SOMERVILLE, N.J. (AP) - State prosecutors say a northern New Jersey man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing one man and injuring another at a birthday party.

LITTLE ROCK — Sixteen people, including alleged members of a Mexican drug cartel that federal authorities say shipped hundreds of kilograms of cocaine into Arkansas and other states, are named in a 25-count federal indictment unsealed Tuesday. The indictment, returned by a federal grand jury on May 2 and filed in U.S. District Court in Little Rock, includes charges of conspiracy to possess ...

Waco drug dealer Carroll Joe Parr was executed Tuesday night in Huntsville for the 2003 murder of a fellow drug dealer, 18-year old Joel Dominguez, outside a convenience store.

In 2007, Pfc. Kimberly Rivera decided she could not return to duty in Iraq. Now she has been court-martialed and sent to prison.

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:03:51 GMT By Chris Bristol Yakima Herald-Republic Two years to the day, a motorist who caused an injury crash near Moxee while high on meth and marijuana was sentenced to a year and a day in prison. Margo Gwen Briceno, 38, of Moxee also was placed on 18 months of probation for her guilty plea to two coun...

WORCESTER - A New Mexico man who says he was raped about 25 years ago by the Rev. David A. Holley is suing the Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester in federal court and#8212; charging that local church authorities knew the diocesan priest was a pedophile, but nonetheless allowed him to practice his ministry in other parts of the country.

The playing field in Frederick County — which, like everywhere else, has been tilted toward deep-pocketed developers who can afford high-priced lawyers and throw thousands of bucks at candidates who speak their language — is now more of an uphill climb for those opposed to growth.

ALBUQUERQUE — Years ago Cody Watts and Josh Miller played until the lights were turned off above the tennis courts in Carlsbad.

A guilty verdict after three hours of deliberation, as three Albany men are found guilty of different levels of involvement in their aggravated assault trial.

The great state of West Virginia has come up with a new law that would drag teenagers to court for sexting each other.  read more        

The judge in the Jodi Arias murder trial declared a mistrial in the penalty phase Thursday after the jury reported for a second time that it was deadlocked on whether to sentence her to life in prison or death for killing her boyfriend in 2008.

By Nathan Tankus, a student and research assistant at the University of Ottawa. You can follow him on Twitter at @NathanTankus Since the Reagan/Thatcher era, it is common to view politics over infrastructure as simply a battle between right wing forces attempting to privatize infrastructure and others trying to defend it (I covered the latest attack by President Obama on the TVA ). However, this ...

ERIE, Pa. (AP) - A northwestern Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to 14 months to four years in prison in last year's death of a 5-month-old child. Twenty-2-year-old Matthew Clark pleaded guilty in Erie County to endangering the welfare of a child in the death of Jasper Holmes.

By Patrick Cloonan, McKeesport Daily News Sen. James Brewster, D-McKeesport, has mixed feelings about the state Supreme Court decision on Wednesday to uphold the June 8, 2012, Legislative Reapportionment Commission’s plan ...

BOWLING GREEN — The defense team in a federal deprivation of rights trial against Barren County Sheriff Chris Eaton, deputy Aaron Bennett and Barren-Edmonson Drug Task Force detective Eric Guffey called one more expert witness and two additional witnesses for Guffey, before resting its case Wednesday morning.

The attorney for Richard Baumgartner is appealing the ex-judge's federal conviction.

Underqualified, underpaid, and virtually invisible.

IOWA CITY, Iowa - An Iowa jury on Wednesday awarded a total of $240 million to 32 mentally disabled Iowa turkey processing plant workers for what government lawyers described as years of around-the-clock abuse and discrimination by the Texas company that oversaw their care, work and lodging. The

Amber Wilson, 28, is charged with attempted murder.

Richard J. Curl, who pleaded guilty in February, is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday afternoon in Montgomery County Circuit Court.

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.

Australian bank robber accused Corey Donaldson has told a jury he robbed a bank to give to America's poor.

(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 state prison inmate accused of raping a teenage mentally-challenged girl while out on furlough pleaded guilty to felony rape...

Jeffrey K. Skilling, the former chief executive of Enron, has reached a deal with the Justice Department to shorten his prison term by as much as a decade, according to a court filing.

Buffalo, May 22 : U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced on Tuesday that Tramell McGee, 30; Kevin Battles, 46; Jerome Brown, 40; Terrell Moore, 33; and Nikita Burt, 29, all of Buffalo, New York, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Leslie G. Foshcio to cocaine trafficking.

Predictably, Lindsay Lohan has royally cocked-up the one thing she was supposed to do in order to not spend time in prison: go to rehab. The actress was due to enter a facility in Newport, California for 90 days as part of an agreed plea deal following a trial in March but ended up leaving [...] The post Lindsay Lohan risks arrest after not checking into rehab appeared first on Mr Paparazzi .

A trial got under way yesterday for the man accused of masterminding the East New York burglary that led to the shooting death of NYPD Detective Peter Figoski. Prosecutors laid out the case against Nelson Morales, 28, telling jurors he recruited a crew of thugs to stick up a low-level...

Jhonas Enroth is suddenly a star in Sweden. He's met members of the royal family and been cheered by tens of thousands in the King's Garden after winn...

ROANOKE, Va. (WTVR) — A former Franklin County Sheriff’s deputy was sentenced for killing his ex-wife and a subsequent shooting that wounded...

After receiving the approval of Indiana Governor Mike Pence, some major changes are in the works for criminal sentencing laws.   

Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes announced yesterday that he will launch a program allowing mothers convicted of nonviolent crime to serve their sentences at home, in an effort to help single mothers raise their children. “We’ve seen women who’ve sold drugs in order to buy groceries for their family, or diapers or formula.” Georgia Lerner, Women’s Prison Association Executive Director ...

Nullification is the doctrine that holds the states, not the U.S. Supreme Court, have the authority to decide for themselves if a federal law is constitutional. Nullification was much heard leading up to the Civil War 150 years ago and a word that became synonymous with efforts by states across the Deep South, including Alabama, to resists federal court-ordered school integration in the 1950's ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A graduate of Cheverus High School and former trustee of the Jesuit school in Portland, Maine, has been sentenced to more than 6 years in prison for his role in an insider-trading scheme.        

DENVER (AP) — Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper's decision to block the execution of convicted killer Nathan Dunlap for as long as he is governor infuriated victims' relatives and drew quick criticism from Republicans ahead of the 2014 election.        

Former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin and her sister/former aide Janine Orie have each received court-mandated punishments for illegal campaigning on government time. The spin on this one is that instead of throwing the pair behind bars, the court has brought back some good old fashioned shaming. The sisters were nabbed for “illegally using [their] state-funded staff as part ...

A source with knowledge of the jury's vote said there was an 8-4 split in favor of sentencing Arias to death.

A Lincoln man faced federal cocaine charges and was held without bond after a court appearance Thursday.

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - A Brookings man has been appointed court administrator for a South Dakota judicial circuit that includes 14 counties in eastern South Dakota.

Trial attorneys Carl Reynolds and Joe Boyd of Reynolds, Horne & Survant in Macon have settled a workers’ compensation claim for $4.5 million, possibly the largest settlement in Georgia history, according to a news release from the law firm.

A former cellmate has testified at the trial of an Illinois man charged with beating five members of a Beason family to death with a tire iron.