MANSON - More than 200 projects from seven schools were showcased at the annual Northwest Iowa Industrial Technology Fair Wednesday, but only four could move on their own power.

Nevada's seal is displayed on the floor of the Supreme Court of Nevada building. / Liz Margerum/RGJ file photo • The Reno Gazette-Journal is suing the Nevada Public Employees Retirement System to obtain a list of retirees and their benefit amounts.

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - A Guatemalan court convicted former dictator Efrain Rios Montt on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity on Friday, sentencing him to 80 years in prison, the first such sentence ever handed down against a former Latin American leader.

A man, who the Madison and Rankin County district attorney called a major Ecstasy supplier, has been sentenced to 52 years in prison. Joseph Patrick Coates, 23, pleaded guilty recently to three counts of sale of a controlled substance, according to a news release from District Attorney Michael Guest. The last eight years of Coates' sentence were suspended. Coates was arrested in 2011 along with ...

U.S. District Court Judge John Fowlkes sentenced longtime Memphis educator Clarence Mumford, Sr., to seven years in prison in a multi-state test-taking fraud.

May 16--STAND UP GUYS (Lionsgate) Al Pacino as an aging bank robber who, upon his release from prison, is greeted by an old pal who's a hit man, played by Christopher Walken -- who's been ordered to bump off his buddy. Geriatric buddy-mobster comedy, with Alan Arkin.

Jimmy Smith retired from the NFL in 2005 after eleven seasons playing for the Jacksonville Jaguars . Now, the former star finds himself in a Mississippi prison serving two terms -- giving him a planned release date of 2018. Smith was arrested back in March, according to the First Coast News . He was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm (carrying a two-year term), and of cocaine ...

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) -- Authorities say a Clarksburg man charged with selling illegal synthetic drugs at two West Virginia shops is now on the run, and U.S. marshals are hunting for him. Jury selection

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "To Kill A Mockingbird," Harper Lee, on Friday sued her literary agent, claiming he tricked her into assigning the copyright on her book to him. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Manhattan against Samuel Pinkus, the son-in-law of Lee's long-time agent, Eugene Winick, who had represented her for more than 40 years.

A 25-year-old Niles man convicted in January of molesting a 15-year-old Wheeling girl was sentenced to three years in prison Thursday. The judge said she initially considered probation, but Eduardo Patino was indicted on new sexual abuse charges while he was out on bond.

General Electric Co. sued National Grid Plc (NG/) ’s Niagara Mohawk unit in federal court in New York seeking costs associated with the government-ordered environmental cleanup of the Hudson River.

Briefly: Mark Sherman of the Associated Press (via The Washington Post) examines the diversity of the Supreme Court bar, noting that “[i]n an era when three women, a Hispanic and an African-American sit on the court and white men constitute a bare majority of the nine justices, the court is more diverse than the lawyers who [...]

York, PA - No verdict was reached in the Sandra L. Murphy theft and forgery trial Wednesday. The jury is to return to the York County Judicial Center Thursday morning to resume deliberations.

Mississippi Supreme Court Chief Justice Bill Waller Jr. will speak Wednesday at the opening of a three-day conference in of the Mississippi Association of Drug Court Professionals.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ The Kansas Court of Appeals has upheld a ruling in 2012 by a state tax court affirming a property tax exemption for a Canadian company building the Keystone XL pipeline.

MIAMI, May 19 (UPI) -- The lawsuit of a Florida Orthodox Jewish prison inmate to get kosher food that had been dismissed has now been reinstated, court records showed.

After starting the morning with motions filed by the defense, witnesses began taking the stand in the Brett Parker double murder trial.

By Candice Davis - Operation "Pulling Wool" came to a close with a final conviction in Federal Court.

Jurors in Jodi Arias' murder trial resume deliberations Thursday after they were unable to reach a unanimous verdict on whether she should be sentenced to life in prison or death for killing her one-time...

