A witness in the trial of a St. Louis man charged with killing three people at a Minnesota home says he seemed "desperate" to silence a teenager who had accused him of molesting her.

A sentencing hearing for Kathleen Zielinski which was scheduled for April 30 at 930 a.m. at the Lackawanna County Courthouse in Scranton was rescheduled for May 13 at 930 a.m. at the same location. The sentencing judge is Judge Barrasse.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - A northern New Jersey mother has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin with her husband and son in what authorities are calling "a family affair."

MISSOULA - A Missoula man who killed two of his friends and seriously injured another one in a March 2012 DUI crash will spend four years in the Montana Department of Corrections.

 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 ...

ATLANTA — In a small city at the southern tip of the Appalachian Mountains, a former judge is accused of sexually harassing three women who worked for him and creating “an atmosphere of sexual dominance.” Another woman who had a case before him said he propositioned her and orchestrated a scheme to have her arrested on bogus drug charges.

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.

A FAKE doctor who organised a gay orgy at Richmond star Alex Rance's family home because Rance rejected his affections has been jailed for a year.

A McAlester man was recently sentenced to serve time in prison after pleading guilty to having methamphetamine manufacturing materials.

GARDNERVILLE (AP) — A 27-year-old transient who claimed he was under the influence of demons when he robbed Bank of America branch in Douglas County has been sentenced to up to 15 years in prison.

A state prison inmate accused of raping a teenage mentally-challenged girl while out on furlough pleaded guilty to felony rape...

U.S. Navy Lt. Commander Doug Burns was on a night reconnaissance mission searching for enemy trucks when he was shot down by anti-aircraft fire and taken prisoner during the Vietnam War.

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 new law which overhauls the Georgia juvenile system is now in effect. The changes are designed to steer more nonviolent offenders into community-based programs, rather than jail or prison.

Story by Lauren Hills / CBS12 News Posted by Scott T. Smith / CBS12 News WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A judge decided Friday morning that it will be sometime next week before he rules whether to grant polo millionaire John Goodman's request to be off house arrest while he awaits his new trial. ...

Motorists soon may find it harder — and more expensive — to fight tickets issued when red-light cameras snap their photos.        

I’m pleased the Senate unanimously confirmed Sri Srinivasan to be a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.  Sri is a trailblazer who personifies the best of America. Born in Chandigarh, India, and raised in Lawrence, Kansas, Sri spent nearly two decades as an extraordinary litigator before serving as Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States. Now ...

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 ...

Janet Marie Christiansen Abaroa lost approximately a third of her blood after being stabbed to death eight years ago in her Durham home, a witness testified Thursday in her husband's first-degree murder trial.

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

An abortion doctor convicted of killing three babies who were born alive in his grimy clinic agreed Tuesday to give up his right to an appeal and faces life in prison but will be spared a death sentence.

Gov. Martin O'Malley signed a gun-control measure on Thursday to give Maryland some of the nation's tightest gun laws and the National Rifle Association plans to challenge it in court. Part of the law ...

Rick Curl, whose Northern Virginia swim club has produced dozens of Olympians, is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday for sexually abusing a child he coached more than 25 years ago.

The sentence a juvenile who has been convicted of capital murder should receive is currently up in the air. That's because of a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling and the failure of the Alabama Legislature to deal with the issue.

CANON CITY — A judge on Friday agreed to delay the scheduled June trial of a woman suspected of running over a bicyclist and fleeing the accident scene.

LOS ANGELES, April 30 — Concert promoters AEG Live ignored red flags when it hired Dr Conrad Murray to care for Michael Jackson, and should have been aware that the singer had addiction problems years before he agreed to perform a series of 2009 London comeback concerts, an attorney for Jackson’s family told a Los Angeles jury yesterday. Making ...        

ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) - A Virginia man who was once 1 of the nation's most prominent swimming coaches has been sentenced to seven years in prison for sexually abusing 1 of the girls he instructed.

The double-murder trial of Brett Parker resumed Friday morning after being cut short Thursday when the admitted bookie had to be transported to an area hospital after an emotional outburst in the courtroom.

The West Virginia woman accused of stabbing her former boyfriend’s new girlfriend Easter morning waived her case to court Wednesday.

A judge had denied a request from Joseph Banis to allow him to testify against Jeffrey Mundt in the murder trial of Joseph Carroll.

The Michigan Supreme Court asked a top state attorney Friday to weigh in on its review of whether newly implemented right-to-work laws apply to unionized state employees.

Twenty-year-old capital murder defendant Gabriel Paul Hall sat in fidgety silence Thursday as his attorneys fought for a delay in his death penalty trial, scheduled to start in September.

SANDPOINT, Idaho (AP) — A northern Idaho man convicted of two counts of failing to file corporate income taxes and two counts of income tax evasion faces sentencing.

WILMINGTON — A man whose father killed two people at a Delaware courthouse before taking his own life was sentenced to six months in federal prison Tuesday for violating his probation on fraud and kidnapping charges.

KRISTEN BUTLER, UPI.com One North Carolina woman allegedly beat another with a Bible, injuring the victim's head, face and arms.

YORK — During April and May of 2010, Alec Vigil began to notice the effect repeated bullying was having on his friend Christian Taylor, a ninth-grader who had just started school at Grafton High in January of that year after he moved from Texas with his family.        

A defense attorney says he will appeal a judge's refusal to reconsider a Deerfield's man 47-year prison term for killing his girlfriend's mother with a baseball bat.

Georgia is getting smarter on crime after Governor Deal signed a criminal justice bill Thursday at the Marietta Kiwanis Club to help save taxes and promote public safety.

The NC Department of Transportation released an updated schedule for the environmental study of the Monroe Bypass project in Mecklenburg and Union counties, nearly a year after a federal court threw out the state's original environmental analysis.

After a snow storm delayed his bank robbery trial, Corey Donaldson is expected to take to the witness stand in a bid to avoid a maximum 20-year jail sentence.

A state appeals court on Thursday urged the Wisconsin Supreme Court to take a case brought by two unions challenging the constitutionality of Gov. Scott Walker's law effectively ending collective bargaining for most public workers.