Gov. Mark Dayton is asking the state Senate to reject the reappointment of a tax court judge.

Black Guerrilla Family allegations describe complex payment system In the black market of Maryland's prisons and jails, where the right price can secure cellphones and drugs, transactions unfold through a complex system of currency. Among the key elements: 14-digit codes, prepaid debit cards and text messages.

Keith Flynn had only been Orleans County state’s attorney a few weeks when he got a phone call from the Newport police on the morning of February 12, 1999. Shots had been fired in the downtown Home Health Building. Flynn rushed over, and not just because it was his job to do so: His wife was working there at the time. The shooting didn’t happen there, as it turned out. At 8:20 a.m., 34-year-old ...

The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department announced these arrests. All suspects were held in the county jail, unless otherwise indicated:

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.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former U.S. Postal Service official has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for accepting at least $40,000 in bribes to help a Maryland company receive $6 million in contracts.

WASHINGTON (CNN) — A dispute over public prayers at town board meetings will be taken up by the Supreme Court...

Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer Dustin S. Phillips has been selected to the National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers. http://www.oklahoma-criminal-defense.com/ (PRWeb May 15, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10727893.htm

The deputy district attorneys—Patrick Connolly, now a Los Angeles Superior Court judge, and Ann Ingalls—were dismissed on the basis of absolute prosecutorial immunity, and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in January 2009 that Van de Kamp and Livesay had absolute immunity as well.

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:03:06 GMT By Chris Bristol Yakima Herald-Republic Color/BlackColor/BlackEverhart BOISE, Idaho — A 22-year-old man who was seriously injured in a 2009 house fire in Yakima is scheduled to be sentenced Monday in Boise, Idaho, for the beating death there of his girlfriend’s daughter. Under Idaho law, Jordan Everhart could get up to life...

PHOENIX - Out-of-state professionals who give tax advice to Arizonans can end up having to defend themselves in courts here, the state Court of Appeals has ruled.

Orange County officials are preparing to spend up to $340,000 on private legal counsel to defend a redistricting plan in court against allegations of diluting the Hispanic vote.        

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A federal court judge has scheduled a hearing on June 4 on a challenge by the owner of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant.        

Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC and KSF partner, the former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., remind investors that they have until July 8, 2013 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities ...

Lawyer says Ariel Castro will be isolated and placed on suicide watch in prison        

Hawaii Island hunters are again expressing concerns over the state’s aerial sheep eradication. This time, though, hunters aren’t focusing on the hunts themselves, which a federal court ruled should be allowed to continue, despite a county ban on the practice.

DES MOINES – The Iowa Supreme Court has rejected an appeal bid by a Wapello County man previously found to be a sexually violent predator. Cory Blake West was convicted of assault with intent to commit sexual abuse in 2008. He was sentenced to four y

David A. Smith already had three DWI convictions when his drunken driving crash killed two women in Amherst. Defense attorney James Faso is at right. (Derek Gee/Buffalo News file photo)

By Renatta Signorini, Tribune-Review Shaun Casey Fairman told nearly everyone he saw in the early-morning hours of June 3 that he had killed his father-in-law, according to trial testimony ...

Utah man sentenced to life in prison for murdering girlfriend, mutilating her body by Jessica Miller The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 20, 2013 01:28PM MDT A 44-year-old Orem man will spend the rest of his life in prison for fatally stabbing his live-in girlfriend last year and mutilating her body, a judge ruled Monday. In order to escape the death penalty, Steven Gray pleaded guilty in March ...

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — A man accused of gunning down a county sheriff in West Virginia plans to ask a judge for bail.        

PORTSMOUTH A judge's ruling striking down the Midtown and Downtown tunnel tolls has cast a cloud over other transportation projects, exposed the state to unknown damages and left financial markets "at best, confused," according to a court memo by lawyers for the Virginia Department of Transportation.

A federal appeals court found that though the prayer at meetings in Greece, N.Y., could be given by members of all faiths and atheists, in practice almost all of the chaplains were Christian.

Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Leslie Roberts ruled Thursday that bargaining sessions between TriMet and Amalgamated Transit Union Local 757 are not covered by the Oregon Public Meetings Law. Although this means that the sessions over the next labor contract are not open to the public as a matter of law, both sides may agree to invite other attendees. TriMet and ATU 757 have both stated ...

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence plans to sign at least three bills into law Tuesday, one involving government transparency in economic development deals, one related to school safety and another overhauling criminal sentencing.

The former neighborhood watch leader charged with fatally shooting Trayvon Martin says he agrees with his attorneys' decision not to seek an immunity hearing under the state's "Stand Your Ground" self-defense law.

By Verna Gates BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - The Alabama Supreme Court justice chosen just last week to help steer the state's Jefferson County through the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history stepped down on Tuesday after apparently deciding he was not a good match for the job. Mike Bolin, 65, could not be reached for immediate comment on his decision to leave Alabama's largest county ...

Douglas Spink, an impenitent advocate for zoophilia (bestiality)—sex between humans and animals—who was released early from a sentence for drug-running charges, explained after a hearing in the U.S. District Court on Friday that, “…he’s misunderstood and maligned, and has never hurt an animal.” He said he could sum up his philosophy in a single phrase: “Humans are not the only sexual species ...

Four environmental groups are asking a federal judge to order the temporary shutdown of a sheep research station on the Idaho-Montana border that they say is harming the region's grizzly bear population.

The Lee County state's attorney says she decided to drop state charges against former Dixon Comptroller Rita Crundwell because a second trial after her conviction in federal court would not result in additional jail time...

Will Hunter was driving a former prison inmate to a job interview at a door manufacturing plant in Ludlow, Vt., recently when the man, in his 50s, started to question whether the trip was a waste of time.

An affidavit filed Monday in federal court alleges that Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner repeatedly took cash payments, sometimes rolled up and hidden inside a pie box, from a broker who invested state money.

A South Carolina couple sued doctors and state social workers on Tuesday for subjecting a 16-month-old child born with both male and female genitalia to what they say was medically unnecessary and irreversible sex-assignment surgery while the toddler was in foster care.

MINOT, N.D. (AP) — A Somali national was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for killing the mother of his child and three other people in North Dakota two years ago.

Three Magna Bank employees from the bank’s mortgage division have garnered some new distinctions recently. Laura Sinclair, a senior vice preside...

The Erie County legislature has unanimously approved a resolution in support of keeping fines from the sentencing of Tonawanda Coke local, legislator Kevin Hardwick said Friday.

Mid-Columbia legislators — Reps. Terry Nealey, Larry Haler, Brad Klippert, Maureen Walsh, Joe

DETROIT - Three Ohio drivers are suing Ford Motor Co., claiming the company's six-cylinder EcoBoost engine is defective.

Ariel Castro maintained his home as a prison for three young women, holding them in seclusion and sexually assaulting them for his own pleasure, a Cuyahoga County, Ohio, prosecutor told a judge Thursday.

COLDWATER — Preliminary exams for Arturo Sandoval-Ceron will be delayed pending the appointment of a special public defender for the man charged with seven capital criminal sexual conduct crimes.

Informed Consent? Court rules Fletcher Allen may be sued for taking blood MONTPELIER -- The Vermont Supreme Court ruled Friday that a man with multiple drunken driving convictions can sue the state's largest hospital for drawing his blood at the request of police.