A Bozeman man will spend seven years in prison for attempting to rob a Bozeman gas station last October.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Waynesville, Mo., couple has been indicted by a federal grand jury for their role in a nearly $414,000 conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Pulaski and Laclede counties.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A northern New Jersey man has been sentenced to life in prison for fatally shooting a Newark grocery store worker who was trying to break up a fight outside the business on Christmas Eve 2010.

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.

NEWELL, W.Va. (AP) -- West Virginia's Homer Laughlin China Co. is suing two companies for selling what it claims are cheap Chinese imitations of its popular and collectible Fiesta dinnerware to an unsuspecting public. The Weirton Daily Times ( http://bit.ly/11Q4wAi ) says the lawsuit was filed Monday in U.S. District Court in western Pennsylvania, where the products are being sold.

A Tahlequah mother set to stand trial for next week for burning her 15-month-old son's genitals with a hair-straightening iron has pleaded guilty.

A suspected drunken motorist with two prior convictions for driving under the influence was ordered Friday to stand trial for murder in the death of a 22-year-old motorcyclist from Del Aire. | POLICE NEWS | BLOG: SOUTH BAY CRIME, COURT NEWS | FACEBOOK

U.S. District Court Judge John Fowlkes sentenced longtime Memphis educator Clarence Mumford, Sr., to seven years in prison in a multi-state test-taking fraud.

Monterey County prosecutors and public defenders struck a deal that would bar news media and the public from obtaining murder suspect Christopher Sorenson's mental health trial transcripts — despite a judge's earlier ruling granting access to the records.

A federal securities fraud trial involving a Kansas City company that claimed to have $284 billion in assets crawled toward the end of its third week Thursday amid a flurry of objections and a judge's ...

A Jewish prisoner's lawsuit seeking a kosher meal plan in Florida prisons can go forward, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

On Tuesday in Tarrant Regional Water District v. Herrmann, the Court will consider whether thirsty residents in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas can tap into water resources located in Oklahoma in order to slake their growing need for water. The specific dispute arose when the petitioner, a water district serving north Texas, applied for [...]

BOSTON - Democratic leaders on Tuesday put a quick stop to a move to reinstate the death penalty in Massachusetts, rejecting a House budget amendment containing a death penalty measure first proposed by former Gov. Mitt Romney in 2005.

So you’ve just finished your workout at a very nice Miami Beach gym. You’re in the shower. The curtain is drawn. It’s a setting that comes with certain expectations.

A former mortician has been sentenced to 25 years to life for plotting to kill a funeral business rival in a decades-old case that initially resulted in a sentence of lifetime probation.

George Zimmerman, the Florida resident accused of murdering Trayvon Martin in February 2012, has waived his right to a pre-trial defense immunity hearing. Had Zimmerman taken advantage of his immunity hearing, he and his legal team would only have had to present their self-defense case to a judge instead of a full jury. Zimmerman reviewed his case with his legal team and believes he can be ...

The retrial for Christian-Newsom murder suspect George Thomas got underway Monday morning.

WICHITA - A developmentally challenged Canadian man will spend eight years in prison for taking a 12 ...

A Hastings woman has been sentenced to more than two years in federal prison for failing to register as a sex offender.

A South Sioux City, Nebraska man pleads guilty after police say he allowed his son, who recently escaped from prison. to stay at his home.

Police in Washington may soon find themselves in real trouble if they ignore a judge's order to return marijuana they seized from a man during a traffic stop.

The Louisiana Attorney General's Office arrested 9 accused sexual predators across the southern part of the state. Four of those people live in Acadiana. Agents with the Louisiana Internet Crimes Against Children conducted an undercover investigation, working with hundreds of local, parish, state and federal law enforcement agencies to find online sexual predators. "Louisiana's ICAC Task Force ...

TORRINGTON >> As the anniversary of the death of beloved Torrington real estate agent Thomas J. “TJ” Zappulla approaches, the fate of the woman allegedly responsible for his death is being decided in a rural New Hampshire court.

A career bank robber who served more than 30 years in prison for a series of armed holdups in the 1970s and 1980s was ordered detained on Wednesday in connection with last month’s robbery of a TD Bank branch in Oakland, two weeks after he was released from a halfway house.

A fugitive accidentally released by the Adams County Sheriff?s Office is now considered a top priority by the Colorado Department of Corrections.

File No.: 161828 / NSM No. 1258/White NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at the hour of 10:30AM, of said day, in the office of Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. located at 1270 Northwood Center Court, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83814, Alliance Title & Escrow Corp., as successor trustee, will sell at public auction, to the highest bidder, for cash, cashiers check, certified check or tellers ...

Citing staff safety concerns and the need to limit contraband such as drugs tucked into regular mail, Santa Clara County jail officials want all mail -- excluding correspondence from lawyers -- to be limited to postcards.

Vermont is the first state to permit physician-assisted suicide by legislation, rather than referendum or court order.        

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.

TED WARREN Associated Press MOUNT VERNON — The young man known as the “Barefoot Bandit” pleaded guilty to burglary Wednesday in a Washington state county court, perhaps closing the lengthy saga involving a run from the law in stolen cars, boats and airplanes. Colton Harris-Moo

16-mile time trial held Saturday in Hawi Place/Name Age Time

A superior court judge will decide if the contract awarded by the New Hampshire Liquor Commission to Ohio-based Excel Inc. will stand.

Rushville, Ontario County - John Stenzel was sentenced to 1-3 years in prison and will have to pay over $20,000 to the victim.

Under Washington's capital punishment statute, defendants in Washington state convicted of aggravated first-degree murder may be sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole or they may be sentenced to death. A defendant may be found guilty of aggravated first degree murder if he or she commits first degree murder with the following aggravating circumstances:   (1) The murderer ...

Vermont is close to joining Oregon, Washington and Montana as states allowing doctors to prescribe lethal medication to terminally ill patients who request it.

SALT LAKE CITY — The Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office filed a homicide by assault charge Wednesday against a...

Two people are in custody on felony charges after a man tried to escape from custody at a Belmont County court, leading to police firing shots at the getaway car. The incident happened around 10 a.m. Thursday outside the Northern and Eastern Division Courthouse in Bellaire. Initially, officials told NEWS9 that shots were fired inside a courtroom. That is not the case. Police fired two shots at ...

In Utah, nation confusion reigns over teen access to “morning after pill” by Kirsten Stewart The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 18, 2013 10:02AM MDT Every week it seems new, conflicting information surfaces about Plan B, who can buy the emergency contraceptive and where. In April, a Reagan-appointed federal judge issued an order to make the so-called “morning after” pill available over the ...

Yesterday’s coverage largely focused on the two cases in which the Court heard oral argument and the lone opinion that it issued. Yesterday the Court issued its opinion in Moncrieffe v. Holder. By a vote of seven to two, the Court held that if a noncitizen’s conviction for a marijuana distribution offense fails to establish [...]

A former corrections officer has pleaded guilty to conspiring to bring contraband to the inmates at the Maury County jail in exchange for cash.

A dispute between Walker County, Ga., and its cities over how to split millions of dollars in sales tax revenue over 10 years took a step forward recently when an out-of-county judge was appointed to hear the case.