A KOTA Territory woman found 'not guilty by reason of insanity' in 2011 for attempted murder back is back in court via closed circuit TV.

The trial of former lobbyist and land developer Harvey Whittemore got underway in federal court Wednesday afternoon.

(Reuters) - The former chief executive of a failed U.S. bank in Norfolk, Virginia, and three others were convicted Friday of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and other charges in connection with a scheme to conceal loan losses that contributed to the bank's collapse in 2011. Edward Woodard, the former chief executive of Bank of the Commonwealth, was found guilty along with two other executives by ...

BRATTLEBORO -- Attorneys for a man accused of killing a Brattleboro woman in 2011 should have their request for the suppression of evidence denied, wrote Paul Van de Graaf, First Assistant and Criminal Chief for the U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont, in filings to the U.S. District Court.

Miami appears to have a replacement for departed guard Shane Larkin who would brings plenty of experience to the court.

The foreman of an Arizona jury that deadlocked over whether Jodi Arias should be put to death for murdering her ex-boyfriend believes she was mentally abused, but said on Friday that had not been enough to excuse her crime.

DALLAS (Reuters) - A Texas paramedic, who responded to a fertilizer plant explosion last month, is expected to plead not guilty in federal court on Wednesday to possessing pipe bomb components, his lawyer said.        

A Gallatin County judge set bail at $100,000 for Matthew Brandemihl, the man deputies say stole three vehicles and led police on high-speed chase Thursday.

Story by Jenna Caiazzo / CBS12 News Posted by Scott T. Smith / CBS12 News VERO BEACH, Fla. -- The lawyer representing the teen accused of having sexual relations with a 14 year old girl has decided she will not accept the plea deal on the table. ...

A July 8 trial date is set for a contraband tobacco case sealed in federal court more than a year.

Dentists can set their own fees on services that insurers do not reimburse, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday in a decision that will mean higher out-of-pocket costs for patients.

Red River Women's Clinic, the only abortion clinic in the state, seeks to combat law that they say aims to close it down Lawyers for the only abortion clinic in North Dakota launched a legal bid on Wednesday to try and combat a new law that critics say is aimed at closing it down and leaving the state without any abortion providers. The law is one of a raft of anti-abortion measures due to take ...

Leaders in the Latino community are claiming victory over Sheriff Joe Arpaio after a federal judge ruled that Arpaio and his deputies racially profiled Latinos during immigration sweeps.

Michael L. Russell, the head of a small Indianapolis foundation who admitted earlier this year to swindling a doctor out of $1.7 million, was sentenced today to four years and nine months in federal prison.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison for robbing more than a dozen banks in multiple states. Court records show 43-year-old Wesley Todd McCracken of Myrtle Beach was sentenced in federal court in Charleston last week. McCracken pleaded guilty in December and had faced up to 20 years. Prosecutors say he robbed the first bank in October 2011 ...

Louisiana's Supreme Court has ruled that the funding method for a private school tuition voucher program pushed through the Legislature last year by Gov. Bobby Jindal is unconstitutional.

LONG BEACH -- Following Monday's California Supreme Court decision, medical marijuana collectives will continue - for the time being - to be banned by the city, but dispensary advocates say the battle is far from over.

A three-judge panel of the Massachusetts Appeals Court has reversed a 2011 decision holding that rocker Tom Scholz could not sue the former wife of Boston lead singer Brad Delp for defamation. In August 2011, a Superior Court judge had ruled that Scholz’s claims against Delp’s wife, Micki, could not go to a jury because Scholz’s claim had failed to establish a defamation theory.

LAKEPORT, Calif. – A man who was involved in a nearly six-hour-long standoff with law enforcement on Wednesday night was arraigned in Lake County Superior Court on Friday. Robert Scott Hisel, 52, was taken into custody Wednesday night after a Lake County SWAT team broke down the door and smashed through windows at his home on Fourth Street in Clearlake Oaks, as Lake County News has reported. He ...

CONWAY — Attorneys for the former University of Central Arkansas chief of staff charged with commercial burglary in a cheating scandal at UCA indicated in a court filing that he will testify on his own behalf when his case goes to trial.

NEW YORK, May 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Robert S. Wolf, of Moses and Singer LLP, attorney for Concierge Auctions, stated, "We have served a motion for injunctive relief to stop Grand Estates and its ...

By Lisa Maria Garza DALLAS (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors charged a paramedic, one of the first to respond to a deadly explosion last month in the Texas town of West, with unlawful possession of pipe bomb components, but authorities said no evidence linked the charge to the fertilizer plant disaster. Bryce Reed, 31, appeared at federal court in Waco, Texas, on Friday, where he faced one count of ...

A former Benton County employee is headed to prison for stealing money.

BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge has rescheduled a probable cause hearing for surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv).        

A driver got into a violent, early-morning car crash that killed her passenger in Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County.

Rendering of a Ford Ranger with vertical exhaust pipes similar to the one owned by Christopher Harris.

CENTENNIAL, Colo. - Lawyers for Colorado theater shooting suspect James Holmes formally told a judge on Monday that he wants to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity after outside experts diagnosed his mental illness.

A University of California at Berkeley graduate student has pleaded no contest to two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated for a car crash a year ago that killed his girlfriend, who had just graduated from the university, and her 6-year-old son. Jose Lumbreras, 25, entered his plea in Alameda County Superior Court and could face up to 12 years in state prison when he is ...

Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio has required prison inmates to wear pink underwear and saved taxpayers money by removing salt and pepper from prisons. He has, at times, forbidden convicted murderer Jodi Arias from speaking to the press.

A California actor has admitted taking part in a scheme to extort money from Buffalo Sabres owner Terry Pegula. Vivek Shah, 25, of West Hollywood, pleaded guilty in a West Virginia federal court earlier this month as part of a deal that could land him in prison for up to 87 months.

May is Elder Law Month, according to the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA). During Elder Law Month, NAELA members sponsor activities designed to educate the public.

BOISE – The nation’s largest private prison company is asking a judge to seal a wide spectrum of documents in a lawsuit brought by inmates at a Corrections Corporation of ...

A Northern California man faces up to six years in prison after pleading guilty to reckless driving causing the death of an Incline Village couple who was hit in a pedestrian crosswalk at Lake Tahoe in December 2011.

A city man accused of trying to kill a 7-year-old girl on New Year's Eve has a new lawyer.

Parolee Evan Ebel ditched his ankle monitor and investigators say he went on to murder Colorado Prison Chief Tom Clements and Nate Leon of Denver. We've now learned nearly 30 other parolees have been convicted of murder in Colorado, just since 2002. Other parolees await trial, accused of murder. Seven of those parolees turned murderers are from southern Colorado. One of them, Aaron Wilkerson ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) - An appeals court on Wednesday overturned the guilty verdict against a 15-year-old western Pennsylvania boy accused of killing his father's pregnant fiancee and her unborn child when the boy was 11.

Louisiana is unique in that it admits a larger number of non-violent criminals to prison than the national average and to longer sentences than the rest of the country.

Lawyer says Ariel Castro will be isolated and placed on suicide watch in prison        

Already in jail on kidnapping and rape charges, accused of holding women for the better part of a decade, Ariel Castro may also face charges of murder in the termination of his captives’ pregnancies, a prosecutor said. Cuyahoga County, Ohio, …

PHILADELPHIA – A former housekeeper who stole a rare 18th Century bust sculpture of Benjamin Franklin from a Main Line client faces several years in federal prison for taking the stolen property out of state.

LEBANON — Five Lebanon High School seniors make up the 2013 Lebanon Strawberry Festival Court.