If arrested for DUI in Huntington Beach , individuals need the assistance of a qualified and experienced attorney to get out of this mess quickly and successfully. The popular DUI attorneys in town have released a very useful video for this purpose that focuses entirely on DUI. (PRWeb May 02, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/DUI-Huntington-Beach-CA/DUI-defense-lawyer ...

ST. CHARLES – A 10-month Kane County State's Attorney's investigation has found that as possibly as many as 10 district employees had knowledge of suspected abuse by former West Aurora High School band director Stephen Orland, but did not report it to the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services as required by law.

A revised plan to redraw the boundaries of Pennsylvania’s legislative districts won the unanimous approval Wednesday of the state Supreme Court. The justices ruled that the new map is constitutional and can take effect for Pennsylvania’s 203 House districts and 50 Senate districts beginning in the 2014 elections.

The Indiana Supreme Court today ruled Indiana's limit on the amount of punitive damages that may be awarded in lawsuits is constitutional.

Ex-judge Richard Baumgartner has completed his probation, clearing the way for his criminal record to be wiped clean, at least on the state level.

(AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, David Wallace, Pool). Jodi Arias listens as the verdict for sentencing is read for her first degree murder conviction at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Ariz., on Thursday, May 23, 2013.

Hawks down 3-1 in series against Red Wings. Concealed-carry vote could come in House today. State Senate votes to ban cellphones while driving. Closing arguments in Lindenhurst Burger King trial. Route 14 closed for hours in Barrington. Mental exam sought for Roselle man in peacock case.

The Mississippi Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of David Mclymont in the 2008 slaying of Coast Guardsman Carlos Buford, who was visiting a friend in Clarksdale.

A Nebraska man has been given jail time for allowing his son to stay at his home after escaping from a minimum-security prison in South Dakota. Robert Thorngren, of South Sioux City, was sentenced Monday in Dakota County Court to 220 days in jail on a misdemeanor charge of accessory to a felony. He must pay a $500 fine.

Despite filing a stack of handwritten motions, including several demanding his trial be dismissed, Sidney Albert Potts will go to trial Tuesday on multiple charges of drug dealing.

Richie Farmer's arraignment will be earlier than expected. A federal grand jury indictment charges Farmer with four counts of misappropriating government money and property. The arraignment was supposed to be next Tuesday, April 30th. But there was a scheduling conflict with Farmer's Attorney, Guthrie True. The hearing is now set for 4:00pm Thursday.

A 70-year-old Cuyahoga Falls man has been sentenced to eight years in prison after being convicted of his 12th drunken-driving charge.

DayBreak Update: The murder trial for a North Iowa teen accused of killing his mother resumes Monday morning, the Mason City school board will take up the issue of cutting varsity coaches, and Worth County will address a plan to extend the county sheriff department’s services to Northwood.

Consumer Attorney Services helps more Michigan homeowners find foreclosure resolutions after adding attorney Philip Bubb to their national foreclosure defense team in May. (PRWeb May 14, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/consumer-attorney-service/michigan-foreclosure-help/prweb10711192.htm

By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - Accused Colorado theater gunman James Holmes, who could face execution if convicted of murdering 12 moviegoers last year, returns to a Colorado courtroom on Monday where his lawyers will seek to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity. Holmes, 25, is charged with multiple counts of first-degree murder and attempted murder for opening fire during a ...

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Jurors are deliberating the case of a Houston man accused of opening fire outside a Texas courthouse and killing a 79-year-old bystander.        

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 ...

By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - In an unusual move before a trial, a federal judge expressed a tentative view that the U.S. Justice Department will be able to show evidence that Apple Inc engaged in a conspiracy with publishers to increase e-book prices. U.S. District Judge Denise Cote, who is set to oversee a trial on June 3, gave her view during a pretrial hearing on Thursday. ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Inmates at jails in Indianapolis, Baltimore, St. Louis and Philadelphia face the nation's highest levels of sexual abuse at the hands of guards, according to a new federal report based on surveys of inmates at U.S. jails and prisons. The report by the U.S. Department of Justice found that the Marion County Jail's inmate-intake center in Indianapolis had a 7.7 percent rate of ...

