In these three videos watch a tornado thats more than half-mile wide, get the latest update on Jodi Arias' trial and hear about a missing powerball winner of around $590 million.

In what police are describing as a crime of opportunity, a wanted man with a criminal history dating nearly 15 years entered a front door that had been left open at a New York home near Hofstra University.A short time later, the...

A Texas man who pleaded guilty to charges stemming from an armed robbery spree was sentenced to nine life terms.

(Alison Frankel writes the On the Case blog for Thomson Reuters News & Insight http://newsandinsight.com. The views expressed are her own.) By Alison Frankel NEW YORK (Reuters) - On Wednesday, the Public Citizen Litigation Group filed an appeal for the online review site Yelp Inc, asking the Virginia Court of Appeals to review a trial-court order compelling Yelp to reveal the identity of seven ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had the legal authority to retroactively veto a water pollution permit for one of West Virginia’s largest mountaintop removal coal mines years after it was issued, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

DENVER — A Colorado prison inmate has died and the investigation into his death is underway. The Colorado Department of...

OTTUMWA, Iowa (AP) - The trial of an Ottumwa man charged in the stabbing death of another man has been pushed back again. The Ottumwa Courier reports ( http://bit.ly/16QMdRM ) Brandon Seim's trial has been delayed until Sept. 30 at the request of his attorneys. It was scheduled to begin Tuesday.

Mexican reports say slain man was an attorney who had worked for the Gulf Cartel. U.S. authorities have not confirmed that.

CINCINNATI (AP) - An Ohio murder trial that hinges on whether a dying, paralyzed man identified his shooter by blinking his eyes went to the jury on Tuesday, and initial deliberations failed to produce a verdict.

BLUEFIELD (WVVA) - A former employee who pleaded guilty to taking drugs from the Beckley Police Department's evidence room has been sentenced to four years probation. Gabriella Brown learned her fate

Ex-football star acquitted for the murder of two people says his previous lawyer mishandled latest case.        

A Dayton man was found guilty Wednesday afternoon of two counts of dealing cocaine after a three-day trial in Wayne County Superior Court II.

CASEYVILLE, Ill., April 28 (UPI) -- Moses W. Harrison II, a liberal former Illinois Supreme Court chief justice known for his opposition to the death penalty, has died, his family said. He was 81.

It's supposed to be a user-friendly township court to help settle small claims. But 13 Investigates found a system some say is out of order and failing to deliver justice.

A New York appeals court ruled on Tuesday that J.C. Penney Co Inc can continue to sell a line of Martha Stewart home goods it introduced without her name pending the outcome of a trial with Macy's Inc ...

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 ...

The threat does not deter candidates: 27 have filed for three openings in Tuesday's primary elections.

Attorneys in an Evansville double-child-murder case prepared for the upcoming trial during a hearing Tuesday in Clark County Circuit Court No. 1.

A judge ruled Wednesday that cheerleaders at a Southeast Texas high school can display banners emblazoned with Bible verses at football games.

Byron Scherf and his lawyers don't dispute that he strangled a corrections officer to death with an amplifier cord in the prison chapel of the Washington state Reformatory at Monroe.

Oregon DAs want to reduce prison time for drugs

PHOTO: Steven Alexander, brother of murder victim Travis Alexander, looks back towards Jodi Arias as he reads his "victim impact statement"Â to the jury on Thursday, May 16, 2013 during the penalty phase of the Jodi Arias trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. ...

The Minnesota Supreme Court has sent a case back to the trial court to determine whether a Two Harbors businessman sexually harassed three women employees, but two of the justices issued strong dissents and said they believe the women already proved their case.

GUATEMALA CITY -- When the trial of Guatemalan General and former de facto head of state José Efraín Ríos Montt and his then chief of intelligence José Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez began on March 19, 2013, I was in Washington D.C., working with NewsHour correspondent Miles O’Brien on some new science reporting projects in a shared office. The first time I went to Guatemala was around 1989, during ...

NEW HAVEN — A judge Tuesday chided Dr. Lishan Wang for filing “irrelevant” motions in his homicide defense, including seeking verification of another doctor’s alleged “fornication.”

A pending felony charge in her home state kept a South Carolina woman from receiving the community control sentence recommended by both the prosecuting and defense attorneys in her local drug possession case Thursday.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Closing arguments have started in the case against five men charged in a Texas federal court with using a race horse breeding operation to launder cartel drug money. The defendants are charged with money laundering conspiracy related to operations of a horse ranch near Lexington, Okla.

A ruling from the 5th District Court of Appeals upholds the jury’s convictions of the former Hoover High School star and Ohio’s two-time Mr. Football.

Patricia Carson, 23, of North Platte was sentenced Monday to up to three years in the Women’s Correctional Facility at York. Carson was convicted of 3 counts of conditional release violations and 3 counts of failure to appear.

Jeffrey Skilling could be freed from prison a decade earlier than originally expected over his role in bringing down the energy trader, in one of the biggest corporate frauds in U.S. history.

This article discusses the problems that can lead to conflicts in employment when employees begin to publicize and vent their complaints about their employer or coworkers over various social media websites. (PRWeb May 23, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10755685.htm

DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) - A Dickinson man facing trial for attempted murder is choosing to represent himself.

A man accused of booking himself into two Marin County rehabs under the name of a former White Zombie drummer was sentenced to jail Thursday for fraud and grand theft.

The former president of Port Arthur Chemical and Environmental Services, LLC (PACES) has pleaded guilty in federal court to occupational safety crimes which resulted in the death of an employee, announced John M. Bales, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas, and Ignacia S. Moreno, Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division.

Tuesday, May 21 in Oneida County Court:

An 18-year-old inmate awaiting trial escaped from the Franklin County jail Friday morning, according to the sheriff of the north Georgia county.

TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) - A man convicted of opening fire on police when they raided his southern New Jersey home has been sentenced to 45 years in prison.

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President Obama outlined new rules Thursday for overseas drone strikes and revamped efforts to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay.

Over the years, Columbia County District Attorney Jane Kohlwey has been instrumental in getting people sent to jail.

ALBANY, New York (Reuters) - Attorneys for New York City and the state on Wednesday urged the New York Court of Appeals to uphold a state law expanding street hail taxi service and allowing the city to sell 2,000 new taxi medallions, a plan deemed to raise $1.4 billion.