https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A man who took 60 cents from a public fountain in Nocera Inferiore, Salerno, has been handed a one-year suspended sentence by a local court. https://www.thelocal.it/20160912/fountain-thief-sentenced-to-1-year-for-stealing-60-cents Mon, 12 Sep 2016 13:23:26 +0200 fountain-thief-sentenced-to-1-year-for-stealing-60-cents His job was to come down hard on tax evaders, instead an Italian tax judge was arrested in December on suspicion of corruption in judicial acts. https://www.thelocal.it/20160129/italy-police-find-300k-stashed-by-arrested-tax-judge Fri, 29 Jan 2016 10:14:09 +0100 italy-police-find-300k-stashed-by-arrested-tax-judge Italy's interior ministry has placed Lucia Borsellino, the daughter of a Sicilian judge killed by the mafia in 1992, under protection, media reports said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.it/20150818/slain-anti-mafia-judges-daughter-under-guard Tue, 18 Aug 2015 09:40:06 +0200 slain-anti-mafia-judges-daughter-under-guard The Tunisian captain of a migrant boat in which at least 700 people drowned was to learn on Friday what charges he will face over the deadly disaster. https://www.thelocal.it/20150424/migrant-disaster-ship-skipper-faces-judge Fri, 24 Apr 2015 16:35:11 +0200 migrant-disaster-ship-skipper-faces-judge Sergio Mattarella, a constitutional court judge, was sworn in on Tuesday as Italy's new president. https://www.thelocal.it/20150203/sergio-mattarella-sworn-in-as-italian-president Tue, 03 Feb 2015 11:11:00 +0100 sergio-mattarella-sworn-in-as-italian-president Italy's new president is a white-haired Sicilian who might never have got anywhere near the corridors of power but for the Mafia killing of his beloved elder brother. https://www.thelocal.it/20150131/sergio-mattarella Sat, 31 Jan 2015 15:24:00 +0100 sergio-mattarella Sergio Mattarella, a constitutional court judge from Sicily who has come to symbolise Italy's battle against organised crime, was on Saturday elected the country's president. https://www.thelocal.it/20150131/sicilian-judge-elected-italian-president Sat, 31 Jan 2015 14:54:00 +0100 sicilian-judge-elected-italian-president A man from Genoa has been sent to trial for allegedly stealing a box of chocolates worth just €8. https://www.thelocal.it/20150130/genoa-man-faces-trial-over-8-chocolate-theft Fri, 30 Jan 2015 10:08:00 +0100 genoa-man-faces-trial-over-8-chocolate-theft The judge who announced the guilty verdicts against Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher is facing disciplinary action for “impropriety” following comments made to an Italian newspaper. https://www.thelocal.it/20140204/knox-judge-faces-inquiry-after-media-comments Tue, 04 Feb 2014 09:16:00 +0100 knox-judge-faces-inquiry-after-media-comments Four teenagers from Foggia, in Puglia, have designed a Google 'doodle' to commemorate anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, which they hope the world's largest search engine will publish on July 19th. https://www.thelocal.it/20130702/google-doodle-honours-anti-mafia-judges Tue, 02 Jul 2013 16:48:00 +0200 google-doodle-honours-anti-mafia-judges