Before he was charged in July 2011 with aiding the hacker group Anonymous, Josh Covelli lived what he considered the life of an ordinary 26-year-old. He spent countless hours on the Internet. He had a girlfriend. He was a student and employee at Devry University in Dayton, Ohio.

Two men accused of misappropriating $5.5 million in taxpayer funds meant for California charter schools may be inching toward a trial date - five and a half years after they were indicted.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An abortion provider charged with killing babies after they were born alive won a reprieve of sorts when a judge threw out three murder counts, but the death penalty still looms if he is convicted in four other newborn deaths.

Richard J. Curl, who pleaded guilty in February, is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday afternoon in Montgomery County Circuit Court.

A trial date has been set for a Massachusetts man accused of killing a woman in southern Vermont.

Drama and controversy have surrounded the last two Del Norte County district attorneys, with each bringing a set of his own headlines and distractions. Still, the District Attorney’s Office has continued to function with the aid of its staff of deputies, laboring quietly in the background — until now. Meet Interim District Attorney Katherine Micks. While the title is temporary, Micks has been a ...

In the news release, "Police Officer's Family Settles Death by Drunk Driver Case," issued earlier today by The Crosley Law Firm, P.C., we are advised by the company that Officer Antillon's name ...

A federal court judge denied a request by the former interim superintendent of Detroit Public Schools for a temporary restraining order against the district's emergency manager to get his job back.

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...

Lawsuits filed in local and federal court accuse Department of Labor and Workforce Development leaders of forcing out white employees and replacing th...

The Miami slip and fall lawyers at Bernstein & Maryanoff, URL http://www.bernsteinandmaryanoff.com , have settled an injury lawsuit on behalf of a client. (PRWeb May 24, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/florida/injury-lawyers/prweb10766873.htm

The Michigan motorcycle accident attorneys of Buckfire & Buckfire, P.C. handling all types of biker injury accidents remind motorcyclists and drivers that May is Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month. (PRWeb May 01, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10690751.htm

According to court documents, in the last five years there were 355,000 civil cases filed in Connecticut courts.

Loading Photo Galleries ... Candace Duran, seen in court Sept. 13, 2012, was convicted last month of voluntary manslaughter in a 2007 killing in Palm Springs.

LITCHFIELD - A Litchfield County man accused of killing his girlfriend in January 2000 has remained free for 13 years awaiting trial and has been earning a $129,000-a-year taxpayer-funded salary as a state sales tax auditor.

MONTROSE, Colo.—A judge won't stop a re-trial for a Texas businessman accused in the drowning death of his wife in Colorado.

This is an excerpt from Amanda Knox's interview with USA TODAY's Susan Page about why she wrote her book, 'Waiting to Be Heard,' what could bring her closure and how she's been changed by her sensational murder trial and four years in an Italian prison.

State attorneys successfully quashed testimony on issues key to Vernon Hershberger's defense, including the quality of his raw milk.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A reputed Connecticut mobster was sentenced Thursday to 2½ years in prison in a weapons and prescription drugs case that revealed federal authorities' belief that he knows something about the largest art heist in U.S. history.        

The Supreme Court has been pondering whether to take up a Wisconsin case that could reset the line separating church and state.

A judge declined to reduce the amount of bail on Friday for a man accused of posting threats against the University of Evansville and the Evansville Police Department on the social media website Twitter.

A high-speed chase ends in a multiple vehicle wreck and two men charged with separate crimes.

Defense attorneys for Brett Parker started presenting their case in his double murder trial Thursday.

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...

Rick Curl pleaded guilty in February Former coach Rick Curl was sentenced Thursday to seven years in prison and five years' probation for child sexual abuse of one of his former swimmers in the 1980s.

Lawmakers are pushing legislation to allow local hospitals to do blood tests because of a backlog at North Carolina's crime lab. The Gaston County district attorney said Carter Mitchell is a prime reason why the law needs to be changed. Mitchell was charged with DWI in February 2011. His blood was taken then, but results still have not come back. Since then, he has picked up two more DWI charges ...

Dr. Kermit Gosnell left the courthouse a convicted murderer, in a prison jumpsuit and handcuffs. Prosecutors said Gosnell delivered babies alive, then cut their spinal cords with scissors. He could learn next week if he'll get the death penalty or life in prison; also, as executive director of the Richmond, Va., Tea Party, Laurence Nordvig says he thought for two years the tea party had been ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Inmates at jails in Indianapolis, Baltimore, St. Louis and Philadelphia face the nation's highest levels of sexual abuse at the hands of guards, according to a new federal report based on surveys of inmates at U.S. jails and prisons. The report by the U.S. Department of Justice found that the Marion County Jail's inmate-intake center in Indianapolis had a 7.7 percent rate of ...

MILWAUKEE—Federal court documents show the man who killed six people at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin was actively using the Internet to become

A Valley media source is reporting the Pinal County Attorney’s Office is considering charging alleged Casa Grande bomber Abdullatif Aldosary in the Nov. 27 Maricopa murder of Orlando Requena.

WARREN, Ohio - The man convicted of delivering a deadly dose of heroin that ended up claiming the life of a Girard teen is going to prison. James Patterson, of Youngstown, will spend the next 20 years More >>

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.

The Men’s Legal Center are pleased to announce the launching of a new professional group on Linkedin.com. (PRWeb May 10, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/san-diego/divorce-lawyers/prweb10669992.htm

A monstrous tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire... - 9:55 pm

GALLIPOLIS — In a hearing scheduled later this month in the Gallia County Common Pleas Courtroom, the court will decide if a Gallia County man accused of shooting and critically wounding a Gallipo...

Posted: Thursday, May 9, 2013 9:15 pm | Updated: 3:18 pm, Fri May 10, 2013.

Rachel Swan Special to The S.F. Examiner Like every court system in California, San Mateo County felt the pinch of budget cuts this year, and it’s enough to rattle administrators. In January, Gov. Jerry Brown proposed cuts that would leave the court with a crippling $4.5 million deficit. Barring a May revision of that proposal, the court would have to adjust by eliminating five commissioners ...

April 24, 2013 5:40 PM WASHINGTON (AFP) - As the case unfolds against Boston marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old may earn a dubious distinction - the federal government has indicated his could be one of the rare cases where it seeks the death penalty.        

by Holly Yan. Matt Smith and Pamela Brown CLEVELAND (CNN) — Ariel Castro maintained his home as a prison for three young women, holding them in seclusion and sexually assaulting them for his own pleasure, a Cuyahoga County, Ohio, prosecutor …

Brett Parker, the man accused of the murder of two people at his Ascot Estates home, is getting ready to head to trial, but what we may not know for several days is whether he will face one or two trials.Brett

MINEOLA, N.Y. - In what police are describing as a crime of opportunity, a wanted man with a criminal history dating nearly 15 years entered a front door that had been left open at a New York home near Hofstra University.