A Richmond County State Court jury found Larry P. Craft of Tennessee not guilty of committing any crime at the Augusta National Golf Club on April 10.

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. has identified five men who might be responsible for the deadly attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year, and has enough evidence to justify seizing them by military force as suspected terrorists, officials say. But there isn't enough proof to try them in a U.S. civilian court as the Obama administration prefers.

An Ellington, Missouri bank manager was sentenced to nearly five years in prison for bank fraud and embezzlement charges.

This week in history: court rulings, wars and uprooting of the capitol.        

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — A 78-year-old woman has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for a drunk driving crash that killed a North Carolina man during Bike Week.

After a 20-year run in Philadelphia and a seven-year stint in Greenville, S.C., the USA Cycling Professional Road & Time Trial National Championships are coming to Chattanooga for the first time this weekend.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Federal prosecutors have asked to delay the sentencing for a New Hampshire woman convicted of lying to obtain U.S. citizenship by denying her role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide. The Boston-based lawyers have been heavily involved in the response to last month's Boston Marathon bombings.        

A federal panel of medical experts said that an experimental insomnia drug from Merck & Co. Inc. appears safe and effective, despite evidence from company trials that the pill can cause daytime sleepiness and difficulty...

A Bristol Township man is headed to trial after he allegedly failed to register as a sex offender and lied about his employer to state police.

A judge sentenced a woman to 60 months in prison for stealing $400,000 from her brother in law. The woman was appointed her brother in laws' guardian by the Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Court in 2006. Between

The son of a former north Georgia sheriff is in trouble with the law again.

LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Two men facing arson charges in connection with one of three major fires in downtown Lewiston that destroyed nine buildings and displaced more than 180 people are expected to make their first court appearance on Monday or Tuesday.        

NEW YORK (AP) — The former co-founder of a Connecticut hedge fund has been sentenced to 6 ½ years in prison in connection with insider trading authorities say brought in nearly $70 million in illegal profit to his firm.        

Later today, Georgia State Rep. Tyrone Brooks is expected to speak publicly about his recent arrest on fraud and tax charges.  Brooks was arraigned in federal court on Wednesday.

BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. (AP) — Prosecutors say a man who shot cellphone video of his speedometer showing 140 mph just before crashing on an upstate New York highway has been sentenced to from 1½ to 3 years in prison for injuring his passengers.

It didn’t get a lot of attention. It happened the same day as hearings on the Benghazi attacks and the announcement of a verdict in the Jodi Arias trial. But House Majority Leader Eric Cantor took a modest step forward last week in his plan to broaden the Republican agenda beyond budget cuts.

U.S. Attorney Bill Nettles announced today that 29-year-old Sean Echols of Orangeburg has been charged in a murder-for-hire plot targeting a state corrections officer.

Cop killer makes last-ditch appeal to save his life Houston Chronicle Copyright 2013 Houston Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 10:09 pm, Friday, April 26, 2013 Jeffrey Williams' attorneys are asking a federal court to reconsider claims that earlier defense lawyers botched the case.

Washington & Alyeska Vocational Services has appointed Mountlake Terrace resident Bill Munson executive director. He replace Lynn Van Vactor, who recently relocated after an eight year tenure.

MORRISTOWN — Jets running back Mike Goodson pleaded not guilty to drug and weapons charges in a court appearance in Morristown on Wednesday morning.

The defendant accused of providing firearms to the gunman in Webster's Christmas Eve slayings returned from South Carolina without incident after being allowed to travel by a magistrate judge.

A judge has granted the release of a teen jailed for two weeks after authorities say she discarded her newborn in a bathroom trash can.

NEW BOSTON, Texas—A Bowie County jury handed down a mixed verdict Friday evening after a day of deliberations in a sexual misconduct trial involving a father and his biological daughter.

Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday that his decision to remove himself from the Justice Department investigation into a leak that led it to surreptitiously collect telephone records from the Associated Press leaves him unable to respond to questions about it.

SAN FRANCISCO -- California cities and counties can ban pot shops, the state's highest court ruled Monday in a unanimous opinion likely to further diminish California's once-robust medical marijuana industry. The California Supreme Court said neither the state's voter-approved law legalizing medical marijuana nor a companion measure adopted by the Legislature prevent local governments from using ...

An 18-year-old D.C. man was sentenced to four years in prison for robbing a woman of her designer dog at gunpoint.

SANTA ANA -- The California law that eases prison overcrowding by shifting responsibility for thousands of lower-level felons to county jails has made it much harder for certain crime victims to collect restitution from inmates.

Weddings performed by ministers ordained in the Universal Life Church Monastery found to be legally binding by the Appellate Court of New York. (PRWeb May 16, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10739478.htm

The case against the mayor of Walton, Ky., is set to head back to a Northern Kentucky courtroom Wednesday morning after a grand jury indicted him for allegations that he pocketed money from the Boone County Water District.

A man charged in the shooting deaths of two young girls near Weleetka and the death of his 23-year-old girlfriend wants a judge to combine the separate cases so he can be tried for all three deaths at once.

Ohio Supreme Court denies Warren County husband the chance to go to trial-again-for wife's drowning

The former head of a Lenox school for troubled young women and his son and son-in-law are facing prison time and have agreed to pay back the state of Vermont and the U.S. government $3 million for what the U.S. Attorney's Office calls "egregious" tax and health care fraud connected to a Bennington, Vt., school they had operated.

Rory Koch, a former Minnesota House worker and former candidate for Ramsey County Commissioner, was sentenced Wednesday to serve at least three years in prison after being convicted of possessing child porn.

Authorities say an Arizona prison inmate is dead from an apparent suicide, and two Guatemalans believed to have entered the country illegally being held at a detention center in Pinal County have also

A trial date has been set for two men charged with second-degree murder in 2011.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials are looking for three female state prison inmates who officers discovered missing during the 9 p.m. bed count at the Female Rehabilitative Community Correctional Center in Bakersfield.

A Wakefield, N.H., man was indicted by a grand jury on eight counts of possession of child sexual abuse images, according to court records.

Exactly two months to the day before the capital murder trial of convicted sex offender Brian Horn was set to begin, the judge in the case has agreed to give the defense more time to prepare.

Until he made a deal with the state in February, Kyle McLaughlin of Auburn faced two felonies — one that carried a 1- to 50-year sentence.

WHEELING, W.Va. -- A former West Virginia sheriff was ordered into federal custody Monday and will spend a year in prison for his role in the 2010 beating of a bank robber after a high-speed chase.U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey rejected pleas t...

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