Middle and high school students from all over Central New York got their day in court during the Onondaga County Law Day celebration.

n EXETER ALZHEIMER'S CAFÉ: at the Exeter Senior Center, 30 Court St., Exeter, will be open from 2 to 4 p.m., the second and fourth Tuesday of each month. No cost, no reservations.

Montimere, 25, posed as a high school basketball player in Texas in 2010 Guerdwich Montimere, the former Dillard basketball player who made national headlines after posing as a high school student in Texas, was released from prison on Monday.        

Suspect won't face death penalty. Jamie Shaffer, 23, was facing a murder trial in front of three Montgomery County Common Pleas Court judges in the killing of 20-year-old Lisa Spinks.

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts' highest court will consider cases in which prosecutors are challenging how lower courts are handling drug convictions jeopardized by alleged misconduct of a chemist at a state drug-testing lab.        

Former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin is scheduled to appear before a judge to be resentenced on campaign corruption charges.

OREGON CITY, Ore. (AP) â An Oregon State Police trooper accused of fondling a woman during a traffic stop pleaded guilty Tuesday in Clackamas County Circuit Court to official misconduct. Jose Antonio Cortez was sentenced to a week in jail. The six-year veteran resigned and surrendered his state law enforcement credentials. ...

Prosecutors say Thomas ran a phone scheme that convinced people their property was more valuable than it really was, but only if they paid hundreds of dollars up front.

York, PA - West York Police started an investigation more than a year ago that led to charges being filed against four men -- two who are still on the loose -- in connection with a multi-state retail theft ring, according to a news release issued Friday.

Former Preston County Animal Shelter Manager Courtney Austin and her attorney filed a lawsuit Friday in the United States District Court for the northern district of West Virginia.

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 Utah) New allegations are coming out against Utah's current and former attorney generals. A prison inmate is claiming both men are guilty of soliciting bribes...

Posted by Heather Records/CBS 12 News UPDATE: Delray Beach Police now say Robert Bradley has been found safe in Riviera Beach. He is being reunited with his family. Posted by Harrison Barrus/CBS12.com DELRAY BEACH, Fla. ...

The trial was initially set for July. But Farmer's attorney, Guthrie True, said that doesn't allow enough time to prepare for what he expects to be a complex case.

BRENTWOOD ? A former Raymond man recently sent back to prison to serve a 20 to 40 year prison sentence on a sexual assault conviction attempted suicide just as his latest trial was to begin on charges that he raped a 7-year-old girl.

A man arrested for a crime spree in Sonoma and Marin counties after a Castro Valley woman was killed in Oregon will face charges of felony kidnapping, carjacking in California before being tried for murder, prosecutors said.

A judge says that the WWE does business in Texas, so it will have to face off there against the guy who "pioneered" giving wrestlers songs to walk into the ring to. read more        

Brian Eugene Gordon, 30, was found guilty of breaking into a home in Buchanan County, Virginia in 2011.

MANSFIELD — State District Judge Robert Burgess has delayed the first-degree murder trial of 37-year-old Brian Horn.

MENOMINEE-A Gladstone man is scheduled to go to trial next fall for allegedly driving drunk on a motorcycle he crashed in 2011 in Menominee County, causing serious injury to his passenger.

At a press conference last Tuesday morning, Apr. 9, City Council Member Daniel Dromm introduced a bill and a resolution addressing solitary confinement in New York City jails. read more

The Georgia Supreme Court announced that Hugh P. Thompson has been elected Chief Justice and will be sworn in on Aug. 15.

FORT WORTH, Texas, May 8 (UPI) -- The sister of Baltimore Ravens cornerback Chris Johnson was fatally shot four times by her boyfriend, her mother said in a Fort Worth, Texas, murder trial.

Collier and Lee counties have sued BP, Transocean and Halliburton Energy Services to recoup economic losses caused by the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A sharply divided Supreme Court dismissed an appeal Monday from a Louisiana man who claimed that most of a seven-year delay between his arrest and murder trial was the result of a breakdown in the state's system for paying defense lawyers in death penalty cases.

An Evansville charged with murder has been granted immunity to testify against man accused of being involved in breaking into his home, which led to the charges against both of them.

Another man connected to a major drug ring in Central Maine is going to prison. 25-year-old Jesse Jones of Waterville was sentenced in federal court in Bangor Monday to 21 months behind bars. Court documents say he's one of 20 people who helped run a cocaine and oxycodone operation between J . . .

Charges filed against accused Boston bomb conspirator Dzhokhar Tsarnaev parallel those in a prominent case that played out in Oregon's federal court earlier this year.

In the past two weeks the number of states recognizing same-sex marriages has risen from nine to 12, with new marriage bills signed into law in Rhode Island, Delaware, and – on Tuesday – in Minnesota.

CARSON CITY (AP) — The Nevada Supreme Court is weighing whether the Public Employee Retirement System should be compelled to release the names and benefits of retired public workers as sought by a Reno newspaper.

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II has an early lead over businessman Terry McAuliffe in their race for governor, a new Washington Post poll shows, even as most voters in the commonwealth have yet to engage in the nationally watched contest.

After almost six months in the Illinois Department of Corrections, one of the men involved in a 2011 carjacking wants to withdraw his guilty plea. Robert E. Kimble, 22, was sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty in July 2012 to armed robbery, a Class X felony. Kimble and four other men were found guilty of working together to rob a North West Street man at gunpoint in September ...

The hunt for an HIV vaccine has gobbled up $8 billion in the past decade, and the failure of the most recent efficacy trial has delivered yet another setback to 26 years of efforts.

Eureka resident Jean Scheffler said was shocked and overwhelmed when 75 people showed up to a neighborhood watch meeting she led at a friend's house on the 2500 block of O Street.

An inmate once housed at the Jackie Brannon Correctional Center in McAlester recently pleaded guilty to escaping from the facility. Jeffery D. Walker, 23, pleaded guilty April 19 in Pittsburg County District Court to one felony count of escape from penal institution.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) -- A state judge has ruled that attorneys for Frank VanderSloot can question four employees of a national magazine to determine jurisdiction in a defamation lawsuit.

The Pennsylvania Prison Society marked its 225th year of advocacy for reform with a reception Thursday evening at Wertz Student Center of Lycoming College.

In 2010, at the tender age of 12, Paul Gingerich from Enchanted Hills, Indiana, was sentenced to 25-years in prison for his part in shooting dead a friend's stepfather.

A judge has told the U.S. Forest Service to pay $70,804.19 in legal fees to two lawyers who helped win a lawsuit that will force removal of the historic, rebuilt Green Mountain Lookout from the summit of a popular hiking trail in Washington’s Glacier Peak Wilderness Area. Senior U.S. District Judge John Coughenour approved compensating attorney Peter M.K. Frost of Oregon at rates of $410 an hour ...

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Jurors are deliberating the case of a Houston man accused of opening fire outside a Texas courthouse and killing a 79-year-old bystander.        

Three people with ties to the national contest will judge the Miss Rodeo Nebraska Pageant this year. They are Paige Burian, Bronc Rumford and Deborah Dilley.

Witness says Martinovich didn't meddle with valuation of solar company stock A top deputy of Jeffrey A. Martinovich said Wednesday he was unaware of any role the former financial service company CEO had in inflating the value of a solar company in which a Martinovich hedge fund owned a large stake.