Attorney General Eric Holder recused himself from the decision to subpoena the phone records of Associated Press reporters, a source told CNN's Jessica Yellin on Tuesday.

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.

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.

A former New Jersey “Teacher of the Year” who admitted having sex with a 15-year-old student was spared prison time yesterday.Erica DePalo, 33, who won the Essex County honor, received a three-year suspended sentence and will be subject to lifetime parole supervision.“I feel nothing but remorse for my...

OTTUMWA -- A Bloomfield man received a suspended prison sentence after pleading guilty in a three-county car chase last fall. Nicholas Cody Cone, 21, of Bloomfield, led sheriff deputies on a three-county chase on Nov. 21 after stealing three cars.

DARLINGTON, Wis. -- A Milwaukee man accused of killing three people in a southwestern Wisconsin farmhouse is confused about the line between reality and delusion, his defense attorney said Friday, May 10.

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 ...

A federal crime wave is sweeping the nation, and prosecutors and G-men could not be happier about it. The Wall Street Journal reported that government “forfeiture programs confiscated homes, cars, boats, and cash in more than 15,000 cases [in 2010]. The total take topped $2.5 billion, more than doubling in five years, Justice Department statistics show.”

Douglas Spink, an impenitent advocate for zoophilia (bestiality)—sex between humans and animals—who was released early from a sentence for drug-running charges, explained after a hearing in the U.S. District Court on Friday that, “…he’s misunderstood and maligned, and has never hurt an animal.” He said he could sum up his philosophy in a single phrase: “Humans are not the only sexual species ...

A man charged in the murder and dismemberment of his wife entered a surprise guilty plea in court Tuesday morning.

HONOLULU (AP) — Opponents of a plan to build the world's largest optical telescope at the summit of Hawaii's Mauna Kea volcano are appealing their case in the state courts.

The D.A.G.'s office said this case appears to be the first time Tennessee's enhanced punishment laws for gang members will be applied.  The "gang enhancement" law raises the sentencing for any felony to the next highest class of crime, meaning longer prison terms are possible.

Inequities in education are an important factor in high incarceration rates for black males, according to a group of experts speaking at Ohio State Friday.

By Marty Graham VISTA, California (Reuters) - Heavy metal singer Tim Lambesis, the frontman for Christian rock band As I Lay Dying, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to a charge of soliciting the murder of his estranged wife. North San Diego County Superior Court Judge Martin Staven set bail for Lambesis at $3 million. He ordered Lambesis to surrender his passport, stay away from his wife Meggan ...

A murderous Mississippi man who fled north to evade his probation on robbery and manslaughter convictions now is poised to spend the rest of his life in an Iowa prison, thanks to a Polk County jury.

Almost a year after Jose Lumbreras killed his girlfriend and her 6-year-old son in a drunk-driving accident, the UC Berkeley master's graduate admitted the crimes in court.

A Pittsburgh police officer charged with insurance fraud almost two years ago lost some of his police powers, but he didn’t lose his job. As Target 11 Investigator Rick Earle discovered, he’s being paid his full salary while serving probation. Officer Vernon Gibson works at the warrant office at the City Municipal Court building downtown. He’s been assigned to that office since he was charged ...

ALBANY, NY - The state's court system on Wednesday announced $12 million in aid to help upstate courts deal with a backlog of cases.

May 14, 2013 Tim Dewar, publisher@ojaivalleynews.com It took 21 pages to do it, but Casitas Municipal Water District (CMWD) attorneys refuted or agreed to all 133 allegations in the Golden State Water Company’s (GSWC) lawsuit seeking to stop the August bond election that could finance a buyout of the latter’s Ojai service area by the [...]

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- A Johnson County judge – for the fifth time – has set a new trial date for an Iowa City woman accused of hitting and killing her friend with a Dodge Ram truck last summer.

