MINNEAPOLIS - A Minnesota judge has found a Missouri man guilty in the shooting deaths of three people at a Brooklyn Park home day care last year.

Las Vegas attorney Stanley Walton pleaded guilty Wednesday to a charge brought against him in February 2011 that he participated in a scheme to obtain mortgage loans from financial institutions using straw buyers and false loan applications, Nevada's U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden said.

Several Pennsylvania counties hope that the third time's the charm when it comes to abolishing elected jury commissions. Less than a month after the state Supreme Court struck down a law allowing county commissioners to get rid of elected jury overseers, the governor signed a replacement law, Senate Bill 808.

DENVER - Medical and recreational marijuana may be legal in Colorado, but employers in the state can lawfully fire workers who test positive for the drug, even if it was used off duty, according to a court ...

Survivors of a crash that killed five family members gave tearful testimony in a Nevada court, while a teen accused of driving drunk kept his head down.

McDowell County Family Court Judge Lisa Clark and Chief Justice Brent Benjamin of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia enjoy refreshments with other guests Monday after the grand opening ceremony for the new McDowell County Juvenile Drug Court.

SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio- Missing valley attorney John Schoenike, has been found. According to a report on Facebook, The message was posted shortly after 10:30 p.m. Sunday, stating: "He has been found.

When I first began practicing law in the mid-1990s, I was one of many young attorneys, aged 28-35, who had embarked upon a career in workers’ compensation law. In those days, the Office of the Judges of Compensation Claims was a very busy place. The St. Petersburg District Office had two judges and two mediators. On any given day, there would be 10-15 mediations taking place and several hearings ...

An inmate suspected of killing a corrections officer at a federal prison in northeastern Pennsylvania has been transferred to the federal Supermax prison in Colorado.

A Skowhegan woman. Michele Corson, was ordered held without bail Monday morning in a New Hampshire courtroom on charges that she was an accessory and co-conspirator in the murder of her brother's former wife.

Gov. Martin O'Malley was scheduled to sign dozens of bills into law Thursday, including a measure making Maryland the 18th state to abolish the death penalty. The bill prohibiting executions, passed during the recently concluded General Assembly session, would take effect on Oct. 1. Maryland currently has five convicts on ...

By Patricia Reaney (Reuters) - Soul singer Candice Glover vied with country crooner Kree Harrison on Wednesday in an all-female finale of "American Idol" to become the first woman to win the TV singing competition since 2007. In a finale that judge Randy Jackson described as "so close," Glover, the 23-year-old former travel agent from St. Helena, South Carolina, brought the judges and the ...

VALLEY SPRINGS, Calif. - Attorneys for a 12-year-old California boy charged with killing his sister said Wednesday they wonder if he is mature enough to aid his defense.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that cities and counties can ban medical marijuana dispensaries, a decision likely to further diminish the network of storefront pot shops and fuel efforts to have the state regulate the industry.        

As promised, Sussex County Sheriff Jeff Christopher has filed an appeal in Delaware Supreme Court, seeking to reverse a Superior Court ruling that declared he is not a law enforcement officer and has no arrest powers. Christopher contends that under the state constitution, he is an elected conservator of the peace, the county's chief law enforcement officer who has police powers. Christopher ...

Rarely since the Civil War have state officials anywhere in America been as close to openly defying federal authority as Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature are today.

O.J. Simpson was back in a Las Vegas courtroom on Monday to ask for a new trial in the armed robbery-kidnapping case that sent him to prison in 2008.

Jack McMahon, the defense attorney for abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, speaks the courthouse in Philadelphia Monday, May 13, 2013. Gosnell was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder in the deaths of three babies who authorities say were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy clinic.

The South Carolina Budget and Control Board has been ordered to return state employee health insurance premiums that a court says were collected illegally.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will consider the constitutional limits on prayers during legislative sessions, accepting an appeal from a New York town that starts most council meetings with a Christian invocation.

