Order follows new claims of misconduct by juror Dennis DeMartin Polo magnate John Goodman, convicted of DUI manslaughter and sentenced to 16 years in state prison, will get a new trial because of newly discovered juror misconduct, a Palm Beach County judge ordered Friday.        

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A District of Columbia teenager was sentenced to seven years in prison for beating an 81-year-old woman during a break-in of her Chevy Chase home in Northwest Washington.

Gun Owners Who Give Up Firearms To Receive Gift Cards Follow Your Town News On The Courant's Hartford Facebook Page The city's three trauma centers, law enforcement and now the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association are urging gun owners to hand over their unwanted firearms in exchange for grocery money.

WILLIAMSPORT — The case of a man accused of killing a friend and burying him in a crawl space under...

Kenneth Bae, a 44-year-old American citizen, was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in a North Korean gulag this week for "hostile acts" against the country and Kim Jong-Un's regime. Considering the DPRK's penchant for hyperbole and habit of punishing Americans, the truth about Bae's situation remains murky. Here's what we know so far: 

The trial is looming for two brothers facing 16 criminal charges in connection with the operation of a Bay City medical marijuana compassion club, but their attorney is hoping to have the cases dismissed before a jury gets involved.

In a story that's only on KSLA News 12, an Oklahoma woman convicted of horse theft back in April returned to an ArkLaTex court Tuesday to face new charges.

People placed in custody after committing a crime must petition for time away from the hospital.

Over the years, Columbia County District Attorney Jane Kohlwey has been instrumental in getting people sent to jail.

MINEOLA, N.Y. - In what police are describing as a crime of opportunity, a wanted man with a criminal history dating nearly 15 years entered a front door that had been left open at a New York home near Hofstra University.

A New York judge has refused to suspend his ruling giving women of all ages broad access to morning-after birth control. 

A judge has sentenced a northern Indiana man to 90 years in prison on murder and other charges from the shooting death of his girlfriend. Read more at www.WISHTV.com

A judge sentenced Susan Hilgeman to 3 years in prison and ordered her to pay back $290,000 to the Eastern Star organization.

The father of two girls allegedly raped by neighbor boys said the jury trial is scheduled for October 7, 2013.

Johann Schmidt, the Deluth, Ga., businessman found guilty of stealing from First Farmers Bank, might have thought he’d resolved all of his legal jeopardy in Indiana. But this week, the Indiana Court of Appeals allowed two additional felony theft charges to stand against Schmidt, who’d already pleaded guilty to one charge in Miami County.

George Thomas is one of four defendants accused of kidnapping, raping, torturing, and murdering Channon Christian and Chris Newsom in 2007.

As many as 4 million Indiana drivers could become plaintiffs in a lawsuit alleging the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles has overcharged for driver's licenses since 2007.

A rescue dog bit off part of an Ohio prison inmate's nose after the prisoner tripped while chasing a ball during recreation and fell on the dog, according to a prison report.

 A May 8 trial date has been scheduled in Common Pleas Court for four of six men accused of killing an Ashtabula man in 1997.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A revised plan to redraw the boundaries of Pennsylvania's legislative districts won the unanimous approval Wednesday of the state Supreme Court, which rejected renewed appeals by citizen challengers and Democrats who argued the plan, like the previous version, was driven by political considerations and did not meet constitutional guidelines.

A former corrections officer has pleaded guilty to conspiring to bring contraband to the inmates at the Maury County jail in exchange for cash.

Somehow the punishment doesn’t feel like enough for the fellow soldier who took their son’s life. What’s 15 months in jail compared to a lifetime without Neil Turner? Spc. Francisco Perez accidentally triggered a shoulder-fired rocket launcher at Pfc. Neil Turner inside the walls of their headquarters in Afghanistan last year. The explosive pierced Turner’s chest but did not explode.

Part of Johnson’s Nevada case halted, Utah charges proceed by Tom Harvey The Salt Lake Tribune Published Apr 22, 2013 11:07PM MDT A judge in Nevada presiding over a lawsuit against Jeremy Johnson has granted an emergency motion by federal prosecutors in Utah to temporarily halt some proceedings while they pursue criminal charges against the St. George businessman and four cohorts in his online ...

WILMINGTON, DEL. — A man whose father killed two people at a Delaware courthouse before taking his own life was sentenced to six months in federal prison Tuesday for violating his probation on fraud and kidnapping charges.

A federal judge in Milwaukee has sentenced three people charged with growing hundreds of marijuana plants in the northeastern Wisconsin woods.

An Idaho man who admitted to breaking into a Boise zoo last year and killing a monkey was sentenced to seven years in prison on Thursday, court records show.

By Adam Brandolph, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Lester G. Nauhaus on Friday said he will resentence former state Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin “out of extreme ...

PORT CLINTON — When a Michigan company began demolishing an elevator factory in Toledo five years ago, it reported finding no asbestos in the building.

Almost two years ago, Anthony G. Vaughn sat before a judge in a Douglas County courtroom — having pleaded guilty to burglarizing the home of his son's Bible study teacher.

KIMT News 3 - It’s a verdict some were hoping for and are excited to finally hear as Warren Purvis is sentenced to life in prison. On Friday 59 year-old Warren Purvis of Mason City was sentenced to life in prison following his conviction of first degree sexual assault.

A Franklin County Municipal Court judge is accused of violating the code of judicial conduct by dismissing a traffic ticket against a lawyer who was representing him in state and federal lawsuits. Harland H. Hale, the court’s environmental judge, should be disciplined for his behavior, the Ohio Supreme Court’s disciplinary counsel said in a complaint filed this week. A three-member panel from ...

By Renatta Signorini, Tribune-Review Three candidates for one seat on Westmoreland County Common Pleas Court have mustered nearly $240,000 in the campaign. Of that total, personal loans from the ...

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:56:05 GMT By MELANIE PLENDA For The Monitor Graduates from University of New Hampshire School of Law won’t cure diseases or rid the world of poverty, said commencement speaker, famed lawyer David Boies. But what they will do can be just as extraordinary. “You are probably not going to invent a cure...

Federal judge in Camden will hear arguments next month over Bryant family memorabilia squabble.

HARRISBURG, Pa., May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has denied review of a $700,000 predatory lending order against Girard Finance Company of Bala Cynwyd, Montgomery County.The Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission found the company and its owner Thomas Richter targeted minorities for unfair business loans.The court's May 15 decision ends appeals of the PHRC ...

(AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Mark Henle, Pool). Defendant Jodi Arias talks with her attorney during her trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Thursday, April 25, 2013.

The father of one of the Kazakh college students accused of covering up for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev said yesterday he is confident his son soon will be released from the Essex County jail because he has done nothing wrong.

Jeremy Owens elected not to say anything Friday as he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for beating and stabbing to death his grandmother, Brenice Champlin, in 2011.

A Cottage Grove man now has the FBI on his side as he continues to search for his 5-year-old daughter, whose mother allegedly has moved with her to the East Coast in violation of a court order. A federal judge last week signed an arrest warrant that accuses former Eugene …

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) - A woman once facing a possible life prison sentence for allegedly pimping a 17-year-old girl in Grand Forks tearfully thanked the judge and hugged the prosecutor after receiving no jail time in a case even the prosecutor called unusual.