EDGERTON, MO. (AP) - The Leavenworth County attorney is weighing whether to file charges after three inmates escaped from a prison in the Kansas county.

LEWISTON — A budget crisis threatening to force the early release of convicted criminals, layoffs of jail guards and even the closure of some Maine jails is headed to the governor's office.

Tuesday marks the anniversary of one of the worst crimes in the history of Georgia-- the Alday family murders in Seminole County. Six members of the Alday family were brutally murdered by a trio of prison escapees, on May 14, 1973.

A federal appeals court has ordered a new trial for a lawsuit filed by the family of a Texas soldier killed during a live-fire training exercise in Hawaii.      The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling overturns a jury verdict that found the manufacturer of mortar cartridges not liable for causing the 2006 explosion that killed Staff Sgt. Oscar Rodriguez.      The 27-year-old from Beeville ...

The former minister of a small Michigan congregation was sentenced Thursday to at least 56 years in prison for killing his fiancée's 24-year-old daughter, allegedly to fulfill a fantasy to have sex with a dead body.

New York plans to seek the release of sealed court documents pertaining to the bloody retaking of Attica state prison after inmates rioted in 1971, an episode that remains the nation's bloodiest prison rebellion.

A New Jersey man serving prison time for aggravated sexual assault will get a new sentence after the state Supreme Court tossed his conviction over the wording of the law.

DENVER x2013 Freshman years are rarely easy, and 2013 was certainly a trial for state Rep. Mike McLachlan.The Durango Democrat found himself in the crosshairs of a recall campaign by gun-rights supporters, and he spent two weeks in the hospital with intestinal bleeding.x201cWith the illness and a lot of the tough votes I...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - A northern New Jersey mother has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin with her husband and son in what authorities are calling "a family affair."

A Philadelphia jury has reached a verdict in the murder trial of an abortion doctor accused in the deaths of four infants and a woman at his clinic. Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72, was accused of killing babies by using scissors to cut their spinal cords. Authorities alleged that some of the infants were born alive and viable during the sixth, seventh and eighth months of pregnancy. He also was accused ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A former U.S. Postal Service official has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for accepting at least $40,000 in bribes to help a Maryland company receive $6 million in contracts. Forty-eight-year-old Gene Quarles of Spotsylvania pleaded guilty earlier this year in federal court in Alexandria to bribery of a public official. Prosecutors had sought a two-year sentence.

Four judges, one attorney apply for judgeship from Baltimore City Four judges and one lawyer have applied for the Court of Appeals seat that will become vacant July 6 when Chief Judge Robert M. Bell reaches the mandatory retirement age of 70.        

Jim Saunders has been named the new executive editor of the News Service of Florida. Saunders replaces founding executive editor David Royse , who will become the News Service’s associate editor of special projects.

An Atlanta man is set to plead guilty in Federal Court on Friday to transporting a woman across state lines for purpose of prostitution. Khari Matthew "King Black" Troutman is set to appear before Federal Magistrate Court Judge Bill Carter.

By Bernard Vaughan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Level Global Investors LP fund manager Anthony Chiasson on Monday was sentenced to 6-1/2 years in prison for insider trading, a penalty that the judge in the case said was intended to deter others in the financial industry from similar conduct. U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan also ordered the former hedge fund manager to pay a $5 million fine ...

oddly enough Judge holds self in contempt for smartphone IONIA, Mich. A Michigan judge whose

Former Los Angeles Dodgers CEO Jamie McCourt isn't entitled to the more than $131 million she received in a divorce settlement, an attorney for her ex-husband argued Wednesday in court.

New York auto accident lawyer David Perecman at The Perecman Firm discusses the dangers of solid waste and recycling collection following an accident in which a car hit a sanitation worker who was directing traffic around his truck. (PRWeb May 08, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/NYpersonalinjurylawyer/NYpersonalinjurylawyer/prweb10707434.htm

The Illinois Department of Corrections is becoming a very dysfunctional and costly state agency for the taxpayers. Facts in support of this statement include a 75 percent recidivism rate of prisoners in 2012; the number of lawsuits pending against the IDOC, filed by both prisoners and employees, and an employee union contract that has not been signed. read more

This past week, I walked from San Diego to Los Angeles.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A Minnesota judge has sentenced a Missouri man to life in prison without parole for the fatal shootings of a Brooklyn Park home day-care provider and her elderly parents last year.

