Authorities are hoping an offender jailed at the Rockville Correctional Facility can help them piece together details on how three young women were kidnapped, raped and held captive for nearly a decade in Cleveland, Ohio.

Yesterday’s coverage largely focused on the two cases in which the Court heard oral argument and the lone opinion that it issued. Yesterday the Court issued its opinion in Moncrieffe v. Holder. By a vote of seven to two, the Court held that if a noncitizen’s conviction for a marijuana distribution offense fails to establish [...]

A challenge to the private ferry monopoly on Lake Chelan, James Courtney v. Jeffrey Goltz, was heard Monday, May 6, in federal appeals court in Seattle. Courtney, whose family owns the Stehekin Valley Ranch, has been trying to start a ferry service between Chelan and Stehekin since the late 1990s, a

HARRISBURG - The state Supreme Court has upheld Pennsylvania's latest legislative redistricting plan, saying the new maps comply with state constitutional requirements.

A 19-year-old man from Arkansas could face up to 15 years in prison after admitting to stealing a car and using it to run down three joggers in Cape Girardeau, Mo.

A 56-year-old Marshall, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations

Medical marijuana just got a little harder to get in California. The state supreme court has ruled that cities can ban dispensaries through zoning. That decision validates a policy already in-place in Riverside, and now a lot of communities are …

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Almost five years have passed since a study showed poor criminal defendants are routinely processed through Michigan's justice system without ever speaking to an attorney in violation of the Constitution.

On May 1, Eric Schneiderman, the New York State Attorney General, announced an Animal Protection Initiative aimed at shutting down criminal animal fighting rings, ensuring compliance with New York State's Pet Lemon Law, charging and prosecuting those who abuse or neglect animals, and cracking down on the abuses of "puppy mills" in order to protect the welfare of the animals being sold and ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Waynesville, Mo., couple has been indicted by a federal grand jury for their role in a nearly $414,000 conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Pulaski and Laclede counties.

Oral arguments are scheduled before the U.S. Supreme Court on whether a North Texas water district can have access to water supplies in southeastern Oklahoma.

Luxury goods manufacturer Coach has sued a Wichita business, its owner and an employee for allegedly selling phony goods bearing its brand name.

Sentences 42-year-old to one year in prison for domestic disturbance NILES — A South Bend man who blames his troubled past on being abused by a Catholic priest as a child is going to prison for interfering with a person’s attempts to use a telephone during a domestic disturbance.

After a two day trial ended with a guilty verdict in February, a judge handed down a 40 year sentence for a Jackson man who served as an accomplice to an armed robbery and murder in Ridgeland in April 2012.

Rushville, Ontario County - John Stenzel was sentenced to 1-3 years in prison and will have to pay over $20,000 to the victim.

The San Mateo County prosecutor who has already tried William Hamilton Ayres once for child molestation and again on questions of his mental competency is fit to remain on the case for his upcoming new trial, a judge ruled yesterday.

The owner of SeaStreak Wall Street, a commuter ferry that crashed in Manhattan’s financial district on Jan. 9, faces at least 45 passenger claims for damages, according to a court filing.

An East Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales on Monday. read more

A man who claimed to be the ex-lover of Liberace pled guilty Wednesday in Washoe District Court to two counts of burglary and use of personal identification of another person.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) and J.C. Penney Co. were among retailers sending representatives to a meeting near Frankfurt to discuss allying to improve worker safety in Bangladesh following the nation’s biggest industrial disaster.

Collier and Lee counties have sued BP, Transocean and Halliburton Energy Services to recoup economic losses caused by the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell was convicted of the first-degree murder of three babies delivered alive and then killed with scissors; the Justice Department secretly obtained two months of Associated Press phone records; O.J. Simpson returned to court in Las Vegas; New Orleans police made progress in Mother's Day shooting investigation; and more stories are in today's World Briefly ...

A federal appeals court that halted the execution of Warren Lee Hill has lifted its stay, clearing the way for a new execution date.

DALLAS (AP) — A Texas father accused of slowly starving his 10-year-old son to death, slipping his body into a sleeping bag and dumping it in a rural area where it went undiscovered for a year was sentenced late Tuesday to life in prison.

A federal judge has scheduled a summer trial for a Black Creek man accused of joining a cyberattack on Wichita-based Koch Industries.

Florida's Supreme Court rules warrantless police search of an arrested person's cell phone unconstitutional, but Georgia still allows it.

A Nebraska man has been given jail time for allowing his son to stay at his home after escaping from a minimum-security prison in South Dakota. Robert Thorngren, of South Sioux City, was sentenced Monday in Dakota County Court to 220 days in jail on a misdemeanor charge of accessory to a felony. He must pay a $500 fine.

In a stunning mid-trial turnabout, a Salinas restaurant owner accused of beating a homeless man with a metal bat admitted to assault charges early Monday that will mean nine years in prison.

Order follows new claims of misconduct by juror Dennis DeMartin Polo magnate John Goodman, convicted of DUI manslaughter and sentenced to 16 years in state prison, will get a new trial because of newly discovered juror misconduct, a Palm Beach County judge ordered Friday.        

Canton police arrested a man the Ohio prison system says is “dangerous and possibly armed” in a northwest Canton neighborhood.

Due to the nature of high risk, high profile trials, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office is enacting certain security measures to ensure the safety and security of all persons during State of Nebraska vs. William Bush trial.

More than 5 shots fired on a quiet street in Rogers, putting one man in the hospital, two in jail and a neighborhood on edge.

Bobby Ferguson's wife has sued him for child support and revealed their teenage son is receiving public assistance after the government seized about $4 million in cash amid an ongoing search for money tied to the City Hall corruption scandal.

Gregg County courts have set a May 20 trial date for Jesse Dale Smith and Cassandra Stone, accused of aggravated sexual assault of a child and indecency with a child/sexual contact.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon man who stripped naked at Portland International Airport to protest what he saw as an invasive security check went to court Tuesday to contest the federal government's proposal to fine him $1,000.

After the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007, states were supposed to get better about entering court findings of mental illness into a federal database for background checks, but that's not happening everywhere.

When Angelenos go to the polls next week to choose the next mayor of Los Angeles, they also will be the largest electorate to vote on a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling.

Brett Maddox, 25, of Springdale, was sentenced Monday (May 13) to eight years in prison for being a felon in...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- A Clarksburg man who prosecutors said ran two West Virginia shops that sold large quantities of illegal bath salts will stand trial May 14, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.John Skruck, 56, had sought to delay his trial on more than tw...

An Idaho man who admitted to breaking into a Boise zoo last year and killing a monkey was sentenced to seven years in prison on Thursday, court records show.Michael Watkins, 22, of Weiser, Idaho, in March pleaded guilty to attempted grand theft, a felony, and misdemeanor animal cruelty stemming from the break-in and beating death of the monkey at Zoo Boise in November.The primate was one of the ...

A judge has told the U.S. Forest Service to pay $70,804.19 in legal fees to two lawyers who helped win a lawsuit that will force removal of the historic, rebuilt Green Mountain Lookout from the summit of a popular hiking trail in Washington’s Glacier Peak Wilderness Area. Senior U.S. District Judge John Coughenour approved compensating attorney Peter M.K. Frost of Oregon at rates of $410 an hour ...