A not-yet-public U.S. federal court order has apparently halted wire transfers between payments startup Dwolla and the largest bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox. Dwolla , based in Des Moines, Iowa, offers inexpensive wire transfers. Mt. Gox , headquartered in Tokyo, runs a popular exchange where people can buy and sell the virtual currency bitcoin. The intent of the court order is not clear, although ...

Greenwood Avenue — A participant in the New Jersey Intensive Supervision Program — an intensive form of parole used as an alternative to prison — who has a no-bail state warrant for his arrest was found at One Greenwood Ave. at 5:28 p.m. on Friday, April 26, by Montclair police officers dispatched to the address, police said.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Prosecutors told a federal jury on Wednesday that a man they say is the brother of leaders of Mexico's most blood-soaked criminal organization used the proceeds from their brothers' ill-gotten gains to bankroll his horse-racing stable. Trevino is the central figure of five men charged in a Texas federal court with using a race horse breeding operation to launder millions of ...

Charles Burnett III, an investor and philanthropist, today issued an "Open Letter to the Shareholders of Regions Financial Corp." in advance of the company's Annual General Meeting to bring attention to management's failure to properly oversee its legal affairs.

A July 8 trial date is set for a contraband tobacco case sealed in federal court more than a year.

A mother’s love for her remaining child kept Jordan Able Boijseauneau from facing the death penalty.

SIOUX CITY | A Storm Lake, Iowa, man has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for making and selling methamphetamine.

An Oregon federal judge has ruled the practice of limiting inmates' mail to only postcards is unconstitutional.

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SAN DIEGO — Officials have closed Otay Mesa Road because of a grass fire, the California Highway Patrol. The wind-driven wildfire of blackened swaths of open grassland south of Donovan State Prison. The fast-moving flames began spreading shortly after 2 …

SPOKANE, Wash. - KHQ's Alex Rozier has learned that the Spokane Country Club, one of the most historic golf courses in Eastern Washington, filed for bankruptcy on Thursday in Federal Court.

A Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling Wednesday means Cumberland County will be partly home to three state senators.

BILLINGS, Mont. — Barry Beach is back in custody after surrendering to authorities in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling that could send him back to prison for the rest of his life for the 1979 slaying of a teenager Two years after Beach was freed by a Lewistown Judge, a spokesman for the attorney general said he was taken into custody without incident Wednesday morning by the Yellowstone County ...

KRISTEN BUTLER, UPI.com Robson denied any sexual abuse in Jackson's 2005 molestation trial, but now he's filing a sexual abuse claim against the pop star's estate.

LOCK HAVEN - The Clinton County commissioners hired a second attorney for Children and Youth Services Thursday, citing an increased workload and higher level of complexity in the court proceedings as reasons for the move.

CENTENNIAL, Colo. -- Prosecutors in the Colorado theater shootings say laws on insanity and the death penalty are constitutional and don't need any of the explanations requested by the defense.

A judge has temporarily halted the limits on abortions after the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.

Brach Eichler grows practice as the regulatory environment and a highly competitive business environment create new challenges for providers of all sizes. (PRWeb May 15, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10723255.htm

Last June, two hours into her shift at the Toledo Correctional Institution, Officer Michelle Deiley peered through the small window on the door of James Jarrett’s cell to see the inmate naked.

Editor's note: In December 1984, Daniel Remeta, Lisa Dunn and Mark Walter left Traverse City, Mich., ...

Former Jacksonville Jaguars stand-out wide receiver Jimmy Smith is serving a six-year prison term in Mississippi for drug possession and weapons charges, online state corrections records show.

A former Dewey & LeBoeuf partner who sued Barclays Bank after it demanded that he make good on what he claims is a fraudulent $540,000 loan agreement is now trying to spread the blame for the loan's creation to several of the defunct firm's onetime leaders, including former Dewey chairman Steven Davis.

Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer Dustin S. Phillips has been selected to the National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers. http://www.oklahoma-criminal-defense.com/ (PRWeb May 15, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10727893.htm

No one is seriously suggesting that California will soon become another Cyprus, the Greek-speaking Mediterranean island nation whose economic bailout plan includes dunning holders of “large” bank accounts as much as half their holdings and freezing the rest. But since a federal bankruptcy judge gave the go-ahead for the city of Stockton to seek shelter from more than $1 billion in debts via ...

Friends of Larry Delassus, the disabled Hermosa Beach Navy veteran who died in court in December while opposing foreclosure of his home, filed a wrongful death lawsuit this week against the bank that defaulted him and sold his home.

On June 13, 1996, 18-year-old Angie Dodge was raped and murdered in her Idaho Falls apartment. In 1998, Chris Tapp was sentenced to 25 years to life for the crime. But, for years, renowned DNA expert and Boise State Professor Greg Hampikian has championed Tapp's innocence.

The second of five defendants charged with aiding a prostitution ring that operated out of massage parlors in Lackawanna and several other nearby counties was sentenced Tuesday in federal court to two years' probation. Yu Cheng Lee, 37, of Tannersville,

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A central Iowa man has been given prison time for cutting down more than two dozen black walnut trees. U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt says 50-year-old Randall Todd Walker, of Des Moines, was sentenced Thursday to 15 months in prison.

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — A Bangor woman charged with using pliers, a box cutter and a plastic baseball bat to kill her husband during a jealous rage has been ruled competent to stand trial.        

Tavon White is being held under tight circumstances at a state prison in Cumberland        

The leader of a Cicero church facing a federal fraud indictment will continue to call his house of worship home after a judge refused to let him live with family in Georgia while awaiting trial. Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman did, however, tell Herman Jackson he can move freely about the Chicago area for 12 hours a day, and she gave him permission to visit his wife, co-defendant Jannette Faria ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Late last week, a California federal judge conditionally certified a class of approximately 5,000 plaintiffs who worked at military bases around the nation for contractor Managed Health Network, Inc.

A cargo pilot who overshot the Spokane airport by 50 miles last year, then lined up on the wrong runway during his approach, has been convicted in federal court of the rare charge of flying while intoxicated.

PHILADELPHIA, May 13, 2013 / Christian Newswire / -- After deliberating more than ten days, a jury in Philadelphia today convicted Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72, one of Philadelphia's oldest and wealthiest abortion doctors, of three counts of first degree murder and one count of involuntary manslaughter.

Two Chester Township men appeared Thursday in Geauga County Common Pleas Court on child pornography charges.

Joanne Chesimard, the Black Liberation Army militant who fled prison for Cuba after being convicted of killing a New Jersey state trooper in 1973, was added to the FBI most-wanted terrorist list, and a reward doubled to $2 million.

When Jonathan M. Meagher was in high school on the North Shore, he joined the Mock Trial team as an extracurricular activity. He found the experience so rewarding and fun that he introduced the program at Holy Name after he joined the faculty. Though heand#8217;s not an attorney, Mr. Meagher figures that with his years of association with the Mock Trial program, he could probably do a decent job ...

41 HIV infections occurred in volunteers who received vaccine; 30 cases of infection in those who got placebos

The Mesothelioma Victims Center says, "Because US Navy Veterans make up about one third of all diagnosed victims of mesothelioma each year in the United States, and because the most skilled, and experienced mesothelioma lawyers in the nation get the best possible mesothelioma financial compensation results for their clients, we are urging diagnosed victims, or their family members to call us for ...

The defense in the murder trial of a Philadelphia doctor accused of performing illegal late-term abortions rested Wednesday without calling any witnesses.

An Eddyville woman is accused of smuggling contraband into the Kentucky State Penitentiary.