Elixir Medical Corporation, a developer of products that combine state-of-the-art medical devices with advanced pharmaceuticals, announced today that it will release six-month pivotal, clinical trial results for its fully bioresorbable drug-eluting scaffold system, the DESolve® Bioresorbable Coronary Scaffold, at the EuroPCR session of “From Late Breaking Trial to Clinical Practice” in Paris on ...

JACKSON — A state legislative committee endorsed a bill on Monday that would ensure compensation for prisoners exonerated by post-conviction DNA testing.

When his friend found him unconscious in her car April 2, she thought Benjamin Black has just shot heroin, court records show.

VIRGINIA BEACH A jury trial kicked off this morning for a teen accused of fatally shooting another teen and leaving his body behind a civic league building.

COMMON PLEAS COURT NEW SUITS 13-CV-0428 - Andre Terrell, Dayton, v. State of Ohio, c/o Mike DeWine, Ohio Attorney General, Columbus, complaint for declaratory judgment that Terrell is a wrongfully imprisoned individual. 13-CV-0429 - CitiBank, N.A., v. Lanna Kay Blair aka Lanna K. Cassel aka Kay Cassel aka Kay Jones aka Kay Blair aka Lanna K. Jones, 310 Larchmont Ave., et al., complaint in ...

Rural brain drain is not a new phenomenon, but some rural communities are trying to attract doctors and lawyers in new ways. In March, South Dakota became the first state to pass a law that offers annual subsidies to lawyers who agree to live and work in rural areas.

A new law makes it a crime for agents to enforce federal legislation on "Made in Kansas" firearms        

ANNAPOLIS - Maryland lawmakers may appoint a special committee to investigate how a prison gang apparently took over a Baltimore jail, ran a contraband smuggling operation and impregnated four prison guards.

Key moments related to the search for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, based on reports from the Middlesex County district attorney, Massachusetts State Police and Boston police.

Many readers of The Glendale Star have come to know Quentin Tolby; first, as a justice of the peace in Manistee Justice Precinct, then as a retired judge, who writes a weekly column titled “From the Bench.” And, as Tolby has stated several times in his column, he is a native of the West Valley, who served in the armed forces, learned to fly a plane, left the service, and started his own business ...

San Francisco — The state's efforts to stop the rapid spread of valley fever through two Central California prisons have been so ineffectual that it should stop placing prisoners there, a medical expert told a federal judge in San Francisco overseeing health care in the state's prisons.

GARY | In the forefront of the movement toward "problem-solving" courts, the Gary City Drug Court has chugged along since its inception 17 years ago.

A former Kaysville teacher and basketball coach has been ordered to stand trial on 11 felonies.

A man who once owned a Grand Junction hotel has told authorities he struck and killed his wife with his hand in an argument in 1997, an action that led to him receiving a 20-year sentence Wednesday.

This morning, Bucks County Courier Times columnist J.D. Mullane tweeted from the courtroom that the jury in the Dr. Kermit Gosnell case is hung on two charges, noting that they were not specific about which counts were included in this designation.

A registered sex offender is headed to prison after pleading guilty to capital murder in the death of a Central Texas woman, whose granddaughter was raped.

By Kyle Lawson, Times Express An Allegheny County Judge last week ruled that one part of a three-part lawsuit filed by former Monroeville police Chief Doug Cole be settled out ...

A Nashville, GA police officer is appealing his conviction and prison sentence for soliciting sex from a 17-year-old boy and violating his oath of office, arguing that Georgia's solicitation of sodomy statute is unconstitutional and no crime was committed.

MINNEAPOLIS -- A federal judge sentenced four men to prison on Tuesday for helping recruit young men in Minnesota to travel to Somalia and fight for the militant group al-Shabab.

The former head of a Lenox school for troubled young women and his son and son-in-law are facing prison time and have agreed to pay back the state of Vermont and the U.S. government $3 million for what the U.S. Attorney s Office calls "egregious" tax and health care fraud connected to a Bennington, Vt., school they had operated.

