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

Two men were found guilty on Tuesday in the murder of a California dairy worker and the attempted murder of another.

Jury selection begins next week in the trial of three nuclear protestors who broke into the Y-12 Nuclear Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn., last summer. The Department of Energy facility houses the nation's stockpile of highly-enriched uranium. The break-in was significant in some unexpected ways.

A Delaware judge is refusing to block the merger of mining company Freeport-McMoRan with oil and gas producer Plains Exploration & Production Co. Some Plains shareholders have challenged the merger, saying ...

The retrial for Christian-Newsom murder suspect George Thomas got underway Monday morning.

Gina Rinehart's only son, John Hancock, said yesterday he was prepared to come under heavy attack after lawyers for the mining magnate said the family's multibillion-dollar court battle would come down to a contest between mother and son.

Coloradans may be able to legally smoke pot now. But lighting up a joint even off the clock can still get you fired.

ERIE, Pa. (AP) - A northwestern Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to 14 months to four years in prison in last year's death of a 5-month-old child. Twenty-2-year-old Matthew Clark pleaded guilty in Erie County to endangering the welfare of a child in the death of Jasper Holmes.

The federal prosecution of large-scale marijuana cultivation operations in the Central Valley has not slowed down, according to U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner. An indictment filed in one case last Thursday signals the beginning of an early and robust marijuana cultivation season this year. Four other federal cases from Kern, Fresno, Kings, and Stanislaus Counties ended today with guilty pleas ...

The former head of BB&T's commercial operations has agreed to plead guilty to a federal bank fraud charge and will face sentencing on June 4.

WASHINGTON (AP) — With the simplest of sentences, NBA veteran Jason Collins set aside years of worry and silence to become the first active player in one of four major U.S. professional sports leagues to come out as gay.

KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) — In a story April 14 about the investigation into the deaths of a Texas prosecutor and his wife, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the slayings occurred March 28. Previous possible culprits mentioned included a white supremacist prison gang known as the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, which had been targeted by a task force that included McLelland's office. Two ...

A 20-year-old Huntsville man was sentenced to 10 years in prison today following his conviction in March on a charge of sexual abuse of a child under 12. Under Alabama law, the charge carries a minimum sentence of 10 years with no possibility of early release. John Phyllip Baker was sentenced by Madison County Circuit Judge Ruth Ann Hall in a courtroom crowded with his supporters. Baker's ...

Inmates' lawyers and the U.S. Justice Department say the current design of a $145 million jail under construction in New Orleans won't meet requirements of a reform agreement signed by Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman

A jury should be allowed to decide a New Jersey woman's claim that she was fired from a financial services company because she objected to being sexually harassed by a top executive, although evidence ...

An inmate once housed at the Jackie Brannon Correctional Center in McAlester recently pleaded guilty to escaping from the facility. Jeffery D. Walker, 23, pleaded guilty April 19 in Pittsburg County District Court to one felony count of escape from penal institution.

BISMARCK - Applications from 16 North Dakota lawyers have been filed with a committee tasked to provide Gov. Jack Dalrymple with a list of vetted candidates by the end of June for three newly created district court judgeships.

The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals has overturned the capital murder conviction and death sentence of a Jefferson County man.

A retired district court judge on the Navajo Nation has died at age 88.

By Rene Stutzman and Jeff Weiner / Orlando Sentinel Posted by Scott T. Smith / CBS12 News SANFORD, Fla. -- Defense attorneys in the George Zimmerman case today released evidence they discovered on Trayvon Martin's cell phone, including text messages in which he wrote about taking part in an organized fight, smoking marijuana and being suspended from school. ...

American BMC rider Tejay van Garderen strengthened his grip on the overall lead in the Tour of California on Friday with a victory in the individual time trial, sixth stage.

Arizona (STOAZ1) ’s Republican Governor Jan Brewer has been known nationally as one of the most outspoken foes of President Barack Obama -- a Fox News regular, border hawk and states’ rights advocate who once wagged her finger in the chief executive’s face on a Phoenix-area tarmac.

LEXINGTON, Mass. -- AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that a new sub-group analysis from IDA-301, a phase III, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial, will be presented today at the first ...

The objection is filed to a judge's decision to seal the police affidavit in the death of Nichole Cable.

After losing a race for district attorney last year, City Attorney Carmen Trutanich was losing his own job on Tuesday, as voters were backing Assemblyman Mike Feuer for the City Attorney's Office in early results.

Louisville personal injury lawyer Mat A. Slechter weighs in on the dangers of drinking and driving and hit and run accidents in light of a London, Kentucky, crash. (PRWeb May 10, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/hit-and-run-fatalities/lawyer-ky/prweb10673565.htm

Jhonas Enroth is suddenly a star in Sweden. He’s met members of the royal family and been cheered by tens of thousands in the King’s Gar... The New York State tax cap appears to be more of a helmet. Of five school budgets that failed in voting Tuesday in Erie and Niagara counties, two had ...

NEW YORK - At age 88, John Rigas could be a poster child for inmates who might seek early release from prison because of the hazards of advanced aging.

- A Virginia man charged with shooting a security guard inside the Washington headquarters of a conservative Christian lobbying group is scheduled to be sentenced this summer.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — An attorney for the Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center says the U.S. Supreme Court has turned down Alabama’s appeal to revive portions of the state’s immigration law. The justices on Monday left in place a federal appeals court ruling that blocked parts of the law. Justice Antonin Scalia voted to hear the [...]

As Lovie Smith, Brenda Heist lived a good life in the Florida panhandle for two years.She cleaned beautiful homes, staying in some of them as she hopped from place to place.Photos show her enjoying life in the surf, having a drink with a friend, trotting down a boardwalk near a condo complex where s...

A federal complaint has been unsealed charging Dante Phearse, 32, of Houston, with calling in bomb threats to two synagogues located in Houston, announced Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Civ

A Chicago man accused of abusing the 76-year-old Milton man he was supposed to care for is expected in court Friday, the Wisconsin State Journal reports.

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.

SALT LAKE CITY — The Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office filed a homicide by assault charge Wednesday against a...

A Jackson County man who pleaded guilty to child molesting has received a 10-year prison term in Jackson Circuit Court in Brownstown.

A former Marine from Indiana has appealed his conviction and prison sentence for starting a fire inside an Ohio mosque because he wanted revenge for the killings of American soldiers overseas.

ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) - Two brothers have been sentenced for their participation in a gang fight on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation that straddles South and North Dakota.

CHESTER, Ill.—A 33-year-old man facing murder charges related to a southern Illinois house fire that killed four children pleaded not guilty during his first court appearance on Monday. Randolph County prosecutors charged Derrick Twardoski on Friday with four first-degree murder counts linked to the blaze early that day in Percy, a village 60 miles southeast of St. Louis. Twardoski is accused of ...

Is the state law against advising, encouraging or assisting suicide unconstitutional?

Despite warnings that Florida will shrink the appeals of the innocent, the Florida House passed a bill Thurday designed to accelerate the execution of many of the 404 inmates on Florida's death row.