A Franklin Circuit Court judge on Tuesday ordered the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services to resume child-care subsidy payments to 18 Jefferson County day care centers while they appeal accusations of fraud.

Spokane Serial Killer Robert Yates is claiming he had ineffective legal counsel in his latest appeal of his death sentence for the killings of two women in Pierce County in the late 1990s.

By Barbara Corbellini Duarte - Diane Wilson, 65, stopped eating on May 1 to honor the Guantanamo Bay prisoners who have been on a hunger strike for 99 days.

A suspended Pennsylvania state trooper was sentenced to 3 to 6 years in a state prison Thursday in connection with a crash that killed a man 15 months ago in Erie County.

The U.S. law requiring employers to provide health insurance coverage for birth control is set to come before an appeals court in cases brought by two businesses whose owners say they operate according to Catholic doctrine.

Anthony Cloud Staff Writer The man who installed cameras in Walmart bathrooms received his final sentencing in Bell Circuit Court on Monday. Randall R. Rogers, 49, of Speedwell, Tenn., was sen...

The California Supreme Court may have ruled Monday morning that local cities and counties can bar medical marijuana dispensaries from operating with restrictive ordinances, but until ordered otherwise, Megan Stone plowed ahead like a bullish...

A federal judge has rejected a $65,000 settlement offer in a case involving the alleged rape of a young girl at the former Mount Hope High School, while at the same time throwing out negligence claims against one of the teachers originally listed in the suit.

Houston Personal Injury Attorney Firm Michael P. Fleming and Associates Welcomes Attorney Audrey Manito to the Law Firm (PRWeb April 30, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/4/prweb10684843.htm

Georgia state Rep. Tyrone Brooks is set to appear in court for arraignment on federal fraud charges. Brooks is scheduled to appear before federal Magistrate Judge Alan Baverman Wednesday. A 30-count federal indictment handed down last week charges him with mail fraud, wire fraud and filing false...

50-year-old Yvette Harris of Milwaukee was convicted of fraudulent billing of the Wisconsin Medicaid program

NEW ULM - How doctors investigate symptoms of incoming patients and when further action is called for were the focus Wednesday in the wrongful death lawsuit against Allina Health System and New Ulm Medical Center (NUMC) in Brown County District...

COLDWATER — Andrew Kelley, 22, will go to prison for two to 15 years for causing the death of Jessica Bates while driving drunk April 9th last year on Marshall Rd.

HARTFORD — Jason Brodsky of New Haven was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to four years in prison for distributing heroin that caused the overdose death of a Milford woman, according to Deirdre M. Daly, acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut.

State Rep. Tyrone Brooks made his first appearance in federal court on Wednesday. He pleaded not guilty to a 30-count indictment that includes charges of mail, tax and wire fraud.

Do you like this? Tweet But the 31.6km course is no ordinary affair. The first 90 percent uses the same time trial route as when the race visited San Jose in 2006, but this time it has a vicious sting in the tail – the 2.7km, 290 meter climb up Metcalf Road, averaging a leg-sapping 10.6 percent.

A Johnstown man was jailed Thursday after police said he called 911 with a false report that a city bar was on fire. Police charged Mitchell Roy Hopkins, 35, of Jacoby Street, with false alarms to an agency of public safety, false reports, disorderly conduct and reckless endangerment.

ldquo;I knew I was gay since I was a really little kid,” said Richard Burns. “So Hamilton was a really odd college choice.”   Burns, a lifelong social justice activist specifically with regard to gay rights, and the executive director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in New York City since December 1986 spoke on Wednesday at a talk titled “A Queer Justice Journey from ...

Kyle Dube, the 20-year-old charged with murder in the death of Nichole Cable, made his first court appearance at the Penobscot Judicial Center Wednesday in Bangor.

