WARREN, Mich. (AP) - Lester Stiggers has been a wanted man for 43 years, but he hasn't been hiding. Since the convicted murderer fled prison in Arkansas in 1970, he has been a quirk of justice, living openly in Michigan while considered a fugitive elsewhere.

(Reuters) - A single winning ticket for a record U.S. Powerball lottery jackpot worth $590.5 million was sold in Florida, organizers said late on Saturday, but there was no immediate word about who won or where in the state the ticket was bought. Related Stories Nigeria offers amnesty to insurgents who surrender Two Egyptian journalists, critical of Mursi, face trial Protesting Egyptian police ...

A U.S. federal court has modified a protective order to allow disclosure of the court records of Internet activist Aaron Swartz, but ruled that names and other personal identifying information of those involved in his arrest and prosecution should be redacted. The court also ordered that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and online database JSTOR should be allowed to review and redact ...

Exclusive: For more than a decade, the Guantanamo Bay prison has been a blot on America’s conscience. President Obama vowed to close it but acceded to congressional demands to keep it open.

IDG News Service - A former executive with AU Optronics was sentenced Monday to serve two years in prison and pay a $50,000 fine for participating in a worldwide LCD screen price-fixing conspiracy, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

Attorney Steven Gursten of Michigan Auto Law provides a comprehensive resource center with the latest No Fault reform proposals, and analytical information on how reforming Michigan's 40-year-old No Fault auto insurance system would affect Michigan drivers.Farmington Hills, MI (PRWEB) April 23, 2013 Michigan Legislators and Gov. Rick Snyder are proposing reforms to the state's 40-year-old No ...

A state psychiatric hospital has determined that a northern Indiana man is competent to stand trial on charges that he fatally stabbed his mother and young half-sister.

U.S. attorney's officials said a 52-year-old man has pleaded guilty to receiving child pornography.

Crossing guards wanted the attacker jailed. State lawmakers are weighing a new bill that would make attacks a felony offense.

That’s it, you’re done. After struggling to pay your debts, you’re ready to consider bankruptcy. It’s time to contact a lawyer to represent you, but which one?

Senesco Technologies, Inc. reported today that it has completed cohort 2 in its Phase 1b/2a clinical study of SNS01-T.

LITTLE ROCK (AP) — An Arkansas law banning most abortions 12 weeks into a woman’s pregnancy won’t take effect while a legal challenge is pending, a federal judge ruled Friday.

Testimony deals with activity on defendant’s phone, as well as a conversation several days before triple killing.

TORONTO-- - Toronto, Ontario - May 1, 2013 - Biologix Hair Inc. has appointed Dave G. Csumrik to its Board of Directors. Mr. Csumrik will serve as an independent, non-executive Director and assist Biologix ...

A 25-year-old hacker with the group known as LulzSec was sentenced Thursday to a year in prison and ordered to pay $605,663 in restitution for an attack on Sony Pictures computers in 2011.

Olympia roommates who were held in solitary confinement at the SeaTac Federal Detention Center after last year’s May Day riots in Seattle — which they skipped — say they still don’t know why they were singled out.

Two people learn their punishment for distributing crack cocaine in Texarkana.

A New York state lottery official says two brothers accused of stealing a winning $5 million scratch-off ticket became angry when questioned and one of them threatened to rip it up.

The newspaper was singled out for work on the eight-day sexual abuse trial. The Morning Call was recognized by the Associated Press this weekend with a first-place award for its coverage of the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse trial in June.        

The judge has promised a decision by the end of June. The Mississippi Supreme Court will have the final say on whether the death sentence will stand.

RAEFORD - An inmate dressed in jail stripes raked up turkey feathers as if they were leaves Friday outside the Hoke County Courthouse.

WHEELING, W.Va. - A former West Virginia sheriff will spend a year in federal prison for his role in the December 2010 beating of a robbery suspect. Robert Shirley was sentenced Monday in federal court in Wheeling.

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Mythili Raman, the Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”), and George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), today announced the unsealing of a Criminal Complaint ...

The rap sheet against Titus Young continues to grow, and the troubled former Detroit Lions receiver now faces eight different charges and more than 7 ½ years in California prison, with two other cases pending.

A challenge of the August election results by countywide school board member Kenneth Whalum Jr. is scheduled to go to trial May 21 in Shelby County Ch...

Our choices for mayor, city attorney, controller, City Council and school district seats and on ballot measures. Garcetti or Greuel? No, it's not the grim menu choice at some tony Malibu spa; it's the question before Los Angeles voters on Tuesday as they determine who will lead the city as mayor for the next four, and possibly eight, years.

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) - A domestic assault trial for the father of 1 of the cousins abducted in Evansdale and later found dead has been delayed. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports ( http://bit.ly/ZX0F1R ) 36-year-old Daniel Eugene Morrissey was scheduled to go on trial Monday on charges of misdemeanor assault against his wife, Misty Cook.

News 9's Lisa Monahan was inside the courtroom Thursday as the murder trial for Becky Bryan entered its fourth day. These are her notes and not a word-for-word representation of what was said.

Imagine that it’s early December. You have some important legal business to take care of: finalizing a divorce, evicting a tenant, obtaining a protection order, adopting a child. You go to the courthouse and find that the Superior Court has been closed. You cannot proceed with any of those important events in your life, all because the county failed to provide the necessary funding and ...

“Snitches get stitches! Snitches get stitches!”

Nicholas Huang became of counsel to Consumer Attorney Services in April to help more Indiana homeowners avoid losing their homes to foreclosure.Jacksonville, Florida (PRWEB) April 23, 2013 Jacksonville, FL April 2013 – Nicholas Huang became of counsel to Consumer Attorney Services in April to help more Indiana homeowners avoid losing their homes to foreclosure. The foreclosure defense team at ...

FARGO - Police are reviewing surveillance video from outside the city's only strip club after a man there died after being shoved to the ground by an employee of the club, according to court records.

RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) — The former city attorney in Rutland pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges stemming from a hit-and-run crash that killed a 71-year-old woman who was crossing the street last month in the Vermont city.        

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...

WATSEKA — The Ford-Iroquois Public Health Department is asking an Iroquois County judge to allow more time to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request that it originally denied, prompting the requestor to file a lawsuit against the agency. read more

Port Huron — A 38-year-old woman has been charged with falsely reporting a rape at her eastern Michigan home, five months after a man convicted of sexually assaulting her in a different case was released from prison because of similar reports of bogus allegations.

The case involving a Massachusetts bookseller could have implications for all online merchants.

The Alaska man who ran the Beaver Creek border crossing last fall has one week left to serve for his crime.

The House approves the Michael Morton Act, a bill aimed at preventing wrongful convictions, named for a Texan who spent nearly 25 years in prison in a wrongful murder conviction. SB 1611, from Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, would create a uniform “open file” policy in Texas, compelling prosecutors to share case files with defense attorneys that can help defendants’ cases

LOS ANGELES - About 20,000 students in California who need to learn English aren't getting adequate language instruction, according to a lawsuit against the state and education workers filed Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union.

News release from the Alabama Securities Commission: MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA (May 14, 2013) Wilson Blaylock, District Attorney for the 32nd Judicial...