In a unique case in which a city tried to redefine “majority” in a local election, a McDonough County Circuit Court judge has ruled that having the majority of votes means simply having more than half. Since February, the results of a city aldermanic race have been under dispute in the western Illinois city of Macomb. Western Illinois University student Steven Wailand, 20, ran for 2nd Ward ...

This Monday, Sept. 15, 2008, file photo shows O.J. Simpson appearing in court for opening statements on the first day his trial in Las Vegas.

U.S. Cellular is launching an industry-first trial program allowing consumers to test-drive its network with no commitment and no cost.

The ‘less is more’ approach to cancer will be one highlight of ASCO’s annual meeting in Chicago that begins at the end of this month. On Wednesday, ASCO released thousands of abstracts on new clinical trials of cancer treatments.

By Emerson Marcus, Reno Gazette-Journal Gustavo Alvizar, 26, drove his car to a residential neighborhood in southeast Reno on Feb. 8 and ordered his 18-year-old passenger to fire shots at a 16-year-old boy in broad daylight, according to a Washoe County District Attorney’s Office criminal [...]

EL PASO — Cities and counties that offer same-sex partner health benefits don’t anticipate altering their policies after the Texas attorney general called the practice unconstitutional, though his opinion does serve as fuel for litigation against entities providing benefits to gay couples.

Kwame Kilpatrick's fraternity brother Jeffrey Beasley won't stand trial on bribery and extortion charges until next year, a judge ruled today.

SHELBYVILLE, Ky -- In a shady neighborhood just blocks from downtown Shelbyville, in a duplex apartment, police said a woman was held captive at gun and knife-point and tortured for five days. The suspect is 49-year-old Gary Harris. A police report indicates he hit the victim over her head with a hammer, forced her to sit in a tub of scalding water and forced her to perform multiple sex acts ...

Imprisoned evangelist Tony Alamo was moved recently from a federal prison in Marion, Ill., to the Bureau of Prisons Transfer Facility in Oklahoma City.

There was no hiding the child's disfiguring injuries in a Douglas County district courtroom Tuesday.

LawFuel.com – Seven Defendants Have Now Been Convicted in Connection With Scheme Involving Phony Asylum Applications in immigration fraud scheme.

At the onset of jury selection Friday morning in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, former Ohio State student Carlo Lamarr-Marquis Owens — charged with nine felony counts, including aggravated murder, aggravated burglary and felonious assualt — changed his plea of not guilty to guilty.

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A man accused of gunning down a county sheriff in West Virginia was arraigned Wednesday on first-degree murder and other charges and plans to seek bail ahead of a possible Oct. 21 trial date.

TOPEKA -- The Kansas Court of Appeals on Friday upheld a ruling in 2012 by a state tax court affirmi ...

The Supreme Court has been pondering whether to take up a Wisconsin case that could reset the line separating church and state.

PERRY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - The former corrections officer facing a murder conviction for killing his girlfriend plead guilty to lesser charges in court Monday. Russell Holt is charged with voluntary manslaughter for shooting Jessica Wolfe last March. Wolfe's family is not happy with this decision and believes justice was not served. "He took everything away from us," Melanie Robinson, Jessica ...

ALBANY, N.Y., May 9 (UPI) -- A New York judge has unsealed a list of people whose conversations were recorded during a federal investigation of corrupt activities by state lawmakers.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has told Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback that a new state law attempting to block federal regulation of some guns is unconstitutional and that the federal government is willing to go to court over the issue.

WASHINGTON - After five years of trying, President Barack Obama has placed his first nominee on a key appeals court in Washington. The Senate voted unanimously on Thursday, 97-0, to confirm Sri Srinivasan to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

A former Franklin County sheriff's deputy faces up to life in prison for the fatal shooting of his ex-wife and the wounding of a Virginia State Police sergeant.

Alabama's prison system is getting dozens of new officers, but officials say it's still badly understaffed.

New Mexico's highest court gave a green light Monday to the state's top water manager to decide proposed water rights transfers to help increase flows in the drought-stricken Pecos River. The state Supreme ...