A former SIU student convicted of robbery has been sentenced to serve time behind bars.

Arkansas' highest court says a county sheriff with a 1979 misdemeanor conviction for possessing stolen hens can't stay in office.

PEORIA, Ill. -- Day two of testimony in the murder trial of Christopher Harris focused mainly on blood evidence and crime scene photos.

By Carrick Mollenkamp WOLFEBORO, New Hampshire (Reuters) - During the crazy days of the housing bubble in 2006, bankers created a bond called MABS 2006-FRE1. The instrument gave buyers the right to payments on the subprime housing loans of nearly 2,000 borrowers, including Stephen Monzione, a professional wedding photographer in New Hampshire. Six months after the security was issued, a trader ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — For two years, the Columbia County Jail north of Portland restricted inmates' personal mail to the sending and receiving of postcards.

Stephen Paul Riley, 41, of Olney, was sentenced Friday in federal court in Wichita Falls to 10 years in federal prison for shooting an airplane during crop-dusting.

Posted By: Michele Wright / CBS 12 News DENVER (AP) â The long journey toward a verdict in the deadly Colorado theater shootings enters a new and critical phase Monday when suspect James Holmes asks a judge to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity. ...

Penske Racing celebrated a partial victory Tuesday when NASCAR's chief appellate officer issued a mixed ruling on penalties levied against the team.

CANFIELD, Ohio (AP) — A northeastern Ohio couple is suing a city police department and a prosecutor for what they claim was the malicious prosecution of their 11-year-old daughter on rape charges. The (Youngstown) Vindicator reports the $5 million lawsuit against the city of Canfield, some of its police officers and a Mahoning County prosecutor was filed this week in federal court. The action ...

LEBANON, Mo. (AP) _ The father of an 18-month-old girl who was killed along with three adults on a southeast Kansas farm says he's partly to blame for putting his estranged wife and their toddler in harm's way.

A Miami-Dade man serving life for killing his parents is leading the fight for kosher food in Florida prisons

The case seemed simple: Solve the misdemeanor theft of a $14.99 phone charger.

FBI set up elaborate sting to catch two men and woman who conspired to kill witnesses in federal terror trial

A Jackson, Mississippi judge abruptly ended the civil trial for Southaven Mayor Greg Davis, but it's not over. Judge Dewayne Thomas ended court early on Friday; the trial will reconvene...

Brittany Nichole Rector and Laura-Lee Kathleen Grauman joined their boyfriends after jail escape; all were arrested in Colorado

AUBURN, Maine (AP) — Maine authorities have charged two more men in connection with the death of a man believed by one of the alleged assailants to be a police informant.        

A 23-year-old Norwich woman was sentenced Wednesday to 6½ years in federal prison for her role in prostituting a 16-year-old girl.

Once-popular educator to serve 12.4 months KISSIMMEE – David Groover, formerly principal of Partin Settlement Elementary School, must serve a year in prison following his guilty plea and sentencing today for dealing drugs, court records show.        

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Nicholas County man who admitted to selling meth out of his home for two years will spend a minimum of 10 years in federal prison. Brian Craig Crouse, 50, of Belva, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute meth Tuesday before U....

Authorities have charged an Illinois prison guard with delivering a cellphone to an inmate at the maximum-security Menard Correctional Center.

This open letter to mayoral candidate Jonathan Lee just came via email. Here it is, verbatim: After watching one of your recent campaign commercials in which you portrayed Chokwe Lumumba as radical and racist , I was compelled to offer you a different world view.

A Wauseon woman who pleaded guilty of child endangerment will learn her punishment Friday.

A former Cocke County official was only sentenced to two days in jail in a plea deal for vehicular homicide and DUI after he fatally crashed into a 21-year-old on her bicycle in 2011.  The prosecutor in the case defends the decision to cut a deal.

The plaintiff’s attorney, in his closing argument, said Intuitive Surgical resembled a “car dealership” in terms of how it sought to tie sales and service for customers of its da Vinci surgical system, as Bloomberg reported. This is the first of at least 26 lawsuits to reach trial, most of which are based on allegations that the surgical robot caused harm because the company failed to ...

Clyde Rilliet, owner of Affordable Transmissions, checks the transmission fluid on a vehicle Thursday at the Dalton Gardens shop. Pioneer Human Services has proposed a halfway house for federal prisoners at a local next to Rilliet's business, and he disapproves of the proposal.

Lauryn Hill was sentenced to three months in prison after failing to pay taxes on $1.8 million in earnings between 2005 and 2007, according to The Associated Press.

WHEELING, W.Va. -- A former West Virginia sheriff was ordered into federal custody Monday and will spend a year in prison for his role in the 2010 beating of a bank robber after a high-speed chase.U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey rejected pleas that...

You can't judge the hiring of a coach based on one season, let alone half of an offseason. But you can say, 'so far, so good.'

WICHITA FALLS, Texas - A northwest Texas rancher has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for firing multiple times at a crop-dusting airplane flying over his property.

CHICAGO (AP) — An Iowa letter carrier has been sentenced to 37 years in prison for sending dud pipe bombs with threatening letters signed "The Bishop."

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) - A New Jersey Supreme Court ruling clears the way for the trial of a police officer accused of causing the death of a fellow officer during a joyride in a sports car.

Race winner Tom Zirbel excelled on the rolling, windy course at the Gila. Photo: Casey B. Gibson | www.cbgphoto.com After a few missteps last season, including an ill-advised change of position, Zirbel is back on top of his time-trial game

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio- The Mahoning Youngstown Community Action Partnership (MYCAP) will host their Community Action Awareness Day Friday, May 17, 2013 from 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. at the Wick Park Recreation Center, located inside of Wick Park, 260 Park Avenue, Youngstown.

As the New York Police Department contends with an explosive trial regarding its “stop-and-frisk” policy, a Hip-Hop legend joins in to call out the controversial practice.

Florida Supreme Court justices are sounding skeptical about an appeal from the ringleader of a mass killing over an Xbox video game system.

NEW YORK (AP) — The former co-founder of a Connecticut hedge fund has been sentenced to 6 ½ years in prison in connection with insider trading authorities say brought in nearly $70 million in illegal profit to his firm.        

The Colorado Court of Appeals has dismissed lawsuits against three companies in the deaths of five workers at a power plant in 2007.

Prosecutors have rested their case in the trial of a former Democratic county chairman and a party member accused of forging signatures on petitions used to place Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the 2008 state Democratic primary ballot.

FILE - In this May 13, 2013 file photo, Kerry Kennedy listens to a speaker at a farm workers fair labor practices news conference in Albany, N.Y. A town judge in New York is deciding whether the drugged-driving case against Kennedy should go to trial.

Day two of Plainview Police Capt. Derrick McPherson’s felony trial on Tuesday included his accuser, Officer Amos Rodriguez, and McPherson himself on the stand.

Shaffer has pleaded guilty to both crimes. He avoided the death penalty in Tennessee and received five life sentences. He has also pleaded guilty to killing Dempsey. Under Alabama law, the case against a capital murder defendant who pleads guilty must still be presented to a jury.