Jury selection is set to get underway Monday morning in Jonesborough for the trial of three people accused of running over a Washington County, Tennessee Sheriff's Deputy during a high-speed chase. 

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A state appeal court in Louisiana says a state law unconstitutionally pre-empts federal law by requiring drivers from other countries to prove they are in the United States legally.

NY judge refuses to dismiss drugged-driving case against Kerry Kennedy        

Realty Executives North Plains has honored its 2012 top-producing agents. The agents include: Dan Madsen, Doug Madsen, Dan Whitman, Karen Radtke, Rolf Kopperud and Angie Weishaar.

Patients were accepted into Salinas Valley State Prison's beleaguered psychiatric unit under risky conditions that violated the facility's own policies, The Herald has found.

Lauryn Hill was sentenced to three months in prison after failing to pay taxes on $1.8 million in earnings between 2005 and 2007, according to The Associated Press.

Benjamin Livermore, 31, was convicted in March for gutting a $30,000 van belonging to the New Greater Church Of New York.

The director of Colorado's parole division, which has been under fire for two months for its handling of Evan Ebel and other violent parolees, has been put on a paid leave of absence, prisons officials said Wednesday.

O.J. Simpson, the ex-football star famously acquitted of murder in 1995, appeared in court on Monday seeking a new trial in a Las Vegas armed robbery case that sent him to prison as witnesses testified to what they said were blunders by his lawyer.

The father-in-law of a missing Utah woman is expected to be released from a Washington prison next month, less than a year after he was sentenced to 2 1/2 years for recording images of two neighbor girls in their bathroom.

A Suring man accused of setting several fires in Northeastern Wisconsin has pleaded guilty in federal court to igniting fires in a church and two taverns in Oconto County.

TORONTO, May 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CellAegis Devices, Inc., announced today the first clinical trial program in the European Union to evaluate the use of the Company's autoRICâ„¢ Device for Chronic Remote ...

A St. Paul man faces 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possessing a gun and methamphetamine as a repeat felon.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A federal judge has sentenced a Montana man to three years in prison for trying to board a flight in Sacramento, Calif., with four loaded guns.

The trial in the Modesty Creek Road public access dispute has been postponed to Oct. 15 in Anaconda district court.

ELKO, Nev. (AP) — An Elko woman whose murder conviction was overturned by the Nevada Supreme Court is going back on trial in the killing of a ranch hand whose body was found in Utah 10 years ago.

A Gilbert woman has been sentenced to prison after admitting that she pretended to have cancer in order to collect donations.

NEW BOSTON, Texas—Opening arguments and testimony are expected to begin this morning for a 20-year-old accused of fatally shooting a man he found in the company of an ex-girlfriend.

Inspired by the hunger strike of most remaining Guantanamo prisoners, hundreds of people in the arts, law, public life and academia have made an urgent call to Obama to close the Bush-era U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, where 166 men are ...

May 14, 2013, Judge Frank H. McCartney presiding:

Hennepin County Court Judge Toddrick Barnette found Eddie Matthew Mosley, 35, of Saint Louis, guilty on 9 felony counts Thursday. Mosley will spend the rest of his life in prison.

The Wisconsin Department of Corrections has notified the Eau Claire Police Department that Registered Sex Offender JAMES J. KAUFMAN, date of birth 12/13/1973, will be released from prison on 05/07/2013.

A Ridgeland teenager has been arrested at the Rankin County prison for allegedly having marijuana while attempting to visit his sister.

Ben McLemore's former AAU coach says he received thousands of dollars in cash, lodging, meals and trips from a middle man who courted the Kansas player on behalf of sports agents and financial advisers during the 2012-13 college basketball season.

A Minnesota man has been sentenced to one year of probation for obstructing a federal prosecutor in Iowa after his son was sent to prison in an animal terrorism case.

"Barefoot Bandit" Colton Harris-Moore won't have to serve any additional prison time for his two-year run from the law in stolen cars, boats and airplanes under a plea deal reached in Skagit County.

PITTSFIELD -- A district court judge is deciding whether to unseal impounded documents related to the August 2011 murder case in which authorities allege a local Hells Angel and two others kidnapped and killed three Pittsfield men.

A homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off in a bizarre attack last year in Miami appeared Tuesday to be mostly at peace with his disfigurement, strumming a guitar, making jokes and thanking people for their donations to help pay for his care....

Two new civil lawsuits were filed Tuesday in a priest misconduct case that led to the conviction of the highest-ranking U.S. Catholic Church official of a crime related to the child sexual abuse scandal.

New York auto accident lawyer David Perecman at The Perecman Firm discusses the dangers of solid waste and recycling collection following an accident in which a car hit a sanitation worker who was directing traffic around his truck. (PRWeb May 08, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/NYpersonalinjurylawyer/NYpersonalinjurylawyer/prweb10707434.htm

Methodist West Houston Hospital has inducted four Katy and West Houston community leaders to its board of trustees. New members include Stu Levin, managing partner of Levin & Atwood Law Firm; Vidal Ramirez, president of the Allegiance Bank of Texas’ Katy office; the Rev. Dr. Charles B. Simmons, senior minister of Memorial Drive United Methodist Church; and Dr. Robert Vanzant, primary care ...

Dee DeQuattro ddequattro@abc6.com A former Providence Police officer convicted of rape in 2010 will appeal his sentence before the Rhode Island Supreme Court Tuesday. Marcus Huffman, 40, was convicted

By The Associated Press, The Associated Press BOZEMAN, Mont. — Billionaire Ted Turner can keep his Yellowstone National Park bison calves. The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported on Sunday that Gallatin County Judge ...

A Murray man serving 25 years in a West Liberty prison has died after being stabbed.

By Mark Sherman/Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news. ...

Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been moved from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to a prison medical center, the U.S. Marshals Service said Friday.

A former Stark County man had claimed Judge Frank Forchione broke the law but a visiting judge says there is no evidence of intent.

A Middlesex Superior Court jury has awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars to the former operator of Duxbury’s municipal golf course, after finding that the town unfairly ousted the company from managing the 9-hole course.        

Pennsylvania judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. has been sentenced to almost three decades in jail after conspiring with private prisons to trade kids for cash. In the private prison industry, longer sentences earn more money from the state. Since 2003, Ciavarella received millions of dollars in bribes for condemning minors to maximum prison sentences. In one case, Ciavarella sentenced a 10-year-old to ...

Gov. John Hickenlooper has spoken with seven prosecutors and two defense attorneys as he ponders whether to grant clemency to Nathan Dunlap, who faces execution in August for ambushing and killing four people in 1993.

The Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman is the state’s biggest and most costly penitentiary. Photo by Courtesy Neil Conway