Monday afternoon the Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office mistakenly said that an arrest warrant has been issued for Councilman Timothy Vessel. The release said the warrant was issued against Vessel for failing to appear in court to answer charges of stealing electricity. In fact, the warrant was for Vessel's son, also named Timothy.

EASTON, Md. — Rapper 2 Chainz has been acquitted of drug charges he faced after a traffic stop on Maryland's Eastern Shore. The Star Democrat of Easton, Md., reports ( ) that a county judge found the rapper not guilty Wednesday. 2 Chainz's real name is Tauheed Epps.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The lead defense attorney in O.J. Simpson's armed robbery trial had a conflict of interest because he could have been a witness in the case, a lawyer who worked on Simpson's unsuccessful appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court testified Thursday.

Attorney General Gansler weighs Supreme Court appeal Maryland's counties and Baltimore face a collective loss of more than $40 million a year and some taxpayers could get refunds if a decision by the state's highest court isn't reversed on appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.        

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - New Jersey's attorney general says a campaign worker has lost his bid to stay out of jail after admitting he submitted fraudulent absentee ballots in a 2007 state senate race.

A Princeton, Illinois man was sentenced to two years in prison after his failure to block caller ID helped police link him to bomb threats that caused evacuations at several businesses.

How do you blame a city for lying to taxpayers and bond buyers about its sad financial shape - without also blaming its mayor, or its finance officers, or any of the paid lawyers, bankers, and advisers who helped tell the lies?

A Tahlequah man entered a guilty plea in Muskogee federal court to charges of manufacturing 50 or more grams of meth over five months.

KENNEBEC, S.D. (AP) - A former clerk of court for Lyman County in southeastern South Dakota has admitted to stealing nearly $1,200 in fines paid by traffic violators.

The California Supreme court delivers a blow to the state's medical marijuana dispensaries. Local cities and counties have outlawed and shut down most marijuana dispensaries. The high court gave them state power to do so. Local governments have used federal law for the past several years to shut down medical marijuana dispensaries. It's illegal under federal law to distribute marijuana. Now ...

Two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court this week regarding gay marriage represent one of those delicious situations likely to compel Americans — including those nine on the court — to confront their own competing beliefs and biases, and to choose.

What was expected to be embattled Muskegon attorney Terry J. Nolan’s last trial -- for months if not years -- won't happen after all.

HONOLULU (AP) — An unexpected bid for a bankrupt Big Island brewery has postponed a court auction and set up a possible bidding war for the microbrewery.

Nearly 10 years before Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel went to trial for the 1975 murder of Greenwich teen Martha Moxley, police and prosecutors asked a forensic psychiatrist to examine another suspect in the case, Skakel's tutor Kenneth Littleton.        

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A federal appeals court denied a request to block the use of a helicopter to haze wild bison as officials in southwestern Montana wrapped up the annual drive of the animals back i

In 2012 we received about 1,400 citations from the photo enforcement camera at Fry Blvd. and 7th Street and a portable unit which was used for a short time.  So far this year, with the addition of cameras at Avenida Cochise and Martin Luther King, Jr. read more

Award-winning rapper and Queens native Ja Rule left federal prison yesterday and will remain under house arrest for tax evasion until July 28. The artist, who was released from the Ray Brook correctional facility in upstate New York, admitted to failing to pay $3 million in taxes...

The judge who presided over the Casey Anthony murder trial said on the "Today" show Monday morning that he was shocked by the verdict. Nearly two years after the trial, in which Anthony was found not guilty of murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee, Perry opened up about the case.

The government says Jeremy Johnson, not Federal Trade Commission lawyers, threatened and intimidated potential witnesses in...

A proposed plea agreement for a man facing two aggravated assault charges was rejected Thursday, a rare move by Natrona County District Judge Catherine Wilking.