MOUNT HOLLY — The Burlington County Jail is open for business and soon could accept up to 75 inmates a day from nearby Gloucester County, bringing with them the potential for millions of dollars in ne

A 28-year-old convicted sex offender was sentenced to 180 years in prison for sexually abusing a young boy whose family had befriended him.

A Mount Kisco man has been sentenced to 21 months in federal prison on a money-laundering charge in connection with an oxycodone ring which led to prison for a former Westchester County police officer.

For decades, fugitives thumbed their noses at judges in Philadelphia. But now something remarkable has happened: Criminal defendants are showing up for court.

Suspects who break into homes just to scare a victim can avoid jail time.  These types of victims are often involved in domestic violence situations. Local lawmakers told Eyewitness News they're taking action to make sure families are protected. A woman who asked not to show her face and to alter her voice said she is still afraid of her abusive estranged husband who broke into her house last ...

By Mark Waite Judges don’t usually discuss particular cases with the media, but it wasn’t hard to find a topic of discussion with Nevada Supreme Court Justice Kristina Pickering: the need for a state appeals court. Pickering, a Yale University honors graduate who attended law school at Georgetown University and the University of California-Davis King[...]

MOUNT VERNON, Ill. — The second of two men accused in a shooting near a southern Illinois middle school more than a year ago has been sentenced to prison.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – Three jurors in the trial of convicted Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell spoke to reporters on Wednesday, outlining their viewpoints, conclusions and reflections on the case. David Misko, Sarah Glinksi and Joseph Carroll spoke outside of the Philadelphia Criminal Justice Center, all in agreement that they made the right decision. “It wasn’t easy, [...]

WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court has struck down a National Labor Relations Board rule that would have required millions of businesses to put up posters informing workers of their right to form a union. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia says the board went too far in

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and stories that will be talked about in Pennsylvania on Monday. WILL THERE BE A VERDICT IN THE MURDER TRIAL OF DR. KERMIT GOSNELL?

Dozens of defendants charged with running a gambling operation disguised as a veterans charity are due to appear before a judge. 

Chris Koch and Associates launch new videos on complex legal proceedings on YouTube for the benefit of those who have been arrested. The San Diego defense lawyers have also released an educational video for their clients who believe they have been wrongly or unintentionally arrested for driving under the influence.San Diego, CA (PRWEB) April 19, 2013 Driving under the influence of drugs or ...

After nearly two weeks of deliberations, the jury in the trial of Kermit Gosnell has convicted Gosnell of three of the five murder charges against him.

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.

They seem more alike than different, just a year apart in age and once co-workers in the Lebanon County district attorney's office. Both are parents and active in their young children's activities. Both have worked as public defenders.

After proving his innocence, George Souliotes, 72, who has spent 16 years in prison, was ordered freed or retried in the triple-murder arson case. Prosecutors have opted for a new trial. SAN FRANCISCO — A prison inmate whose triple-murder arson conviction was overturned after he demonstrated "actual innocence" will be retried rather than released, prosecutors said.        

A southern Kentucky man has seen sentenced to 20 years in prison after admitting to killing his grandmother in 2011.

CultureMap Austin -- Many of Austin’s food fans are looking forward to a flavorful weekend as the 2nd Annual Austin Food and Wine Festival pitches a park full of tents, fires up a wave of grills, and pours a steady flow of wine and beer over the next few days. Some would say last year’s event was a trial by fire that wound up with a few kinks to straighten out — dusty grounds, confusing lines, a ...

ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Martin O’Malley signed a gun-control measure on Thursday to give Maryland some of the nation’s tightest gun laws and the National Rifle Association plans to challenge it in court. Part of the law requires people to submit fingerprints to the state police to get a license to buy a handgun. “States with [...]

Gregg County Commissioners on Monday gave their OK to financing for a 200-unit retirement facility to receive up to $40 million in financing via bonds issued by a corporation in North Central Texas.

HONOLULU - A federal appeals court has ordered a new trial in a lawsuit filed by the family of a Texas soldier who was killed and others who were injured during a live-fire training exercise in Hawaii.