination of evidence in the State’s al…
MONROVIA – The Supreme Court’s dismissal of an ethics complaint against Labour Minister Cooper W. Kruah ends a dispute dating to 2014. It distinguishes an attor…
A Margibi County corruption case — backed by a paper trail of prosecutors asking, three separate times, for a trial date — is raising hard questions about wheth…
Monrovia — The Supreme Court of Liberia has dismissed a long-running complaint against Labour Minister Cllr. Cooper W. Kruah, Sr., clearing him of allegations t…
TEMPLE OF JUSTICE, Monrovia, September 4, 2026: Criminal Court “C” has ordered former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor released from the Monrovia Central Pris…
MONROVIA — A day after Criminal Court “C” ordered former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor moved from Monrovia Central Prison to guarded house detention on med…
The Criminal Court “C” on Thursday ordered the immediate transfer of former Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor from the Monrovia Central Prison to heavily-guar…
MONROVIA – Former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor will leave the Monrovia Central Prison for guarded detention at her Sinkor residence after Criminal Court “…
MONROVIA – Former Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor has been released from custodial detention on compassionate grounds, but her legal troubles remain unresolv…
Monrovia — Criminal Court “C” Judge Ousman F. Feika has granted former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor’s request for compassionate release from detention on…
Monrovia — A police investigator has testified in court about an alleged cocaine-trafficking operation in Liberia, telling the court that former Vice President…
KAKATA, Margibi County — September 4, 2026: The criminal trial involving several officers of the Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency is approaching its decisive pha…
MONROVIA, LIBERIA — Like Nora Finda Bondoo before her, former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor walked into Liberia’s courtroom drama clad in white, an image l…
MONROVIA – For some litigants before Liberia’s Supreme Court, justice has been a wait measured not in months, but in more than a decade. That reality emerged pr…
MONROVIA — Coalition for Democratic Change Secretary-General Jefferson Koijee accused President Joseph Nyuma Boakai on Thursday of ordering the arrest of former…
BOLA, Bomi County– Kumba Thomas returns home from a long day at her farm. Around her, life in the community continues at its ordinary pace, but ghosts follow Th…
MONROVIA — President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has replaced his Minister of Justice and Attorney General, along with his Solicitor General, hours after former Preside…
Monrovia – Jefferson T. Koijee’s allegations place former Justice Minister N. Oswald Tweh’s dismissal inside Liberia’s increasingly charged opposition-governmen…
TEMPLE OF JUSTICE, Monrovia, September 4, 2026: Former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor is expected to appear before the Monrovia City Court on Friday, Septem…
Human trafficking increasingly reaches Liberians through attractive job, scholarship, travel and sporting offers that often conceal exploitation or organized fr…
