A sentencing hearing for Kathleen Zielinski which was scheduled for April 30 at 930 a.m. at the Lackawanna County Courthouse in Scranton was rescheduled for May 13 at 930 a.m. at the same location. The sentencing judge is Judge Barrasse.

Jacqueline Goldberg leaves court Thursday after a federal jury returned with a finding in Donald Trump’s favor in her civil lawuit. She had alleged that the real estate mogul cheated her in a skyscraper condominium deal.

HOUSTON, May 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Noted Houston attorney Mark Lanier , founder of The Lanier Law Firm , has earned selection as a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America (LCA), recognizing the country's ...

A Wisconsin Dells high school teacher charged last summer with a third drunken driving offense faces six bail jumping charges after police said he continued to drink alcohol against court orde…

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - From the front of the room, the judge surveys his charges.

HELENA — A man who helped fight suspicious fires in the Helena area, even though he was not a member of the responding fire departments, was charged Thursday with setting a dozen fires. Frederick James Maw V, 18, made an initial appearance Thursday in Lewis and Clark County Justice Court on 12 counts of arson. His bail was set at $100,000.

A Bradley County  jury reaches a decision in a hotel homicide case. Russell Brown was convicted of murder Wednesday and sentenced to life in prison. Brown admitted to stabbing his long-time friend, Harold Montgomery... then leaving his body inside a burning room at a Days Inn in Cleveland -- last New Year's Day . ...

A North Texas man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for the 2011 killing of a homeless man during a crime spree.

Richie Farmer's arraignment will be earlier than expected. A federal grand jury indictment charges Farmer with four counts of misappropriating government money and property. The arraignment was supposed to be next Tuesday, April 30th. But there was a scheduling conflict with Farmer's Attorney, Guthrie True. The hearing is now set for 4:00pm Thursday.

JACKSON, Mo. — A 19-year-old man from Arkansas could face up to 15 years in prison after admitting to stealing a car and using it to run down three joggers in Cape Girardeau, Mo.

Professor Patrick Harran is ordered to stand trial on felony charges stemming from a fire that killed staff research assistant Sheharbano Sangji more than four years ago. UCLA chemistry professor Patrick Harran was ordered Friday to stand trial on felony charges stemming from a laboratory fire that killed staff research assistant Sheharbano "Sheri" Sangji more than four years ago.        

PHOTO: Supporters look on as Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, sitting third from right, signs a bill abolishing capital punishment in the state during a ceremony in Annapolis, Md., Thursday, May 2, 2013. Also pictured sitting are Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, from left, Senate President Thomas V. ...

KINGMAN — A Superior Court judge took under advisement Thursday whether a Bullhead City murder suspect is incompetent to stand trial or faking being mentally ill.

A Michigan State Police lieutenant has reached a plea deal after being accused of stealing property seized during drug operations and other crimes.

(WBNG Binghamton) Measure Prompted by Murder of Utica Woman by Career Rapist on Parole.

FASHION designer Kym Ellery has left Australia for Hawaii after the court case brought against her by Myer reached settlement last week.

LAS VEGAS — O.J. Simpson is expected to take the stand Wednesday as he seeks a new trial on his 2008 convictions for robbery and kidnapping, which sent him to prison for up to 33 years.        

By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - In a closely watched case in the art world, American artist Richard Prince won a federal appeals court order Thursday holding that he did not infringe the copyrights of a photographer by incorporating his images into 25 paintings and collages. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York reversed a lower court's finding that Prince must hand over artwork ...

The state will not have to return 15 troubled foster teens it removed because of safety concerns from three private facilities, including one in Lacey, a Thurston County Superior Court judge has ruled in part of an ongoing lawsuit.

A law banning all cell phone use for minors while driving in Kentucky has been in effect since 2011, but a very small amount of citations have actually been issued to those breaking the law.

