UPDATE: The missing man, Harry Brown, has been found safe according to Cobb County Police. The Mattie's Call has been cancelled.

An assistant state attorney general has been appointed to the team prosecuting James Holmes in the Colorado theater shootings.

Kansas officials are vowing to fight United States Attorney General Eric Holder's claim that the state's new ban on federal gun laws is unconstitutional.

George Zimmerman, defendant in the killing of Trayvon Martin, is seen in Seminole circuit court, in Sanford, Fla., for a pre-trial hearing, Tuesday, April 30, 2013.

Antonio Collins was arraigned in Kanawha County magistrate court Tuesday afternoon. He was arrested in Columbus last week on two counts of attempted murder.

A retired photographer accused of the serial “Alphabet murders” in California went on trial on Monday acting as his own attorney, joining prosecutors in picking jurors who will decide whether he is guilty of slaying four prostitutes.

A western Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to 25 to 50 years in prison in the shotgun slayings of his parents in their suburban Pittsburgh home.

The Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled Troy does not own the land where its new ...

James Ealy reacted strangely when asked about the strangulation of his former boss at a Lindenhurst Burger King restaurant, a co-worker testified at his murder trial Wednesday. “I said, ‘I don’t know how someone could do something like that,’” said Johanna Escobar, recounting the conversation with Ealy a day or two after the slaying. “He said, ‘well, I didn’t do it. I didn’t kill her.’” Ealy is ...

KISSIMMEE – David Murillo, the first and only person convicted of murder in Celebration, will die in prison.

Ja Rule is out of prison ... the big house ... the pokey ... the can ... the clink ... the joint ... . Right. The rapper was released Monday, after serving most of a two-year-sentence in Ray Brook Federal Prison in New York for attempted illegal gun possession and tax evasion, according to TMZ.

While serving as governor of New York, William Seward received a Thomas Cole landscape painting as a gift for his work on the Erie Canal. Since then, its value has exploded and its caretakers are looking to sell. On Tuesday, Seward's great-great-grandson will be in court to try to stop them.

A teenager who is accused of injuring a police officer in Knox County during a chase will face a judge on Monday. Find out more.

Kentucky’s program to release state inmates from local jails early is taking an enormous bite out of the Henderson County Detention Center’s community service inmate.

A schedule conflict has delayed the trial of an Akron man charged with shooting his wife of 45 years in a hospital intensive care unit in what may have been a mercy killing.

A top federal appellate judge is speaking to new graduates of the Charleston School of Law.

A Tulsa man is awaiting a trial in Pittsburg County charged with assault and battery on a correctional officer.

A longtime high school girls soccer in Holyoke, Mass., enticed a 14-year-old Vermont girl to send him nude photographs of herself, according to federal court records.

(AP Photo/Mel Evans). Yosef Kolko, 39, walks near the Ocean County Courthouse in Toms River, N.J., Thursday, May 9, 2013, during a break in his trial on sexual assault charges.

BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A supermarket chain wants an Illinois lawsuit related to a security breach affecting up to 2.4 million credit and debit cards of its customers moved to a federal court.

FARMINGTON Utah (ABC 4 Utah) - A former teacher and coach will stand trial on multiple counts of sex abuse with a student.

A federal judge has scheduled a settlement hearing in the Savannah harbor deepening lawsuit. The massive court case blocking Georgia's port expansion project now will come to an end on June tenth. Environmental groups and South Carolina agencies had sought to stop the deepening project over water...

JEFFERSON CITY - Prison sentences for Missouri juveniles convicted of first-degree murder remain uncertain because lawmakers did not pass a new sentencing scheme before adjourning.

Yelp reviewers are now treating prisons like hotels, reviewing food service and staff friendliness. Some prisons may even receive a one to five star rating. “Jail food may get a bad rap ... but jail employee food is off the chain!" read one review. Another suggested getting arrested in Arlington County, where officers supposedly handed out juice boxes. Aside from being sometimes entertaining ...

An Ohio prosecutor said Thursday he may seek the death penalty against Ariel Castro as investigators charged that he impregnated one of his captives at least five times and then starved her and punched her in the belly until she miscarried.

A Boulder attorney is wading into a touchy new area of legal ethics as he champions a cybertool — YouTube — for attorneys who want to take their cases beyond the courtroom and into the court of public opinion.

The presiding judge of the Utah Court of Appeals has been appointed to the U.S. 10th Circuit.

PHILADELPHIA, May 22 (UPI) -- A federal appeals court in Philadelphia ruled 2-1 former Rutgers University quarterback can sue gamemaker Electronic Arts for using his image.

Quiet and unassuming — the archetype of the old-fashioned Southern gentleman — Perry, who died Saturday night at age 80, transformed politics in Texas and the rest of the United States with his big-dollar contributions to conservative causes. For three decades the Houston homebuilder was the primary financier of conservative political campaigns and anti-trial-lawyer policy crusades that paved ...

AUSTIN, MN — A Southern Minnesota baby who has HIV is going back to his parents. Today, a Mower County Judge ruled on the Baby Rico case today, by giving custody to his mother.

PHOENIX, AZ – An Arizona jury resumes deliberations in the Jodi Arias murder trial Wednesday. Jurors must decide whether Arias...

A Twin Falls County judge needed to excuse himself from a courtroom April 23 to collect his thoughts after listening to arguments surrounding the eight-year abuse of a child. "I've never seen a case that approached the depravity, cruelty and harm to a child," said Justice Richard Bevan when he returned to the bench.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

BILLINGS - Barry Beach will be back in the Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge Wednesday.

A Johnson County judge said today that he will decide before Friday — when Justin Marshall is supposed to be sentenced in the first-degree murder of John Versypt — whether he instead should get a new trial. Attorneys convened this afternoon in a Johnson County courtroom to discuss the first-degree murder conviction levied against Marshall [...]

Franklin Sain will go to trial on November 20, for allegedly threatening a Colorado lawmaker as the Legislature debated gun control.

York, PA - In a highly contested district justice race, six candidates are running for the bench of the recently created District Court 19-3-11. The district, which covers East Manchester and Hellam townships and the boroughs of Manchester, Mount Wolf, Wrightsville and Hallam, was created in 2011 to help balance the caseloads for magistrates throughout the county.

The Daviess County, Kentucky Jail is one of a very small number of facilities across the country to receive grant money towards an anti-sexual assault program behind bars.

BOSTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors in the upcoming racketeering trial of Massachusetts' reputed gangster Whitey Bulger (BUHL'-jur) want to do criminal background checks on potential jurors.        

MCKINNEY, Texas (AP) — A judge has ruled that a North Texas lesbian couple can't live together because of a morality clause in one of the women's divorce papers.

Fighting gun related crimes in Lowndes County just got a whole lot easier. Eyewitness News reporter Eames Yates got an inside look at the Valdosta Crime Lab's new ballistics program.

The first woman Air Force training instructor to face a court martial in a scandal involving sex with recruits at a Texas military base has entered a guilty plea, and faces up to a year in prison.