The SEC securities fraud case against the city of Harrisburg is under review by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, spokeswoman Heidi Havens confirmed Monday.

SALT LAKE CITY — The Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office filed a homicide by assault charge Wednesday against a...

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.

With the beaming smiles of newlyweds, Paul Forziano and Hava Samuels hold hands, exchange adoring glances and complete each other's sentences. Their first wedding dance, he recalls, was to the song "Unchained ..."...

NEW BRUNSWICK — A 27-year-old Newark man has been sentenced to five years in state prison for selling an assault rifle to an undercover police officer at a Garden State Parkway rest area in Sayreville.

Most of the world's governments no longer use the death penalty. Among wealthy nations there is one exception remaining. The United States is among the top five killers in the world. Also in the top five: the recently 'liberated' Iraq.

POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) -- A Blackfoot man who pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter for his role in a traffic crash last summer has been sentenced to 30 months in prison.

CANON CITY — The death of a 23-year-old inmate at Territorial prison last Thursday has been ruled a homicide.

Taylorville – A retired Taylorville doctor was rued competent to stand trail on federal charges.

Last night Sundance premiered a new series called Rectify, which looked in the ads to be some kind of Southern small-town crime series, a ghoul-less True Blood maybe. But while the show does trade in themes of crime and punishment, Rectify is actually something else entirely, a lyrical and mysterious story about a man rebirthed into the world after nearly twenty years of solitude. There is a ...

Attorneys would be subject to discipline, including possible disbarment, for threatening to report the immigration status of a worker considering an employment claim under terms of fast-moving legislation that passed a key California committee Tuesday. Lawyers can already be disciplined for dishonesty or "moral turpitude." The new language, supporters said, will give immigrants the protection ...

COLUMBUS -- A bill to consolidate the Tiffin and Fostoria municipal courts was introduced to state lawmakers this week.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Supreme Court justices rejected a man's bid to have a misdemeanor drug conviction purged from his record, something he'd sought after he was blocked from a job as a state pri

After visiting Tarrant County Judge Louis Sturns issued an arrest warrant for disgraced District Judge Ken Anderson, the former prosecutor booked himself into Williamson County Jail. He later posted a $2,500 bond. Judge Sturns ruled Friday afternoon that there is sufficient evidence that Anderson committed criminal contempt of court, tampering/fabricating evidence and tampering with a government ...

A retired photographer accused of the serial “Alphabet murders” in California went on trial on Monday acting as his own attorney, joining prosecutors in picking jurors who will decide whether he is guilty of slaying four prostitutes.

DALLAS, April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Hankinson LLP founder Deborah Hankinson and Managing Partner Rick Thompson have been selected among the Best Lawyers in Dallas by D Magazine based upon their work ...

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 …

The Supreme Court ruled against an Indiana farmer who sought to cut the planting cost of his soybean crop by relying on subsequent generations of a patented Monsanto herbicide-resistant seed.

BOSTON — Massachusetts' highest court will consider cases in which prosecutors are challenging how lower courts are handling drug convictions jeopardized by alleged misconduct of a chemist at a state drug-testing lab. Annie Dookhan has pleaded not guilty to perjury, obstruction of justice and other charges after allegations she faked drug test results and tampered with evidence.

For the first time in 34 years, a majority of Nebraska lawmakers seems to support abolishing the state's death penalty.

PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona court's ruling says a Connecticut law firm whose lawyers aren't admitted to practice law in Arizona can be sued in the state over work done for Arizona clients.        

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A revised plan to redraw the boundaries of Pennsylvania's legislative districts won the unanimous approval Wednesday of the state Supreme Court, which rejected renewed appeals by citizen challengers and Democrats who argued the plan, like the previous version, was driven by political considerations and did not meet constitutional guidelines.

Eight Western Washington marijuana growers -- including four Vietnamese refugees in their 60s -- could spend years in prison if federal prosecutors get their way in coming weeks.

Law firm marketing video consultation website is now available for attorneys launching a new law firm, or looking to expand their practice, through online legal advice website Webponder.com, which offers a new and unique technology for online legal marketing. Webponder.com offers visitors to the site the ability to connect with professionals in a variety of fields through live video ...

Two 56-year-old Harrison County men have been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap for federal drug crimes involving unrelated meth cases.

GREENVILLE — An attorney has been appointed for a Wills Point man, who is appealing his conviction on a charge of murder in connection with a shooting death in January 2010.

JACKSON — The family of a guard killed during a prison riot in Mississippi has filed a federal lawsuit that says inadequate staffing and poor treatment created a dangerous environment.

In this March 12, 2013 file photo, James Holmes, left, and defense attorney Tamara Brady appear in district court in Centennial, Colo. for his arraignment.

A career bank robber who served more than 30 years in prison for a series of armed holdups in the 1970s and 1980s was ordered detained on Wednesday in connection with last month’s robbery of a TD Bank branch in Oakland, two weeks after he was released from a halfway house.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - A central Missouri woman whose son died in a car accident while she was talking on a cellphone has been sentenced to one year in a county jail.

WORCESTER -- In December, Asim Amran, of Fitchburg, was sentenced to life in prison after he was found guilty of poisoning his wife from an arranged marriage, stuffing her body in a suitcase and dumping it by the side of a highway in Oxford four

Sally Ann Schofield, a former state child caseworker from Chelsea, was convicted in 2002 of suffocating to death 5-year-old Logan Marr.

WORCESTER - Daniel J. Bennett, a prosecutor in the office of District Attorney Joseph D. Early, has been named a "Prosecutor of the Year" by the Massachusetts District Attorneys Association.

Dereon Tayronne Kelley, 22, of Bryan, has been ordered to prison following his convictions on all counts for communicating a bomb threat to an academic institution, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.

A Washington state man who fled westbound in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 90 after snatching a woman's purse in a Belgrade grocery store parking lot has been sentenced to five years in prison.

Charles Camp, 49 testified that he robbed businesses because he and his girlfriend ran out of money after he ordered her to quit her job as a topless dancer.

The LoneStar Strikers will hit the court Saturday as a tornado struck, and we don`t mean our Nippon Tornadoes, the greater Dallas area during their flight. With delays in the area, the Strikers land with the Vancouver Volcanoes on Saturday.

A baseball-sized rock that crashed through the roof of a house at 2 Williams Court on Friday night is a meteorite, according to an expert at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.

SACRAMENTO United States District Judge William Shubb sentenced Uriel Ochoa- Espindola, 44, of Fresno, on Monday, April 15, to 17 and a half years in prison for his part in a marijuana trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney Benjamin Wagner announced.

Paul Kevin Curtis, 45, was released from custody yesterday and all charges against were dismissed, according to an order signed by U.S. Magistrate Judge S. Allan Alexander in Oxford, Mississippi.

BY JACK MURTHA Staff Writer After a lengthy legal battle with a 10- year prison sentence on the line, a Manalapan man who pleaded guilty to two narcotics charges in 2010 is expected to soon find himself behind bars. John J. Rockford III, of Manalapan, is scheduled to appear before state Superior Court Judge Anthony J. Mellaci Jr. in Freehold at 9 a.m. May 31. read more