A young girl who may have witnessed her grandmother's fatal shooting more than two years ago wi

An objection to a judge's decision to seal a police affidavit in the killing of 15-year-old Nichole Cable has been filed by a lawyer for MaineToday Media and The Associated Press.

Georgia State Rep. Tyrone Brooks appeared at a news conference regarding his recent arrest on fraud and tax charges Thursday, but he didn't speak.

EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A jury in Everett is deliberating whether to impose the death penalty on a Washington prison inmate who strangled a corrections officer. The case went to the Snohomish County jury before noon Tuesday without a word from Byron Scherf.

PIERRE, S.D - Attorney General Marty Jackley announced today that Second Circuit Judge Bradley Zell has denied Rodney Berget's request for a new sentencing hearing and imposed the sentence of death.

A North Vernon man who worked on former Jeffersonville Mayor Tom Galligan’s campaign in 2011 was sentenced to 18 months in prison on charges of voter fraud.

From the targeted killing of Americans overseas to the future of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, President Barack Obama will lay out the framework and legal rationale for his administration's counterterrorism policy in a widely anticipated speech on Thursday.

Convicted of murder in connection with the 1993 murder of a student at Illinois State University, 40-year-old Alan Beaman was the beneficiary of a formal finding of innocence Thursday in Champaign County Circuit Court. Convicted of murder in connection with the 1993 murder of a student at Illinois State University, 40-year-old Alan Beaman was the beneficiary of a formal finding of innocence ...

Texas chiropractor convicted of patient sex abuse MCKINNEY, Texas (AP) — A North Texas chiropractor has been convicted of five counts of sexual abuse of female patients during examinations. The penalty phase begins Wednesday for 44-year-old David Allen Russell of McKinney. He faces up to life in prison. Investigators say some of the victims were teenagers. A Collin County jury Tuesday night ...

Co-workers who went to surprise a Clark County woman they thought was getting cancer treatment helped unravel the case against her, new court records revealed Friday.

The Pennsylvania abortion doctor faces capital murder charges in the deaths of four babies.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has named two district court judges to fill vacancies, including one caused by the appointment of a judge to the Kansas Court of Appeals.

FDLE has notified the Collier County Sheriff's Office that registered sexual predator Johnnie E. Lewis was recently released from prison and currently resides at 11265 Tamiami Trail E. #37 in East Naples.

TransCanada Corp. (TRP) won another of the remaining Texas state-court challenges by landowners trying to block construction of the Keystone XL tar-sands pipeline across their property.

Retired California Supreme Court Justice Carlos Moreno said yesterday he expects to hear shortly—perhaps in the next two weeks—whether he will be nominated by President Obama as the next U.S. ambassador to Belize.

By such judicial vigilance against the excesses of elected officials, democracy is disciplined and progressivism's agenda — unchecked executive power — is understood to be unconstitutional.

A Texas man will serve a life sentence after being found guilty of murder in the shooting death of a Pennsylvania high school football player while both were in Durham.

After more questioning Friday morning, a jury was selected to hear the case for the retrial of Christian-Newsom defendant George Thomas.

Investigators have taken a DNA sample from a man whose father killed two women at a Delaware courthouse before taking his own life.

A man with ties to Kingsport and who escaped from a Kentucky prison was spotted in the area Thursday, but was apparently able to continue evading capture.

A Franklin Circuit Court judge will allow a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Kentucky's new health care exchange to proceed.

A Superior Court judge on Monday lowered the bond for the pregnant girlfriend of a man accused of shooting a North Carolina State Highway Patrol trooper so that she can be released from jail to give birth.

A jury has sentenced a Kentucky man who was retried for the killing of a young Knoxville, Tenn. couple.

BOWLING GREEN — Joseph Adam Minor had 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 had questioned him so far.

A man and woman convicted of murder in the death of a 2-year-old girl have been sentenced to life in prison.

BOSTON - Seventeen-year-olds would no longer automatically enter the adult court system in Massachusetts under a bill that won unanimous approval Wednesday in the House of Representatives.

After taking a team photo at center court following yet another Region III tennis title for Eleanor Roosevelt High School, one player jokingly asked what seems like a legitimate question.

Local nurses are showing their support of registered nurses’ rights by attending a trial in Cleveland that begins Monday and by wearing stickers that read “I Stand with Ann for RNs’ Rights.”

Jodi Arias was convicted of first-degree murder Wednesday in the gruesome killing of her one-time boyfriend in Arizona after a four-month trial that captured headlines with lurid tales of sex, lies, religion and a salacious relationship that ended in a blood bath.

Oregon's attorney general's office is opposing an appeal from Kip Kinkel who killed his parents and two high school students in 1998 in Springfield.

A 24-year-old man who pleaded guilty to raping a 14-year-old girl under the Orange Street Bridge was sentenced Tuesday to five years in the Department of Corrections.

When he took office, President Obama pledged to close the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. But Congress and much of the public are against such a proposal for the remaining 166 detainees.

WASHINGTON — Early in an opinion issued recently by a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Judge A. read more

LA JOLLA (CNS) - The state of California will seek a court order on Monday to prevent some key unionized hospital workers at UC San Diego from striking on Tuesday, it was reported today.

Burleson City Council on Monday gave final approval to ordinances annexing about 71 acres of land in the George W. Parsons Survey, granting a zoning change from agricultural to industrial on that acreage and granting a special-use permit allowing a 107,000-square-foot-plus facility that will be used as an auto reclamation and parts distribution facility.

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) - 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.

LITTLE ROCK (AP) — A resentencing proceeding Wednesday for a former doctor convicted in the bombing of the leader of the Arkansas Medical Board left him with his original life sentence but afforded his lawyer a chance to again claim his client is innocent.

As Canada girds for the terror trial of two alleged al-Qaeda plotters, the law of conspiracy will be put to its highest-profile test since the Toronto 18 prosecutions

ROCKFORD – A 51-year-old Oregon man was sentenced to 10 years, 1 month in federal prison for distributing child pornography.

After a 20-year run in Philadelphia and a seven-year stint in Greenville, S.C., the USA Cycling Professional Road & Time Trial National Championships are coming to Chattanooga for the first time this weekend.

In an exclusive interview with Yahoo! Sports, Josie Harris opens up about the incident that ultimately sent boxing's biggest star Floyd Mayweather Jr. to jail.