Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jerry Baxter says the trial of 35 former Atlanta educators could become "unmanageable" if prosecutors don't trim down their list of 2,440 potential witnesses.

A young man from Vancouver is being held in a Kentucky prison on charges of stalking and threatening actress Jennifer Lawrence and her family.

Harper Lee, the 87-year-old author of To Kill a Mockingbird, sued her literary agent, claiming he took advantage of her age and infirmity to deprive her of royalties from the novel.        

The Trumbull County Prosecutor’s office is asking a judge to give convicted double murderer Eric Porterfield another unflattering title: vexatious litigator.

CHICAGO (AP) — A U.S. district judge in Chicago is scheduled to hear the government's appeal of a decision to release an Illinois teenager accused of seeking to join al-Qaida-linked militants in Syria.        

A heavier, at times weary-looking O.J. Simpson takes the stand as he seeks a retrial in his sports memorabilia case. LAS VEGAS — On this day, there was no Johnnie Cochran. There was no brash fist-pumping former Heisman Trophy winner in a tailored suit hugging his lead defense attorney after beating murder charges in a California courtroom.        

The daughter of Ariel Castro, the chief suspect in the Cleveland abduction of three women freed on Monday, is serving time in an Indiana prison for attempted murder after she slashed her baby’s throat four times with a knife, court documents show.

Wind farms in this corner of Wyoming have killed more than four dozen golden eagles since 2009, one of the deadliest places in the country of its kind. But so far, the companies operating industrial-sized ...

A Ramsey County Judge has pushed back the starting date for the Jeffery Trevino murder trial.

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit that claimed the state of Minnesota was wrongfully charged for more than 37,000 abortions for indigent women.

PHOENIX (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge refused on Thursday to block Arizona's Republican governor, who has long clashed with Washington over immigration reform, from denying driver's licenses to young immigrants granted temporary legal status by the federal government. Civil rights groups had filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Phoenix in November against Governor Jan Brewer and two ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The case will remain open against an alleged Mexican drug lord with ties to the 2003 Kanawha County sniper slayings, a Kanawha judge said Wednesday. After speaking with prosecutors, Circuit Judge Duke Bloom did not dismiss a 2011 indi...

LITCHFIELD - A Litchfield County man accused of killing his girlfriend in January 2000 has remained free for 13 years awaiting trial and has been earning a $129,000-a-year taxpayer-funded salary as a state sales tax auditor.

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) _ A Leavenworth woman whose conviction for involuntary manslaughter was overturned pleaded no contest to a lesser charge and was sentenced to time served.

Even as Sean Payton tried to make the best of his one-season bounty banishment from the NFL by spending time with his children, getting in shape and playing golf, he often compared his punishment to prison time.

A Hinesburg man, who was on crack cocaine when he tried to shoot a Colchester store clerk, said it bothered him so much that he couldn’t sleep and summoned police to his prison cell so he could confess.

Columbia, SC (WLTX) - Jurors in the double-murder trial of Brett Parker heard from the family of one of the victims and a bookie during testimony Monday.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas would adopt a version of California's 'Chelsea's Law' that mandates life in prison for certain sexual assault convictions under a bill given tentative approval in the House. Under the Texas version, a "one strike" rule would be imposed for suspects 18 and older who are convicted of sexually assaulting a child while also binding, torturing or using a weapon against ...

Springfield City Councilor Dave Ralston pleaded not guilty Monday morning to a drunken driving charge and was told he will have to hire his own attorney to defend himself. Ralston, cited by a Springfield police officer on Feb. 10, will appear in Lane County Circuit Court again on June 21 …

One of Drew Peterson's attorneys has agreed to have his law license suspended for three months to settle state disciplinary charges alleging he stole another client's money, records show.        

WATERLOO, Iowa --- The Iowa Court of Appeals has upheld the convictions of a Waterloo man involved with a home invasion on New Year's Day in 2011.

