A trial is underway for a Hunt County man, charged with aggravated robbery in connection with a reported armed holdup in March of last year.

SANTA CRUZ -- Despite crime rates that are among the highest in the state, Santa Cruz County's wheels of justice are turning out many inmates.

By Lisa Barron NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (Reuters) - A New Jersey state trooper who escorted a high-speed caravan of Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Porsches down the Garden State Parkway last year was sentenced to one year of probation after pleading guilty last month to a charge of tampering with records. Sergeant First Class Nadir Nassry, 48, was also sentenced to 75 hours of community service on ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — An audit of Louisiana's food stamp program for low-income families released Monday said weak oversight has allowed for duplicate benefits, overpayments and more than $1 million paid to ineligible residents, some of whom were in prison at the time.

A Philadelphia doctor was sentenced Wednesday to a third life term for killing an aborted baby that he described as so big it could "walk to the bus."

An Attala County driver is in jail after leaving the scene of an early morning crash Saturday.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Lawyers for Curt Schilling and architects of a state deal to give his now-bankrupt video game company a $75 million loan guarantee are set to argue for the dismissal of a lawsuit filed against them by Rhode Island's economic development agency. The first of two days of arguments before Superior Court Judge Michael Silverstein is scheduled for Wednesday.

Greenbrier County's prosecutor is seeking a life sentence for a man convicted of torching several vehicles at a West Virginia State Police barracks.

ELKINS, W.Va. -- A Belington lawyer convicted of defrauding the West Virginia Public Defender Services will spend a year and a day in prison. Lisa A. Weese, 43, also must spend three years on supervised release after she completes her sentence.U.S. Attorne...

BOWLING GREEN — Joseph Adam Minor has been on the stand in a federal courtroom in Bowling Green for about five hours over the course of two days, and only two out of four attorneys have questioned him so far.

Vincennes Levee worked almost flawlessly even while Wabash hit highest level since system was built

Black Guerrilla Family allegations describe complex payment system In the black market of Maryland's prisons and jails, where the right price can secure cellphones and drugs, transactions unfold through a complex system of currency. Among the key elements: 14-digit codes, prepaid debit cards and text messages.        

By Joe McDonald JIM THORPE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - The tiny hamlet of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, could lose its namesake, an American sports hero whose interment put the town on the map. A family squabble has turned into a federal court battle over the remains of the legendary Native American athlete and Olympic medalist, who died in 1953 and whose life was depicted in "All American," a 1951 ...

The Pentagon is asking Congress for more than US$450 million (NZ$540m) for maintaining and upgrading the Guantanamo Bay prison that President Barack Obama wants to close.

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee– Attorneys for some trucking companies suing Pilot Flying J are asking a judge this morning to grant a...

U.S. Attorney Bill Nettles announced today that 29-year-old Sean Echols of Orangeburg has been charged in a murder-for-hire plot targeting a state corrections officer.

Davis is accused of spending thousands of dollars of taxpayer money for his own personal use

Althemese Pemberton Barnes, Vishakha Desai, Tammie Kahn, George Kerscher, and Jacquelyn K. Sundstrand were appointed by President Barack Obama.

Tulsa's hotly debated Amber Hilberling murder trial will be featured on a nationally televised news program Friday.

Prosecutors claim Christopher Whitman defrauded the government out of millions of dollars through shipments from the Albany Marine Corps Logistics Base. In a civil complaint for forfeiture, Assistant U.S. Attorneys are asking a Judge to allow the government to seize 122 properties.

A once-prominent Northern California child psychiatrist has pleaded no contest to charges that he molested patients and faces eight years in prison.

A former suburban Kansas City elementary school teacher was sentenced to 15 years in prison Thursday for molesting 11 of his male students, most of them during class.

VIRGINIA BEACH Police are looking for a former martial arts instructor accused of sexually abusing one of his students. Brian Lee Trial, 34, is wanted on charges of forcible sodomy and indecent liberties with a child. He is believed to be on the run, police said.

Julian Zapata Espinoza, a cell commander of the brutal Los Zetas drug cartel, pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in the District in the killing of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agent Jaime Zapata and the attempted murder of his partner, ICE Agent Victor Avila, during a February 2011 ...

The Georgia Supreme Court will arguments in September in a case involving the first test of the state’s revamped Open Meetings Act.

Circuit Judge Chris Comer ruled last month that the four sued officers were acting in the line of duty when Spurlock was killed and he granted the City of Huntsville and the drug squad agents' summary judgment.

The case between four former media members and the City of Charlotte, over negotiations between the city and the Carolina Panthers for stadium improvements, is expected to be heard by a judge Thursday afternoon.

A man who admitted he lied before a grand jury investigating why young Somali men were leaving Minnesota to join a terrorist group in their homeland has been sentenced to two years in prison.

Federal prosecutors rested their case against Harvey Whittemore this afternoon – after four and a half days of testimony -- and his lawyers began calling witnesses.

Charges stemming from Titans tight end Brandon Barden’s DUI arrest in February have been dismissed after the arresting officer failed appear in a Georgia courtroom.

North Korea said Saturday that it would put a US citizen on trial for trying to overthrow the communist regime, in the face of soaring tensions between Pyongyang and the West.

As soon as NBA MVP LeBron James hit the game winning layup in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals, analysts and commentators began blasting away at Indiana Pacers head coach Frank Vogel for not having center Roy Hibbert on the court at the end of the game.

To the cheers of "Justice, justice" from opponents gathered outside a regional courthouse, ex-Georgian Prime Minister Vano Merabishvili was committed to jail on May 22 to await trial on criminal charges of misuse of public funds and confiscation of private property . President Mikheil Saakashvili 's opposition United National Movement was quick to describe their secretary-general's detention as ...

Photo courtesy Port of Palm Beach Story by Scott T. Smith / CBS12 News RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. -- A worker initially reported trapped in a barge's hull at the Port of Palm Beach is reported to have died. Riviera Beach police and a Port of Palm Beach spokeswoman reported a worker accident with a barge in Slip 3 at the port facility shortly before noon. ...

A federal appeals court has ruled that the US government had properly classified top secret more than 50 images of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden taken after his death, and that the government did not need to release them

A Middlesex Superior Court jury has awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars to the former operator of Duxbury’s municipal golf course, after finding that the town unfairly ousted the company from managing the 9-hole course.        

A Minnesota man has been sentenced to one year of probation for obstructing a federal prosecutor in Iowa after his son was sent to prison in an animal terrorism case.

A 19-year-old Norfolk teen has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for the shooting death of 43-year-old Jackie Delice.

A Vegas man has been sentenced to five years in prison after defrauding a Lake Tahoe investor of nearly 3 million dollars.

LUMBERTON - A Rowland man pleaded guilty Thursday to paying someone to kill a Lumberton city councilman, the Robeson County District Attorney's Office said in a release.

This information was the most current on file in criminal division of Marion County District Court as of May 10. Information often is not available until more than a week after hearings. Journal entries must be checked by the defense, prosecution, and judge before they are filed.