U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren has questioned three more federal agencies’ enforcement practices by asking if they’ve studied the costs of favoring settlements with big financial firms over taking them to trial.

 Just three weeks before he's to stand trial for the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage, an Army psychiatrist wants his trial delayed until this fall.

LITTLE ROCK — About 26,000 Arkansas children have an incarcerated parent, according to Dee Ann Newell, executive director of Arkansas Voices for the Children Left Behind. The group held its 19th annual Mothers in Prison, Children in Crisis event Friday at the state Capitol to raise awareness about the issue of mothers and children separated by incarceration. Eighty percent of incarcerated men ...

Kobe Bryant has won a judge's order that temporarily blocks a Camden County auctioneer from selling memorabilia given it by the basketball great's mother.

His unconstitutional approach to the National Labor Relations Board.

After receiving a one-time grant of $2,500 from the Breastfeeding Support Funding opportunity through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Women’s Health, the Johnson City Medical Center Family Birth Center implemented a trial program in March aimed at increasing breast-feeding rates among local expectant mothers.

An Army sergeant has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 2009 killings of five fellow service members at a combat stress clinic in Iraq. One of the victims was a native of Beaufort.

The offices of sheriff and district attorney in Schuylkill County are up for election with the two major political parties seeking nomination of candidates in the Municipal Primary Election, which will be held Tuesday, May 21. Polls open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. There is also nomination for a magisterial district judge seat.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Underlying California's attempts to meet a federal court order for reducing its prison population is an unsettling question: Will the public be in greater danger as a result?

A man with ties to Kingsport and who escaped from a Kentucky prison was spotted in the area Thursday, but was apparently able to continue evading capture.

HARRISBURG — A judge has denied a request to immediately stop a plan by Gov. Tom Corbett's administration to close nearly half of Pennsylvania's 60 community health centers.

Prosecutors are asking the Minnesota Supreme Court to reinstate the conviction of an HIV-positive man accused of passing the virus to another man, in a case that has drawn attention of medical and civil rights groups who say it violates the defendant's constitutional rights.

Two former Internal Revenue Service employees have been sentenced for unemployment insurance fraud as a result of an Indiana Department of Workforce Development investigation.

Four members of the Des Moines Police Department's canine team took first place for best team achievements in a competition in Fort Madison last month, according to a news release.

Re: “Sympathy, no; clemency, yes,” May 12 editorial. The Denver Post editorial makes a very compelling argument for why the death penalty should not be used in the case of Nathan Dunlap. The numbers show how unevenly the death penalty is carried out in Colorado. No execution should take place in such a flawed and [...]

Over the past few months, states like Kansas and North Dakota have moved so-called "fetal personhood" measures forward as a challenge to Roe v. Wade. Friday, Alaska's Supreme Court reaffirmed that such anti-abortion laws would not hold up in this state. Listen now.

State’s highest court deals heavy blow to Gov. Bobby Jindal’s hallmark school choice initiative.

Jurors hearing the Michael Jackson wrongful death trial have a stark vision of the dead pop icon after a lawyer showed them an autopsy photo.

Small town politics are not always what they say they are," said Cameron in reaction to the verdict., adding that Judge Jeffrey Neary was able to see through to the truth.

Alcatel-Lucent SA (ALU) lost its appeals court bid to revive patent-infringement claims against Overstock.com Inc. (OSTK) and Newegg Inc. over online shopping in a effort to increase its royalties.

HONESDALE, Pa. -- A man has been sentenced to prison for attacking two women on a northeastern Pennsylvania sidewalk while bloody and naked, and gnawing on the head of one. The Times-Tribune of Scranton reports a judge on Thursday sentenced 21-year-old Richard Cimino Jr. to between 90 days and nearly two years in prison for the September attack. He'd pleaded guilty to simple assault and other ...

U.S. Attorney's officials say a south Georgia man has been sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for distributing child pornography.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A California man accused of trying to extort several wealthy individuals, including West Virginia coal magnate Chris Cline, is expected to plead guilty Thursday in federal court.

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.

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

A man accused of killing three people -- allegedly intending to silence a teen who had accused him of molesting her -- pleaded with the girl's mother to drop the charges, a witness claimed.

A former suburban Kansas City elementary school teacher was sentenced to 15 years in prison Thursday for molesting 11 of his male students, most of them during class.

Celebrating our legends and creating new ones is this year's focus of the National Football Foundation's Joe Tiller Chapter of Northwest Indiana. Olympic Gold Medalist David Boudia, Miss Indiana MerrieBeth Cox and NFL Executive of the Year Ryan Grigson tallied some pretty impressive accomplishments in the last year. Now, they will be the primary honorees at the NFF Honors Dinner "Celebrating Our ...

THOMPSON FALLS – The attorney for a Missoula man accused of murder during a brutal home invasion in Dixon in December will argue his client suffers from a mental disease or defect, and lacked specific intent, when the case goes to trial this summer.

A state lawyer is urging the Iowa Board of Pharmacy to stand firm on its sanctions against a Des Moines pharmacy, saying the store owner's mishandling of dangerous drugs was 'egregious, outrageous and a clear risk to the public.'

A federal judge in Denver is contemplating an injunction against Abercrombie & Fitch and J.M. Hollister after ruling earlier that nearly 250 of their clothing stores that cater to a hip, young clientele are unfriendly to the disabled.

A previously convicted Tulsa felon was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison for physically abusing three children.

Davis is accused of spending thousands of dollars of taxpayer money for his own personal use

A father says a case of love versus the law has left his daughter, a high school student, facing criminal charges that could land her in prison and require her to register as a sex offender.

Former Grand Junction police officer Eric Janusz will spend the next chapter of his life in the Colorado Department of Corrections after his sentencing Wednesday in connection with a sexual relationship he began while on duty with a 16-year-old runaway.

The state of Michigan about to do exactly what Genesee County did several years ago: send home the kitchen help and bring in private contractor Aramark to take care of the cooking.

"Extremely hard working" and "intelligent" are the words used to describe Solano County's newest chief deputy district attorney.

By Susan Guyett INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - The daughter of Ariel Castro, the chief suspect in the Cleveland abduction of three women freed on Monday, is serving time in an Indiana prison for attempted murder after she slashed her baby's throat four times with a knife, court documents show. Emily Castro, 25, was sentenced to 25 years and is at the Rockville, Indiana, Correctional Facility. She was ...

Federal court records show that Phillip Wayne Carter was sentenced Wednesday to five months of home confinement.

Two moms, Billie Jean Williams, 27, and Mary Joyce Daffron, 28, celebrated Mother's Day behind bars after leaving their kids -- age 6 and 8 -- at a beach bar while they went on a booze cruise around a lake for an hour, Marion County Sherif's deputies said, reports the Ocala Star-Banner.        

The Bay State already has among the nation’s strictest firearms laws, but Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley, who announced last month he is running for mayor, aims to further toughen those regulations to help stem gun violence — a move gun rights advocates say will do little to cut crime.