LOS ANGELES, April 30 — Concert promoters AEG Live ignored red flags when it hired Dr Conrad Murray to care for Michael Jackson, and should have been aware that the singer had addiction problems years before he agreed to perform a series of 2009 London comeback concerts, an attorney for Jackson’s family told a Los Angeles jury yesterday. Making ...        

SANDPOINT, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Court of Appeals has rejected a request by a northern Idaho man for a re-sentencing hearing following his guilty plea to statutory rape.

A divided federal appeals court said today that a Michigan law barring public schools from collecting union dues can take effect, reversing a lower court ruling.

A witness in the trial of a St. Louis man charged with killing three people at a Minnesota home says he seemed "desperate" to silence a teenager who had accused him of molesting her.

STEUBENVILLE - A jury trial concerning shots being fired in June 2011 on Maryland Avenue began Wednesday before Jefferson County Common Pleas Judge David Henderson. Kinlaw Hendrix, 27, of Steubenville, formerly of Knoxville, Ill.

(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren). Colton Harris-Moore, right, who is also known as the "Barefoot Bandit," sits in a Skagit County Superior Courtroom, Wednesday, May 8, 2013, in Mount Vernon, Wash., next to his attorney, John Henry Browne, left.

ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) - The last two officials convicted of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux tribe in the Dakotas have been sentenced for their roles in the crime.

A 62-year-old Ripon man will spend 16 1/2 years in prison for hiring an undercover hitman to murder and injure his former business partners.

NEW YORK (TheDeal) -- Less than three weeks after issuing a report blaming former CEO Jon Corzine for the collapse of MF Global Holdings Ltd., the company's Chapter 11 trustee has sued the executive and two other board members. In a Monday, April 22, complaint, Chapter 11 trustee Louis Freeh of Pepper Hamilton LLP faulted Corzine, chief operating officer Bradley Abelow and former chief financial ...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — A northeast Pennsylvania teenager who acknowledges having accidentally shot a friend to death a year ago has testified in the trial of his mother, who is charged with having covered up the shooting.

HONOLULU (AP) - A retired Los Angeles police detective has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in Hawaii for the 2006 beating death of his wife. The Los Angeles Times reported Thursday ( http://lat.ms/10Wm24A ) that Judge Ronald Ibarra said during sentencing that 59-year-old Dan DeJarnette had done the opposite in killing his wife from what earned him a commendable career in law enforcement.

KIMT News 3 - It’s a verdict some were hoping for and are excited to finally hear as Warren Purvis is sentenced to life in prison. On Friday 59 year-old Warren Purvis of Mason City was sentenced to life in prison following his conviction of first degree sexual assault.

Their "Blueprint for a Safer North Carolina" outlines a need for more money, prosecutors to keep residents safe.

FLINT, Mich. (AP) - A Flint man who authorities say threatened to kill three lawmakers from Michigan has been ruled incompetent to stand trial. The Flint Journal reports ( http://bit.ly/10TfhR7 ) U.S. District Judge Mark A. Goldsmith made the determination Tuesday about 54-year-old Randall Dellinger.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Virginia man who pleaded guilty to three charges in a shooting that wounded a security guard inside the Washington headquarters of a conservative Christian lobbying group awaits sentencing in mid-summer.

There was no hiding the child's disfiguring injuries in a Douglas County district courtroom Tuesday.

GREENVILLE — An attorney has been appointed for a Wills Point man, who is appealing his conviction on a charge of murder in connection with a shooting death in January 2010.

A Mt. Vernon man was sentenced to 40 years in prison for predatory criminal sexual assault of a child.

Four Jacksonville men have been indicted and arrested in connection with a violent crime spree targeting area businesses in the Eastern District of Texas announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today. read more

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Waynesville, Mo., couple has been indicted by a federal grand jury for their role in a nearly $414,000 conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Pulaski and Laclede counties.

Danny Platt was sentenced to life in prison Thursday. The only promise prosecutor Robert Moore made him was that the state would not seek to execute him.