Lee County authorities today dropped 60 counts of felony theft against Rita Crundwell, the former Dixon treasurer already headed to federal prison for nearly 20 years for a massive fraud scheme.        

The Heart of Rushville will host a vendor meeting for its Farmers and Artisans Market at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 9, in the Assembly Room of the Rush County Courthouse.

Attorney General Eric Holder recused himself from the decision to subpoena the phone records of Associated Press reporters, a source told CNN's Jessica Yellin on Tuesday.

A former Sacramento dispensary operator, who courted the high life as a marijuana entrepreneur with an MTV audition tape and closet full of cash, was sentenced Friday to spend six years in federal prison.

What would you do if a local kid was selling drugs to your child? If "beat that person with a baseball bat" is among your possible answers, here's how that story ends: with a conviction for third-degree assault, punishable by up to a $1,000 fine and a year in jail.

Steven Kunes cut off his electronic monitoring device last August and sent it to the Sheriff’s Department.

GARLAND CITY, Ark.—A former mayor of a South Arkansas town is back home after spending more than two years in federal custody. Former Garland City Mayor Yvonne Dockery served more than two years of a 30-month prison sentence after she was convicted of three counts of mail fraud in Jul...

BURGLARYCONOY TWP.: Scott M. Nissley, 40, who has no fixed address, was charged with burglary and two counts of theft. Police said he took guns and money from a relative's home in the 1300 block of Keener Road Monday. He was arraigned and sent to Lancaster County Prison on a detainer and in lieu of ...

The North Carolina Senate budget proposal could have major and wide-ranging local impacts. The plan would save the Polk Historical site in Pineville. However, the proposal would close the Western Youth Facility in Morganton and cut hundreds of jobs. Under the proposal, the detention center will close on Jan. 1, 2014.  When that occurs, more than 320 people will lose their jobs. The facility has ...

A lawyer for a New York man who was charged with fraud after filing a multibillion-dollar lawsuit claiming half ownership of Facebook asked a judge Friday to suspend the criminal case to keep it from interfering ...

SASMUAN -- The Municipal Trial Court (MTC) Third Judicial Region in this second district town of Pampanga recently issued...

CONWAY — A judge has set a June hearing for a man accused of fatally striking a Conway police officer with a vehicle.

SPRING HILL — Two Spring Hill men today pleaded guilty in federal court for their involvement in a racially-motivated conspiracy to interfere with the housing rights of African-American residents of the Spring Lake subdivision in Spring Hill, the U.S. Justice Department announced today.

A judge sentenced a man dubbed the 'Internet Casanova' to 18 months in prison Wednesday for stealing a girlfriend's camera and pawning it.

HELENA - A split decision by the Montana Supreme Court is expected to send Barry Beach back to jail without a new trial.

Mississippi’s high court postpones execution, hours before Willie Jerome Manning was to die by lethal injection.

Las Vegas — The last time O.J. Simpson was in a Las Vegas courtroom, he stood next to defense attorney Yale Galanter before being handcuffed and hauled off to prison for up to 33 years.

Warning they will have to live with the results of their decision, a judge gave lawyers for fungal meningitis victims the go-ahead to depose three key witnesses.Discuss the fungal meningitis outbreak on Facebook Continuing coverage of the fungal meningitis outbreak

A Harvard Medical School research assistant who has served as a U.S. judge for 23 years now finds herself at the center of the Boston Marathon bombing case, and by extension the post-Sept. 11 issue of whether, and when, suspected terrorists deserve constitutional rights.

A Delaware bankruptcy judge has given final approval to the reorganization plan of failed battery maker A123 Systems Inc., which was the recipient of a $249 million Department of Energy grant. Monday's ...

The fifth and final day of trial for two brothers charged with stealing a winning $5 million scratch-off lottery ticket focused on Andy Ashkar’s testimony. Defense attorneys say they do not expect a verdict for at least a week.

