The FBI has begun examining the relationship between Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife Maureen and the chief executive of a nutritional supplements manufacturer that is the subject of a federal investigation, two people with knowledge of the review said Monday.

A Mississippi man's house is uninhabitable after investigators searched it but failed to find evidence of the deadly poison ricin, a lawyer said Monday, arguing that the government should repair the home.

MOUNT KISCO, New York, USA, and Tokyo, Japan, April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Perosphere Inc. and Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited (hereafter, Daiichi Sankyo) announced today that they have entered into ...

An audit of prisoners' sentences in Colorado has found hundreds of possible problems so far.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A doctor who operated a cash-only prescription medication business out of a Logan building has pleaded guilty in federal court.

NEW YORK — With the simplest of sentences, NBA veteran Jason Collins set aside years of worry and silence to become the first active player in one of four major U.S. professional sports leagues to come out as gay.

AP Photo/Julio Cortez - John Jackson, left, and his wife Carolyn Jackson, of Mount Holly, N.J., walk out of Martin Luther King, Jr. Courthouse, Thursday, May 9, 2013, in Newark, N.J.

CHICAGO (AP) - An Iowa letter carrier has been sentenced to 37 years in prison for sending dud pipe bombs with threatening letters signed "The Bishop."

The Bay State already has among the nation’s strictest firearms laws, but Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley, who announced last month he is running for mayor, aims to further toughen those regulations to help stem gun violence — a move gun rights advocates say will do little to cut crime.

Texas sued BP Plc (BP/) , Transocean Ltd. and others involved in the 2010 oil spill , calling it the “worst environmental disaster” in U.S. history and becoming the fifth Gulf of Mexico state to file claims.

GREAT FALLS — Gov. Steve Bullock held a signing ceremony in Great Falls Tuesday for two bills aimed at preventing child abuse, selecting a city where five children have died at the hands of their abusers in the past five years. One bill creates the crime of criminal child endangerment if a person causes substantial risk of death or serious injury to a child under 14 years of age. It would punish ...

A Kalispell man facing his fourth offense of drunken driving pleaded not guilty Thursday in Flathead District Court.

Ted Turner bison agreement allowed state to transfer Yellowstone bison to billionaire's care for five years in exchange for their most of their calves. Judge upholds agreement, letting Ted Turner keep 150 bison calves.

Authorities say an inmate who died during a weekend fight at a prison in southwestern Mississippi suffered a fatal stab wound.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's Cyber Crimes Unit arrested Gonzales resident John Raymond Williams, 53, on Wednesday for child pornography possession.

Green Bay, Wis.(WFRV)- A Sheboygan woman is sentenced for a 56-year-old murder. Ruby Klokow was convicted and now sentenced to 10 years in prison for the murder of her infant daughter.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A smoke shop owner has testified in federal court that an aide to former Connecticut House Speaker Chris Donovan knew about donations to Donovan's failed U.S. House campaign made through straw donors intended to kill legislation.        

The Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman is the state’s biggest and most costly penitentiary. Photo by Courtesy Neil Conway

Burleson City Council on Monday gave final approval to ordinances annexing about 71 acres of land in the George W. Parsons Survey, granting a zoning change from agricultural to industrial on that acreage and granting a special-use permit allowing a 107,000-square-foot-plus facility that will be used as an auto reclamation and parts distribution facility.

THOMPSON FALLS - The man accused of a brutal murder of a Dixon man will use insanity as his defense. Nathan Calvert appeared in Sanders County District Court Tuesday morning after he recently completed a mental health evaluation in the Montana State Hospital in Warm Springs.

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TORONTO, May 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CellAegis Devices, Inc., announced today the first clinical trial program in the European Union to evaluate the use of the Company's autoRIC™ Device for Chronic Remote ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A Fayette County pill dealer who sold approximately 250 powerful prescription painkillers over a two-year period pleaded guilty today to federal drug charges, announced U.S. Attorney

NY judge refuses to dismiss drugged-driving case against Kerry Kennedy        

WAUPUN — Dodge Correctional Institution is playing host to 14 Armenian officials here to study the American prison system.

The Montana Supreme Court has upheld the ruling that former Public Service Commissioner Brad Molnar violated state ethics laws and should pay $20,700 in fines and costs — some five years after the case began.

When the legislature failed to extend the life of the Judicial Nominating Commission, it effectively ended merit-based selection of judges in Tennessee. It also left open the question of whether there is any mechanism to replace a Tennessee judge who steps down, retires or dies.

DENVER—The mother of a Colorado teenager who was among four people shot and killed in 1993 is pleading with the governor to allow the convicted killer's execution to go on as planned.

FAIRFIELD, Conn. - The Honorable G. Sarsfield Ford of Fairfield died Sunday, May 19. He was 80. Judge Ford was born Sept. 6, 1933, in Bridgeport, son of John C. Ford and Julia Day Ford. He grew up in the North End and was a graduate of St. Patrick's school. He attended Fairfield ...

SANTA FE — New Mexico Attorney General Gary King says he knew nothing about raids carried out by his Animal Cruelty Task Force in which hundreds of birds were seized and killed.

Tennessee Stage Company P.O. Box 1186 Knoxville, TN 37901 865-546-4280 info@tennesseestage.org www.tennesseestage.com Tom Parkhill, executive and artistic director Non-Equity Casting: Casts productions in-house. Auditions by appt. only. Send pics and résumés to above address, attn: Tom Parkhill.

A key piece of evidence in a Baton Rouge drunk driving case has been tossed out of city court. The ruling could have a major impact on future DWI trials.

Inga Gutierrez was sentenced in 12th Judicial District Court Wednesday to 46-and-a-half years in prison for her involvement in the Lower Cottonwood Canyon standoff in 2009.

A 24-year-old man who pleaded guilty to raping a 14-year-old girl under the Orange Street Bridge was sentenced Tuesday to five years in the Department of Corrections.

The following is a series of questions posed by Ronald Collins on the occasion of the publication of Alexander Wohl’s Father, Son, and Constitution: How Justice Tom Clark and Attorney General Ramsey Clark Shaped American Democracy (University Press of Kansas, April 2013). Welcome, Alex. Thank you for taking the time to participate in this Question [...]

An inmate accused of leading a jailhouse gang was granted permission to be moved from the Maryland Prison System to federal custody.

James Everett Dutschke made his first appearance in a federal courtroom after being charged Saturday with making a deadly poison sent to President Barack Obama and others. He was ordered held without bond.

The public safety exception, which was applied recently in the Boston bombing case, was carved out in the 1980s by the former chief judge of New York State’s highest court.        

NEWTON — Sheriff Michael Strada threw open the doors of Sussex County Jail Tuesday evening to welcome members of local businesses for a tour of what some may consider the most infamous business in town.

After taking a team photo at center court following yet another Region III tennis title for Eleanor Roosevelt High School, one player jokingly asked what seems like a legitimate question.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A proposed constitutional amendment to legalize medical marijuana in Ohio maybe put before voters. On Friday, Attorney General Mike DeWine certified a summary of the proposal containing More >>