A disagreement over how to split local option sales tax revenue in a south Georgia county is going all the way to the Georgia Supreme Court. The ruling could have a major impact on taxpayers across the state.

Poco Bueno is based on the private, offshore Texas fishing tournament of the same name. It is the story of every man's fantasy - escaping the life-numbing prison of his nine-to-five existence – and taking a wild risk in return for genuine fulfillment.Boulder, Colorado (PRWEB) April 22, 2013 Story Arts Media publisher Joseph Daniel announced today the ebook and print release of author Chris Parks ...

The wife of Wayne Circuit Court Judge Wade McCree said she learned of her husband's affair last year when she listened in on a phone conversation.

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday renewed his pledge to close the prison for terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but the impediments that have thwarted him thus far remain.

The lines are a dozen cars deep outside some Kentucky banks in the middle of the night. Police in a handful of cities say when those crowds gather on the first of the month, crime rates go up.

Zhou & Chini completes Aliso Viejo page for their California bankruptcy information website for the purpose of educating locals. Everyone should know the laws before filing for personal bankruptcy, and the new city page helps explain the different Chapters of bankruptcy and court information to help individuals seeking bankruptcy protection. (PRWeb May 07, 2013) Read the full story at http ...

Eric Campbell will be on probation for 99 years after his release.

Tim Clancy received his third Texas Super Lawyers: Rising Star Award in a as many years. Tim Clancy is a partner attorney at the criminal defense firm Clancy & Clancy Attorneys at Law in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. (PRWeb May 06, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/timclancy/superlawyer/prweb10699435.htm

NEW YORK, N.Y. - A lawyer for a former board member at Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble Co. has told a federal appeals court that his client deserves a new trial.

A man who spent nearly 14 years in a Nebraska prison for a murder he did not commit is on pace to receive $500,000 from the state.

MINNEAPOLIS - A Minnesota judge has found a Missouri man guilty in the shooting deaths of three people at a Brooklyn Park home day care last year.

State Rep. Steven Becker, R-Buhler, cast the lone no vote Thursday in the Kansas House, against legi ...

A Chambersburg Area Senior High School teacher facing felony charges of distribution and receipt of material involving the sexual exploitation of minors is scheduled for trial this summer.

On Wednesday, the Court will hear oral argument in University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar, No. 12-484. The case asks the Court to decide which of three standards of proof apply to retaliation claims under Title VII. Specifically, the Court will decide whether a plaintiff must prove that retaliation was: (1) the “but [...]

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Jurors began a final round of deliberations on Tuesday to determine whether convicted killer Jodi Arias deserves a death sentence or life in prison for murdering an ex-boyfriend in Arizona five years ago. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sherry Stephens told jurors they must reach a unanimous verdict in the sentencing phase. If they are unable reach a unanimous decision ...

A state appeals court on Thursday urged the Wisconsin Supreme Court to take a case brought by two unions challenging the constitutionality of Gov. Scott Walker's law effectively ending collective bargaining ...

52-year-old Mark Baker was arrested last week at a home in Channing

The Independent Energy Producers Association and the Large-scale Solar Association worked out an agreement with county attorneys that was certified Wednesday by a Superior Court judge and will be considered by the Board of Supervisors as part of its policy agenda this morning.

Company discloses estimate as part of effort to move lawsuit to federal court.

SALT LAKE CITY -- Out of the grip of the federal prison system, environmental and climate activist Tim DeChristopher plans to make Harvard Divinity School his next stop. DeChristopher, 31, has achieved folk status and inspired a documentary airing Monday - all for grabbing a bidder's paddle and running up prices at a federal oil-and-gas lease auction, trying to safeguard wild lands near Utah's ...

An Oregon Tax Court judge ruled that Hewlett-Packard's campus in Corvallis was overvalued on property tax bills from 2008 until 2011, a decision that could cost Benton County $9.5 million in tax revenue. ...

A smattering of marriage equality and LGBT rights stories to share with you tonight. A lesbian couple will no longer live together after a judge ordered it as a condition of a divorce settlement.

ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. (AP) — A former Vermont woman who served prison time for her role in the killing of her stepmother in 2000 is asking to be free from the restrictions of probation.        

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EASTON, Md. — Rapper 2 Chainz has been acquitted of drug charges he faced after a traffic stop on Maryland's Eastern Shore. The Star Democrat of Easton, Md., reports ( ) that a county judge found the rapper not guilty Wednesday. 2 Chainz's real name is Tauheed Epps.

Jodi Arias points to her family as a reason for the jury to give her a life in prison sentence instead of the death penalty on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix.

Lafayette criminal lawyers at the Law Offices of Beles & Beles announce they are providing a no cost consultation and case review to people charged with crimes in the East Bay who need a criminal defense lawyer, offer expires 12/31/2013. (PRWeb May 10, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/lafayette-criminaldefense/criminal-lawyerslafayette/prweb10724477.htm

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) - A new criminal defense lawyer for the widow of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev says his client will continue to cooperate with investigators but says he plans to keep quiet about the details of her case publicly because that could hurt the investigation.

Hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake as members of a prominent Northern Kentucky family are fighting in federal court over their inheritance.

KENNEBEC, S.D. (AP) - A former clerk of court for Lyman County in southeastern South Dakota has admitted to stealing nearly $1,200 in fines paid by traffic violators.

ATLANTA (AP) — The Supreme Court of Georgia has ruled that a former Fulton County Commission chairman is fit to be reinstated as an attorney in the state. The unanimous ruling, announced Monday morning, involves Demetrios John Skandalakis. The high court had disbarred Skandalakis in 2005 after he pleaded guilty in federal court in 2003 to making a false statement to an FBI agent during a ...

Shareef Rabaa, a brain injury attorney with New York-based Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C., will speak at a major legal educational conference, held this Thursday and Friday in New Orleans. (PRWeb April 30, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/4/prweb10682573.htm

By Mark Waite The Nevada Attorney General’s Office Wednesday confirmed it received the request from Nye County last week to prosecute Sheriff Tony DeMeo. Nye County commissioners last October voted 4-0 to refer the sheriff to the attorney general’s office for prosecution for expending money in excess of his annual budget in violation of state[...]

The obstacles facing Kobe Bryant no longer consist of healing from a torn left Achilles’ tendon. Lately, it involves something far more suffocating than navigating a double team. Bryant’s mother, Pamela, and father, Joe, filed statements in federal court in Camden, NJ. on Monday suggesting the Lakers’ star has lied during his recent efforts to Pamela’s hope [...]

Oklahoma City, May 7 : Shelly Renee Henson, 40, from Oklahoma City, was sentenced by United States District Judge Stephen P. Friot to serve 60 months in prison for mail fraud related to an adoption scam, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.

Bad Boy Records' French Montana recently offered his take on the importance of loving your significant other without letting friends dig too deep into the relationship. [Visit SOHH.com for more information]

Despite the best efforts by federal prosecutors to portray the company he founded in 2007 as worthless, Isreal Owen Hawkins told jurors Tuesday that Petro America Corp. is real, has real assets, and is ...

Robert Breest had the chance to walk out of prison on parole, after spending nearly half his life there -- if he admitted to committing a 1971 murder. But the former Lowell carpenter, now 75, steadfastly refused.        

A New Zealander convicted and imprisoned for fraud on two continents and deported to Auckland says he is trying to make a new life in the United Kingdom as a fraud-buster.

A Madison man sentenced to five years in prison Thursday is the sixth to be sentenced in a California to Wisconsin marijuana case, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Eissa Kazi, 23, was sentenced for possessing a firearm in connection with a conspiracy to distribute marijuana. Prosecutors said Kazi distributed marijuana in Dane County, including on the University of Wisconsin campus ...

A cross-dressing child porn suspect caused a stir in federal court Thursday when he showed up wearing a tan halter top, stuffed red bra and long red hair.