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Patricia Carson, 23, of North Platte was sentenced Monday to up to three years in the Women’s Correctional Facility at York. Carson was convicted of 3 counts of conditional release violations and 3 counts of failure to appear.

African-American men in Wisconsin are incarcerated at a rate that's nearly twice the national average, according to a new study. To find out what's behind the staggering numbers, host Michel Martin speaks with Wisconsin State Senator Lena Taylor, and Marc Mauer of The Sentencing Project.

Georgia Supreme Court Presiding Justice Hugh Thompson has been unanimously elected the new chief justice.

Harper Lee, the 87-year-old author of To Kill a Mockingbird, sued her literary agent, claiming he took advantage of her age and infirmity to deprive her of royalties from the novel.        

The trial took place last summer. Kyle's client was awarded $987,000.SAN MARCOS, TEXAS (PRWEB) April 25, 2013 A trial won by The Kyle Law Firm last fall has been named to Texas Lawyer magazine’s Top Texas Verdicts and Settlements of 2012 list.The case that earned The Kyle Law Firm’s entry into this list, Sharron v. Hogan, took place last summer in the 349th Judicial District Court in Jeff Davis ...

A Wichita Falls man was sentenced to two 18-year prison sentences and one 12-month sentence for manufacturing methamphetamine and money laundering in 89th District Court on Thursday morning.

NEW YORK, May 14 (UPI) -- Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of president John F. Kennedy, has been picked as a juror in a New York criminal trial despite her famous family's background.

A New York based mobster has pleaded guilty in an American court to taking part in a massive drug trafficking conspiracy that has deep ties to Montreal.

SAN DIEGO -- A San Diego chiropractor claims that his extensive trial experience enables his practice to serve its patients better. Dr. Kien Ta of CK Chiropractic Center explains that the numerous injury ...

BRATTLEBORO -- A man who led police on a two-state vehicle pursuit before abandoning his stolen car in Hinsdale, N.H., and taking off on foot, was arraigned in court in Keene, N.H., Thursday.

TOPEKA -- The Kansas Court of Appeals on Friday upheld a ruling in 2012 by a state tax court affirmi ...

Former Arlington Boys & Girls Club swim coach and pool director Paul A. Collins, 62, was charged with rape of a child with force and three counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 Monday in Cambridge District Court in Medford. Allegedly committed in the late 1970s and early 1980s at the Arlington Boys & Girls Club, as well as at a home and on a trip, the crimes involved three ...

Charles Cullen is in Somerset County Superior Court to plead guilty to killing one of his patients. / Asbury Park Press file photo For more information on the New Jersey Poison Information and Education System, visit www.njpies.org . The free hotline number is 800-222-1222.

The Hendersonville woman convicted of murdering her twin newborn sons will be in court for sentencing on Friday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New Jersey man who confessed to the 1979 killing of Etan Patz should stand trial for murder and kidnapping in the 6-year-old boy's disappearance, a judge ruled on Wednesday.        

Grisly new details emerged on the second day of a mass murder trial as officers who responded to the scene and a forensic pathologist described what they saw in their roles investigating the case.

A former River Rouge school official has been sentenced to five years in prison for a bribery and mail fraud scheme that cost the district $160,000.

BECKLEY, W.Va. -- An aspiring actor admitted his guilt in an extortion plot involving a West Virginia coal executive, among others, in U.S. District Court on Thursday. Vivek Shah, 25, of California, pleaded guilty to one count of transf...

Although he wasn't in the courtroom Wednesday, a former state blood analyst was center stage during a North Carolina Court of Appeals hearing on Mike Peterson's effort to be cleared in his wife's 2001 death.

Gov. Tom Corbett, who served a total of 10 years as Pennsylvania’s top lawyer as attorney general, delivered the commencement address to nearly 250 members of Villanova Law School’s Class of 2013 May 17, pointing them toward two lofty role models: President Abraham Lincoln and St. Thomas More.

A 22-year-old soldier from western Missouri has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for killing man while he was on leave for his wife's funeral.