The media circus that is Jodi Arias' murder trial is in its final stretch, as the jury began deliberations Friday following closing arguments. The jury, which has been in court since January, will resume deliberations Monday.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Closing arguments have started in the case against five men charged in a Texas federal court with using a race horse breeding operation to launder cartel drug money. The defendants are charged with money laundering conspiracy related to operations of a horse ranch near Lexington, Okla.

"The petition for post-conviction relief is plainly untimely," Assistant Attorney General Laura Cadiz wrote in a document filed in Marion County Circuit Court.

Looking tired and weak, Douglas Martin took the microphone and gave his name and age to the court Thursday morning.

Arkansas asked a federal judge to throw out a constitutional challenge by two doctors to its law restricting the availability of abortions, claiming that the statute furthers the state’s interest in protecting the fetus.

Incyte Corporation announced today that it has earned a $25.0 million milestone payment from Novartis based on the formal initiation of a Phase II clinical trial evaluating c-MET inhibitor INC280 as monotherapy in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A Louisiana businessman serving 15 years in federal prison for distributing oxycodone and methadone illegally through pain clinics in eastern Kentucky has lost his bid for a new trial.

Peoria -- The trial of the man accused of killing five members of central Illinois family is set to resume.

By News Staff news@abc6.com An entry of default has been made against a Traffic Tribunal Magistrate in a racial discrimination lawsuit. Documents filed with Superior Court on Tuesday indicate that Traffic

SAMMY HAGAR LAWSUIT IN IOWA: A judge says rocker Sammy Hagar did not defame a Playboy bunny with whom he allegedly fathered a child when he accused her of extortion in his memoir.

With help from his fellow trial attorneys, Georgia injury lawyer Howard Spiva is on a mission to expand the Heads in Helmet program in every city in America. (PRWeb April 24, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/4/prweb10665372.htm

By Barbara Corbellini Duarte - Diane Wilson, 65, stopped eating on May 1 to honor the Guantanamo Bay prisoners who have been on a hunger strike for 99 days.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Uzbekistan national living in Idaho has made his first court appearance on charges he gave support, cash and other resources to help a recognized terrorist group in his own country.        

FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) — A north Alabama man will remain in jail while charged in the death of his 3-month-old son.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Mario Pizano was in court on Tuesday taking a plea deal for driving drunk and killing his brother, who was a passenger in his car. Police say

MCKINNEY, Texas (AP) — A judge has ruled that a North Texas lesbian couple can't live together because of a morality clause in one of the women's divorce papers.

Evan Ebel forced a 22-year-old Commerce City woman to buy him the handgun he used to kill Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements in March, the woman's attorney said Tuesday.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- A Louisiana businessman serving 15 years in federal prison for distributing oxycodone and methadone illegally through pain clinics in eastern Kentucky has lost his bid for a new trial.   U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove ruled that there is "sufficient evidence" to support the jury's guilty verdict in the case of 47-year-old Michael D. Leman of Slidell, La. A jury ...

DENVER — Officials are questioning why a Colorado prison parolee suspected in a murder after his release was on a low level of supervision, the latest possible mistake found as authorities review thousands of sentencing records.

Jodi Arias asked jurors today to give her life in prison, arguing she "lacked perspective" when she told a local reporter in an interview after she was convicted of murder that she preferred execution.

By Suzi Parker LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday blocked a new Arkansas law that would ban most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy, one of the most restrictive abortion statutes in the nation. U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright granted an injunction sought by abortion rights groups, saying the ban was "more than likely" unconstitutional and ordering that ...

JODI ARIAS: A jury has been sent to begin deliberating Jodi Arias' fate, deciding whether she should be sentenced to life in prison or execution.

At least 36 parolees in Colorado have been convicted or accused of murder while on supervised release from prison since 2002, a review by The Denver Post found.

A lesbian couple can't cohabitate, a Texas judge ruled, because one woman's divorce settlement bars overnight guests except spouses   — and the lesbian couple can't marry in Texas.

WORCESTER - A standing-room-only crowd packed a Worcester Trial Court courtroom Thursday morning to bid adieu to a man widely regarded by his peers as one of the top prosecutors in Worcester County.

Inmate Rasberry Williams, convicted in a 1974 murder, has had an extraordinary record while in prison, governor says.

Bars and liquor stores could sue underage patrons and judges would have to send repeat drunken drivers to prison under a pair of bills the state Assembly overwhelmingly approved Tuesday in another attempt to rein in excessive drinking in Wisconsin.

U.S. District Judge Sue Robinson in Wilmington, Delaware , also canceled a jury trial that was scheduled to begin today over two patents for 3-G network communications held by Long Branch, New Jersey-based Golden Bridge.

A Sarcoxie woman entered an Alford plea Friday in Jasper County Circuit Court to a felony count of child endangerment in a case involving the alleged abuse of her baby boy. Benita Devido, 26, entered the plea as part of a deal with the Jasper County prosecutor’s office that would limit the prison time that she might receive to no more than five years. She had been facing the possibility of up to ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal court in San Francisco Tuesday struck down Arizona's ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

An Ohio man who had been arrested for drunken-driving has been sentenced to 17 months in prison for subsequent Facebook rants against police and judges.

CHICAGO (AP) — In a rare move for terror cases, a federal judge agreed Thursday to release on home confinement an Illinois teenager charged with seeking to travel abroad and join an al-Qaida-linked militant group in war-torn Syria.

Cathy Humphries was sentenced to eight years in prison Monday.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark., May 17 (UPI) -- A federal judge has blocked enforcement of an Arkansas law restricting abortion because it may violate a woman's constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy.

GALLIPOLIS — A Gallia County woman charged with receiving stolen property and tampering with evidence in two separate felony cases was recently sentenced to serve time in the Ohio Reformatory for ...

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

Michael Walker, 28, and Terry D. Martin, 28, both of Texarkana, Arkansas, were sentenced for their roles in the distribution of crack cocaine in Texarkana.

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Convicted killer Jodi Arias pleaded with an Arizona jury on Tuesday to spare her the death penalty for the sake of her family and sentence her instead to life in prison for killing her ex-boyfriend.        

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a state law that forbids most people between ages 18 and 20 from obtaining permits to carry concealed handguns. A three-judge panel handed down its decision Monday, May 20.

INSTITUTE, W.Va. -- The state Supreme Court is making its first visit to West Virginia State University this week. The justices are scheduled to hear arguments in four cases Wednesday in the James C. Wilson University Union on the Institute campus. Th...

Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange's office announced Friday the arrest of the state's former Chief Agent for Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center (ACJIC) on numerous felony charges.