Treasure hunters have long pilfered arrowheads, pottery and other archaeological artifacts on state lands, risking jail time if caught.        

Terminal cancer patient Tim Hermetz maintains a positive attitude inspiring others while enduring the storms of life, fighting a grim prognosis and his dad’s sudden death.

A Jackson, Mississippi judge abruptly ended the civil trial for Southaven Mayor Greg Davis, but it's not over. Judge Dewayne Thomas ended court early on Friday; the trial will reconvene...

A Vermont couple charged in the killing of a popular St. Johnsbury teacher last year wants new lawyers.      Allen and Patricia Prue have been charged in the death of 33-year-old Melissa Jenkins in March 2012. They are accused of luring Jenkins from her Danville home, beating and strangling her and dumping her body in the Connecticut River. They have pleaded not guilty.      The Prue's will be ...

Ben McLemore's former AAU coach says he received thousands of dollars in cash, lodging, meals and trips from a middle man who courted the Kansas player on behalf of sports agents and financial advisers during the 2012-13 college basketball season.

It didn’t get a lot of attention. It happened the same day as hearings on the Benghazi attacks and the announcement of a verdict in the Jodi Arias trial. But House Majority Leader Eric Cantor took a modest step forward last week in his plan to broaden the Republican agenda beyond budget cuts.

Bill Schuette announced the OK-2-SAY initiative on Tuesday alongside law ... Testimony began Monday in the trial of 28-year-old Keith Thibeault of Portland. ...

Describing a massive fraud involving the enforcement of copyrights to pornography, a federal judge has referred four attorneys to licensing authorities for possible misconduct and to federal prosecutors for possible criminal violations of the U.S. Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. The ruling marked the most severe sanction to emerge from nearly 1,000 suits filed against ...

By Holly Yan. Matt Smith and Pamela Brown CLEVELAND (CNN) — Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Lauren Moore ordered Ariel Castro...

ALLENTOWN (AP) — The parents of a young Pennsylvania girl sexually molested by a neighbor are facing a setback in their legal effort to force the man to buy their house.

The Philadelphia jury considering the murder case against abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell begins its first full day of deliberations Wednesday after lengthy legal instructions from the judge and several hours of review.

The state Supreme Court approved the revised Pennsylvania legislative boundaries this week. The current districts remain in effect through the 2014 election. On Dec. 1 of that year, the districts chan

ELKINS, W.Va. -- A Belington lawyer convicted of defrauding the West Virginia Public Defender Services will spend a year and a day in prison. Lisa A. Weese, 43, also must spend three years on supervised release after she completes her sentence.U.S. Attorne...

An inmate missing since 1999 surrendered to authorities in Oklahoma early Friday morning. The man, David Lee Kemp, was the only inmate to elude capture after he escaped with eight other inmates on March 11, 1999. At the time, Kemp, who hails from Lawton, Oklahoma, was awaiting trial on two first-degree murder counts for the [...] Inmate Missing Since 1999 Surrenders is a post from: The Inquisitr

Attorneys in North Carolina's redistricting lawsuits will return to court early next month because a three-judge panel wants to hear more evidence.

California is in the midst of an effort to bring its prison population down, as ordered by the U.S. Supreme Court. California Gov. Jerry Brown has submitted a new plan to further reduce the number of inmates. But he's still striking a defiant tone toward the courts — saying he's done enough to address overcrowding concerns.

MANCHESTER, Tenn. — At just 141 years old, the Coffee County Courthouse is in pretty good shape for its age.

By Bernard Vaughan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Diamondback Capital Management portfolio manager Todd Newman was sentenced to 4-1/2 years in prison on Thursday for insider trading in the stock of Dell Inc and Nvidia Corp . U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan also ordered Newman, 48, to forfeit $737,724 and to pay a $1 million fine. Sullivan called Newman a "decent" man and said it "breaks my ...

NEW YORK (AP) - The New York jury on which Caroline Kennedy served has acquitted a man of dealing crack cocaine. Kennedy was juror No. 7 at the trial of Harlem resident Nelson Chatman.

NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for a former board member at Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble Co. has told an appeals court that his client deserves a new trial.        

The appeals process makes it unlikely that convicted cop killer Nickolus L. Johnson will keep his date with the executioner next year.

CLEVELAND (AP) - An Ohio prosecutor says he may seek the death penalty against the man accused of imprisoning three women at his home for about a decade for forcing them to suffer miscarriages.

Approved by the FDA in 1997, Propecia (finasteride) is prescribed for the treatment of male pattern hair loss. In recent years, however, many men have complained of sexual side effects, including persistent erectile dysfunction that continues even after men stop taking the drug. Now, a Canadian judge has ruled that a class-action lawsuit against drug maker Merck can continue in British Columbia ...

A trial is underway for a Hunt County man, charged with aggravated robbery in connection with a reported armed holdup in March of last year.

The Arkansas Supreme Court sent a death row inmate’s Fayetteville murder case back to Washington County on Thursday, stating the...

- A Virginia Beach teenager faces life in prison for fatally shooting another teen to silence him on a botched robbery plot.

A Monroe County man is in jail for allegedly raping his girlfriend's five-year-old daughter while he was babysitting.

A Texas judge issued a ruling to force a lesbian couple in McKinney, Texas to stop living together. [ more › ]

SOUTH BEND — A judge sentenced a man dubbed the "Internet Casanova" to 18 months in prison Wednesday for stealing a girlfriend's camera and pawning it.

The Alabama Senate has voted to expand Alabama's death penalty law to include a defendant who kills a person who had a protective order issued against the defendant.

Daniel James Rick, 32, of Minneapolis, was convicted in 2011 of attempted first-degree assault under a statute that makes it illegal to knowingly transfer a communicable disease. But his conviction was reversed last year, when the state Appeals Court found the statute was ambiguous. The state appealed, and oral arguments are scheduled for Tuesday.

A man who says he looked at child pornography online in search of justice for his wife has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.

The Senate yesterday squelched several bills that passed the House earlier this year, including measures to decriminalize marijuana, prohibit prison privatization and allow funeral homes to offer a form of chemical cremation called alkaline hydrolysis.

MORE HEALTH-RELATED NEWS Connecticut cancer patients will participate in a clinical trial in which researchers extract tumor cells, graft them onto mice, and then use the mice as patient avatars so scientists can develop treatment tailored to the individual.

(AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher, Pool). Jodi Arias stands as the jury enters the courtroom on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix.

The father-in-law of missing Utah mother Susan Powell won't be released from prison Thursday, the Washington state Corrections Department said.

CHAMPAIGN — The killing of a Beason couple and three of their children led many in their tiny central Illinois farming community to begin locking their doors at night. Nearly four years later, their home stands as a constant reminder of their brutal deaths.

Alex Pothast is accused of drinking and driving in 2010 when his classmate, Joshua Young of Waverly, died after a crash in Pothast's vehicle.

Ibilola Ighama-Amegor, 51, of Hampton. / Photo courtesy New Jersey Office of the Attorney G TRENTON — A Hunterdon County pediatrician is facing up to 10 years in prison for allegedly overbilling the federal Medicaid program by more than $73,000 during the course of more than three years, authorities said Friday.

The owner of a personal care services agency has been arrested on charges she billed Louisiana's Medicaid program for services that weren't provided. Louisiana Attorney General James "Buddy" Caldwell's office says 36-year-old Ruth Wicks Smith was booked into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison last Thursday on eight counts of Medicaid fraud. Smith owns Heavenly Hands Personal Care Services in Baker ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Prosecutors told a federal jury on Wednesday that a man they say is the brother of leaders of Mexico's most blood-soaked criminal organization used the proceeds from their brothers' ill-gotten gains to bankroll his horse-racing stable. Trevino is the central figure of five men charged in a Texas federal court with using a race horse breeding operation to launder millions of ...