SACRAMENTO, May 15 (UPI) -- A California federal judge blamed the U.S. government for the death of a boy who died in the collapse of a retaining wall in Lassen Volcanic National Park.

Jerome Ersland's supporters and defense team are working on getting a new trial granted, and On Friday, are calling on the public to rally with them.

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) - A northern New Jersey man has been sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for distributing images and videos of child sexual abuse online.

Minnesota on Tuesday became the third state in two weeks to legalize gay marriage. According to one exchange at the Supreme Court earlier this year, that's exactly why the justices shouldn't get involved.

A not-yet-public U.S. federal court order has apparently halted wire transfers between payments startup Dwolla and the largest bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox. Dwolla , based in Des Moines, Iowa, offers inexpensive wire transfers. Mt. Gox , headquartered in Tokyo, runs a popular exchange where people can buy and sell the virtual currency bitcoin. The intent of the court order is not clear, although ...

Nathan Christopher Dwight was accused of carjacking a woman and using her car in a violent armed robbery.  But after years in prison, the case against him was overturned.

ATTLEBORO — A former city laundromat owner accused of stealing from Columbia Gas of Massachusetts by tampering with meters at an Attleboro laundromat was arraigned Wednesday in Fall River Superior Court.

Vince Megna says if the measure passes, he'll sue in federal court where dealers have more to lose.

CHARLESTON, S.C. — The legal fate of competing Episcopal groups in South Carolina may be determined in federal court.

Jury selection began Monday for the trial of three anti-nuclear activists who broke into the Y-12 National Security Complex.

They were 12 ordinary citizens who didn't oppose the death penalty. But unlike spectators outside the courthouse who followed the case like a daytime soap opera and jumped to demand Jodi Arias' execution, the jurors...

By Joe Napsha, Tribune-Review The state wants to sell the 123-acre parcel containing the soon-to-be-closed state prison in Hempfield, a site that Westmoreland County officials said Monday would be ...

A Eugene woman accused of moving her daughter out of state in violation of a custody agreement appeared in court this morning and was taken into custody. Deanna Denise Lane, 40, did not enter a plea to a felony charge of custodial interference. Because she was the subject of an …

LISBON - A state audit report issued this week states a former county employee inflated her husband's payroll records by $5,273, not the $459 she entered a plea to six weeks ago.

O.J. Simpson was back in a Las Vegas courtroom on Monday to ask for a new trial in the armed robbery-kidnapping case that sent him to prison in 2008.

New legislation has been announced aimed at reducing the number of gun crimes in Ohio. The act would change current gun specification sentencing laws and increase penalties for certain offenders.

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.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former mortician was sentenced Monday to 25 years to life in prison for plotting to kill a funeral business rival in a decades-old case that initially resulted in an unusual sentence of lifetime probation.

By Lisa Maria Garza WACO, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas paramedic who responded to a fertilizer plant explosion last month pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to possessing pipe bomb components, his lawyer said, after agreeing to postpone his detention hearing. A hearing for Bryce Reed scheduled for Wednesday afternoon in Waco was canceled, Daryl Fields, a public affairs officer for the U.S. Attorney's ...

He represented Redd Foxx, Lou Rawls, Della Reese and others and co-founded the NAACP’s Beverly Hills-Hollywood branch to advocate for more positive roles and broader representation for African-American actors. read more        

Sanford, Fla. — The former neighborhood watch leader charged with fatally shooting a Florida teenager told a judge Tuesday that he agrees with his defense attorneys' decision not to seek an immunity hearing under the state's "Stand Your Ground" self-defense law.

The Alabama man charged in the 2010 murder of a Clinton woman is on trial this week in Hinds county.  James Hutto is charged with capital murder in the death of 81-year-old Ethel Simpson.

PHOENIX—Do you know who Jodi Arias is? No? Then you don’t watch HLN. Or CNN. Or ABC News, Dateline , 48 Hours or Inside Edition . You don’t read People.com, or the National Enquirer or the Huffington Post. You don’t follow the #JodiArias hashtag. In short, you have a life. Jodi Arias is the new Casey Anthony . And who begat Casey Anthony? Well, O.J. Simpson , of course, the granddaddy of them ...

CHARLOTTE, Mich. (AP) - A man who authorities say created a fake job to gain work release from jail and then killed a former Michigan state trooper and his wife has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.

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

SALEM — A pair of bills aimed at curtailing protests by environmental activists that disrupt logging in state-owned forests was comfortably approved Monday by the Oregon House. House Bill 2595 would create a new “interference” crime that would apply to protesters who chain themselves to or sit in trees, who …

MINOT, N.D. (AP) — A Somali national was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for killing the mother of his child and three other people in North Dakota two years ago.

There have been quite a few newsworthy items coming out of Albany in recent weeks. I want to share a few of them with you in this column pertaining to health services funding, insurance fraud, and tourism. Continue reading → The post Funding for Developmentally Disabled Partially Restored; Creating the Crime for Staging Auto Accidents; and Improving ATV Rider Conditions appeared first on Oswego ...

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.

JEFFERSON CITY, MO (AP) -- A central Missouri woman whose son died in a car accident while she was talking on a cellphone has been sentenced to one year in a county jail.

President Obama will announce a new phase in his administration’s counter-terrorism operations today, one day after Attorney General Eric Holder sent a letter to Congress admitting that Obama’s drone program has killed four Americans, three of them by accident.

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 read more

Opponents of a plan to build the world's largest telescope at the summit of Hawaii's Mauna Kea volcano are appealing their case in the state courts.

  NORFOLK Attorneys for a Somali man charged with hijacking a yacht off the coast of Africa in 2011 and killing four Americans on board claim their client is intellectually disabled and therefore ineligible for the death penalty.

Achieve Clinical is conducting a phase III, randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled, parallel group study to evaluate the glycemic and renal efficacy of a new drug for 24 weeks in type 2 diabetes patients. (PRWeb April 30, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/trials/diabetic-neuropathy/prweb10677340.htm

David West's right hand helped the Indiana Pacers grab home-court advantage in the Eastern Conference finals.

The Nevada Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments to determine the fate of a dog that fatally attacked a toddler last year.

Wife Appealing Life Sentence

The 2013 session of the Kansas Legislature nears an end with the chief justice of the state Supreme Court accusing a leading senator with political coercion. Meantime, efforts are picking up steam to force appellate judges into retirement and to build separate civil and criminal appeals courts.

A federal judge has refused to dismiss a $75 million lawsuit accusing a Mississippi casino of serving a heavily medicated man so many free drinks that he collapsed in the bathroom of his hotel room and ...

Harris County Public Health & Environmental Services (HCPHES) is pleased to announce the appointment of Umair A. Shah, MD, MPH as the HCPHES Executive Director and Local Health Authority for Harri