A bill was recently introduced in the state house that would allow businesses to ask a court to stop illegal protests on their property.

SAMMY HAGAR LAWSUIT IN IOWA: A judge says rocker Sammy Hagar did not defame a Playboy bunny with whom he allegedly fathered a child when he accused her of extortion in his memoir.

Police halt Oregon search for Susan Powell’s remains by Nate Carlisle The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 16, 2013 10:30AM MDT Having found no sign of the missing Utah wife and mother, police have ended the search in rural Oregon for the remains of Susan Powell, according to Portland station KATU. West Valley City police, who had been leading the search, have not issued any further statement as ...

Two doctors are set to ask a U.S. judge to block the Human Heartbeat Protection Act, an Arkansas law banning most abortions at the 12th week of pregnancy if a fetal heartbeat can be detected.

SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal court in San Francisco Tuesday struck down Arizona's ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

In response to a federal court order, Gov. Jerry Brown pushed a novel approach through the Legislature two years ago to dramatically reduce California's prison population. People convicted of felonies that were considered non-violent, non-sexual and non-serious would serve their sentences in county jails rather than state prisons. Once released, they would be supervised by local probation ...

Defendant tells judge: "I want to get better for myself and my children. They need me."

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island memorialized a World War II pilot from Cranston on Friday, 69 years after his capture and execution by the Japanese.        

PHOENIX - Calling a woman's rights "unalterably clear," a federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down Arizona's nearly year-old ban on abortions at 20 weeks and beyond.In a unanimous decision, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals acknowledged the law on what...

Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange's office announced Friday the arrest of the state's former Chief Agent for Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center (ACJIC) on numerous felony charges.

BETHESDA, Md. -- AREVA Med, an AREVA subsidiary specializing in the development of new innovative therapies to fight cancer, announced today that it will present pharmacokinetics data on the company's ...

(AP Photo/Steve Ueckert). NRA Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer Wayne LaPierre speaks during the leadership forum at the National Rifle Association's annual meeting Friday, May 3, 2013 in Houston.

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The South Dakota State Jackrabbits have spent the first part of their summer vacation doing something much more important than anything that they’ve accomplished on the court over the years. Head coach Scott Nagy has taken his guys down to Haiti on a trip in conjunction with Samaritan’s Feet, volunteering and helping distribute shoes to…

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio - A lawyer says that a missing Springfield school board member and attorney found in Wisconsin had medical issues. In a press release, Attorney John B. Juhasz said that John Schoenike More >>

The doctor admitted there were clues that he was working at a Fort Lauderdale pill mill – his salary went up 400 percent, the "chaotic" waiting room overflowed with patients from out of town and he was told to give everyone the maximum number of pain pills.        

Belle Fourche attorney Mike Day will be the newest judge in South Dakota's Fourth Judicial Circuit.

An inmate serving time at the Federal Prison Camp in Marion, Illinois, was arraigned on escape charges.

 The Associated Press WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah  — The lawyer for the family of missing Utah woman Susan Powell said Tuesday that even as local police close the active part of their investigation into her disappearance, federal authorities continue to review the case — a claim tha

The trustee for a bankrupt Montana power cooperative is challenging in federal court a claim for $46 million from banks that financed a little-used natural gas power plant near Great Falls. The outcome ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A New York man has pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawful sexual contact with a 2-year-old Maine girl just as his trial was scheduled to start.        

Antonio Collins was arraigned in Kanawha County magistrate court Tuesday afternoon. He was arrested in Columbus last week on two counts of attempted murder.

After months of twists and turns in a dramatic trial rife with sex, lies and digital images, jurors in Arizona have decided the fate of Jodi Arias.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - A Maine woman serving a 17-year sentence for the suffocation death of her foster child wants her probation conditions eased once she's released from prison.

NEW HAVEN — Deirdre M. Daly will become acting U.S. attorney for the District of Connecticut when U.S. Attorney David B. Fein leaves the office on May 13, the U.S. Department of Justice has announced.

NEW YORK  — The Dow Jones industrial average punched through another milestone Tuesday: its first close above 15,000.

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana -- A federal judge has agreed to postpone the trial of a former BP executive charged with concealing information from Congress about the amount of oil that was leaking from the company's blown-out well in the Gulf...

The first group that claims they were unfairly scrutinized by the Internal Revenue Service filed suit today against the agency in federal court in Washington, D.C., seeking damages and the granting of their long-delayed tax-exempt status application. True the Vote, a Houston-based voter watchdog group, filed...        

Lawyers have the means to convert dreams to reality through the positive use of the law, said Judge Nathaniel R. Jones, a retired federal appeals court judge.

The Ohio Supreme Court is once again weighing whether to uphold the sentence of the only woman on death row in the state.

Georgia state Rep. Tyrone Brooks is set to appear in court for arraignment on federal fraud charges.

Defendant tells judge: 'Your honor, I didn't steal anything. I did flee the scene.'

Updated with video; Dougherty County District Attorney Greg Edwards says that Tracey Smith has been found guilty during the retrial of a felony murder charge for the 2011 beating death of Jerome Walden.

The state Supreme Court has ruled in an ex-NFL player's case that Connecticut lawyers can't be sued for fraud for their conduct in court cases because of a centuries-old legal doctrine.

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LEWISTOWN - President Judge Timothy S. Searer and Assistant District Attorney Dave Barron will face off in the November election for judge in the Mifflin County Court of Common Pleas.

Nearly two dozen homeless sex offenders have filed federal lawsuits challenging Southampton Town, Suffolk County and New York State laws that prohibit them from living near schools, playgrounds and daycare centers once they are released from prison, and require that they register with law enforcement agencies for life.

A Cambria County judge took a half-hour Tuesday to find a Johnstown man guilty of four of the five charges he faced in relation to the shooting of his girlfriend in the fall.

The appeal is denied for a woman convicted in the brutal stabbing death of a local airman.

O.J. Simpson speaks with his attorney, Patricia Palm, during a hearing in Clark County District Court in Las Vegas. Simpson is seeking a new trial for his 2008 conviction for armed robbery and kidnapping, claiming he had bad legal representation.

A 55-year-old Iowa man will spend the next 40 years behind bars for carjackings in Mt. Vernon.