Jurors are deliberating again at the trial of a former suburban water official charged with lying about drawing village water from a well tainted with a cancer-causing chemical.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A Louisiana businessman serving 15 years in federal prison for distributing oxycodone and methadone illegally through pain clinics in eastern Kentucky has lost his bid for a new trial.

An 81-year-old Wisconsin Rapids man accused of holding a gun to another person's head made his initial appearance in Wood County Court Monday morning.

A judge will hear arguments later this month on a plan to move the mother of a missing West Virginia girl from Wheeling to the Clarksburg area, where Lena Lunsford says she's a "social pariah."

REXBURG, Idaho (AP) — An 82-year-old eastern Idaho man convicted of sexually abusing a 4-year-old girl has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

The Yolo Superior Court held a formal ceremony on Monday for graduates of the Court's Felony Probation Drug Court.Judge Janet Gaard presided over the ceremony held in her chambers of the Yolo County Courthouse.

Ramona Robertson insiste she is not guilty of charges made by an MHP trooper during a traffic stop months ago.

PHOENIX - Calling a woman's rights "unalterably clear," a federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down Arizona's nearly year-old ban on abortions at 20 weeks and beyond.

The husband of Barbour County's prosecuting attorney is free on bond after being arrested for allegedly drugging her so he could look at her cellphone and email messages. William Francis "Frank" Poling Jr.

A western Pennsylvania veteran who has post-traumatic stress disorder must remain in jail until he stands trial on federal charges that he took a 13-year-old girl across state lines for sex, a federal magistrate ruled Monday.

After several calls and emails about prison garbage workers eating and searching through trash in Muscogee County News Leader 9 launched an investigation. Betty Davis who has lived on Harbin Street in

ELYRIA — Joseph Allen’s attorney said Tuesday that he intends to ask Visiting Judge Virgil Sinclair Jr. to grant his client a new trial in the controversial Head Start child molestation case. Attorney K. Ronald Bailey said he hopes to file the request later this week, and it will raise many of the same issues [...] The post Joseph Allen to seek new trial appeared first on Chronicle-Telegram ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Here’s a look at some of the legislative activity at the Indiana Statehouse on Friday. An overhaul of Indiana’s criminal sentencing laws aimed at sending fewer nonviolent offenders to prison has been approved by the Legislature.

Prosecutors are still investigating whether to proceed with a new trial for a Wyoming man who was granted the state's first retrial based on DNA evidence.

It is unclear whether those statements before the Miranda rights warning would be admissible in a criminal trial and, if not, whether prosecutors even need them to win a conviction

BATON ROUGE, La. — The Louisiana House voted Tuesday to ban enforcement of any federal restrictions on owning semi-automatic weapons, over the objections of critics who said the measure couldn't withstand a court challenge.

He operates the largest foreclosure law firm in the state, and these hard times have made Mark P. Harmon a very busy man. Some critics assail his tactics, but Harmon is unapologetic: Lenders, after all, need zealous lawyers, too.        

Damien Candland, 25, is serving a life without parole prison sentence for the murder of his aunt. His attempts to withdraw his guilty plea were unsuccessful, so he has taken his case to the Utah Supreme Court.

AUSTIN, Texas, Apr. 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- XBiotech announced today enrollment of the first patient into its Phase III trial of Xilonix. The Pivotal study is designed to improve health and survival of ...

A federal appeals court has ordered the U.S. Department of Education to hear South Carolina's appeal of its $36 million federal penalty for recession-era budget cuts.

Former Utah teacher ordered to stand trial for allegedly having sex with student by Jessica Miller The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 16, 2013 04:38PM MDT A former Kaysville charter school teacher and Weber State University adjunct faculty member accused of forcible sodomy of a teen was ordered this week to stand trial on the charges. Stephen Niedzwiecki, 33, is charged with eight counts of ...

The Marine captain in charge of the men who were allegedly caught on camera urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters will face his own court martial, the Marine Corps announced today. Capt. James Clement will be tried for alleged dereliction of duty, conduct unbecoming...