Vincennes Levee worked almost flawlessly even while Wabash hit highest level since system was built

A former Marine from Indiana has appealed his conviction and prison sentence for starting a fire inside an Ohio mosque because he wanted revenge for the killings of American soldiers overseas.

A 23-year-old Norwich woman was sentenced Wednesday to 6½ years in federal prison for her role in prostituting a 16-year-old girl.

The Philadelphia jury in the murder trial of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell finished a second full day of deliberations Thursday without a verdict.

WILKES-BARRE 8211 Luzerne County District Attorney Stefanie Salavantis said Wednesday she thought she would be the last person to be asked to speak at the county's Day Reporting Center graduation.It's because of her office that offenders must participate in the program, she said.

After receiving a one-time grant of $2,500 from the Breastfeeding Support Funding opportunity through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Women’s Health, the Johnson City Medical Center Family Birth Center implemented a trial program in March aimed at increasing breast-feeding rates among local expectant mothers.

After a 20-year run in Philadelphia and a seven-year stint in Greenville, S.C., the USA Cycling Professional Road & Time Trial National Championships are coming to Chattanooga for the first time this weekend.

ESSEX FELLS - The trial of Anthony DiGilio, 33, of Brick Township, who was charged with vehicular homicide after the death of Essex Fells boater Robert Post in 2008, finished in Toms River this week w

DC Plastic Surgeon, Dr. Shlomo Widder, warns against the use of the increasingly popular “Gummy Bear” Implants which are now in an FDA approval trial period. Dr. Widder encourages the use of softer silicone and saline implants for a natural look and feel. (PRWeb May 01, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10678878.htm

JACKSON, Miss., May 7 (UPI) -- Mississippi's Supreme Court Tuesday stopped the execution of Willie Jerome Manning, convicted in the shooting deaths of two college students.

Thousands of New Yorkers who rent out their apartments on the popular traveler site Airbnb.com are breaking the law, a New York judge ruled — and they could be slapped with hefty fines. East Village condo owner Nigel Warren was hit with a $2,400 penalty Monday for subletting his...

A former police officer is headed to trial on charges accusing him of sexual misconduct with an underage girl in March at the Waverly Police Department.

A man who took pictures of at least 13 women in restroom stalls has been sentenced to a decade in prison.

Lawbeat: 4th balk could land sales tax deadbeat in prison In November 2012, Popolizio pleaded guilty to one count of felony criminal tax fraud in exchange for a sentence of one to three years behind bars. [...] the case has been adjourned on dates in January, February and April. In January 2012, underweight dogs were seized from Popolizio's South Side breeding kennel in the town of Worcester ...

PORTLAND — A Lisbon man was sentenced in federal court Wednesday to four years in prison for stealing federal money and other federal crimes.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Myhre, center leaves the U.S. Courthouse in Reno on Monday. At right is prosecutor Eric Olshan. / Tim Dunn/RGJ • Continue to check for updates and video recaps from the Whittemore trial and see past coverage of the case.

The financial outlook for Alabama's prepaid college tuition plan has turned around since the state's highest court ruled the program can pay tuition at fall 2010 rates rather than current rates, a financial expert said Wednesday.

Ariel Castro has become the number one villain in the eyes of America. It leaves us asking why he deserves an attorney.

By Sharon Bernstein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California Governor Jerry Brown, under court order to produce a plan to ease overcrowding in state prisons, pointed to plans to reopen two closed facilities and move some inmates to camps, but otherwise defiantly rapped a three-judge panel for the "intrusiveness" of the case. Brown's filing stopped short of laying out precisely how the most populous U ...

Alex Pothast is accused of drinking and driving in 2010 when his classmate, Joshua Young of Waverly, died after a crash in Pothast's vehicle.

COMMON PLEAS COURT NEW SUITS 13-DP-0352 - Nikki A. Cochran, 4316 Carona St., v. Ronnie T. Cochran, 4316 Carona St., petition for domestic violence civil protection order. 13-DP-0353 - Taheekah Nicole Mahmood, 1967 Portage Path, v. William Jack Robinson IV, 1361 Woodward Ave., petition for domestic violence civil protection order. 13-DP-0354 - John Layne, 2107 Troy Road, Apt. D2, v. Josh Vitatoe ...

ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. — Lawyers for alleged theater shooter James Holmes asked the court Monday to change his not guilty plea...

AUGUSTA, Maine (NEWS CENTER) - After living 27 years in the woods as the legendary North Pond Hermit, Christopher Knight isn't too keen on speaking with many people as he sits in Kennebec County Jail, awaiting his next court hearing. He is speaking with two people: his attorney and, surprisingly, the woman who arrested him, State Trooper Diane Perkins-Vance.

For the second time since 2011, a Royal Canadian Navy warship has spilled fuel into Halifax harbour. Read More DHAKA, Bangladesh — Dozens of bodies recovered Wednesday from a collapsed garment factory building were so decomposed they were being sent to a lab for DNA identification, police said, as the death toll from Bangladesh’s worst industrial...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) - A Minnesota man faces a possible six-month jail term for obstructing a prosecutor in Iowa after his son was sent to prison in an animal terrorism case.

HONOLULU (AP) — Two Hawaii men are facing up to life in prison after a federal jury convicted them of conspiring to distribute 50 grams or more methamphetamine on Maui.

Judge was sick so sentencing has been delayed

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DALLAS, April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The national trial and business law firm Rose•Walker, L.L.P. is expanding its practice with the opening of a new office in Durango, Colo. The office, which will serve ...

ALAMOSA — A convicted drug trafficker apologized on Tuesday for his actions, but his words could not make up for the fact that he committed an “extraordinary risk” crime.

Winslow Lazer Norton of Emeryville and Abraham Volstein Norton of Walnut Creek agreed to a sentence of six months in jail and six months on home detention. They also agreed to forfeit some $600,000 in revenues.

Prosecutors say he set a house on fire, killed two children, and fled from Vanderburgh County to northern Kentucky.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — For two years, the Columbia County Jail north of Portland restricted inmates' personal mail to the sending and receiving of postcards.

OTTUMWA —The Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure starts at 7 a.m. Saturday in the Jimmy Jones Shelter in Ottumwa Park, and Lynelle Diers hopes everyone will "keep up mammograms." Diers, the executive director of Wapello County Public Health, said Thursd

A man charged in the shooting deaths of two young girls near Weleetka and the death of his 23-year-old girlfriend wants a judge to combine the separate cases so he can be tried for all three deaths at once.

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.

More than four years after Troya Sheckles was gunned down in Shelby Park while watching her young cousin play, a jury found Steven Pettway guilty of killing the 31-year-old to prevent her from testifying in a murder trial.

BOSTON - Seventeen-year-olds would no longer automatically enter the adult court system in Massachusetts under a bill that won unanimous approval Wednesday in the House of Representatives.

The Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman is the state’s biggest and most costly penitentiary. Photo by Courtesy Neil Conway

PORTLAND -- A federal judge in Oregon has rejected a defense request for a new trial for Mohamed Mohamud, the Somali American convicted in the Pioneer Square Christmas tree bombing plot, according to a report in the Oregonian. U.S. District Judge Garr King found no serious miscarriage of justice occurred during his trial, the newspaper reported. Jurors found Mohamud guilty last January of ...

With other accusers stepping forward, a former yeshiva teacher changed pleas Monday in the middle of his trial, admitting he sexually abused a boy he met while working as a camp counselor.