HONOLULU (AP) - A federal judge in Hawaii is setting conditions for the pretrial release of a defense contractor accused of giving military secrets to his Chinese girlfriend. U.S. District Court Judge

The last remaining defendant, developer Robert Osborne, died April 25

The Iowa Supreme Court is ruling on a lawsuit filed by residents of two Des Moines apartment buildings who say their buildings were infested with bedbugs.

SALEM — A pair of bills aimed at curtailing protests by environmental activists that disrupt logging in state-owned forests was comfortably approved Monday by the Oregon House. House Bill 2595 would create a new “interference” crime that would apply to protesters who chain themselves to or sit in trees, who …

Sentencing for Kevin A. Balch, 34, was so steep because of penalties for stealing six guns.

Local law enforcement authorities and an attorney offered their advice about safety and gun laws Tuesday at a Del Norte Tea Party Patriots forum titled “Surviving in a Violent World.” Crescent City Police Chief Doug Plack, sheriff’s Commander Tim Athey and attorney Darren McElfresh were on hand to answer questions regarding gun ownership, personal attacks, car theft and burglary, as well as ...

A lawyer for a New York man who was charged with fraud after filing a multibillion-dollar lawsuit claiming half ownership of Facebook asked a judge Friday to suspend the criminal case to keep it from interfering ...

All roads surrounding the Circuit Court building on Halekauwila have been reopened, and the all-clear has been given by the Honolulu Police Department after a bomb threat in downtown Honolulu on Thursday morning.

An Iowa City man who was sentenced last month to life in prison for being present during the 2009 murder of landlord John Versypt has filed an appeal to the verdict.

PHOENIX—Do you know who Jodi Arias is? No? Then you don’t watch HLN. Or CNN. Or ABC News, Dateline , 48 Hours or Inside Edition . You don’t read People.com, or the National Enquirer or the Huffington Post. You don’t follow the #JodiArias hashtag. In short, you have a life. Jodi Arias is the new Casey Anthony . And who begat Casey Anthony? Well, O.J. Simpson , of course, the granddaddy of them ...

The firm's attorneys say U.S. did not do an environmental review. The closing of the farm would lead to the first marine wilderness area on the West Coast. SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Interior Department violated federal law by failing to conduct an environmental review before ordering a Northern California oyster farmer to shutter his operation, attorneys for the farmer told a federal appeals ...

Michigan public school districts can stop collecting union dues from teachers and other employees through payroll deduction, according to a 2-1 federal appeals court ruling. The U.S. 6th Circuit Court ...

The Supreme Court is set to consider all submissions dealing with the Armenian Genocide-era insurance case on June 6.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge in Oregon has determined limiting inmates' mail to only postcards is unconstitutional, throwing into question the legality of a practice used for years in jails across the country.

The defense in the Colorado theater shooting has argued that state law violates a defendant's rights in a death penalty case. CENTENNIAL, Colo. — With the stakes for their client literally life or death, defense attorneys for James E. Holmes on Thursday again challenged the constitutionality of Colorado's law governing insanity pleas.        

The trial for an Iowa City woman accused of accidentally killing a friend when she ran her over with a truck has been rescheduled again.

One of James Holmes' lawyers asked a judge on Monday to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity in the Colorado theater shootings. Such a plea is seen as his best hope of avoiding the death penalty in the...

They were 12 ordinary citizens who didn't oppose the death penalty. But unlike spectators outside the courthouse who followed the case like a daytime soap opera and jumped to demand Jodi Arias' execution, the jurors...

By Renatta Signorini, Tribune-Review A long embrace between Jessica Shotts and her mother ended three days of an emotional trial that left Shotts’s estranged husband convicted of fatally shooting ...

Associated Press PITTSBURGH An appeals court has overturned the guilty verdict against a 15

A California juvenile detention escapee accused of drunken driving in a crash that killed five family members is set to appear in a Nevada court.

