Liberty University's challenge to the Obama administration's health care law is back before a federal appeals court in Virginia.

The veto could prompt lawmakers to fight it out in the courts. TALLAHASSEE – Gov. Rick Scott vetoed $368 million in lawmaker pet projects Monday and blocked a 3 percent tuition hike for Florida colleges and universities.        

A Gallatin County man is sentenced for manufacturing marijuana.

Judge Lancaster was the head administrator for the district, advising the other judges and overseeing budgets and personnel. He was 63.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas prison officials say they didn't know a 63-year-old fugitive was sick when they sought his return from Michigan.

Waller, Nashville's oldest and largest law firm, today announced the addition of 17 new attorneys to the following key practice groups:

OJ Simpson is due to make an appearance in Clark County District Court next month as part of an appeal for a new trial in his Las Vegas robbery and kidnapping case.

An East Texas woman has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for splashing her ex-roommate with gasoline and starting him on fire in a dispute about rent.

A former North Carolina probation officer was sentenced to nearly a year and a half in prison for extortion and drug trafficking offenses involving persons under his supervision.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- The three-year-old battle over the proposed expansion of a northern West Virginia surface mine is now headed for the state Supreme Court. The Sierra Club is appealing a March ruling in Kanawha County Circuit Court that favored the stat...

A 49-year-old woman was sent to prison Monday after she pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a hit-and-run that killed a 15-year-old boy.

GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) - A western Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to death for murdering his mother, sister and elderly aunt in his automotive glass shop where the victims sometimes also worked.

The State of Tennessee will receive approximately $40 million as a result of the settlement of a long-running dispute between two publicly traded corporations and the court-appointed Receiver for two Tennessee ...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors in Panama City are seeking to revoke the bond of a Georgia teen who officials believe faked his death and traveled to Denver. According to court records in Bay...

A former West Virginia sheriff will spend a year in federal prison for his role in the December 2010 beating of a robbery suspect.

(AP Photo/Ethan Miller, Pool). Defense attorney Patricia Palm, left, and O.J. (AP Photo/Steve Marcus, Pool). Former O.J. (AP Photo/Ethan Miller, Pool). O.J.

Two men with ties to southwest Iowa were sentenced to prison for receiving child pornography last week.

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit that claimed the state of Minnesota has been wrongfully charged for more than 37,000 abortions for indigent women.

HOUSTON -- An airline passenger from Mexico caught in Texas with nearly 4 pounds of heroin in her suitcases has been sentenced to three years in prison. A federal judge in Houston sentenced 21-year-old Yessica Chanel Cabanillas-Torres. She pleaded guilty in February to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin. Cabanillas-Torres told investigators she was a law school student when ...

The Supreme Court has decided to hear a case involving a town in Upstate New York that could affect government meetings in Brevard County.

Lawyers and supporters for the California Innocence Project are walking 660 miles from San Diego to Sacramento, California, to personally deliver clemency petitions to Governor Jerry Brown for the release of the California 12, a dozen inmates who have strong cases of factual innocence. Follow their progress on TakePart.

The Center for Restorative Justice Works and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation are again bringing hundreds of children to visit their mothers in prison on Mother's Day during ...

A controversial measure that would change how the U.S. Census counts Illinois prison inmates is advancing in Springfield. The census counts Illinois’ prison inmates as residents of the town the prison is in, not the town they came from. That population can affect a region’s eligibility for government money. State House members narrowly approved a bill Wednesday saying the state will start ...

A woman who was arrested for murder at age 14 was to be set free from prison today under terms of a new plea agreement approved this morning in a Tucson courtroom.

Eric Toth, a suspected child predator who was a "most-wanted" fugitive when captured in Nicaragua, has been returned to the United States, FBI and Justice Department officials said. The former private school teacher and camp counselor was due to appear in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday. Toth was indicted in Maryland in 2008 on charges of possession and production of ...

Jack McMahon, the defense attorney for abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, speaks the courthouse in Philadelphia Monday, May 13, 2013. Gosnell was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder in the deaths of three babies who authorities say were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy clinic.

Maldonado calls Brown's handling of prison crowding an early-release 'shell game.' The Republican says there's a 'good shot' he'll run for governor. SACRAMENTO — Saying there is a "pretty good shot" he'll run for governor, former Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado on Wednesday kicked off a drive against Gov. Jerry Brown's handling of prison crowding, labeling Brown's policies an "early release" program.

O.J. Simpson was back in a Las Vegas courtroom on Monday to ask for a new trial in the armed robbery-kidnapping case that sent him to prison in 2008. The former football hero and a new set of lawyers hope to convince a judge during the hearing that trial lawyer Yale Galanter had conflicted interests and shouldn't have handled Simpson's case. Simpson appeared in court wearing a blue jail uniform ...

The body of a missing St. Paul woman was battered and naked when it was recovered from the Mississippi River, according to court documents.

A federal appeals court is weighing the constitutionality of a Delaware law allowing chancery judges to oversee secret arbitration in high-stakes business disputes. A three-judge panel of the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Thursday in a lawsuit filed by the Delaware Coalition for Open Government, or DelCOG, which claims the law is [...]

A judge in northeast Tennessee is dismissing a $750,000 libel lawsuit against state Republican Sen. Stacey Campfield for publishing false information online about a Democratic candidate for the state House in 2008.

The accused sex trafficker "Mr. Money" will soon have to spend some of his hard-earned cash on attorneys. The Mid-South man is accused of recruiting teenage girls to the sex industry.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Already facing a potential contempt order, Gov. Jerry Brown now must leap another hurdle to meet a court-ordered deadline this week to say how he will reduce crowding in California prisons.

The New York Times once wrote that Illinois had an 'expectation of corruption' by public officials. Given that four Governors have gone to prison in recent years, that's not an unreasonable assumption. Still, it was the actions of one civil servant in a small Illinois town that really opened people's eyes.

A new lawyer for Tom Petters said the disgraced businessman's prison sentence should be shortened because the original defense lawyer never told Petters about a plea bargain offer.

The U.S. military's highest court has reversed a discharged Marine's criminal conviction for slitting his wrists in a case that raised questions about whether suicidal service members should be prosecuted.

Story by Mike Clary / Sun Sentinel Posted by Miranda Grossman / CBS12 News POMPANO BEACH, Fla. -- The county bus which critically injured a boy after his hand became stuck in the door accelerated to 18 miles an hour and traveled 100 feet before the teen could no longer keep up running and dropped to the pavement, attorneys for the child's family said Wednesday. ...

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit that claimed the state of Minnesota was wrongfully charged for more than 37,000 abortions for indigent women.

Former Biloxi Mayor Pete Halat Jr., who was released from prison a year ago for participating in a 1987 murder plot against a Mississippi Gulf Coast judge and his wife, is scheduled to leave a halfway house in Hattiesburg today.

A D.C. man who pleaded guilty two sexual assaults against a 14-year-old girl and woman was sentenced to 23 years in prison

Attorneys for a 12-year-old California boy charged with killing his sister said Wednesday they wonder if he is mature enough to aid his defense.