PHOENIX (AP) — Testimony resumes in Jodi Arias' murder trial with the prosecution calling rebuttal witnesses ahead of closing arguments.        

Authorities say an inmate who died during a weekend fight at a prison in southwestern Mississippi suffered a fatal stab wound.

A federal court has entered a final judgment against Henry’s Turkey Service, reducing a recent $240 million jury verdict against the company to $1.6 million.

Treasure hunters have long pilfered arrowheads, pottery and other archaeological artifacts on state lands, risking jail time if caught.        

CLINTON -- A Camanche man will serve as much as 20 years in prison for holding his wife at knifepoint on July 7, 2012. In April, Arthur Walker, 52, 4102 Ninth St., Camanche, pleaded guilty to third-degree kidnapping, third-degree sexual abuse and wil

The U.S. Supreme Court, steering clear of the debate over immigration policy, refused to revive an Alabama law that made it a crime to harbor people who are in the country illegally.

Wednesday morning, community members came together to pay tribute and honor to prison guards who have fallen in the line of duty.

Is the state law against advising, encouraging or assisting suicide unconstitutional?

Wed, 08 May 2013 13:56:33 GMT By Chris Bristol Yakima Herald-Republic Color/BlackColor/BlackAshley YAKIMA, Wash. — A convicted sex offender with a history of exploiting teenage girls was sentenced Wednesday to nearly five years in prison for failing to register. It was Tommy Ashley’s third conviction for the same offense. The 57-month sentence, handed...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It's been dubbed the most expensive prison on Earth and President Barack Obama cited the cost this week as one of many reasons to shut down the detention centre at Guantanamo Ba...

Dr. Rod H. Sproatt, a Beaufort County, South Carolina Magistrate Judge, will receive his Associates of Arts Degree from Spartanburg Methodist College, 44 years after attending the college.

PHOTO: Supporters look on as Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, sitting third from right, signs a bill abolishing capital punishment in the state during a ceremony in Annapolis, Md., Thursday, May 2, 2013. Also pictured sitting are Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, from left, Senate President Thomas V. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - 1 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.

Benton County Attorney Robert Raupp has been chosen to be the county's next judge, replacing James Hoolihan, who retired in December.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - The state's highest court on Thursday dismissed Ralph Nader's lawsuit against Democrats he had accused of trying to keep him off ballots in Maine and other states during his failed presidential run in 2004.

In what police are describing as a crime of opportunity, a wanted man with a criminal history dating nearly 15 years entered a front door that had been left open at a New York home near Hofstra University.A short time later, the...

With a staff of just three attorneys, including its director, the Legal Aid Society functions as the civil equivalent of the public defender’s office, providing legal services to Vanderburgh County residents who cannot otherwise afford them.

The federal judge presiding over civil rights challenges to the stop-and-frisk practices of the New York Police Department has no doubt where she stands with the government.

Administrative Law Judge Sharon L. Feldman on April 29 recommended that the MPSC deny acertificate of public convenience and necessity for a proposed high-voltage power line based on her conclusion that Michigan Electric Transmission Company, LLC failed to show that the benefits of the project justify the financial, environmental and social costs.

The release of a prison inmate into Del Norte County got off to a rocky start and ended with the convict’s return to custody, authorities said. Kevin M. Tennin, 49, of Minnesota was released from Pelican Bay State Prison on Monday after serving time for a sex-related crime and arson committed while in prison, according to the Del Norte County Sheriff’s Office. Tennin was under supervised parole ...

The Minnesota Supreme Court was not swayed by Dao Xiong's argument that testimony in his Washington County murder trial should not have been allowed.

A man wanted on a warrant out of New Jersey was taken into custody after a traffic stop in Easton, officials said. Cody C. Ziegler was arrested at a convenience store in the 200 block of Cattell Street in Easton at about 8:30 p.m. Saturday, after police discovered a 10-month-old warrant for his arrest out of Somerset County, officials said. Court papers did not indicate why police stopped ...

A Fort Wayne teen will be spending several years in prison following his plea of guilty to multiple charges. Want to read the full article online? You may either:

Marcus Bebb-Jones who pleaded guilty to killing his wife and dumping her body in western Colorado in 1997 has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

BROWNSVILLE — A former South Texas prosecutor facing corruption charges was essentially a “district attorney on retainer” who used his discretion in exchange for cash, federal prosecutors told jurors

Charles Cullen is in Somerset County Superior Court to plead guilty to killing one of his patients. / Asbury Park Press file photo For more information on the New Jersey Poison Information and Education System, visit www.njpies.org . The free hotline number is 800-222-1222.

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An escalating battle among lawyers who sued over incorrect credit-agency reports has left behind a rather important constituency: The clients.

A New York based mobster has pleaded guilty in an American court to taking part in a massive drug trafficking conspiracy that has deep ties to Montreal.

The likelihood of finding an attorney willing to work for free got a boost this week. Appellate judges overturned a $70,000 sanction imposed against a Spokane attorney who had volunteered his time to try to stop an Oklahoma collection agency from harassing a Stevens County couple over an $843 debt.

Bernalillo County Commissioners will take up another proposal this week to fix the jail overcrowding problem at the Metro Detention Center. But will the vote be any different than the last? 

By Paul Peirce, Tribune-Review The state Supreme Court Thursday formally approved a plan to reduce the number of district judges in Westmoreland County from 17 to 16, starting in ...

TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) - A man convicted of opening fire on police when they raided his southern New Jersey home has been sentenced to 45 years in prison.

IRVINE, Calif. -- Continental Prison Systems, Inc. (OTC:CPSZ) - a payment processing technology company that specializes in the $500 billion government payment space, is pleased to announce that it has ...

 A Chelmsford couple on trial for mortgage fraud enjoyed a "cash hungry" lavish lifestyle from money laundering and court has been told.Carli Savill and Andrew Zacharias lived beyond their modest means on illegally gained funds it was a jury at Chelmsford Crown Court was told at the start of their trial. Savill, 34, her partner Zacharias, 32, both of Bennetts Avenue, Rettendon Common, and ...

A group of local officials are spearheading an effort to re-staff courts and provide more funds to what they call a starving court system.

The murder trial for the man accused of killing a Ruidoso woman and abandoning her son on the streets of Juarez, Mexico in late 2007 is scheduled to begin today in District Court in Alamogordo.

By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Closing arguments began on Tuesday in the fraud trial of two former fundraising associates of John Liu, a Democratic candidate in New York City's mayoral race, with prosecutors saying that he would have known the campaign routinely used illegal methods to solicit funds. Prosecutors told the jury that Jia Hou, the campaign's former treasurer, and Xing Wu Pan ...

SEGUIN — Jurors deliberated for about two and a half hours Tuesday on a verdict sending a local man to state jail for 270 days (nine months).

MINEOLA, N.Y. — In what police are describing as a crime of opportunity, a wanted man with a criminal history dating nearly 15 years entered a front door that had been left open at a New York home near Hofstra University.

More than 5 shots fired on a quiet street in Rogers, putting one man in the hospital, two in jail and a neighborhood on edge.