They seem more alike than different, just a year apart in age and once co-workers in the Lebanon County district attorney's office. Both are parents and active in their young children's activities. Both have worked as public defenders.

The doctor convicted of orchestrating a 2009 bombing that left the chairman of the Arkansas State Medical Board with serious injuries has again been sentenced to life in prison.

An audit of prisoners' sentences in Colorado has found hundreds of possible problems so far.

The president of Virginia State University's student government association is asking a judge to set aside his hazing conviction, arguing that he only pleaded guilty because the prosecutor said he wouldn't graduate if he refused.

Prosecutors have rested their case in the trial of a former Democratic county chairman and a party member accused of forging signatures on petitions used to place Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the 2008 state Democratic primary ballot.

Steven Powell, father of Josh Powell, will remain in prison for at least another month and possibly longer.

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.

A man living in White Bear Lake was indicted Wednesday in federal court on one count of falsely claiming citizenship and another count of identity theft.

GRANBURY, Texas (AP) - Billie Sol Estes may have been infamous as a swindler who spent time in prison for Texas-sized schemes, but his family and friends say he was a loving, generous man who once

A decision this week to stop the murder trial of Mario McNeill so he could be evaluated by medical professionals was unusual because of its timing, some legal experts say.

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation expects to have results early next month from tests on DNA from the two men executed for the 1959 murders inspiring Truman Capote's classic book, "In Cold Blood," to see whether they are linked to decades-old killings in Florida, a top KBI official said Thursday.

ST. CLAIRSVILLE Belmont County Common Pleas Court Judge John M. Solovan II handed down numerous sanctions for violations of community control and probation during his Friday court hearings.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A federal judge has significantly narrowed the scope of a lawsuit filed by two black men seeking millions of dollars from Council Bluffs and two police officers after being wrongly convicted for the 1977 murder of a retired white police officer.

An Evansville contractor who confessed to stealing tens of thousands of dollars from his customers will be spending a lot of time behind bars

NEW YORK -- On May 9, 2013, Scott+Scott, Attorneys at Law, LLP filed the first class action complaint on behalf of those persons and entities who purchased or otherwise acquired Ventrus Biosciences, Inc. ...

An appeals court yesterday overturned a Brooklyn federal judge’s ruling that the FDNY intentionally discriminated against black and Hispanic job applicants. The court ordered a new bench trial to re-examine the issue — this time under a different judge. The 2-1 ruling by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals does...

NEWTON — Sheriff Michael Strada threw open the doors of Sussex County Jail Tuesday evening to welcome members of local businesses for a tour of what some may consider the most infamous business in town.

The tennis courts in Charleston will be filled with Nike bags, empty ball cans, Gatorade bottles and plenty of talent. The state high school tennis tournament is set to begin Thurday in the Capital City. The Class AAA boys and girls will play at the Kanawa City Community Center Tennis Courts and the Class AA/A boys and girls will take the courts at the Coonskin Park Tennis Courts.

Texas search firm seeks $100K from Casey Anthony (AP) — A Texas search and rescue organization involved in the search for 2-year-old Caylee Anthony says her mother, Casey, owes it more than $100,000 in expenses. Attorneys for Texas Equusearch Mounted Search and Recovery say in recent federal bankruptcy court documents that Casey Anthony knew her daughter was already dead when the search began in ...

Jury selection is set to get underway Monday morning in Jonesborough for the trial of three people accused of running over a Washington County, Tennessee Sheriff's Deputy during a high-speed chase. 

A coalition of wildlife advocacy groups is asking a federal judge to halt work on a freeway project in Petaluma to protect birds that nest in the area.

State Rep. Jay Barnes and Sen. Will Kraus agree — they encourage Gov. Jay Nixon to sign the veterans courts bill the Legislature sent him this week.

MASON CITY, Iowa (AP) - Jury selection has begun in the murder trial of a Mason City man accused of strangling a woman to death. The Mason City Globe Gazette reports ( http://bit.ly/19pycaa ) a panel of 32 potential jurors was called Monday in Cerro Gordo County District Court from a pool of more than 50 people.

Burleson City Council on Monday gave final approval to ordinances annexing about 71 acres of land in the George W. Parsons Survey, granting a zoning change from agricultural to industrial on that acreage and granting a special-use permit allowing a 107,000-square-foot-plus facility that will be used as an auto reclamation and parts distribution facility.

Federal authorities say a prison management group has agreed to pay $140,000 to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit in Arizona.

MAYS LANDING, N.J. (AP) — After paying an $11 million advance to a struggling Atlantic City casino it intended to buy, the parent company of the world's largest online poker website was left with nothing for its troubles Friday when a judge ruled the casino had the right to scrap the deal.

The last thing on the minds of young adults heading off to college is drafting a health care proxy and power of attorney. Once they emerge freshly educated four years later, visions of wills and trusts are also unlikely to be on their radar. After all, who thinks about ticking off items on an estate planning checklist while they're still in the throes of figuring out how they're going to pay off ...

La PORTE — His actions claimed the life of a woman while “partially scalping” one La Porte girl and causing brain damage to another.

Weddings performed by ministers ordained in the Universal Life Church Monastery found to be legally binding by the Appellate Court of New York. (PRWeb May 16, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10739478.htm

The Phoenix jury deciding whether Jodi Arias should be sentenced to life in prison or death has resumed deliberations.

Willie Jerome Manning, convicted of the 1992 murders of two Mississippi State students, is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday May 7. Manning has always said he did not commit the crime; in fact, he says he was at a club on the night of the murders.

Former state Sen. Kevin Coughlin is trying for a political comeback, but is facing a battle to even get on the ballot. Coughlin filed last week to run nonpartisan in the Stow Municipal Court clerk’s race, a move he says is permitted by a law he co-sponsored during his time in the state legislature. But both Republican and Democratic members of the Summit County elections board are questioning ...

Two Kazakh men associated with the alleged Boston Marathon bombers went before a federal immigration judge this morning on allegations they violated their student visas.        

An Okfuskee County judge has granted a motion by a man charged in the shooting deaths of two young girls near Weleetka and the death of his 23-year-old girlfriend to be tried for both crimes at the same time.

LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – A judge has issued a proposed ruling in a lawsuit filed by a group that sued the county over a building project on Rattlesnake Island, finding there was not sufficient evidence to support allegations that the county didn’t require sufficient environmental studies before allowing the project to move forward. Judge Michael Lunas issued the proposed statement of decision on ...

HARTFORD — A New Haven woman has been charged with making bomb threats against Connecticut courthouses.

A Butler County Common Pleas judge is resigning.

Posted April 29, 2013, at 3 p.m. Last modified April 29, 2013, at 5:14 p.m. ROCKLAND, Maine — A 37-year-old Tenants Harbor man accused of shooting a dog in the head because it defecated on his floor is being held without bail after his arrest Saturday evening.

Legislative Bill 44 would give judges the option of sentencing juvenile murderers to 40 years to life in prison.

A Hanover County mother found guilty of falsely claiming to have cancer in order to receive donations received to a ten year sentence in April, all of which was suspended...

A doctor testifying for the Plaintiff told a jury in the third week of a Washington state court trial that the alleged stress and complications that resulted from a protracted da Vinci-assisted prostate surgical procedure contributed to the patient’s death from heart disease, according to a Bloomberg report. Fred Taylor, the patient, may have lived an additional five years, enjoying a better ...