Fannin County Criminal District Attorney Richard Glaser released a list of people who entered plea agreements with his office during the April dockets before Judge Charles Butler of the Fannin County Court-at-Law.

Apache Junction youngsters had the chance to see the Arizona Supreme Court in action live in their own community Tuesday, when the state’s high court held court on campus at Apache Junction High Schoo

Richard Earl Witcher Jr. of Gloucester, was sentenced to 18 years in prison Friday for the 2011 murder of Karen Kay Kelly.

San Francisco city leaders, after losing a key round in court against the cell phone industry, have agreed to revoke an ordinance that would have been the first in the United States to require retailers ...

Doctor Barrett Whitefield was sentenced to a little more than seven years in prison Thursday morning. According to court documents, one of Whitefield's employees, Christina Barfield, said that Whitefield would write prescriptions for Hydrocodone without examining patients. 

Attorneys in the Case Against George Zimmerman are preparing for a key hearing in the case Tuesday a

Just one day after the Internal Revenue Service additional Proposed Regulations to clarify governance issues related to the Health Care Act, a group of taxpayers filed a lawsuit in federal court, hoping to put the brakes on the IRS' right to enforce the Act. The case, Halbig et al v. Sebelius et al, (downloads as pdf) was filed Thursday in the District Of Columbia District Court by twelve ...

Republican candidate for Lehman Township tax collector Hal H. Harris has taken his fight to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to remove opposing candidate Democrat Diane Hinson from the ballot.

WAKEFIELD, R.I. - Worcester Bishop Robert J. McManus pleaded not guilty during a brief appearance in district court Tuesday to driving under the influence of alcohol and leaving the scene of a property damage accident.

WASHINGTON — An American imprisoned in Cuba settled a lawsuit Thursday against the company he was working for when arrested, a lawsuit that claimed he wasn’t properly warned about or prepared for the risks of working in the communist nation. Alan Gross and his wife filed the lawsuit in November against the U.S. government and [...]

A southern Indiana judge is expected to hear days of testimony in the case of a man seeking to appeal his conviction in the slaying of an Indiana University student.

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board has denied clemency for a death row inmate scheduled to be executed next month.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A woman has been sentenced to 57 months in prison for bilking Gulf Coast residents by posing as a federal safety official after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

SACRAMENTO (AP) -- In response to a federal court order, Gov. Jerry Brown pushed a novel approach through the Legislature two years ago to dramatically reduce California's prison population.

Sydney, May 7 (IANS) Prosecutors have filed in an Australian court for a fresh trial of a former Indian origin surgeon in a hospital in that country for causing grievous bodily harm to a patient.

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.        

KENNEWICK, Wash. - The court bailiff says the jury in the Kelli Jacobsen manslaughter trial will return to the courtroom Friday at 1 p.m. to ask questions.

Victoria County Commissioners took another step Monday in making the district clerk's office paperless.

A CSX railroad employee stole at least $28,000 worth of the company's property in Maryland and pawned it in Fort Wayne, according to court papers.

Donta Hood, 22, of Brockton,  arraigned Friday in this week's brazen daytime shooting in a crowded Brockton neighborhood,  may be the first person to get out of jail due to the Massachusetts drug lab scandal to then be charged with murder.

A photographer has been arrested on child exploitation charges in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today. read more

Circuit judge has given preliminary approval to a $9.5 million law suit settlement concerning pollution in East Hill from a superfund site.

California newspapers have a legal right to publish the names of children who are subjected to abuse if a name is newsworthy, a Sacramento appellate court ruled Friday.

But remands decision on merits of the case to the lower court

A federal judge rejects a challenge to Gov. Jan Brewer's denial of driver's licenses to youths who qualify for them under the Obama administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. TUCSON — Young people granted immigration relief and work permits under a new Obama administration program still won't be able to obtain driver's licenses in Arizona, a federal judge has ruled.        

CEL-SCI Corporation today provided an update on the Phase III Clinical Trial of its investigational drug Multikine* for the treatment of head and neck cancer.

"Extremely hard working" and "intelligent" are the words used to describe Solano County's newest chief deputy district attorney.

Norwalk man kicked out of a substance abuse treatment center. A break-in defendant violated his probation by being kicked out of a substance abuse treatment center.

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) - A military judge found Army Sgt. John Russell guilty of premeditated murder Monday in the 2009 killings of 5 fellow service members at a combat stress clinic in Iraq.

The trial of 37-year-old Ladipo Chad Bethea is being held before Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Virginia Vinson. If convicted, Bethea could face the death penalty.

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.

Kentucky women’s basketball junior DeNesha Stallworth is one of 31 top student-athletes in the country who have accepted invitations to participate in the 2013 USA Basketball Women’s World University Games Team trials. Trials will take place May 16-19 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center (USOTC) in Colorado Springs, Colo., and the USA Basketball Junior National Team Committee issued the ...

AMITE, La. (AP) - A state judge refused to reduce the prison sentences of a man who pleaded guilty to running over and killing three people near Southeastern Louisiana University four years ago.

Joyce Bieber, executive director Centerville-Rathbun Lake Area Chamber of Commerce, Monday night delivered the annual Appanoose County Tourism Committee report to the Centerville City Council. Bieber said tourism revenue has increased in Appanoose C

The south Manchester resident arrested in a Christmas-season shopping cart sting brought his case to court Monday, telling a judge he'll never take it upon himself to return a lost item again.

MINNEAPOLIS -- A federal judge sentenced four men to prison on Tuesday for helping recruit young men in Minnesota to travel to Somalia and fight for the militant group al-Shabab.

Attorneys on both sides of a case involving a prominent Indianapolis lawyer charged in a $4.5 million fraud are waiting for a federal judge to decide whether his bond should be revoked.

Lawrence Brown, 55, will be retried after his jury could not reach a verdict in his rape and false imprisonment trial Friday afternoon. 

One of the men accused in the murder of local gym owner Joe Lengel will face a judge Friday morning.

A young Georgia man whose imprisonment eight years ago sparked a debate over teen sex laws is now graduating from college.

A man convicted of opening fire on police when they raided his southern New Jersey home has been sentenced to 45 years in prison.