Lawyers for Kobe Bryant and an auction house are scheduled to make arguments before a federal judge in New Jersey about whether mementos from Bryant can be sold.

( University of Chicago ) Prisoners who are psychopaths lack the basic neurophysiological "hardwiring" that enables them to care for others, according to a new study by neuroscientists at the University of Chicago and the University of New Mexico. "A marked lack of empathy is a hallmark characteristic of individuals with psychopathy," said the lead author of the study, Jean Decety, the Irving B ...

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

Princess Cristina, the daughter of Spain's King Juan Carlos, is under investigation for possible tax fraud and money laundering, the latest blow to the Spanish royal family's reputation.

Dona Ana Community College is being sued by eight current and former nursing students...

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

Abortionist Kermit Gosnell, 72, could receive the death penalty or life in prison if jurors find him guilty of any one of the four counts of first-degree murder for killing four babies born alive in his West Philadelphia abortion clinic. He also faces charges for one count of third-degree murder in the death of patient Karnamaya Mongar who died at his clinic in 2009. The jury is expected to ...

Chelation therapy has been used as an alternative treatment for heart disease since the 1950s, but with scanty evidence to support the practice, most medical doctors have long dismissed it as little more than quackery. But now a prestigious medical journal has published the results of a large, long-term clinical trial of chelation in heart...  [Read More...]

By Rene Stutzman and Jeff Weiner / Orlando Sentinel Posted by Scott T. Smith / CBS12 News SANFORD, Fla. -- Defense attorneys in the George Zimmerman case today released evidence they discovered on Trayvon Martin's cell phone, including text messages in which he wrote about taking part in an organized fight, smoking marijuana and being suspended from school. ...

Meet the Maltese Falcon -like gemstone that sparked a five-year storm of desire, political intrigue and crime

CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio (AP) - Authorities in northeast Ohio say a 70-year-old man has been sentenced to eight years in prison after being convicted of his 12th drunken-driving charge.

CANON CITY — The death of a 23-year-old inmate at Territorial prison last Thursday has been ruled a homicide.

A Franklin County Municipal Court judge is accused of violating the code of judicial conduct by dismissing a traffic ticket against a lawyer who was representing him in state and federal lawsuits. Harland H. Hale, the court’s environmental judge, should be disciplined for his behavior, the Ohio Supreme Court’s disciplinary counsel said in a complaint filed this week. A three-member panel from ...

A Philadelphia abortion doctor convicted of killing three babies who were born alive has agreed to give up his right to an appeal and will be spared a potential death sentence

NEW YORK, May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Morgans Hotel Group Co. (NASDAQ: MHGC) ("MHG" or the "Company") today said that it is pleased that the Delaware Court of Chancery has given the ...

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.

A Michigan State Police lieutenant has reached a plea deal after being accused of stealing property seized during drug operations and other crimes.

Hawaii County will have to go back into arbitration over a Waikoloa workforce housing project contract, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. The ruling doesn’t affect the county’s ability to continue developing the project, Deputy Corporation Counsel Laureen Martin said Thursday.

Baker was arrested with the girl in Martin, S.D., on April 6, some nine days after he left Pennsylvania with the girl who told authorities they first tried to cross the Mexican border in Texas but were not permitted to cross.

NEWELL, W.Va. (AP) -- West Virginia's Homer Laughlin China Co. is suing two companies for selling what it claims are cheap Chinese imitations of its popular and collectible Fiesta dinnerware to an unsuspecting public. The Weirton Daily Times ( http://bit.ly/11Q4wAi ) says the lawsuit was filed Monday in U.S. District Court in western Pennsylvania, where the products are being sold.

The trial took place last summer. Kyle's client was awarded $987,000.SAN MARCOS, TEXAS (PRWEB) April 25, 2013 A trial won by The Kyle Law Firm last fall has been named to Texas Lawyer magazine’s Top Texas Verdicts and Settlements of 2012 list.The case that earned The Kyle Law Firm’s entry into this list, Sharron v. Hogan, took place last summer in the 349th Judicial District Court in Jeff Davis ...

Amid questions of "legislative integrity," the Senate late Monday night concurred with an amendment to a bill to include a homeless plan for a shuttered prison in rural southeastern Colorado — an effort heavily endorsed by Gov. John Hickenlooper.

Prosecutors say they will work with New Hampshire authorities to expedite the case against a man who will be charged with the attempted murder of a Bedford, N.H., anesthesiologist and his wife.

JUNCTION CITY, Kan. (WIBW) -- A court hearing for a Junction City minister charged in several child molestation cases involving young boys has been pushed back.

ST. CHARLES – A 10-month Kane County State's Attorney's investigation has found that possibly as many as 10 district employees had knowledge of suspected abuse by former West Aurora High School band director Stephen Orland, but did not report it to the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services as required by law.

Is the state law against advising, encouraging or assisting suicide unconstitutional?

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New Jersey man who confessed to the 1979 killing of Etan Patz should stand trial for murder and kidnapping in the 6-year-old boy's disappearance, a judge ruled on Wednesday.        

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Washington: Indian national Kaushik Jayantibhai Thakkar and Brazilian national Fabiano Augusto Amorim were each sentenced on Friday to serve 36 months in prison for their roles in smuggling

ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio (AP) - A judge has sentenced a 40-year-old eastern Ohio man to life in prison after he pleaded guilty to raping a child.     WTOV-TV reports that Jared Tittle was sentenced Monday in Belmont County, ending a three-year case against him. He pleaded guilty last month to raping a child younger than 13, which authorities said occurred in September 2010.     A prosecutor said ...

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

A Northglenn man was sentenced Monday to more than 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to sending methamphetamine from Colorado to Fairbanks, Alaska.

MINEOLA, N.Y. — In what police are describing as a crime of opportunity, a wanted man with a criminal history dating nearly 15 years entered a front door that had been left open at a New York home near Hofstra University.

Just over two years after a Kingman woman was killed and set on fire, her husband's murder trial begins.

COLORADO SPRINGS - Authorities are investigating a death of a Jefferson County inmate at the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility in Canon City.

A federal judge in Denver has put on hold a civil lawsuit against the psychiatrist who treated Aurora theater shooting suspect James Holmes to avoid any conflict with the murder case against him.

Last month’s indictment of 13 female correctional officers accused of smuggling drugs and cellphones to inmates in a Baltimore city prison drew national attention and outrage at an apparent lack of oversight and pervasive corruption.

EL PASO — 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, though his opi

FORT WAYNE, Indiana — The daughter of Ariel Castro, the primary suspect in the abduction of three women found alive this week, is serving a 25-year sentence in an Indiana prison for the attempted murder of her baby six years …

Ohio Gov. John Kasich will pick from three local attorneys to replace former Domestic Relations Judge Craig Baldwin in Licking County Common Pleas Court.

Leach's suit against ESPN cable television network, former ESPN college football analyst Craig James and Dallas public relations firm Spaeth Communications won't go to trial July 15 as originally planned