CONWAY — Attorneys for the former University of Central Arkansas chief of staff charged with commercial burglary in a cheating scandal at UCA indicated in a court filing that he will testify on his own behalf when his case goes to trial.

WOONSOCKET – Jailin Alarcon, a seventh-grader at Woonsocket Middle School, didn’t know what to expect when Judge Janette A. Bertness suddenly walked over to her, grabbed a folder off her desk and started sifting through the contents. Bertness, an associate judge of the Rhode Island Workers’ Compensation Court, and Providence attorney Jeffrey M. Biolchini, were visiting social studies teacher ...

The Kentucky Court of Appeals has ruled the Council on Developmental Disabilities has no right to review the records of two disabled men who died in state care in 2009.

GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. (AP) - A former corrections officer from Tower has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for having sex with a female inmate.

Ann McDonald, the former Kent Woodlands woman who hired two hitmen to kill her husband in 1991, died in state prison Thursday. She was 79. McDonald was serving life without the possibility of parole at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas, April 26 (UPI) -- Texas has executed Richard Cobb for abducting and killing a customer during a robbery at a convenience store when he was 18.

PHOENIX : A federal judge ruled Friday that the office of America’s self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Latinos in its trademark immigration patrols, marking the first finding by a court that the agency racially profiles people.

(Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from the Washington Informer) — Mignon Clyburn, a veteran policymaker from the Public Service Commission of South Carolina, has been appointed acting chair of the Federal Communications Commission, the first woman to ever hold the post.

Eighteenth Circuit Judge George Maxwell is hearing a court case this afternoon against the Brevard School Board, attempts by opponents of the school closures to keep the schools open.

Mandan Middle Schoolers appeared in court today to stand trial. Actually, it was just a mock trial at Morton County Courthouse. They are commemorating Law Day, a time to remind Americans of the role they play.

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - O.J. Simpson, the former football star famously acquitted of murder in 1995, took the witness stand in a Las Vegas courtroom on Wednesday seeking a new trial in an armed-robbery case that sent him to prison five years ago.        

John Morgan, whose "For The People" slogan has made him Florida's most famed trial attorney, might not seem a likely Tim Tebow supporter. Morgan's a devoted supporter of liberal causes , and Tebow is not . That isn't stopping Morgan from launching a huge campaign to get the Jacksonville Jaguars to sign the recently-released QB, though. Morgan's populist-oriented TV and radio ads make him one of ...

Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd will allow a suit challenging Gov. Steve Beshear’s constitutional authority to establish a Health Benefit Exchange — a key feature of federal health care reform — to proceed. On Thursday, Shepherd denied Beshear’s request to dismiss the suit brought by tea party activists David Adams, Dawn Cloyd and Sarah Durand.

Taylorville – A retired Taylorville doctor was rued competent to stand trail on federal charges.

A former assistant high school football coach been sentenced to almost six years in federal prison for his role in a cocaine ring.

Bankruptcy lawyers in Fullerton Zhou & Chini complete another useful page for their bankruptcy information for California . The new page offers very insightful tips and tools to assist individuals seeking bankruptcy information. (PRWeb May 15, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/bankruptcy-information/Fullerton-California/prweb10730110.htm

NEW YORK, May 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Robert S. Wolf, of Moses and Singer LLP, attorney for Concierge Auctions, stated, "We have served a motion for injunctive relief to stop Grand Estates and its ...

Ariel Castro appeared in an Ohio court charged with kidnapping and raping three women missing for a decade.

BOSTON, April 26 - Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been moved to a prison at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, from the hospital where he had been held since his arrest by police a week ago, the U.S. Marshals Service said on Friday. Related Stories Militants kill Somali prosecutor, threaten more Amnesty for Nepali war crimes could undermine peace, U.N. warns Don't let referendum ...

A Minnesota man faces the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison after being charged with possesion with intent to deliver cocaine.