The Michigan Court of Appeals has stopped Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr and two state emergency loan board members from giving depositions in a lawsuit claiming open meetings violations in the state's selection of Orr.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 15 (UPI) -- A knifemaker pleaded guilty in an Alaska court to purchasing six restricted walrus tusks from an undercover agent.

Batavia High School lost to Frewsburg, out of Chautauqua County, 51-50, this afternoon in the final of Regional Mock Trials Tournament. Both teams were 1-1 in the finals, presided over by Eugene F. Pigott Jr., associate judge of the New York State Court of Appeals. Frewsburg will compete in the state championship rounds in Albany. It's the first time in the 31-year history of the tournament that ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — A Myrtle Beach man was sentenced to nearly six years in prison for robbing more than a dozen banks in multiple states.

Under the scrutiny of a forensic audit ordered by Gov. Robert Bentley, Alabama State University has tapped former Federal Judge U.W. Clemon, Montgomery's WSFA 12 News reports.

NEW YORK - The federal judge overseeing the stop-and-frisk trial that has put New York Police Department officers in the spotlight says she knows she's not the government's favorite judge.

One of the emergency responders at last month's deadly Texas fertilizer plant explosion is now charged with possessing materials for a pipe bomb, a court document states.

SPOKANE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington, in In re Sterling Financial Corp. ERISA Litigation, Case No.: 1-cv-0018, a summary notice has been issued as follows: TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE FOLLOWING CLASSES: The Sterling 401(k) Plan Class: All persons (except Defendants and their immediate family members) who were participants in or ...

The Arizona Supreme Court has sliced a day off the suspension of Maricopa County prosecutor Rachel Alexander in an ethics case.

The state Game and Fish Department asked a federal court Tuesday to lift a decades-old order preventing the agency from providing New Mexico residents with the majority of annual licenses to hunt bighorn sheep, ibex and oryx.

By Marty Graham VISTA, California (Reuters) - Heavy metal singer Tim Lambesis, the frontman for Christian rock band As I Lay Dying, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to a charge of soliciting the murder of his estranged wife. North San Diego County Superior Court Judge Martin Staven set bail for Lambesis at $3 million. He ordered Lambesis to surrender his passport, stay away from his wife Meggan ...

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Washington — An Idaho man charged with attempting to assassinate President Barack Obama by shooting at the White House practiced with his weapon for six months and may have been upset about the country's marijuana policy, prosecutors said in a newly filed court document.

A cargo pilot who overshot the Spokane airport by 50 miles last year, then lined up on the wrong runway during his approach, has been convicted in federal court of the rare charge of flying while intoxicated.

By: Justin Horwath Will US Attorney Ken Gonzales' successor continue his legacy' Over the past three years, the office of US Attorney for New Mexico Kenneth Gonzales has prosecuted thousands of criminal cases in federal district court.

Michael Hoffman is making his case to the Supreme Court justices that Borner should and could have been charged with something other than conspiracy to commit murder, and that the state never proved that he committed the crime he was charged with.

OKLAHOMA CITY, May 7 (UPI) -- An Oklahoma woman has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for defrauding would-be parents, adoption agencies and law firms.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A federal appeals court denied asylum Wednesday to a Christian family that fled Germany so they could home-school their children, after ruling that U.S. immigration laws do not grant a safe haven to people everywhere who face restrictions that would be prohibited under the Constitution.

O.J. Simpson was seen laughing as he made his way back into 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.

A South Carolina man has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison for robbing more than a dozen banks in multiple states, including Tennessee.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York mother who lost two of her children to homicide - and whose former nanny will stand trial for double murder - is pregnant again.        

An Eddyville woman is accused of smuggling contraband into the Kentucky State Penitentiary.

The Nebraska Supreme Court has ordered a new drug trial for a Grand Island man, saying prosecutors failed to prove the accuracy of a state lab scale.

A Columbus man involved in one of the largest black tar heroin busts in Washington County history was sentenced Monday in Washington County Common Pleas Court to three years in prison -half the time being served by a Vincent man involved in the bust.

An Akron federal judge has scheduled a hearing Tuesday for 51-year-old Robert Berryhill of Aurora. The court docket calls it an arraignment and guilty plea hearing.

SAN DIEGO — Officials have closed Otay Mesa Road because of a grass fire, the California Highway Patrol. The wind-driven wildfire of blackened swaths of open grassland south of Donovan State Prison. The fast-moving flames began spreading shortly after 2 …

The second of five defendants charged with aiding a prostitution ring that operated out of massage parlors in Lackawanna and several other nearby counties was sentenced Tuesday in federal court to two years' probation. Yu Cheng Lee, 37, of Tannersville,

Ariel Castro appeared in an Ohio court charged with kidnapping and raping three women missing for a decade.

A 35-year-old Logansport man is leaving the Cass County court system with 15 years in prison, resulting from four court cases.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge in Oregon has determined limiting inmates' mail to only postcards is unconstitutional, throwing into question the legality of a practice used for years in jails across the country.

Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction officials said a new bill to increase sentences for repeat violent offenders with guns would cost $880.4 million over 20 years and force the department to open a new 750-cell prison.

WESTLAND — A former Dearborn resident accused of writing bad checks is headed to trial.

The Santa Barbara County District Attorney's Office will soon decide whether to seek the death penalty for seven of the people suspected in the murder of Anthony Ibarra.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A man sentenced to life in prison without parole when he was 14 years old could end up serving a much shorter prison term after Arkansas' highest court ruled Thursday that he deserves a new sentencing hearing.        

The leader of a Cicero church facing a federal fraud indictment will continue to call his house of worship home after a judge refused to let him live with family in Georgia while awaiting trial. Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman did, however, tell Herman Jackson he can move freely about the Chicago area for 12 hours a day, and she gave him permission to visit his wife, co-defendant Jannette Faria ...

Fossil fuel industry frustrated by federal delays By Bob Berwyn SUMMIT COUNTY — The fossil fuel industry continues to battle over energy development in court, most recently by asking a federal appeals court to overturn a previous lower court ruling that spurred the Bureau of Land Management to reconsider its plan for northwest Colorado’s Roan […]

WASHINGTON—Ohio is throwing its full prosecutorial weight behind the fury to punish Ariel Castro , signalling the accused Cleveland kidnapper could face the death penalty. But the path to lethal injection, if it is pursued, could prove one of the strangest ever in U.S. history, hinging on the murder not of the living, but of as many as five unborn children conceived under appalling circumstances ...

By Atossa Araxia Abrahamian NEW YORK (Reuters) - A judge on Wednesday threw out an indictment against a New York City police officer charged with manslaughter over the shooting of an unarmed teenager, but prosecutors can present the case again or appeal the decision, lawyers involved in the case said. Officer Richard Haste was indicted last year in the death of Ramarley Graham, 18, whom Haste ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana state prison officials are using customized playing cards for a deadly serious purpose: To help unlock the mysteries of unsolved murders and persons gone missing.

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.