Convicted woman begs for mercy, claims she paid taxes on the stolen money The ringleader of a brazen South Florida identity theft ring that sought $11.7 million worth of fraudulent income tax refunds was sentenced Thursday to more than 26 years in federal prison.

NEW BRUNSWICK — During a trial concerning an alleged robbery, defense attorney Kevin Flood not only has been defending his black client but also his race.

A paramedic has given jurors an emotional account of his role in rescuing a severely injured 3-year-old girl who was the sole survivor among a central Illinois family bludgeoned to death in th…

Indiana state prison officials are using customized playing cards for a deadly serious purpose: To help unlock the mysteries of unsolved murders and persons gone missing.

A trial examining the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk policy headed to a judge Monday after attorneys delivered their closing arguments after nine weeks of testimony.

An Ashley County Circuit Court jury of five women and seven men acquitted a Crossett man accused of terroristic threatening and aggravated assault following a one day jury trial on Wednesday, May 8. Jurors deliberated 22 minutes before returning with the not guilty verdicts against Robert Steven Hampton, 57, of 1705 Gardenia Street.

Two people are in jail in Scott County accused of abusing a 14-month-old child.

An Indiana man convicted eight years ago of murdering a young mother and her 4-year-old daughter says in a prison interview he's considering dropping his death penalty appeal so he doesn't have to wait several more years to step into the death chamber.

A small farmer from Indiana lost his patent dispute on Monday at the Supreme Court, a ruling that could have enormous impact in a variety of biotech fields.

A New York man expressed remorse as he was sentenced to three years in prison Monday for an intoxicated drive along the Atlantic City Boardwalk last year.

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court won't order new legislative elections in Mississippi over complaints about the timing of the state's redistricting.

Intuitive Surgical Inc. (ISRG) acted like an aggressive “car dealership” in training doctors because it wanted to retain hospitals as customers and increase the number of surgeries using its robotic system, a lawyer told a jury.

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.

SANTA FE - A Las Cruces man whose murder trial was postponed 12 times is asking the New Mexico Supreme Court to overturn his conviction.

CLEVELAND (AP) - The attorneys for a Cleveland man accused of keeping three women in captivity for about a decade say he will plead not guilty. Attorneys Craig Weintraub and Jay Schlachet tell WKYC-TV More >>

Neal Jacobson shot his wife and 7-year old boys in 2010 Neal Jacobson, the failed Wellington mortgage broker who killed his wife and twin 7-year sons in 2010, now says he was forced last year to accept a plea deal for three life prison sentences and deserves a new hearing.        

The Boulder woman accused of clipping a food truck with her SUV, driving into a University of Colorado student eating lunch and then striking the church where she had planned to attend an Alcoholic Anonymous meeting has pleaded guilty to all of the charges against her, according to court officials.

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 ...

Two Harrisburg men were convicted by a federal jury for conspiracy and distribution of cocaine and crack cocaine. According to United States Attorney Peter J. Smith, on May 8, following a two-day trial before Senior U.S. District Court Judge William …

All three inmates who walked away from a northeast Kansas prison are in custody Friday night.

WEST CHESTER – One of two Delaware County women involved in a failed plot to engineer an escape by two accused murderers from Chester County Prison pleaded guilty to charges surrounding the scheme Tuesday, and was sentenced to a prison term in the same institution she had targeted.

White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler was told last month that a Treasury Department inspector general had concluded an audit on the Internal Revenue Service’s screening of conservative organizations, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal write.

By David Ingram and Jane Sutton WASHINGTON/MIAMI (Reuters) - As detainees at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, press ahead with a widening hunger strike nearly three months old, President Barack Obama has come under increasing criticism for his policy of force-feeding them. But U.S. law is on his side, an analysis of court rulings shows. Most U.S. judges who have examined forced ...

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

The justices will review a lower court's finding that a town improperly affiliated itself with Christianity.

An Indiana attorney has been suspended from practice for three years for pursuing a romantic relationship with a summer law clerk and attempting to destroy her legal career when she rejected his advances.

Michael Jackson's longtime makeup artist says she heard an executive for the promoter of the singer's planned comeback concerts insist that he rehearse.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court approved a revised set of maps for the state House and Senate seats May 8.

CHAMBERSBURG - A 21-year-old Chambersburg man pleaded not guilty to charges after he allegedly had sex with a minor.

A first responder who helped treat victims of the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, last month will plead not guilty to the federal charge of possessing an explosive device in court on Wednesday, his attorney said in a statement.        

A Northern California man faces up to six years in prison after pleading guilty to reckless driving causing the death of an Incline Village couple who was hit in a pedestrian crosswalk at Lake Tahoe in December 2011.

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — Sometimes tardy is timely. Wash. Corrections Officer Brandy Boyer says if she hadn't been 10 minutes late leaving for work Saturday morning she wouldn't have spotted a prison escapee.

SANTA FE - New Mexico's highest court is allowing the state's top water manager to decide proposed water rights transfers to increase flows in the drought-stricken Pecos River.

PHILADELPHIA—An abortion doctor convicted of killing three babies born alive at his rogue clinic dodged a possible death sentence Tuesday in a hasty post-verdict deal with prosecutors. Dr. Kermit Gosnell , 72, waived his right to appeal in exchange for a sentence of life without parole. Gosnell was convicted Monday of first-degree murder in a case that became a flashpoint in the nation’s ...

U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced Wednesday that the sentencing of four Idaho individuals that conspired to distribute methamphetamine and who were involved in the Aryan Knights has ended.

After 18 months of freedom, convicted murderer Barry Beach returned to Montana State Prison on Wednesday to finish serving a 100-year sentence after turning himself in at the Yellowstone County Sheriff's Office.

ATLANTA-Hamza Bendelladj, an Algerian national also known as Bx1, will be arraigned on federal cyber crime charges for his role in developing, marketing, distributing, and operating the malicious computer virus SpyEye. "No violence or coercion was used to accomplish this scheme, just a computer and an Internet connection," said United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates. ...

Seahawks quarterback Josh Portis was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence on May 5, and will be arraigned in King County District Court in Redmond on May 28.

President Mikheil Saakashvili’s political camp suffered a major blow on May 21 when two prominent presidential allies, former Prime Minister Vano Merabishvili, once one of Georgia’s most influential politicians, and Kakheti Governor Zurab Tchiaberashvili, were detained on criminal charges of misusing 5.2 million lari ($3.19 million) in public funds. Lawyers for the two men interviewed by Maestro ...

A Texas woman is headed to prison for dousing her ex-roommate with gasoline and setting him on fire.

CLEVELAND (AP) — The attorneys for a Cleveland man accused of keeping three women in captivity for about a decade say he will plead not guilty.