JEFFERSON CITY, MO (AP) -- A central Missouri woman whose son died in a car accident while she was talking on a cellphone has been sentenced to one year in a county jail.

With federal prosecutors declining to file charges against two former Chattanooga Police Department officers, defense attorneys are confident that evidence used in the criminal investigation will help both men get their jobs back.

The soldiers vs. KBR case in Oregon has almost crossed into its fifth year, but it has taken nearly its final turn. KBR will seek a modification, then will appeal

Proposed legislation would double penalties for using a gun during a felony offense in Ohio, targeting the less than 1 percent of Ohioans with repeat violent felony convictions who are committing 57 percent of the state's violent crime.

The drug trial is not off to an auspicious start. The cells are not cooperating. "My control is a beater, but right now my other ones are not," observes Morgridge Outreach Experiences assistant coordinator Irene Landrum as she works under a lab hood manipulating plates of cardiomyocytes, the workhorse cells of the human heart. "Let's get these guys warmed up. If they're too cold, they can stop ...

BATON ROUGE — Now winding through the final weeks of the regular session is an amendment that would allow parish coroners, in concert with “interested parties,” to initiate court orders forcing people with mental illnesses and related histories of high-risk behavior to receive outpatient treatment.

Most of the world's governments no longer use the death penalty. Among wealthy nations there is one exception remaining. The United States is among the top five killers in the world. Also in the top five: the recently 'liberated' Iraq.

A look at sentences handed down Monday in Kalamazoo County Circuit Court.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - An attorney for the Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center says he's not surprised the U.S. Supreme Court has turned down a request to revive portions of Alabama's immigration law.

Accused murderer Jodi Arias has been found guilty of first-degree murder Wednesday by jurors at Maricopa County Superior Court in Arizona after deliberating for 15 hours. She could face life in prison or potentially the death penalty. Arias, 32, was convicted ...

A man accused of killing two women was found competent to stand trial in 14 th Judicial District Court.

Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller says he'll defend the state's position on limiting who can sell cold beer against a lawsuit.

A Centerville man who pleaded guilty but mentally ill to shooting his neighbor was sentenced to prison. He said he believed...

The Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr and...

One of the CIA’s highest-ranking women, who once ran a CIA prison in Thailand where terror suspects were waterboarded, has been bypassed for the agency’s top spy job. Under pressure from Congress, CIA director John Brennan passed over...

PEORIA, Ill. -- Christopher Harris is charged with killing five members of the Gee family of Beason in 2009.

Casey Anthony's bankruptcy attorneys said Judge Belvin Perry "completely eviscerated" her chance of having a fair defamation trial in Orlando because of public comments he recently made about her first-degree murder case.

Jeremy Owens elected not to say anything Friday as he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for beating and stabbing to death his grandmother, Brenice Champlin, in 2011.

Wellington millionaire John Goodman will get a new trial, WPBF 25 News has learned. The polo mogul was convicted of DUI manslaughter last year in the 2010 death of 23-year-old Scott Wilson. ALSO: Images From The Goodman Case A juror was accused of misconduct and this week was questioned by attorneys and the judge in the case. Judge Jeffrey Colbath ruled just before 5 p.m. Friday that Goodman ...

A New York City man charged with killing a Westbrook woman and leaving her body in an SUV at a Portland motel parking lot made his initial court appearance in Cumberland County Court on Friday. Earlier this month police arrested Anthony Pratt in Far Rockaway, N.Y. Pratt was brought back to Maine to on Wednesday. Police said Pratt fatally shot 29-year-old Westbrook resident Margarita Fisenko ...

A plan to build a Las Vegas-style casino outside Phoenix doesn't violate Arizona gambling laws approved by voters, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

A Montana judge said he fears he's done a "soul-wrenching injustice" to a man he freed from prison after 27 years, only to see him ordered back behind bars by a higher court.

PARCHMAN — The Mississippi Supreme Court has indefinitely delayed Tuesday evening’s planned execution of Willie Jerome Manning, who was scheduled to die for the 1992 slayings of two college students....

JACKSON — A Mississippi death row inmate sat today in a holding cell at the state prison in Parchman awaiting word on a possible reprieve from Gov. Phil Bryant or the state Supreme Court.

 A Chenoa man accused of killing his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter is opting to skip a jury trial and instead let a judge decide his guilt or innocence.

A Wisconsin appeals court recommended the state Supreme Court take up a case brought by municipal employees to challenge Act 10, the controversial 2011 legislation that all but eliminated stat…

An Idaho man convicted of breaking into a Boise zoo and brutally beating to death a Patas monkey will spend up to a year in state prison, where he'll take part in a treatment program.

Attorneys for a man charged in the shooting deaths of three people asked for more funding, access to sealed records and a chance to move the case to another venue during a motions hearing Tuesday in G

A New York City Police Department precinct commander caught on tape telling an officer young black men were the problem defended his words during the stop, question and frisk trial Monday.

An Idaho man who admitted to breaking into a Boise zoo last year and killing a monkey was sentenced to seven years in prison on Thursday, court records show.

The New Hampshire Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of a man who sought to reverse his conviction for the murder of a woman hacked to death with a machete.

Derrick Eugene Duffey, 30, of Centerville, was sentenced to state prison following his conviction in April of this year for a third or subsequent drug offense. Judge Rose Anne Mefford April 26 sentenced Duffey on the charge of possession of a control

The Ecuadorian judge who awarded the environment judgment against Chevron was a no-show witness for a deposition in Peru.

A federal judge has significantly narrowed the scope of a lawsuit filed by two Omaha men who claim the city of Council Bluffs and two former police detectives lied and hid evidence leading to their conviction on murder charges.

A man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today. read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An Alaska-based soldier from Mount Pleasant will serve nearly 12 years in a military prison and be dishonorably discharged after killing a fellow soldier on Christmas morning.

A former high school football coach in Pennsylvania has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for computer-related crimes that stretched to East Lansing.

LAGRANGE — The Rural Lorain County Water Authority board’s use of secret ballots in a vote Wednesday to remove Mark McConnell from the board violated Ohio’s Sunshine Laws, according to an open meetings expert and a 2011 opinion issued by Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine. “You can’t vote on anything in secret,” said Tim Smith, [...] Click here to read this story on The Chronicle-Telegram ...

TOPEKA, Kan. - A Kansas doctor charged with operating a pill mill out of his Manhattan clinic that was popular among police officers and Fort Riley soldiers made a brief court appearance Tuesday and waived his right to a preliminary hearing.

Frank Lewis PDT Staff Writer Kevin Huff, 36, of West Portsmouth was sentenced in U.S. District Court to serve 262 months in prison for his role in conspiring to distribute more than 200,000 do...

DENVER—Nearly 200 inmates have won a $600,000 settlement for the way they were treated during a riot at a Colorado private prison in 2004.