SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is considering speeding up the release of some inmates while allowing other inmates with a violent history to become firefighters, under a proposal to cut crowding in state prisons Gov. Jerry Brown filed late Thursday night.        

RACINE — 12:06 a.m., Valentine’s Day, 2012: Firefighters were called to 2321 Washington Ave.

A Gallatin County man is sentenced for manufacturing marijuana.

LulzSec members in Britain receive maximum of 15 months, while hacktivist Jeremy Hammond faces life in prison here        

MARTINSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - A judge has sentenced a man to 45 years in prison for fatally shooting another man in a rural central Indiana field where they had met to fight over a woman both were dating.     Twenty-year-old Justen Knapp of Trafalgar apologized during Thursday's Morgan County court hearing for killing 20-year-old Bradley Price. The Daily Journal reports Knapp said he had been using ...

NASHVILLE — A judge in northeast Tennessee has dismissed a libel lawsuit against state Republican Sen. Stacey Campfield for publishing false information about a Democratic candidate for the state House in 2008.

Florida Judge Belvin Perry, who presided over Casey Anthony's murder trial, revealed he was shocked by the jury's verdict, saying there was "sufficient evidence" to convict the "very manipulative" mother of deceased Caylee. "There were two sides to Casey Anthony," Judge Perry told NBC's "Today Show." "There was the side ...

Former New York state Senator Shirley Huntley, who pleaded guilty in January to mail fraud conspiracy, worked with the government to secretly record other elected officials in a corruption probe, according to her lawyer.

Fifty-five Colorado Sheriffs filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against two gun bills passed by the Colorado legislature in March. The suit was filed Friday in Federal District Court in Denver. (PRWeb May 21, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/anti-gun/lawsuit/prweb10751565.htm

Convicted woman begs for mercy, claims she paid taxes on the stolen money The ringleader of a brazen South Florida identity theft ring that sought $11.7 million worth of fraudulent income tax refunds was sentenced Thursday to more than 26 years in federal prison.

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit that claimed the state of Minnesota has been wrongfully charged for more than 37,000 abortions for indigent women.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A federal appeals court is weighing a challenge by Delaware's Chancery Court judges to a ruling that allowing them to oversee secret arbitration in business disputes is unconstitutional.

DENVER — The trial of the former grad student charged in the deadly Colorado movie theater shootings will likely be delayed weeks or months because he wants to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity. James Holmes' attorneys filed the court papers Tuesday. The judge handling the case...

An inmate found dead in a Mohave County jail has been identified as a 28-year-Bullhead City man.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Gov. Martin OMalley signed a gun-control measure on Thursday to give Maryland some of the nations tightest gun laws, and the National Rifle Association plans to challenge it in court.Part of the law requires people to submit fingerprints t...

(Washington, D.C.) – Idaho U.S. Senator Jim Risch quizzed State Department officials during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing Wednesday on the latest efforts to secure the release of Pastor Saeed Abedini. The Boise pastor has been sentenced by the Iranian government to eight years in prison for spreading Christianity. He had been in Iran working to build an orphanage and visit family.

Daniel S. Moffatt, experienced defense attorney, was recently able to assist his client, charged with possession with the intent to sell oxycodone, to avoid a possible 10 year prison sentence. (PRWeb May 03, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10691903.htm

Las Vegas attorney Stanley Walton pleaded guilty Wednesday to a charge brought against him in February 2011 that he participated in a scheme to obtain mortgage loans from financial institutions using straw buyers and false loan applications, Nevada's U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden said.

A former North Carolina probation officer was sentenced to nearly a year and a half in prison for extortion and drug trafficking offenses involving persons under his supervision.

York, PA - A sitting judge and a former U.S. congressman are squaring off for a 10-year term on the York County Court of Common Pleas.

Al Moriarity is in the San Luis Obispo County Jail accused of securities fraud and embezzlement. The 80-year-old Grover Beach financier is owner of Moriarty Enterprises.

SANTA CRUZ -- Three days before being sent off to prison for the rest of his life, Maurice Ainsworth Jr. was complaining about his tableware.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- A federal jury has convicted a Logan County man of burning his duplex to collect insurance money. U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin said Thursday that 58-year-old Michael L. White

WACO, Texas (AP) — Texas law enforcement officials on Friday launched a criminal investigation into the massive fertilizer plant explosion that killed 14 people last month, after weeks of largely treating the blast as an industrial accident.

After reviewing dozens of Department of Children's Services records on kids who died or nearly died across Tennessee, a state judge on Friday suggested that crimes were committed against children but their abusers were never prosecuted.

In recommending to a judge that Byron Scherf be put to death for killing state corrections Officer Jayme Biendl, a Snohomish County jury found no reason to spare his life.

The evidence presented at Amy Senser's criminal vehicular homicide trial was "more consistent with (her) innocence than guilt," her attorney argued before the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told Gov. Sam Brownback that a new Kansas law that criminalizes federal enforcement of gun laws was unconstitutional.

TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) - A former yeshiva teacher in New Jersey is on trial on charges he sexually abused a boy he met at a summer camp where he was a counselor.

A second federal appeals court has found that President Barack Obama exceeded his power when he bypassed the Senate to install a member to the National Labor Relations Board.

By Brad Bumsted, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review HARRISBURG — A federal judge said on Monday she will rule in a few weeks whether Gov. Tom Corbett can continue an antitrust lawsuit against ...

Police in Isabella County say a Central Michigan University student tried to poison her roommate. 19-year-old Kayla Bonkowski is accused of putting bleach in her roommate's iced tea at their apartment

CHEYENNE -- A Colorado man appeared in court Tuesday for allegedly shooting a gun at two people here Sunday.

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 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The only inmate convicted of murder following the 1971 Attica prison uprising has died in Canada, where he had made a name as a civil rights and peace activist.

The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear a new case on the intersection of religion and government in a dispute over prayers used to open public meetings.

The accident occurred in heavy traffic on Mopac Expressway, according to court documents. (PRWeb May 20, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/Austin-car-wreck-lawyers/Colley-and-Colley/prweb10729315.htm

A Connecticut foster mother faces 100 days in jail after acknowledging she spanked a 4-year-old girl with a wooden spoon.

A Michigan man is standing trial on murder and child abuse charges in the 2012 death of one of his twin infant sons ...

A housekeeper has been sentenced to six years in federal prison in the theft of a Benjamin Franklin bust stolen in suburban Philadelphia and reportedly worth $3 million.Andrea Lawton, 47, of Mobile, Ala.,

CLEVELAND (AP) - Yan Gomes hit a three-run homer in the 10th inning and the Cleveland Indians, twice revived by Seattle's fielding errors, beat the Mariners 10-8 on Monday to complete a 4-game sweep of the Mariners.