Three weeks after the start of a securities fraud trial involving a Kansas City company whose leaders are accused of bilking unsophisticated investors out of millions of dollars, closing arguments that ...

BOISE -- An Uzbek national facing terrorism-related charges in Idaho will remain jailed pending his trial after waiving his right to a detention hearing. Lawyers for Fazliddin Kurbanov on Tuesday waived a hearing where a U.S. District Court judge was to have considered whether he should stay in Ada County jail in Boise until his July 2 trial. Kurbanov is a refugee from Uzbekistan in Central Asia ...

SALT LAKE CITY -- Out of the grip of the federal prison system, environmental and climate activist Tim DeChristopher plans to make Harvard Divinity School his next stop. DeChristopher, 31, has achieved folk status and inspired a documentary airing Monday - all for grabbing a bidder's paddle and running up prices at a federal oil-and-gas lease auction, trying to safeguard wild lands near Utah's ...

A bill that eliminates or remakes dozens of state boards and commissions is back from a House Senate conference committee. Both the House and Senate have busy floor calendars today, including a bill limiting the contracts Blue Cross Blue Shield can require health care providers to sign.

A Valley Cottage man masqueraded as a lawyer for years, filed false documents in court, lied to federal immigration judges and conned victims out of tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees, the attorney general charged Monday.

The Ohio Supreme Court is preparing to hear arguments in the case of the only woman facing execution in Ohio.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — Three days after the remains of an Eastern Connecticut State University student were found in a wooded area, her longtime boyfriend appeared before a state judge on murder and kidnapping charges in her death.

Wayne County Circuit Judge Wade McCree is facing the Michigan Judicial Tenure Board accused of misconduct in office.

A federal appeals court is weighing the constitutionality of a Delaware law allowing chancery judges to oversee secret arbitration in high-stakes business disputes. A three-judge panel of the Third U.S. ...

Consumer Attorney Services appointed Tarah Seabre as supervising attorney in May to help improve the working efficiency of its national foreclosure defense team. (PRWeb May 21, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/consumer-attorney-service/foreclosure-defense-team/prweb10744996.htm

ANGOLA, Ind. A man convicted of attempted murder for opening fire on vehicles traveling along a northeastern Indiana highway was sentenced to 120 years in prison after telling a judge he would "kind of like to go home.

Albany Judge Herbert Phipps will take the role of Chief Judge of Georgia's Court of Appeals on July first.

Citing staff safety concerns and the need to limit contraband such as drugs tucked into regular mail, Santa Clara County jail officials want all mail -- excluding correspondence from lawyers -- to be limited to postcards.

A Burlington man facing allegations of Social Security fraud has killed himself in Florida, after indicating he did not want to go back to prison, according to the police.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine is joining other states in asking Congress to support a constitutional amendment that overturns a U.S. Supreme Court decision that opened the floodgates to unlimited campaign spending by special interests.        

AMARILLO, Texas - 1 of 3 Amarillo brothers sentenced to life in prison for the slaying of a police officer more than 30 years ago on Christmas Day has lost a bid for parole.

SEATTLE—The lawyer for the family of a missing Utah woman said Tuesday there's an ongoing federal investigation into Susan Powell's disappearance.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas - A Texas inmate was executed Thursday evening for fatally shooting one of three people he and a partner abducted during a convenience store robbery nearly 11 years ago.

A local man accused of murdering his 5-year-old son will spend 18 years in prison as part of a plea agreement. Kalman Eteuati, 27, of outer Southeast Portland pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of first-degree manslaughter on Monday, May 20, in connection to the death of his son, Mahonarye Noa. Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Eric Bergstrom then sentenced Eteuati to 260 months, or 18 years ...

The judge overseeing the Atlanta test-cheating scandal expressed surprise and concern Thursday over the mounting size of the case, in which prosecutors listed 2,440 potential witnesses and intend to produce more than 1 million pages of documents.