“We’ve got a huge problem in this state where people are not protected, we are not secure. Right now we’re just lucky.” These are the words of environmental lawyer Monique Harden, Co-Director of Advocates for Environmental Human Rights (AEHR).

SPRINGFIELD — A Peoria doctor linked to the 2007 death of a Sangamon County Jail inmate was suspended from the practice of medicine and fined $30,000, state officials said Tuesday.

Convicted of murder in connection with the 1993 murder of a student at Illinois State University, 40-year-old Alan Beaman was the beneficiary of a formal finding of innocence Thursday in Champaign County Circuit Court. Convicted of murder in connection with the 1993 murder of a student at Illinois State University, 40-year-old Alan Beaman was the beneficiary of a formal finding of innocence ...

San Francisco — The state's efforts to stop the rapid spread of valley fever through two Central California prisons have been so ineffectual that it should stop placing prisoners there, a medical expert told a federal judge in San Francisco overseeing health care in the state's prisons.

An understaffed Midland County Jail has Sheriff Scott Stephenson requesting an additional nine correctional officers from the Midland County Board of Commissioners.

Freedom Riders for Voting Rights will arrive in Montgomery Wednesday afternoon, ending a two-day pilgrimage across Mississippi and Alabama.  Their journey will culminate on the steps of the Alabama State

As tragedies like Boston and Newtown mount, scientists and criminologists are trying harder than ever to understand the minds behind the crimes

A man accused of sexually assaulting a woman in the woods, beating her and attempting to cut her throat in 2009 was found guilty by a jury Thursday.

A paraplegic lawyer who has filed thousands of disability access suits is now facing a sex harassment suit by former employees, who also accuse him of something that has defense attorneys buzzing. The women say Scott Johnson sent them into businesses with cameras and measuring tapes, after which he would cite the findings in warning letters and filings, a potential violation of laws requiring ...

Utah sex offender gets jail for exposing himself to child at public building by Marissa Lang The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 6, 2013 02:51PM MDT A 73-year-old sex offender was sentenced last week to jail for exposing himself to a 5-year-old girl at a South Salt Lake building, which houses a public library and charter school. Robert Peter Ritt, of Provo, pleaded guilty in February to a ...

Dentists can set their own fees on services that insurers do not reimburse, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday in a decision that will mean higher out-of-pocket costs for patients.

A state appeal court in Louisiana says a state law unconstitutionally pre-empts federal law by requiring drivers from other countries to prove they are in the United States legally.

A former Boy Scout volunteer from southwestern Illinois has begun serving a six-year prison sentence for sexually molesting boys in his family.

A Fredericksburg intelligence analyst with the U.S. Marshals Service admitted in court to owning child pornography at work.

WHEELING, W.Va. -- A former West Virginia sheriff was ordered into federal custody Monday and will spend a year in prison for his role in the 2010 beating of a bank robber after a high-speed chase.U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey rejected pleas that...

FREMONT — Wearing a lime-green safety vest over her clothing, a Perrysburg woman on Friday implored Sandusky County Common Pleas Judge John Dewey to send to jail the truck driver who struck and killed her husband while he worked on the Ohio Turnpike.

Spc. Marshall D. Drake Jr. of Mount Pleasant, S.C., was sentenced Thursday after being convicted in a general court-martial of involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Pfc. Grant W. Wise of Perinton.

It may be weeks before Kansans know if prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Kyle Flack, accused of killing four people in Franklin County this spring. It will take far longer — 10 years or more — before anyone in the state is actually put to death for a crime. And that time gap, advocates on both sides of the death penalty debate say, suggests the state remains deeply uneasy about the ...

[Breaking news update 2:15 p.m.] The jury has reached a verdict in the trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, accused in the deaths of four infants and a woman at his clinic. [Original story, posted 12:10 p.m.] A judge in the trial of Philadelphia abortion docto...

AUBURN, Maine (AP) — Maine authorities have charged two more men in connection with the death of a man believed by one of the alleged assailants to be a police informant.