BOISE -- An Idaho affair turned deadly is making national news Friday, in prime time. Coming up Thursday on the News at Ten -- The Night Team's Jamie Grey, who reported on the entire Rob Hall trial, will have an exclusive report with interviews with Hall and Dateline NBC's Keith Morrison that you'll see only on KTVB. In March 2011, Rob Hall shot and killed attorney Emmett Corrigan in a Meridian ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's shortage of options to treat the mentally ill means county jails hold thousands of sick inmates, costing taxpayers big bucks as they wait for weeks or months to be evaluated or treated.

Findlay and Fostoria residents and former IHOP restaurant employees were sentenced this week to two years of probation for identity theft charges involving illegal immigrants. The operation involved the former Findlay IHOP at 7777 Hancock County 236.

The sentencing of former East Washington police chief Donald Solomon, who allegedly called himself “the best cop money can buy,” is scheduled next month in U.S. District Court, Pittsburgh, and U.S. Attorney David J. Hickton said he intends to participate personally.

A Portage man could face prison after police said he swung a machete at two other men during an incident in downtown Portage on Monday night.

The New Hampshire Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of a man who sought to reverse his conviction for the murder of a woman hacked to death with a machete.

Two men were found guilty on Tuesday in the murder of a California dairy worker and the attempted murder of another.

RAEFORD - An inmate dressed in jail stripes raked up turkey feathers as if they were leaves Friday outside the Hoke County Courthouse.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A northern New Jersey man has been sentenced to life in prison for fatally shooting a Newark grocery store worker who was trying to break up a fight outside the business on Christmas Eve 2010.

Luxury goods manufacturer Coach has sued a Wichita business, its owner and an employee for allegedly selling phony goods bearing its brand name.

Cities and counties that offer same-sex partner health benefits don't anticipate altering their policies after the Texas attorney general called the practice unconstitutional.

TRENTON — A New Jersey appeals court says the state government cannot seize towns' affordable housing money until broader legal issues are determined.

Prison overcrowding is a problem across the country, and has made alternative sentencing a growing trend in the criminal justice system. The trend is gaining traction in Harrison County.

POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) -- A Blackfoot man who pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter for his role in a traffic crash last summer has been sentenced to 30 months in prison.

An inmate who escaped from a prison in Norfolk over the weekend is back in custody, according to Cara Savelli, a spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Department of Correction. Stephen Gibbons was “declared missing from the property” of the Pondville Correctional Center shortly after 5 p.m. on Saturday, the spokeswoman said. The facility holds up to 160 inmates at a minimum security level and up to ...

New Mexico's highest court gave a green light Monday to the state's top water manager to decide proposed water rights transfers to help increase flows in the drought-stricken Pecos River. The state Supreme ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A man accused of taking a baseball bat to his girlfriend’s head in a Liberty motel room...

(Reuters) - A jury on Wednesday awarded $240 million to 32 mentally disabled workers at an Iowa turkey-processing plant to compensate for what government attorneys described as abuse by the Texas company that employed and housed them. A federal jury in Davenport found that Hill Country Farms, doing business as Henry's Turkey Service, of Goldthwaite, Texas, had created an unlawful hostile ...

By Tim Gaynor PHOENIX (Reuters) - Jodi Arias, convicted of first-degree murder, will face an Arizona jury on Thursday tasked with determining if she deserves the death penalty for the brutal slaying of an ex-boyfriend in a sensational case that attracted national media attention. Arias was found guilty on Wednesday of murdering 30-year-old Travis Alexander, whose body was found in the shower of ...

NEWPORT-Sheila K. Creveling, owner of a residence at 1443 River Chase Trail, in Newport, had an attorney file a civil lawsuit on her behalf on Thursday, April 18, that seeks a total of $90,000 in punitive and compensatory damages from Sheriff Armando Fontes because she was falsely accused of involvement in drug activity.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - An Illinois prison-monitoring group says Menard Correctional Center inmates reported concern about "aggressive cellmates" during a visit shortly before a string of three inmate murders since January.

After almost six months in the Illinois Department of Corrections, one of the men involved in a 2011 carjacking wants to withdraw his guilty plea. Robert E. Kimble, 22, was sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty in July 2012 to armed robbery, a Class X felony. Kimble and four other men were found guilty of working together to rob a North West Street man at gunpoint in September ...

Members of Congress from Washington, New York, North Dakota and Michigan, from both parties, are moving to shoot down a trial balloon in which people entering the United States by land from Canada and Mexico would be forced to pay a fee. The fee proposal was floated in the 2014 budget request by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which asked Congress to authorize a “study” of charging ...

DENVER (AP) — Hundreds of Colorado criminals were apparently given erroneous prison sentences, and judges and corrections officials across the state are scrambling to keep them from getting out early — or, in some cases, to return them to the prisons they just left, authorities said Tuesday.

On Tuesday in Tarrant Regional Water District v. Herrmann, the Court will consider whether thirsty residents in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas can tap into water resources located in Oklahoma in order to slake their growing need for water. The specific dispute arose when the petitioner, a water district serving north Texas, applied for [...]

The proposal from Sen. John DeFrancisco would allow court officials to quickly dip into the unlawful, childhood past of defendants who are accused of sex offenses as adults.

Wednesday, the North Carolina Court of Appeals heard arguments that will determine whether Durham author Michael Peterson should get a new trial. He was convicted of killing his wife Kathleen in 2003.

Opponents of a proposed Las Vegas-style casino near Phoenix are asking a federal judge to reconsider his recent ruling.

BRYANT, AR- A Saline County Prosecutor is hoping a conviction sends the message that incidents of violence will not be tolerated in spite of the age of the defendant.

GEORGETOWN, Texas (AP) — A former district attorney acted improperly when he prosecuted an innocent man who spent nearly 25 years in prison, a Texas judge ruled Friday as he ordered the former prosecutor's arrest on criminal contempt and tampering charges.

Victor Hugo Maldonado, 27, Sioux City, possession of a controlled substance -- third violation, operating a vehicle without owner's consent, possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance; sentenced May 7, five years prison.

KINGMAN – Defense attorneys for a former Kansas police instructor charged with killing his wif ...

A Charlotte hedge fund manager has agreed to plead guilty to securities fraud for hiding investment losses that cost his victims at least $8.9 million, according to court documents.

-- Kevin M. Widener was sentenced in September 2010 to two years, eight months to seven years in prison for burglary in Hall County and burglary in Adams County. His hearing is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Monday at the Tecumseh State Correctional Institution.

Leaders of the Harrisburg University of Science and Technology are asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit by a former professor who claims she lost her job because she and her husband criticized how the school was run.

Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner has been arrested for extortion by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and is being held in Pulaski County Jail. The arrest comes four months after Arkansas Business reported that Shoffner had been under criminal investigation by the FBI.

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BOSTON - Democratic leaders on Tuesday put a quick stop to a move to reinstate the death penalty in Massachusetts, rejecting a House budget amendment containing a death penalty measure first proposed by former Gov. Mitt Romney in 2005.

Oral arguments are scheduled before the U.S. Supreme Court on whether a North Texas water district can have access to water supplies in southeastern Oklahoma.

A Washington man accused of leading police on a high-speed chase following a Belgrade purse snatching last July will spend five years in the Montana State Prison.

George Zimmerman, the Florida resident accused of murdering Trayvon Martin in February 2012, has waived his right to a pre-trial defense immunity hearing. Had Zimmerman taken advantage of his immunity hearing, he and his legal team would only have had to present their self-defense case to a judge instead of a full jury. Zimmerman reviewed his case with his legal team and believes he can be ...