(AP Photo). This combination of Associated Press file photos shows from left, O.J. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File). FILE - In this Sept. 30, 2005 file photo, O.J.

A paramedic has given jurors an emotional account of his role in rescuing a severely injured 3-year-old girl who was the sole survivor among a central Illinois family bludgeoned to death in th…

A Maricopa County Superior Court judge on Thursday blocked a campaign finance violation case against Arizona's attorney general, saying it was improperly brought by the county attorney's office.

WASHINGTON -- By a vote of 90-0, the U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed Sheri Polster Chappell to serve as a new judge for the Middle District of Florida, which includes Orlando.

Jury selection began Monday for the trial of three anti-nuclear activists who broke into the Y-12 National Security Complex.

Sturgis, Mich. — The case seemed simple: Solve the misdemeanor theft of a $14.99 phone charger. Three years later, it could be costly to the city of Sturgis.

SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio- Missing valley attorney John Schoenike, has been found. According to a report on Facebook, The message was posted shortly after 10:30 p.m. Sunday, stating: "He has been found.

By Liz Zemba, Tribune-Review Five candidates are seeking two openings on Common Pleas Court in Fayette County. Gerald Solomon and Ralph Warman retired and work as part-time senior judges. ...

Three weeks after the start of a securities fraud trial involving a Kansas City company whose leaders are accused of bilking unsophisticated investors out of millions of dollars, closing arguments that ...

CONCORD – The New Hampshire Supreme Court will issue its ruling Tuesday on Christopher Gribble’s appeal on his first-degree murder conviction in the death of Mont Vernon mother Kimberly Cates. Gribble’s appellate defender argued in pleadings to the court that the jury pool in Gribble’s March 2011 trial was “deeply affected” by publicity before and during the trial. Gribble, formerly of Brookline ...

A judge declined to set bond Monday for a Mississippi martial arts instructor charged with sending poisoned letters to President Barack Obama and other government officials. Prosecutors said they believed James Everett Dutschke was dangerous and a flight risk, according to NBC a …

WASHINGTON — Prosecutors say a Virginia man who planned a mass killing at the Washington headquarters of a conservative Christian lobbying group should spend 45 years in prison for his plot.

Justin Marshall sits with his attorney Thomas Gaul as the court decides how to answer a question from the jury about the jury instructions they were given before their deliberations in his first-degree murder trial at the Johnson County Courthouse on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013 in Iowa City. Marshall is accused in the 2009 shooting death of John Versypt in building 1958 at the Broadway Condominiums.

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit that claimed the state of Minnesota was wrongfully charged for more than 37,000 abortions for indigent women.

The Arkansas Supreme Court has ordered a new trial for a North Little Rock man convicted of first-degree murder in the bludgeoning death of his grandfather.

A federal judge in Michigan ruled Tuesday against a suit brought by a group of Christian evangelists who were attacked last year at the largest Arab gathering in the United States.

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California dismissed the City of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s high-profile lawsuit against the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District and other environmental agencies last week on May 2.

A former city comptroller who recently began serving a lengthy federal prison sentence for stealing nearly $54 million from her northern Illinois community will not be tried a second time on s…

Staffing at the state Department of Corrections would increase by 50 people under provisions of Gov. Scott Walker's budget scheduled for a vote.

Crestwood's former water supervisor may have signed public documents that concealed the use of a contaminated well, but she was merely a clerk who took orders from top village officials, one of her attorneys told a federal jury Tuesday.        

OTTUMWA -- The Oskaloosa man who allegedly robbed a landlord and then fled custody a month later received a 15-year prison sentence. Curtis Wayne Bunnell, 39, of Oskaloosa, was originally charged with first-degree robbery, first-degree theft and assa

Daniel S. Moffatt, experienced defense attorney, was recently able to assist his client, charged with possession with the intent to sell oxycodone, to avoid a possible 10 year prison sentence. (PRWeb May 03, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10691903.htm

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.

A federal judge in Orange County this week punished a Vietnam War refugee--who eventually became an accomplished U.S. Secret Service (USSS) special agent assigned to protect former First Lady Na...

Eighteen (18) additional charges were filed yesterday against the two men allegedly involved in the crime spree that hospitalized three and left one elderly woman dead this past Easter Sunday.

A Minnesota judge has found a Missouri man guilty in the shooting deaths of three people at a Brooklyn Park home day care last year.

The case of a former Tygart Valley Regional Jail correctional officer accused of forcing a female inmate to engage in sexual acts has been bound over to Randolph County Circuit Court.

Former local developer Brandon Barber was released from jail Monday afternoon in Washington County after being locked up for almost...

Travis Dibben will undergo a drug treatment program while in custody SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- A man from Rogersville will spend the next 120 days in the Missouri Department of Corrections, where he will undergo a drug treatment program.

CHAMBERSBURG - Prior to last summer s triple murder, Kevin Cleeves was in the process of seeking custody of his daughter through Franklin County Central Court.

(AP Photo/Matt York). Spectators wait for a verdict in the murder trial of Jodi Arias, Wednesday, May 8, 2013 in Phoenix.

A Mississippi martial arts instructor is set to appear in federal court Monday after he was charged with sending poisoned letters to President Barack Obama and other government officials. James Everett Dutschke was arrested Saturday morning at his home in Tupelo and charged with …

Tuesday, Gov. Mark Dayton announced the appointments of Crookston attorney Anne M. Rasmusson, Jana M. Austad and Judge Korey Wahwassuck as district court judges in Minnesota’s Ninth Judicial District.

NATCHEZ, Miss. (AP) - A federal judge has rescheduled the trial of an inmate accused of participating in a deadly prison riot last year in Mississippi.

As states continue to grapple with aging correctional facilities, overcrowding, underfunded retiree obligations and other constraints, new research from Temple University's Center for Competitive Government finds that privately operated prisons can substantially cut costs – from 12 percent to 58 percent in long-term savings – while performing at equal or better levels than government-run prisons.

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.

HARRISBURG - A federal judge said Monday that she would decide in a few weeks whether to dismiss a lawsuit by Gov. Corbett against the NCAA over sanctions against Pennsylvania State University stemming from the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse scandal.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A retired computer administrator for the Alabama court system has pleaded guilty to stealing court system computer code from the county court records database. Officials say 59-year-old David Michael Carroll pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Montgomery. Authorities say Carroll's 36-year-old co-defendant Jill Hawthorne pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting access ...

A Missouri man convicted in February of killing a Nebraska woman more than 20 years ago has lost his bid for a new trial.

Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Wade McCree A media spotlight shone on a Washtenaw County courtroom Monday as the case of Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Wade McCree went before the Judicial Tenure Commission. McCree, who is accused of...

DECORDOVA, Texas, May 15 (UPI) -- Billie Sol Estes, a flamboyant Texas millionaire businessman who wound up in prison multiple times for fraud, has died, his daughter said. He was 88.