People who plan on filing bankruptcy in near future can view a complete source of California bankruptcy information . The new Wikipedia style page launched by the bankruptcy attorneys Zhou & Chini in Orange County fulfills all their needs. (PRWeb May 21, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/bankruptcy-information/Orange-County-CA/prweb10751339.htm

A South Korean man watches a television news program showing Korean American Kenneth Bae at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, May 2, 2013. Bae detained for six months in North Korea has been sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for "hostile acts" against the state, the North's media said Thursday ó a move that could trigger a visit by a high-profile American if history is ...

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) - A 23-year-old Iowa man has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for receiving child pornography. U.S. Attorney Nicholas Klinefeldt says Scott Allen Gibbons, of Villisca, was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty to the charge in January.

Police are planning to question a person Tuesday who was found driving a car that belonged to Roosevelt homicide victim Elvis Zachary Olsen.

LAS VEGAS, May 16 — O.J. Simpson, the former football star famously acquitted of murder in 1995, offered sometimes emotional testimony in a packed Las Vegas courtroom yesterday as he sought a new trial in the robbery case that sent him to prison five years ago. Simpson, brought to court from a Nevada prison, testified on the third day of a ...        

Veteran Orange County criminal defense lawyer Lawrence Anthony Witsoe closed his eyes and remained motionless late this afternoon as a court clerk read a series of guilty verdicts against him in...

Jodi Arias said in a post-conviction interview with a TV station that she prefers the death penalty over life in prison.

An Illinois prisoner was mistakenly released from a Wisconsin prison, and instead of fleeing, he just waited in the parking lot until he was let back in. [ more › ]

A Pennsylvania judge dismissed three murder charges on Tuesday against a Philadelphia abortion doctor accused in a high-profile case of killing babies in what was described as a squalid clinic serving low-income women.

A Mississippi man has made a brief court appearance on a charge that he made a deadly poison that was sent in letters to President Barack Obama and others.

SANTA CRUZ -- Three days before being sent off to prison for the rest of his life, Maurice Ainsworth Jr. was complaining about his tableware.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Aloke Chakravarty surveyed a Boston courtroom packed with supporters of a Massachusetts man convicted of providing material support to terrorists and conspiring to commit murder in a foreign country.

LA PORTE COUNTY — A petition filed in Lake County Circuit Court seeks to move forward in a civil case against La Porte County prosecutor Robert C. Szilagyi.

First Tee of Augusta elects Michael E. Fowler, Jr. to serve on its board.Augusta, Georgia (PRWEB) April 25, 2013 The First Tee of Augusta has elected Hull Barrett attorney Michael E. Fowler, Jr. to the Board of Directors. The First Tee of Augusta (FTA) is one Chapter of a national/international, non-profit youth initiative, The First Tee, created in 1997, by the World Golf Foundation to provide ...

Jodi Arias points to her family as a reason for the jury to give her a life in prison sentence instead of the death penalty on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix.

The veto could prompt lawmakers to fight it out in the courts. Gov. Rick Scott vetoed $368 million in lawmaker pet projects Monday and blocked a 3 percent tuition hike for Florida colleges and universities.        

Oakland County will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in its fight against mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, after an appeals court blocked the county from recovering millions in real estate transfer taxes from the two lenders.

Women, whites, LGBT prisoners report higher incidences of victimization in Justice Department survey

Ocala, Florida, injury and accident lawyer services announced by the Berman Law Group. They are now offering Ocala personal injury lawyer services, call (352) 433-0385 for immediate help. (PRWeb May 21, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/ocala-florida/injury-lawyer/prweb10750830.htm

A long-awaited report by the New York Commission on Judicial Conduct on whether judges should have special license plates on their personal vehicles concludes there is nothing inherently unethical about a judge publicly displaying his or her position, even though it may result in preferential treatment.

By Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) - A federal appeals court struck down an Arizona law on Tuesday that bans abortions from 20 weeks gestation, saying it violated "unalterably clear" U.S. Supreme Court rulings that women have a right to terminate pregnancies until a fetus is viable. The decision by a three-member panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of appeals in San Francisco, which overturned the ruling ...