A state administrative judge has sided with about half of 30 people with disabilities who say their services were illegally cut by a St. Joseph County agency.

A northeastern Pennsylvania police chief was arrested Wednesday on witness intimidation and obstruction charges after authorities say he had sex with an alleged victim in a criminal case and told her not to tell anyone.

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 ...

CARROLL COUNTY -- Evan Pearson, the Berryville man accused of harboring a runaway girl last fall, is scheduled to be arraigned on June 10 on charges stemming from a string of burglaries this...

Observers are predicting a speedy confirmation to the federal bench for Jackson attorney Debra M. Brown.

With the prison system easily out-spending public schools, some educators said investing in students now could ultimately save the state money in the long run.

An Oregon federal judge has ruled the practice of limiting inmates' mail to only postcards is unconstitutional.

Riverside County District Attorney Paul Zellerbach and other local officials complain that county jails are bulging with long-term inmates

Anthony Balbirnie is in a state prison for past convictions. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Greene County prosecutors this month filed new criminal charges against a man connected with the death of a teenager from the Willard area. Anthony Balbirnie previously was charged in Benton County with dumping the body of Khighla Parks, 15, in Truman Lake last September.

A reputed southern New Jersey street gang leader who admitted leading a narcotics network in Camden has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

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 ...

Robert Aronson is the Managing Attorney at Aronson & Associates, a Minneapolis-based immigration law firm serving a national and international clientele.

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 ...

Jimmy Smith, the leading receiver in Jaguars history who became an icon in Jacksonville while spearheading the team during its playoff run in the late 1990s, is serving a six-year term in a Mississippi prison after being convicted of cocaine possession and firearm charges in March.

IOWA CITY, Iowa - Two weeks after being sentenced to life in prison for the 2009 shooting death of John Versypt in Iowa City, Justin Marshall has filed a notice of plans to appeal his first-degree murder conviction.

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.

Defendants charged with serious crimes who may suffer from mental illness and are determined by the court to be unable to stand trial will continue to be handled by Pima County rather than the state,

Amanda Knox has proclaimed her innocence in an emotional American television interview, as she prepares to release her autobiography. In an ABC News programme, to...

Former Jacksonville Jaguars stand-out wide receiver Jimmy Smith is serving a six-year prison term in Mississippi for drug possession and weapons charges, online state corrections records show.

By Lisa Maria Garza DALLAS (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors charged a paramedic, one of the first to respond to a deadly explosion last month in the Texas town of West, with unlawful possession of pipe bomb components, but authorities said no evidence linked the charge to the fertilizer plant disaster. Bryce Reed, 31, appeared at federal court in Waco, Texas, on Friday, where he faced one count of ...

George Thomas is one of four defendants accused of kidnapping, raping, torturing, and murdering Channon Christian and Chris Newsom in 2007.

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.

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 Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher, Pool). Defendant Jodi Arias listens to prosecutor Juan Martinez makes his closing arguments during her trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Thursday, May 2, 2013.

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.

A former probation officer in Middle Georgia has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty in his girlfriend's death.

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 ...

LITTLE ROCK (AP) — A high-ranking female member of a Mexican cartel was charged in a drug conspiracy case in Arkansas after her son allegedly recruited federal inmates in the state to distribute the organization’s cocaine after they got out of prison, prosecutors said Tuesday.

SAN BERNARDINO -- If she had ducked a second later, San Bernardino County sheriff's Deputy Maria Gascon might have been killed by the bullets a suspect fired at her patrol car.

PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Federal budget cuts have caused delays in at least one terror-related court case in New York and prompted a federal judge in Nebraska to say he is "seriously contemplating" dismissing some criminal cases.

No one is seriously suggesting that California will soon become another Cyprus, the Greek-speaking Mediterranean island nation whose economic bailout plan includes dunning holders of “large” bank accounts as much as half their holdings and freezing the rest. But since a federal bankruptcy judge gave the go-ahead for the city of Stockton to seek shelter from more than $1 billion in debts via ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Already facing a potential contempt order, Gov. Jerry Brown now must leap another hurdle to meet a court-ordered deadline this week to say how he will reduce crowding in California prisons.

Lawyers and supporters for the California Innocence Project are walking 660 miles from San Diego to Sacramento, California, to personally deliver clemency petitions to Governor Jerry Brown for the release of the California 12, a dozen inmates who have strong cases of factual innocence. Follow their progress on TakePart.

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 new court document.

In a 4-3 decision, the Montana Supreme Court Tuesday overturned a lower-court ruling that had granted a new trial for convicted murderer Barry Beach, likely sending him back to the Montana State Prison.

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 ...

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.

The Western Reserve Chronicle of 150 years ago today reported the execution of two Confederate spies, Capt. William Francis Corbin and Lt. Thomas Jefferson McGraw, at the prison for prisoners of war near Sandusky on May 15, 1863.

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.

PRISON MENTAL HEALTH UNIT: State lawmakers won't stand in the way of Gov. Terry Branstad's plan to shut down a 200-bed prison mental health unit at Fort Madison that opened 10 years ago at a cost of $26 million.

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