ATLANTA-Hamza Bendelladj, an Algerian national also known as Bx1, will be arraigned on federal cyber crime charges for his role in developing, marketing, distributing, and operating the malicious computer virus SpyEye. "No violence or coercion was used to accomplish this scheme, just a computer and an Internet connection," said United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates. ...

With just 40 days before a federal court-ordered deadline to enact a law allowing public possession of firearms, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn is holding fast to the notion that decisions about who may carry guns — and where — should be made at city hall, not by a statewide standard.

The lanky figure dressed in a striped jail jumper stood before a federal judge Monday afternoon.

Defense lawyer Javier Armengau will “fight vigorously” against charges that he sexually assaulted five women in incidents that date as far back as 1998, his attorney said yesterday. “There is a viable defense for each allegation,” Frederick Benton said at a bond hearing for Armengau. “We anticipate that he will prevail on each and every allegation.”

A Palm Bay man says a case of love versus the law has left his daughter, a high school student, facing criminal charges that could land her in prison and require her to register as a sex offender.

Spurred by pro-life groups and Texas Republican Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, the Harris County District Attorney's Office is proceeding with an investigation into allegations that Houston-based abortionist Douglas Karpen, who operates three abortion clinics in the state – two in Houston and one in Dallas – has performed illegal late-term abortions and killed babies born alive, a violation of the ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - State officials say a former prison camp in central New York has drawn a winning bid of $241,000 at auction from a Westchester County-based business that did not immediately disclose its plans.

The daughter of Ariel Castro, the chief suspect in the Cleveland abduction of three women freed on Monday, is serving time in an Indiana prison for attempted murder after she slashed her baby’s throat four times with a knife, court documents show.

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The Philadelphia abortion doctor convicted of first-degree murder has waived his right to appeal the verdict in exchange for prosecutors agreeing to drop the death penalty, the district attorney announced Tuesday.

Mark Ciccarello was indicted by a federal grand jury on multiple counts according to court documents unsealed Wednesday.

Steven Powell, the father of the Washington state man who killed himself and two children by blowing up their home, will serve less than a year in prison, a Washington state prison official tells CNN.

Zhou & Chini completes Aliso Viejo page for their California bankruptcy information website for the purpose of educating locals. Everyone should know the laws before filing for personal bankruptcy, and the new city page helps explain the different Chapters of bankruptcy and court information to help individuals seeking bankruptcy protection. (PRWeb May 07, 2013) Read the full story at http ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — When he was hired in 2010 as chef at Virginia's historic Executive Mansion, Todd Schneider came with celebrity cachet, claiming connections to cooking world stars such as Martha Stewart and Paula Deen. And when a cable channel toured the governor's mansion, Schneider was cast as co-star to first lady Maureen McDonnell, showing off the gardens he tended and the kitchen he ran.

The FBI has begun looking at the relationship between Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and the chief executive of a nutritional supplements manufacturer that is the subject of an investigation, two…

13 female officers at Baltimore prison allegedly smuggled in phones, pills and other contraband to assist gangs.

PITTSBURGH (AP) - The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is weighing how much evidence is too much in the case of a western Pennsylvania man serving 50 years in prison for collecting child pornography.

Sylvester’s Sly Bail Bonds was founded in 2008. His livelihood depends on the Eighth Amendment. Not the part that outlaws cruel and unusual punishment — the founders’ reaction to British practices of branding, whipping and long prison terms in colonial America. Sylvester’s business relies on the portion that prohibits judges from placing an “excessive bail,” on those who are innocent until ...

A woman whose daughter was taken from a Dothan doctor's office has been released from jail after pleading guilty to a criminal charge of interfering with child custody. Julie A. Bethke, 33, was sentenced to four years' probation after a four year prison sentence was suspended.

Latest take on state spending plan is a disappointment for Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, who will need lawmakers to press her case in the coming weeks.

Two brothers will get jail time for their part in a car chase that ended in a fatal accident.