A Jordanian state security court has sentenced two former officials to 15 years in prison over an alleged plot against the Western-allied monarchy.

A U.S. lawyer says an American citizen and former top aide to Jordan’s King Abdullah II has alleged he was tortured in Jordanian detention and fears for his life.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. A suspected accomplice to a man accused of abusing the corpse of a missing person faced a Broward judge over video conference Thursday morning. Detectives say Sullivan was keeping Babbits body in a deep freezer in the Oakland Park storage unit. A year after the incident, Gregg faces charges of abuse of a dead body and tampering with evidence. The judge doubled the standard bond on Greggs charges of abusing corpse and evidence tampering. She also faced $1,000 bond of possession of methamphetamine, raising her bond to $41,000 in total.