Patrick Drury, 29, was sentenced to 25 years in prison Wednesday on charges of child pornography and sexual exploitation of a child.  Read more

It is now in the hands of the 12 jurors to decide if Jodi Arias will live her life behind bars or if she'll be executed.

The Supreme Court said so 50 years ago. But there's no real accountability structure to enforce the obligation -- which means innocent people end up sitting in prison.        

A lawsuit Moline schools filed against Governor Pat Quinn and several state and county agencies had its day in court Thursday. Moline schools are suing over a tax exemption state lawmakers are giving to

As Kyle Dube is formally charged with killing Nichole Cable, 15, the judge seals an affidavit with case details.

ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. As many as 11 sexual assaults were reported to campus police at Elizabeth City State University from before 2008 to 2011, according to city police, but they were not disclosed in annual campus crime reports as required by the federal government, a review shows.

PORT CLINTON — More than 20 years after a crash that killed 14-year-old Roger Gene Miller, the driver convicted of aggravated vehicular homicide was awarded driving privileges Friday by Ottawa County Common Pleas Court Judge Bruce Winters.

Federal authorities say rapper Ja Rule has left federal prison. The Federal Bureau of Prisons says he left a correctional facility in New York's...

The Dow Jones industrial average held above 15,000 a day after it closed above the landmark level for the first time.

Just before the start of the trial for the Y-12 nuclear weapon protesters, people from all over the country gathered Sunday in East Tennessee to show their support.

A Canadian firm that is a subsidiary of the largest aquaculture operator in Maine pleaded guilty Friday in a Canadian courtroom to using illegal pesticides that killed hundreds of lobsters a little more than a mile from Maine’s border.

State Rep. Jay Barnes and Sen. Will Kraus agree — they encourage Gov. Jay Nixon to sign the veterans courts bill the Legislature sent him this week.

SANTA FE — New Mexico Attorney General Gary King says he knew nothing about raids carried out by his Animal Cruelty Task Force in which hundreds of birds were seized and killed.

A Johnstown man was jailed Friday after authorities alleged he had indecent contact with a minor.

Federal authorities say platinum-selling rapper Ja Rule has left federal prison. The Federal Bureau of Prisons says he left a correctional facility in New York's Adirondacks on Tuesday, though time remains ...

Barbara Lynch says, because her son was killed in prison, it is the state that should foot the bill to bring him home.

NEW YORK -- Former Enron Corp. Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling could get a decade lopped off his prison sentence in a deal with the U.S. Justice Department.        

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Celebrity lawyer F. Lee Bailey meets all the requirements to practice law in Maine if he can resolve his tax debt with the federal government.        

Rachel Dove-Baldwin Staff Writer CHARLESTON — After an incident occurred in his home county of Mingo that brought to light that the current West Virginia Statute regarding jury misconduct only carries a potential penalty of 10 days in jail and a $50 fine, West Virginia House of Delegates member Justin Marcum (D-Mingo, Logan) has introduced a bill (HB 2498) that would make it a crime (misdemeanor ...

Winslow Lazer Norton of Emeryville and Abraham Volstein Norton of Walnut Creek agreed to a sentence of six months in jail and six months on home detention. They also agreed to forfeit some $600,000 in revenues.

CLEVELAND (AP) - An Ohio prosecutor says he may seek the death penalty against the man accused of imprisoning three women at his home for about a decade for forcing them to suffer miscarriages.

(Reuters) - A former school bus driver accused of kidnapping three young women and raping them during a decade of captivity in his house was on Thursday ordered held on $8 million bond in a Cleveland court, his head bowed and his face turned away from spectators.

The Columbia County Board’s executive committee won’t forward a resolution proposed by Supervisor Kevin Kessler to the full County Board, but that’s fine with Kessler.

A federal judge has dismissed one of two civil counts against the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph and Bishop Robert Finn filed by a victim who was the subject of lewd photographs taken by a diocese priest in a western Missouri church.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A doctor who operated a cash-only prescription medication business out of a Logan building has pleaded guilty in federal court.

Barrett Lancaster Brown, best known as the so-called former  mouthpiece for the hacker collective Anonymous , is sitting in a jail cell in Texas. For the past eight months, Mansfield Law Enforcement Center has been home for the journalist and activist now known as Prisoner 45047177. Three hots and a cot will continue to be his routine at least until September, when he is scheduled to stand trial ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The Times Union of Albany on judges using special license plates on their vehicles. It may not be unethical for judges to put vanity plates on their cars signifying their position, but it sure looks bad.

ATLANTA—A federal appeals court that had blocked the scheduled February execution of a Georgia man whose lawyers say is mentally disabled has

The following was reported by the Jackson County Circuit Court:

The motion, filed in Jackson County Circuit Court, is packed with excerpts from depositions of dozens of witnesses — including priests and nuns — and an affidavit from a former school board member at Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary School, who said she complained about Monsignor Thomas O’Brien’s alleged inappropriate behavior to a former bishop, then resigned and pulled her son from the ...

The unmanned aircraft are small enough to fit in the trunk of a squad car, and let officers search areas from a different perspective while saving time and money, but privacy advocates worry they might also make it easy for police to spy on people.

NEW BOSTON, Texas—A Bowie County jury handed down a mixed verdict Friday evening after a day of deliberations in a sexual misconduct trial involving a father and his biological daughter.

The state of Michigan about to do exactly what Genesee County did several years ago: send home the kitchen help and bring in private contractor Aramark to take care of the cooking.

The Mesothelioma Victims Center says, "Even if a mesothelioma victim is in their 70's, or 80's, we will do everything possible to ensure the victim of mesothelioma, or their family members get to the best mesothelioma attorneys, or most skilled mesothelioma law firms in the nation, because there is a direct relationship between the skill of the mesothelioma law firm, and compensation for this ...

EUGENE, Ore. -- A Eugene man has been convicted of sexually abusing two international students at the University of Oregon. The Register-Guard reports 35-year-old Christopher Mack faces more than six years in prison at Thursday's sentencing. Lane County Judge Debra Vogt found Mack guilty following a non-jury trial. Defense attorney David Hill said he will appeal The prosecution said Mack groped ...

The California Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Monday that cities and counties have the right to ban medical marijuana dispensaries within their borders, despite the existence of a state law that p

ELKO, Nev. (AP) — An Elko woman whose murder conviction was overturned by the Nevada Supreme Court is going back on trial in the killing of a ranch hand whose body was found in Utah 10 years ago.

With other accusers stepping forward, a former yeshiva teacher changed pleas Monday in the middle of his trial, admitting he sexually abused a boy he met while working as a camp counselor.

A man who once owned a Grand Junction hotel has told authorities he struck and killed his wife with his hand in an argument in 1997, an action that led to him receiving a 20-year sentence Wednesday.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire tax preparer has been sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for falsifying income tax returns.        

MISSOULA - Jason Washington will spend two years in federal prison in connection to his former medical marijuana business. A Missoula jury found Washington guilty in January of "conspiracy to manufacture and distribute marijuana" and "possession with intent to distribute marijuana."