Boston bombing widow Katherine Russell added attorney Joshua Dratel, who has represented several high level terror suspects, to her legal team on Wednesday.

Opponents of Southern Co. (SO) ’s plan to build two nuclear reactors in Georgia failed to persuade a federal appeals court to revoke the license and reactor-design certification granted by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

FRANKLIN COUNTY - Voters in Franklin and Fulton counties this year will turn a lawyer into a judge.

A 29-year-old east-central Nebraska man has been ruled mentally incompetent to stand trial on allegations that he molested his 8-year-old niece.

ALBANY, NY — In an important victory for residents opposed to hydraulic fracturing in New York, the Third Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court in Albany on May 2 ruled that municipalities have the right to adopt zoning laws that prohibit fracking.

The fate of convicted killer Jodi Arias remains unclear Thursday after a mistrial was declared when jurors couldn't decide on whether Arias would receive the death penalty, or life in prison.

Teofilo Ramos, caught selling heroin but sent to treatment rather than prison, exemplifies the success of New York’s reform of the Rockefeller drug laws.

For Gov. Christie and allies, political points seem more important than legal precedent.

(AP Photo/Ferd Kaufman, File). FILE - In this May 23,1962 file photo, Billie Sol Estes, left, and his attorney John Cofer of Austin, Tex. are shown as they arrived at the federal court house in El Paso, Texas.

(Reuters) - A single winning ticket for a record U.S. Powerball lottery jackpot worth $590.5 million was sold in Florida, organizers said late on Saturday, but there was no immediate word about who won or where in the state the ticket was bought. Related Stories Nigeria offers amnesty to insurgents who surrender Two Egyptian journalists, critical of Mursi, face trial Protesting Egyptian police ...

Western Pennsylvania is well-known for its deer hunting.

A Texas man who pleaded guilty to charges stemming from an armed robbery spree was sentenced to nine life terms.

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - Jurors in Trumbull County reached a verdict on Thursday, in the case against a Youngstown man accused of providing the heroin that led to the death of a 17-year-old girl from Girard.

The Supreme Court has been pondering whether to take up a Wisconsin case that could reset the line separating church and state.

A judge has sentenced a 40-year-old eastern Ohio man to life in prison after he pleaded guilty to raping a child.

man shot in the groin at an Alabama hunting camp may have been mistaken for wild game... judge has overturned a Troy man's two rape convictions... flash flooding across roads occurred earlier Saturday in eastern Alabama... Fla. man trapped in car, dies from complications... SW Ga. police find new leads in 1976 child slaying... Sea turtle nests found on Ga. barrier islands...

DICKINSON, N.D. - Parents of an infant who died less than two years ago with illegal drugs in its system pleaded not guilty to child abuse charges Monday at a preliminary hearing in Southwest District Court in Dickinson.

Jhonas Enroth is suddenly a star in Sweden. He’s met members of the royal family and been cheered by tens of thousands in the King’s Gar... The New York State tax cap appears to be more of a helmet. Of five school budgets that failed in voting Tuesday in Erie and Niagara counties, two had ...

ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) - The last two officials convicted of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux tribe in the Dakotas have been sentenced for their roles in the crime.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Author Laurence Leamer called Brent Benjamin, chief justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court, "Blankenships creature" and said justices on the Supreme Court are "appalling" at a Saturday reading to promote his...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Nine people convicted in a government investigation of terror recruitment and financing for an al-Qaida-linked group in Somalia are to be sentenced this week in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis.

Bank of America Corporation (BAC) Analyst Day Call May 8, 2013 10:00 AM ET Executives Chad Holliday – Non-Executive Chairman Brian Moynihan – CEO Lauren Mogensen – Corporate Secretary Gary Lynch – General ...

A former River Rouge school official has been sentenced to five years in prison for a bribery and mail fraud scheme that cost the district $160,000.

A Scotts Bluff County District Court judge sentenced a Mitchell woman 36 to 60 months in prison on a charge of delivering a controlled methamphetamine during a Monday hearing.

After the GOP blocked previous nominees, the Senate votes unanimously to appoint Deputy Solicitor Gen. Sri Srinivasan to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. WASHINGTON — Deputy Solicitor Gen. Sri Srinivasan, a rising star in legal circles, won an easy and unanimous Senate confirmation Thursday to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, giving ...

The seizure of funds of the largest bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, was triggered by an alleged failure of the company to comply with U.S. financial regulations, according to a federal court document. The U.S. District Court in Maryland on Tuesday ordered the seizure of Mt. Gox's funds , which were in an account with Dwolla, a payments company that transferred money from U.S. citizens to Mt. Gox for ...

Ex-Aéropostale Inc.'s former top merchandise executive was convicted of defrauding the clothing retailer by striking illegal deals with a vendor that prosecutors said enriched him by as much as $25 million. Christopher Finazzo, 57, was found guilty of 14 counts of mail fraud and one count each of conspiracy and wire fraud yesterday by a federal jury in Brooklyn. Prosecutors alleged the former ...

NEW YORK, May 14 (UPI) -- Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of president John F. Kennedy, has been picked as a juror in a New York criminal trial despite her famous family's background.

by Peter Galuszka Like a peeling onion, the gift-giving scandal rocking the Executive Mansion is revealing layer after layer of influence. Consider who’s handling the court cases that attorney general and gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli is too conflicted to handle.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

The judge in the Jodi Arias murder trial declared a mistrial in the penalty phase Thursday after the jury reported for a second time that it was deadlocked on whether to sentence her to life in prison or death for killing her boyfriend.

Two Arkansas abortion providers in Little Rock won a judge’s approval to proceed with a challenge to the constitutionality of a state law making it illegal with some exceptions to abort a pregnancy after 12 weeks.

The retrial for Christian-Newsom murder suspect George Thomas got underway Monday morning.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — A northeast Pennsylvania teenager who acknowledges having accidentally shot a friend to death a year ago has testified in the trial of his mother, who is charged with having covered up the shooting.

BOWLING GREEN — The defense team in a federal deprivation of rights trial against Barren County Sheriff Chris Eaton, deputy Aaron Bennett and Barren-Edmonson Drug Task Force detective Eric Guffey called one more expert witness and two additional witnesses for Guffey, before resting its case Wednesday morning.

One of two men who attempted to rob a Springboro, Ohio, bank last year was sentenced to 15 years in prison Tuesday.

DNA results undermine hair match that helped to lock away John Norman Huffington for 2 life terms.

A Saudi Arabian traveler who was arrested Saturday at Detroit Metropolitan Airport with a pressure cooker in his luggage is not a terrorist, his defense lawyer said today.

Dallas Cowboys nose tackle Josh Brent is scheduled for a court appearance on Friday morning to address a possible violation of his bond after a monitoring device detected alcohol.

By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court rebuffed the state of Alabama on Monday by deciding not to intervene in a case where federal judges blocked a state law that criminalizes the harboring of illegal immigrants. By refusing to hear Alabama's appeal of the Obama administration's lower court victories, the justices steered clear of a hot-button debate at a time when Congress ...

Ex-Wayne police chief pleads out in deal with prosecutorFormer Wayne Police Chief Ron Reagan was in Cleveland County District Court on Monday to plead guilty to six misdemeanor and six felony counts stemming from misuse of public funds.

Aeropostale Inc. (ARO) ’s former top merchandise executive was found guilty of defrauding the clothing retailer by striking illegal deals with a vendor that prosecutors said enriched him by as much as $25 million.