LITTLE ROCK —A federal judge has blocked implementation of an Arkansas law banning most abortions after 12 weeks. U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright on Friday issued a preliminary injunction, preventing the law from taking effect until a lawsuit against it is resolved. The law was set to take effect Aug. 16.

A central Idaho couple is suing the Sun Valley Co. and the Twitter Inc. social media site, asking a judge to bar the resort from using the handle "SunValley."

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – An affidavit filed Monday in federal court alleges that Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner repeatedly took cash payments, sometimes rolled up and hidden inside a pie box, from a broker who invested state money.

The allegations against Utah Attorney General John Swallow are piling up. They aren't just coming from someone under...

Suspended IMPD officer David Bisard remained in the Marion County Jail Sunday night under a suicide watch, charged with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated after a crash in Lawrence, Saturday. The Marion County Prosecutor’s Office will move Monday to …

Pot smokers can be fired even if it was used for medical purposes and off duty. While marijuana use is legal in Colorado, appeals court says pot smokers can still be fired because the drug is still barred by federal law.

Two students could receive 20 years in prison if they're convicted of setting off bottle rockets inside one Mid-Michigan school.

The Western Reserve Chronicle of 150 years ago today reported the execution of two Confederate spies, Capt. William Francis Corbin and Lt. Thomas Jefferson McGraw, at the prison for prisoners of war near Sandusky on May 15, 1863.

PHILADELPHIA — Dr. Kermit Gosnell proved a serene but solitary figure in the courtroom during his long murder trial, in contrast to the chaotic life he built as an inner-city doctor, abortion provider and father of six.

A Florida man is in jail after police say he endangered his 4-year-old son by taking him from Primary Children's Medical Center.

The Arkansas State Highway Commission has opened bids for improvements to roadways in Ashley County, according to Ashley County Judge Dennis F. Holland.

Accused rapist Andre Holmes has been locked up in the Cook County Jail for more than a decade — and he is still waiting to go to trial. Holmes, 48, is accused of raping a female high-school acquaintance in 2002. He is one of 40 inmates who have been held in the jail for more than five years, almost a third more than the number a decade ago. Those figures suggest the wheels of justice continue to ...

A Virginia judge's ruling threatens to jeopardize the way Virginia is using private companies to run the Beltway Express Lanes and build similar lanes on Interstate 95.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - A Monterey woman was sentenced last week to 14 months in prison, and ordered to pay a $10,000 fine along with $123,463 in restitution for tax evasion. 57-year-old Cheryl Savage pleaded

The execution of an East Texas man occurred at 6 o'clock Thursday night. Prison officials administered lethal injection to Rusk native Richard Cobb at the Walls Unit at the Huntsville State Penitentiary.

An appeals court on Wednesday overturned the guilty verdict against a 15-year-old western Pennsylvania boy accused of killing his father's pregnant fiancee and her unborn child when the boy was 11. The Pennsylvania Superior Court said that Jordan Brown's conviction was "plainly contrary to the evidence" and that the case should go back to Lawrence County juvenile court. The boy's lawyer, Stephen ...

The Delaware County Bar Association released results of its judicial selection committee report regarding four candidates — two Republicans and two Democrats — for the Court of Common Pleas.

Hunt pleaded not guilty Friday to two counts of lewd and lascivious battery and asked for a jury trial.

Authorities say there are no reported injuries after a Freon leak at the Pima County Jail in Tucson.

BOWLING GREEN — According to a dispatch log used in defense attorneys' opening arguments Tuesday morning during the trial against Barren County Sheriff Chris Eaton, deputy Aaron Bennett and Barren-Edmonson Drug Task Force detective Eric Guffey, one minute and 13 seconds is the entire length of time between the moment Eaton began a foot pursuit of Billy Randall Stinnett on Feb. 24, 2010, to the ...

WASHINGTON -- Tomorrow, the Association of Corporate Counsel's (ACC) president and CEO Veta T. Richardson joins executives from Corpedia and Corporate Board Member at the New York Stock Exchange NYSE Euronext ...