SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — An attorney says a man arrested in Texas in connection with the shooting of an Iowa police officer won't fight extradition back to Iowa. Dean is accused of shooting a rifle at Sioux City Officer Kevin McCormick during a traffic stop on April 29.

The Kentucky Court of Appeals has ruled the Council on Developmental Disabilities has no right to review the records of two disabled men who died in state care in 2009.

Former football star and actor OJ Simpson is testifying at a Nevada court hearing on his request for a new trial in an armed robbery case.

WASHINGTON DC— A federal court in California has authorised the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to serve a “John Doe” summons seeking information about US taxpayers who may hold offshore accounts in a Barbados-headquartered Caribbean bank.

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.

OROVILLE — Jury selection began Monday in the trial of a 27-year-old man charged for a July 2011 shooting at a downtown Chico nightclub.

The Georgia Supreme Court has rejected Roswell lawyer Dale Calomeni’s request that he receive a reprimand from a State Bar review panel for violating ethics rules, saying such discipline is insufficient.

Eighteenth Circuit Judge George Maxwell is hearing a court case this afternoon against the Brevard School Board, attempts by opponents of the school closures to keep the schools open.

The owner of the Argosy Sioux City has taken legal action as part of its bid to force Iowa gaming regulators Wednesday to overturn their decision last month to replace the gambling boat with a Hard Rock-branded casino in downtown Sioux City.

WELCH, W.Va. (AP) -- Supreme Court Chief Justice Brent Benjamin is in McDowell County to mark the opening of a new Juvenile Drug Court. The ceremony Monday afternoon in Welch also includes Circuit Judge

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island is honoring a pilot who was shot down and executed during World War II.        

Harvey Whittemore and his wife, Annette, arrive at federal court in Reno for the start of his trial on Tuesday. / Marilyn Newton/RGJ Continue to check for updates and video recaps from the Whittemore trial and see past coverage of the case.

Corbin and Knox County officials are now playing the waiting game after Circuit Court Judge Greg Lay announced he would take their respective arguments in the ongoing occupational tax dispute under submission.

The defense attorney representing Topekan William Marotta in his child support lawsuit with the state of Kansas has asked that the district court judge assigned to the case recuse herself.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — More than a decade after a string of mailbox bombings injured people in Midwestern states, a judge will reconsider whether the former college student accused of carrying out the terrifying campaign is mentally competent to stand trial.

MIAMI — David West’s right hand helped the Indiana Pacers grab home-court advantage in the Eastern Conference finals.

Walnut Creek criminal lawyers at the Law Offices of Beles & Beles announce they are providing a no cost consultation and case review to people charged with crimes in the East Bay who need a criminal defense lawyer, offer expires 11/30/2013. (PRWeb April 30, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/walnutcreekcriminaldefens/criminallawyerwalnutcreek/prweb10684815.htm

A driver got into a violent, early-morning car crash that killed her passenger in Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County.

PHOENIX (AP) - A federal judge ruled Friday that the office of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Latinos in its trademark immigration patrols, marking the first finding by a court that the agency racially profiles people.

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A former Texas prosecutor and one-time candidate for Congress was convicted Friday of accepting bribes in exchange for court favors, including an $80,000 payment in a scheme that allowed a convicted murder to escape.

The state Appellate Court has issued a ruling blasting a Connecticut prosecutor for repeated misconduct and ordering a new trial for a man serving life in prison for the killing of a Waterbury bar owner in 1998.

SD sex offender accused of illegal petitioning RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota law prohibiting convicted sex offenders from circulating petitions is being used to prosecute a Rapid City man banned from petitioning on county property more than a year ago. Defense attorney Dennis Groff said in court Tuesday that he is working with prosecutors to resolve the charges against his client, who ...

Jurors in Jodi Arias' murder trial resume deliberations Thursday after they were unable to reach a unanimous verdict on whether she should be sentenced to life in prison or death for killing her one-time...

Inmates in the Cook County jail are readying for an online chess match against inmates in Russia.

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

Red River Women's Clinic, the only abortion clinic in the state, seeks to combat law that they say aims to close it down Lawyers for the only abortion clinic in North Dakota launched a legal bid on Wednesday to try and combat a new law that critics say is aimed at closing it down and leaving the state without any abortion providers. The law is one of a raft of anti-abortion measures due to take ...

The county needs a new, “state-of-the-art” jail facility and improved data on the local recidivism rate, according to a new report by the Napa County grand jury.

A Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling Wednesday means Cumberland County will be partly home to three state senators.

By Daniel Trotta and Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - An Ohio prosecutor said on Thursday he will seek aggravated murder charges, which could carry the death penalty, against a former Cleveland school bus driver accused of kidnapping and raping three women during a decade of captivity in his house. The charges would stem from the forced miscarriages that police say were suffered by one of the ...

Investigators working the case of the gruesome killing of a southeast Louisiana woman met with the FBI nearly a year after the crime occurred in an effort to push the case forward.

Harris County Public Health & Environmental Services (HCPHES) is pleased to announce the appointment of Umair A. Shah, MD, MPH as the HCPHES Executive Director and Local Health Authority for Harri

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison for robbing more than a dozen banks in multiple states. Court records show 43-year-old Wesley Todd McCracken of Myrtle Beach was sentenced in federal court in Charleston last week. McCracken pleaded guilty in December and had faced up to 20 years. Prosecutors say he robbed the first bank in October 2011 ...

CLEVELAND (AP) — An Ohio man who had been arrested for drunken-driving has been sentenced to 17 months in prison for subsequent Facebook rants against police and judges. The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer reports that 27-year-old William Bement was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to attempted retaliation. The North Olmsted man was given probation on a drunken-driving conviction on Feb. 5 ...

Ronald Weems was sentenced to life in prison for murder and 10 years for abuse of a corpse.

A California woman testified in court Thursday that a man she met on the dating website ChristianMingle.com raped her on their first date.

The New York State Court of Appeals said Thursday that it has upheld the Commission on Judicial Conduct’s removal of former Family Court Judge Bryan R. Hedges for allegedly engaging in a sexual encounter with his 5-year old niece, in 1972, before he was a judge.

A judge agreed Friday morning to let an independent lab review blood samples taken from Gary Hosey Jr., the driver who crashed into a bus stop killing four people last September.

Middle and high school students from all over Central New York got their day in court during the Onondaga County Law Day celebration.

GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. (AP) - A former corrections officer from Tower has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for having sex with a female inmate.

The court issued an order on April 24 in response to questions posed by the board regarding the process it was expected to use in the latest court-mandated revision of the redistricting map.

A Muncie man was recently sentenced following a jury trial in the Rush Circuit Court.