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A transgender-identifying male secured first place at an amateur female cycling event in New York City over the weekend. Tiffany Thomas stood atop the winner’s podium at the Randall’s Island Crit, a New York City-based race, next to two women who scored second and third place, according to a social media post from NYC Cycling News. Thomas is affiliated with the L.A.-based women’s cycling group L.A. Sweat. “Tiffany is a scientist by day, athlete by night,” Thomas’s bio on the L.A. Sweat website, first reported by ABC7 News, reads. “She has never met a barbell, a bike, or a dog...

A military jury on Friday spared a Marine of prison time for kidnapping and conspiring to murder an Iraqi man who was killed as troops hunted in vain for a suspected insurgent. Cpl. Trent Thomas was sentenced to a bad-conduct discharge and reduced pay. A military jury of three officers and six enlisted Marines deliberated for less than an hour before returning their decision. Thomas, a 25-year-old father of two, faced a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole. He was convicted Wednesday of kidnapping and conspiracy to murder an Iraqi man after a botched attempt to capture a...

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. - A military jury on Wednesday convicted a Marine of conspiring to murder an Iraqi man in a bungled attempt to abduct and kill a suspected insurgent in Hamdania. Cpl. Trent Thomas, 25, was the first of seven Marines and a Navy corpsman to go to trial in the killing, which squad members tried to cover up by planting a gun near the victim after he was gunned down in a ditch. Thomas faces a maximum sentence of life in prison, according to his defense attorney, Victor Kelley. While several of the men pleaded guilty in the...

DON KOHLBAUER / Union-Tribune Marine Cpl. Trent D. Thomas (right) walks to the courtroom at Camp Pendleton earlier this week during his court-martial proceedings. He is accompanied by military defense counsel Maj. Dale Saran CAMP PENDLETON – The Iraqi that Marine Cpl. Trent Thomas helped to kidnap and kill is hardly the innocent victim that prosecutors have described, Thomas' attorneys said Friday. Marine investigators didn't even get the dead man's name right, Thomas' defense team said during the fifth day of his court-martial at Camp Pendleton. “We believe the person killed was extremely likely to be an insurgent,” attorney...

Marine Cpl. Trent Thomas The case against Cpl. Trent Thomas is the first to reach the full trial stage since he and seven other members of a Kilo Company platoon from Camp Pendleton's 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment were charged in June 2006 with the killing of 52-year-old Hashim Awad. Thomas pleaded guilty in January to his role in Awad's death and said during an interview with CNN earlier this year that he took part in the plot. But three days into his sentencing hearing in early February, he withdrew the guilty plea, telling the court that he was...

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. - Friends and family are rallying around the seven Marines and a Navy medic charged with killing an Iraqi civilian, setting up Web sites to raise money and draw attention to what they claim is an unfair prosecution. The troops are charged with premeditated murder and could face the death penalty if convicted. Supporters are scrambling to raise tens of thousands of dollars to pay defense attorneys. "We are not rich, but we are doing anything we can," said Diann Shumate of Matlock, Wash., mother of 20-year-old Marine Lance Cpl. Jerry Shumate Jr. Military prosecutors allege the...

ABC News has learned that charges will be filed against 7 Marines and One Navy Corpsmen. The charges are expected to include murder, conspiracy and obstruction of justice in relation to the killing of an unarmed Iraqi civilian in the town of Hamdania.