Hackers may have grabbed as many as 160,000 Social Security numbers and up to one million drivers license numbers from the Washington State Administrative Office of the Courts, according to information provided on the Court's website yesterday. The hackers responsible for this breach used a flaw in Adobe's ColdFusion software to access this data, though the court confirmed that only 94 Social ...

GALLIPOLIS — Later this month, the Gallia County Common Pleas Court will consider judicial release in a case against a Gallia County woman who is currently serving a four year and 11 month prison ...

(May 13, 2013) A forensic psychologist indicated that Dora Tejada is not criminally responsible for the suffocation and death of her 3-year-old daughter on Nantucket in 2011 as her trial on a single charge of second-degree murder got underway Monday in Nantucket Superior Court.

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 Nebraska Supreme Court will hear arguments in the appeal of an Omaha man given life in prison for the gang-related shooting death of a 20-year-old man.

After hearing more than 600 cases, the Hamilton County Grand Jury submitted recommendations to Judge Rebecca Stern, that they think would improve the county's criminal justice system. That's standard procedure, but there's one recommendation that's getting a lot of attention and it has to do with legalizing certain amounts of marijuana.

GOSHEN — Sexual assault charges against a New York City police officer from the Town of Wallkill will be dropped after the complainant recanted, a prosecutor said Tuesday in Orange County Court.

If you've got to go to prison, you could do a lot worse than the Idaho Correctional Institution in Orofino. The 574-inmate facility is tucked into a picturesque valley on the state's rugged northern panhandle, along the trail once blazed by Lewis and Clark...

SIOUX CITY | A Storm Lake, Iowa, man has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for making and selling methamphetamine.

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

Mark Wetsch, who allegedly was the “Man in Black” robber, still faces two more trials involving 12 other bank holdups.

SAFFORD — The man who admitted killing a Clifton man after a multi-person brawl was sentenced Monday to the maximum amount allowable according to his plea agreement.

Newark, May 10 : A Passaic County, N.J., man was arrested on Thursday after law enforcement officers discovered alleged child pornography at his residence, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

Milan prosecutors on Monday demanded a prison sentence of six years and a lifetime ban from public office for former Premier Silvio Berlusconi in his sex-for-hire trial.

Jurors return to federal court in Philadelphia on Tuesday to hear arguments and evidence on whether a drug dealer convicted in the deaths of a dozen people should be sentenced to death or to life in prison without possibility of parole.

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.

The House Federal and State Affairs Committee introduced a trio of measures Wednesday designed to overhaul the judicial system by granting the governor more power in the judge appointment process, forcing earlier retirement of judges and diminishing authority of the Kansas Supreme Court.The unexpected maneuver follows a day in which a Senate proposal to adjust the selection process for ...

SALISBURY — The case against a former Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office deputy involving alleged child sex abuse was dropped Monday in Wicomico County Circuit Court.

CHARLESTON — The prosecution agreed to limit the prison time it will recommend for a man who admitted pushing a woman down a stairwell during an argument at a Mattoon residence.

Berks County Judge Scott D. Keller on Wednesday delayed the pending retrial of Shawnfatee M. Bridges in the 1996 slayings of two Reading cousins until the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit decides if it will hear an appeal of a lower court ruling.

A southern Indiana judge, prosecutors and attorneys have begun searching for potential jurors in the first of three murder cases against a man charged with killing three women.

A man who once owned Grand Junction hotel and went on to be a successful gambler in England today received a 20-year prison sentence for killing his wife in 1997.

Nearly ten years after his father was indicted by federal prosecutors, a son in the same line of work is being sued by the Arkansas Attorney General. The name of the Greenbrier auto dealer J. Eric Turner will no doubt bring to mind to some the name of James Turner.

By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - Accused Colorado theater gunman James Holmes, who could face the death penalty if convicted of murdering 12 moviegoers in a rampage last year, intends to plead not guilty by reason of insanity, according to court records released on Tuesday. Holmes, 25, is charged with multiple counts of first-degree murder and attempted murder in connection with the July 2012 ...

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court against the diocese, Bishop Robert Finn and the Rev. Shawn Ratigan by the parents of a young northern Missouri girl, was settled for $600,000, attorneys for the girl’s family said. It is the diocese’s largest settlement in a single priest sex abuse case, they said.

Enron’s incarcerated former president Jeffrey Skilling and the Justice Department have reached an agreement that would cut his federal prison sentence to as little 14 years from 24 years.

FREEHOLD, N.J. (AP) - A New Jersey man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in a deadly botched robbery. Monmouth County prosecutors say 27-year-old Tahj Pines of Neptune was 1 of 4 men who went to Nathaniel Wiggins' Eatontown apartment in March 2008 to rob him.

STATE OF MICHIGAN PROBATE COURT COUNTY OF OTTAWA NOTICE TO CREDITORS Decedent's Estate FILE NO. 13-59871-DE Estate of Teddy Niotis, Deceased Date of Birth: October 1, 1968. TO ALL CREDITORS: NOTICE TO CREDITORS: The decedent, Teddy Niotis, died May 2, 1013. Creditors of the decedent are notified that all claims against the estate will be forever barred unless presented to Peter Niotis, through ...

TV highlights for April 30, 2013: Tony Awards nominations, ESPN’s “Bryce Begins.”

LOS ANGELES—A California doctor has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for bilking her patients out of more than $1 million by promising that an herbal supplement could cure late-stage cancer and other diseases.

A man who's been imprisoned for more than 20 years for murder was waiting Friday to find out whether a judge will throw out his conviction and free him.

Prosecutors in a Cincinnati murder trial hinging on a dying man's communication through eye blinks are preparing to show jurors video of the paralyzed man blinking.

The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Thursday that state officials improperly requested the medical records of a Lincoln woman whose autistic son had violated the state truancy law.

White Goldstein law firm, a leading female criminal defense team in Los Angeles, announces the launch of a newly redesigned website solidifying them as a boutique criminal defense firm, now specifically refined to address domestic violence and sex crimes. ...

A federal court has entered a final judgment against Henry's Turkey Service, reducing a recent $240 million jury verdict against the company to $1.6 million.

It's been more than four years since O.J. Simpson was handcuffed in a Las Vegas courtroom and hauled off to prison for nine to 33 years. More >>

A divided federal appeals court released a ruling Thursday that lets Michigan public schools stop collecting union dues under a law approved last year.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Prosecutors told a federal jury on Wednesday that a man they say is the brother of leaders of Mexico's most blood-soaked criminal organization used the proceeds from their brothers' ill-gotten gains to bankroll his horse-racing stable. Trevino is the central figure of five men charged in a Texas federal court with using a race horse breeding operation to launder millions of ...

A North Vancouver trucker convicted of smuggling pot for a criminal group linked to the Hells Angels was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in prison.

CHICAGO (AP) - A federal judge Friday quashed another judge's surprise order to release an Illinois teenager pending trial on charges he sought to join al-Qaida-linked militants in Syria.

A Montana man who was told — incorrectly – that he was dying of cancer and had less than six months to live was awarded $59,820 in a lawsuit filed in federal court, the Helena Independent Record says. ...