BROCKTON -- A man charged with committing a murder here Tuesday afternoon would have been behind bars, but he was free because his drug dealing conviction had been tossed out after it was discovered that disgraced state chemist Annie Dookhan handled the evidence and testified at his trial, officials said today. Donta Hood, 22, appeared today in Brockton District Court, where he pleaded not ...

A U.S. appeals court recently ruled that Mardi Gras Casino in Hallandale Beach could legally fire 10 employees, affirming a lower court's ruling to deny the National Labor Relation Board's request to reinstate the workers fired last year for union activity.        

A Michigan City, Ind., man who admitted he murdered a 17-year-old friend during an argument has been sentenced to prison.

  A former Ohio Little League baseball administrator has been sentenced to six months in jail for child pornography.  

GUATEMALA CITY — Efrain Rios Montt ruled as Guatemala’s dictator, served as president of Congress, preached as an evangelical pastor and now, at 86, has become the first Latin American strongman to stand trial and be convicted on genocide charges in his own country.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man faces multiple life prison sentences for a plot to behead witnesses whose testimony convicted him of his role in planning terror attacks against a Virginia Marine Corps base and overseas targets.        

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.

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.

GLENVIEW — More than one doctor has set the life clock ticking for when Glenview resident Susan Steel will die. In 2005 it was five years out. In 2010 the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, said she would not live past nine months. She also has been received hospital treatment in Los Angeles, Pittsburgh and Tampa Bay, Fla., with clinical trials and immunotherapy. But defiantly, on ...

A Southwest Side teenager was charged with the two-year-old shooting of a pizza deliveryman after investigators were able to link his DNA on the Chicago Bulls hat he left at the crime scene, Cook County prosecutors said Tuesday. Mark Villanueva was wearing the hat when he opened fire and shot the 46-year-old victim in the chest and left pinky in the 3500 block of West 83rd Street, Assistant ...

Former Illinois State Police crime scene investigator, Michael Oyer, answers questions from Illinois Assistant Attorney General Michael Atterberry during testimony in the murder trial of Christopher Harris.

A federal judge turned down a request to release the elder of two Oakland Park brothers accused of plotting to detonate explosives in New York City, ruling the risk was too great that he would flee to avoid trial.        

CITY OF INDUSTRY, CA--(Marketwired - May 16, 2013) - Newegg Inc., the leading electronics-focused e-retailer in the United States, today announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed Newegg's 2011 victory against Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc. in a patent infringement lawsuit. On May 15, 2013, the Federal Circuit upheld the original decision, only days after listening to ...

The case between four former media members and the City of Charlotte, over negotiations between the city and the Carolina Panthers for stadium improvements, is expected to be heard by a judge Thursday afternoon.

A day after local police said they are ending their 3½-year search for a missing Utah woman, her father and his attorney told reporters that federal agents and private investigators are now on the case.

NEW BOSTON, Texas—Opening arguments and testimony are expected to begin this morning for a 20-year-old accused of fatally shooting a man he found in the company of an ex-girlfriend.

A Lincoln Township man accused of assaulting a state trooper on April 5 is headed to county court.

Jesuit Fr. Steve Kelly is seen in a 2007 file photo, taken outside outside Fort Huachuca in Arizona. (CNS photo/Felice Cohen-Joppa, courtesy TortureonTrial.org)

A man convicted of murdering his two-month old daughter was sentenced to life in prison in the Grady County Courthouse yesterday.

A judge had denied a request from Joseph Banis to allow him to testify against Jeffrey Mundt in the murder trial of Joseph Carroll.

State’s highest court deals heavy blow to Gov. Bobby Jindal’s hallmark school choice initiative.

Charges stemming from Titans tight end Brandon Barden’s DUI arrest in February have been dismissed after the arresting officer failed appear in a Georgia courtroom.

Bankrupt former ABC Learning boss Eddy Groves has applied to the Federal Court in Brisbane for permission to live in Canada.

Court-martial proceedings for Sgt. John Russell open at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. Russell has acknowledged killing five people in 2009 at a mental-health clinic in Iraq.

BARABOO — A Loganville dairy farmer’s religious beliefs do not absolve him of certain legal responsibilities, a judge ruled Monday.

An Idaho Springs man who pleaded guilty after a hit-and-run accident that severely injured the victim and ended in a stand-off with law enforcement was sentenced Wednesday to four years in a community corrections program.

Himanshu Roy, Joint Commissioner of Mumbai Police is holding a press conference in Mumbai to explain the arrests made in the city by the Delhi police. Related Stories Indian Police unit in Congo gets UN medal US President Barack Obama invites Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Washington Indian sentenced to three years for human trafficking in US Mumbai case: Trial of 2008 Mumbai attacks suspects ...

Faced with a decision to allow the execution of killer Nathan Dunlap or grant him clemency, Gov. John Hickenlooper chose to do neither. Instead, he granted an extraordinary "temporary reprieve" that likely means Dunlap won't face execution as long as Hickenlooper is governor.

Photo courtesy Ken Thomas Posted by Scott T. Smith / CBS12 News OCKLAWAHA, Fla. (AP) -- A north Florida man faces charges after fatally shooting a red-bellied woodpecker that was eating the plums from his trees. ...

The embezzlement trial against a former Virginia Executive Mansion chef has been postponed until October.

EDGERTON, MO. - A third inmate who walked away from a northeast Kansas prison was captured late Friday, hours after the other two surrendered at a Missouri home where they had been holed up for hours, authorities said.

Jefferson City lawyer James D. Barding appeared in U.S. District Court today, after being indicted by a federal grand jury for marriage fraud conspiracy.

James Everett Dutschke made his first appearance in a federal courtroom after being charged Saturday with making a deadly poison sent to President Barack Obama and others. He was ordered held without bond.

Alleged Black Guerrilla Family leader awaiting trial in U.S. institution If the federal prison that gets Tavon White is anything like the last one I visited, even a charmer such as Bulldog will have a tough time recreating the life of the libertine he had at the Baltimore City Detention Center.        

The Western District of the Missouri Court of Appeals upheld Cass County’s decision to reject putting the Kansas City “zoo tax” on the ballot on April 30.

The Tennessee Open Records Law is one of several state laws upheld in a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling for its limitations on requests for public re...

WACO — Texas law enforcement officials on Friday launched a criminal investigation into the massive fertilizer plant explosion that killed 14 people last month, after weeks of largely treating the blast as an industrial accident. The announcement came the same day federal agents said they found bomb-making materials belonging to a paramedic who helped evacuate residents the night of the explosion.

A 28-year-old Rockport resident received a suspended jail sentence after admitting to a subsequent offense of driving without a license. Judge Joseph Jennings sentenced Jennifer Jones of Sandy Bay Terrace to 60 days in jail, but with that sentence su

Hearing will soon decide whether Erik Meiser is mentally fit to proceed Attorneys representing the suspect in a brutal Lake Oswego murder will challenge a psychiatrist’s opinion that Erik John Meiser is mentally fit for trial. During a court hearing this week, defense attorney Jenny Cooke said she and co-counsel Robert Huggins will contest the conclusion of an evaluation by Dr. Christopher ...

WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court has struck down a National Labor Relations Board rule that would have required millions of businesses to put up posters informing workers of their right to form a union. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia says the board went too far in

A Cape Girardeau man, who had murder charges dropped against him last week, was sentenced Monday to seven years in the Missouri Department of Corrections on a robbery charge.