JACKSON, Tenn. – A former West Tennessee educator is now facing federal child pornography charges. According to court documents, David Arthur Rohm is charged with one count of possessing child pornography and five counts of receipt of child pornography.

The Georgia Supreme Court has rejected Roswell lawyer Dale Calomeni’s request that he receive a reprimand from a State Bar review panel for violating ethics rules, saying such discipline is insufficient.

A former assistant high school football coach been sentenced to almost six years in federal prison for his role in a cocaine ring.

Presumably few Republican operatives have a better handle on the national Republican Party's efforts to court Hispanic voters than Pablo Pantoja , a native of Puerto Rico, and Florida State University alum appointed by the Republican National Committee to oversee Hispanic outreach in Florida last year. He also worked as a field director …

A former fire coordinator for Greenwood County will spend about four months in prison for having sex with a woman who was incapacitated while he was on the job.

Each having a single municipality to govern it. Original Town voted to annex the Powell/Waddell part of West Freeport, conjoining it with O.T. Then in 1889 they attempted to annex a large area in Harlem Township west of Whistler Avenue. Its citizens immediately went to court in protest.

By Brad Bumsted, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review HARRISBURG — If Gov. Tom Corbett’s legal team convinces a federal judge the governor’s office has standing to pursue a lawsuit against the NCAA, the ...

A federal judge ordered "America's Toughest Sheriff" to stop profiling immediately and has forbidden some of his operating procedures. The sheriff's lawyers dispute the judge's conclusion. FULL STORY

It's scary to find out you've been sued for a debt, but didn't even know it. Here's what to do if you find a judgment on your credit report.

A former Tucson-area school sports coach and school bus driver apologized while being sentenced to six years in prison for taking a 15-year-old girl to Mexico and having sexual conduct with her.

Titus Young, the troubled former Lions receiver who has been arrested three times this month and has been in jail since May 11, appeared in court today but refused to address the judge.

As Governor Rick Scott considers a bill which would speed up death penalty executions by creating tighter timeframes for appeals and post-conviction motions, he’s signing death warrants at a pace rarely seen in Florida since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.

Items taken from Trayvon Martin's cell phone -- including a text-message discussion of drug use and pictures of a gun and marijuana plants -- are among new details released Thursday by attorneys for the neighborhood watch volunteer accused of killing him without provocation 14 months ago.

Proposed legislation would double penalties for using a gun during a felony offense in Ohio, targeting the less than 1 percent of Ohioans with repeat violent felony convictions who are committing 57 percent of the state's violent crime.

The Florida Legislature and the League of Women Voters squared off Thursday before the state Supreme Court as both sides continue an intense legal battle over the behind-the-scenes maneuvering that produced the Republican-crafted 2012 maps of state House and Senate districts.

The jury in Jodi Arias' trial was dismissed Thursday after failing to reach a unanimous decision on... - 8:22 pm

MARQUETTE - The United States of America welcomed 35 new citizens Friday afternoon upon completion of a Naturalization Ceremony held in U.S. District Court in Marquette. "I wish you well in your new status," said Judge R.

Special counsel will investigate John Swallow’s financial arrangements by Robert Gehrke The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 10, 2013 05:15PM MDT Utah Lt. Gov. Greg Bell will appoint a special counsel to investigate three alleged campaign-law violations by Attorney General John Swallow. The decision, announced Friday, comes in response to a complaint filed by the liberal-leaning group Alliance ...

Sherman Townsend spent 10 years in prison for a crime another man has since confessed to committing, and the burglary conviction likely will stay on his record after a state board wouldn't issue a pardon Wednesday, April 24.

Gov. Rick Scott is signing death warrants at a pace rarely seen in Florida since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Scott already has signed five death warrants this year, including three in a recent span of less than four weeks. "I go through them and when people have exhausted their appeals and when they're finished with their clemency process, then I continue to move the process along ...