ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) -- A Virginia man who was once one of the nation's most prominent swimming coaches is scheduled to be sentenced for sexually abusing one of the girls he instructed.

Washington: Indian national Kaushik Jayantibhai Thakkar and Brazilian national Fabiano Augusto Amorim were each sentenced on Friday to serve 36 months in prison for their roles in smuggling

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama vowed Friday to join Planned Parenthood in fighting against what he said are efforts by states to turn women's health back to the 1950s, before the Supreme Court legalized abortion nationwide, and singled out the GOP-governed states of North Dakota and Mississippi for criticism.

James D. Phillips, a leading Florida defense lawyer and founder of Katz & Phillips, PA, has been named among Strathmore's prestigious Who's Who for 2013. (PRWeb May 23, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10755340.htm

Concluding that a judge's tendency to "interrupt, patronize, and admonish" an attorney deprived the lawyer's client of a fair medical malpractice trial, a New York appellate court has ordered a retrial before another judge. The panel wrote that the conflict, which occured "at all phases of the trial," often in front of the jury, "unnecessarily injected personality issues into the case, which ...

NEW YORK -- Mesoblast's preclinical trial results of its allogeneic, or "off-the-shelf", Mesenchymal Precursor Cells (MPC) delivered by intracoronary infusion in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) ...

BOWLING GREEN — The defense team in a federal deprivation of rights trial against Barren County Sheriff Chris Eaton, deputy Aaron Bennett and Barren-Edmonson Drug Task Force detective Eric Guffey called one more expert witness and two additional witnesses for Guffey before resting its case Wednesday morning.

MINNEAPOLIS, May 15 (UPI) -- Four men were sentenced in a U.S. court in Minnesota to prison for terrorism offenses related to support for Somali organization al-Shabaab.

WILKES-BARRE 8212 Two days after a federal judge sentenced him to 25 years in federal prison related to online sex-related crimes, a former Holy Redeemer football coach was back in a courtroom pleading guilty to three sex-related charges at the state level.

A Flint man has been ruled incompetent to stand trial on charges that he made threatening phone calls to at least three federal lawmakers from Michigan. He claims he was implanted with radio frequency transmitters while in state prison.

Prosecutors say they will work with New Hampshire authorities to expedite the case against a man who will be charged with the attempted murder of a Bedford, N.H., anesthesiologist and his wife.

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.

ROCKVILLE, Maryland, May 23. RICK Curl was sentenced to seven years of jail time after pleading guilty to charges that he sexually abused a former underage swimmer over the course of many years in the...

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 ...

By Ladd Egan (KUTV) A sprawling, multi-million dollar compound built for imprisoned polygamous sect prophet Warren Jeffs is now owned by the leaderâs estranged former bodyguard. Willie Jessop bought the six-acre property for $3.6 million during a sheriffâs auction Thursday morning on the steps of the courthouse in St. ...

Dona Ana Community College is being sued by eight current and former nursing students...

Authorities arrested a Butler County man Thursday as part of ongoing efforts to target the online sharing, downloading and distribution of child pornography. Attorney General Kathleen Kane identified the defendant as Shane Hinchberger, 25. According to the criminal complaint, agents conducting an online investigation identified five illegal image files on Hinchberger's computer, which depicted ...

An Amber Alert issued earlier today in Putnam County was canceled after on person was taken into custody in Columbus.

By Tribune-Review Westmoreland COUNTY Mt. Pleasant BOROUGH Ex- union official gets probation The former secretary-treasurer of the Mt. Pleasant branch of the National Association of Letter Carriers ...

The Madera County Grand Jury recently criticized the Madera County District Attorney's Office, stating the office has not prosecuted a majority of alleged crimes committed within the Madera County jail, Click to Continue »

While friends and family of a 19-year-old Madras man shot and killed on a rabbit-hunting outing expressed shock and grief Monday, a 24-year-old accused of murder and manslaughter made his first appearance before a Jefferson County judge.

The drug case that exposed shoddy work at the St. Paul police crime lab could be resolved within days.

The former pro-wrestler who is HIV positive and had unprotected sex with a dozen women in three counties won’t be serving any more than the 32-year prison term he received in Hamilton County, but a Warren County judge ensured he won’t get out earlier. Andre Davis — known as the “Gangsta of Love” during his wrestling days — appeared Tuesday before Judge Don Oda in a green jail jumpsuit, his hands ...

ARMONK, N.Y. (AP) — A town judge in New York is deciding whether the drugged-driving case against Kerry Kennedy should go to trial.

Former Broward Circuit Judge Ana Gardiner should be disbarred, not just suspended, for her misconduct during a capital murder trial in 2007, the Florida Bar argued in a brief filed to the state Supreme Court this week.        

Convicted rapist Gary Irving watches as the niece of one of the victims walks to the stand to give testimony during his sentencing in Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Mass., Thursday, May 23, 2013. Irving was sentenced to 36 to 40 years in prison for raping three women in Massachusetts, more than three decades after he fled the state and began living a secret life in Maine.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) - A Canadian man accused of leading a conspiracy to sell drugs in North Dakota and other states is scheduled for sentencing in federal court.a

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.

(CNN) — An Arizona judge declared a mistrial in the penalty phase of the Jodi Arias trial Thursday after a...

DNA results undermine hair match that helped to lock away John Norman Huffington for 2 life terms.

An attorney for the Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center says the U.S. Supreme Court has turned down Alabama’s appeal to revive portions of the state’s immigration law. The justices on Monday left in place a federal appeals court ruling that blocked parts of the law. Justice Antonin Scalia voted to hear the appeal.

The India-Srinivasan, 46, currently principal deputy solicitor general of the US, was Thursday confirmed by the Senate by a 97 to 0 vote, as a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

WORCESTER - A New Mexico man who says he was raped about 25 years ago by the Rev. David A. Holley is suing the Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester in federal court and#8212; charging that local church authorities knew the diocesan priest was a pedophile, but nonetheless allowed him to practice his ministry in other parts of the country.

A South Florida doctor is facing up to two decades in prison after pleading guilty to drug and tax charges arising from an illegal pill mill operation.

A Wisconsin woman convicted of killing her baby daughter more than 50 years ago was sentenced Wednesday to prison for up to 10 years.

Dr. Rod H. Sproatt, a Beaufort County, South Carolina Magistrate Judge, will receive his Associates of Arts Degree from Spartanburg Methodist College, 44 years after attending the college.

A northern Indiana man who pleaded guilty to felony neglect of a dependent and felony obstruction of justice has been sentenced to 23 years in prison even though he didn't show for the sentencing. Read more at www.WISHTV.com

A Jefferson City man charged with robbing Bank Star One in New Bloomfield in October 2012 was found guilty following a court trial, Thursday.

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. has announced that the following ten attorneys have been elevated to Members of the firm:

Federal prosecutors are urging a judge to send a former Michigan Supreme Court justice to prison for bank fraud.

I beg to differ with Mr. Christopher P. Conway’s (Daily Journal, April 22) and Ms. Donna Bischoff’s (Daily Journal, April 25) characterization in their letters of the lawsuit filed against San Mateo County by the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights.