Opponents of a bill to require rural electric co-ops to increase their use of renewable energy resources are putting on a full court press this week to persuade Gov.

The appeals process makes it unlikely that convicted cop killer Nickolus L. Johnson will keep his date with the executioner next year.

The high court's decision to uphold pot club bans could result in an extended period in which it will be impossible to buy medical cannabis in some cities but not in others — unless the legislature intervenes. by David Downs The California Supreme Court upheld on Monday the right of cities and counties to ban medical cannabis dispensaries in a unanimous decision that promises to have major ...

Attorneys for former Northwest Arkansas businessman Brandon Barber submitted paperwork in federal court Wednesday (May 8) to try to get...

For decades, fugitives thumbed their noses at judges in Philadelphia. But now something remarkable has happened: Criminal defendants are showing up for court.

FLORENCE – A federal judge today sentenced a Lauderdale County physician to one year and a day in prison for...

By Brian Mullahy (KUTV) The Utah State Prison may be the most secure, tightly controlled space anywhere in the state, but a remarkable, little-known program is providing a sense of peace, forgivenessâperhaps even emotional freedomâbehind the prison wall. ...

PHILADELPHIA (CNN) — It’s late afternoon on a recent Friday when Shree McKinley walks past the Women’s Medical Society. Making...

The Lung Cancer Asbestos Victims Center is urging loved ones, or family members of a victim of mesothelioma to call them for the names, and contacts for the most skilled, and experienced mesothelioma lawyers in the nation, because the most experienced national caliber mesothelioma lawyers really do get significantly better compensation results for their diagnosed victim of mesothelioma, or ...

By Brad Bumsted, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review HARRISBURG — The state Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a revised Pennsylvania legislative reapportionment plan, setting the stage for a 2014 election showdown between two ...

BOSTON - The longtime girlfriend of reputed gangster James "Whitey" Bulger lost her bid to reduce the eight-year prison sentence she received for helping Bulger during his 16 years as a fugitive.

PARKERSBURG - Five more people joined the ranks of graduates from the West Central Drug Court in a ceremony Friday in the Judge Black Annex. Speaking at the ceremony was West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals Justice Brent Benjamin.

Prosecutors say a man who shot cellphone video of his speedometer showing 140 mph just before crashing on an upstate New York highway has been sentenced to from 1½ to 3 years in prison for injuring his passengers.

A former New Jersey Yeshiva teacher changed pleas in the middle of his trial Monday, admitting that he sexually abused a boy he met while working as a camp counselor.

Mark C. Jackson testified Thursday in his two-day drug trafficking trial in 12th Judicial District Court.

Detectives have refocused attention on a Saudi man in the investigation into the murder of Colorado Prison Chief Tom Clements.

A former staff member of the state House was sentenced Monday, April 22, to five years in prison for his conviction on 12 counts of possessing child pornography.

Sometimes oversharing on the internet does more than just annoy your friends. It can even land you in jail

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Vietnam has issued a new law allowing domestically produced chemicals to be used in lethal injections, a change that should enable it to resume the currently stalled executions of more than 530 people on death row.

PHILADELPHIA (CNN) — A Philadelphia judge threw out three of the seven first-degree murder charges against Dr. Kermit Gosnell, the abortion clinic doctor accused of performing illegal late-term abortions at a bedraggled facility. Common Pleas Court Judge Jeffery P. Minehart …

Kentucky women’s basketball junior DeNesha Stallworth is one of 31 top student-athletes in the country who have accepted invitations to participate in the 2013 USA Basketball Women’s World University Games Team trials. Trials will take place May 16-19 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center (USOTC) in Colorado Springs, Colo., and the USA Basketball Junior National Team Committee issued the ...

GREENSBURG, La. (AP) — A 49-year-old Denham Springs man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to one count each of molestation of a juvenile, cruelty to juveniles and attempted aggravated rape.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A proposed constitutional amendment to legalize medical marijuana in Ohio maybe put before voters. On Friday, Attorney General Mike DeWine certified a summary of the proposal containing More >>

A former Kaysville teacher and basketball coach has been ordered to stand trial on 11 felonies.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Davidson County Criminal Court has summoned 480 people as potential jurors in a notorious Knoxville murder case.

Hennepin County Court Judge Toddrick Barnette found Eddie Matthew Mosley, 35, of Saint Louis, guilty on 9 felony counts Thursday. Mosley will spend the rest of his life in prison.

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - An attorney who O.J. Simpson claims botched his Nevada robbery trial five years ago told a court on Friday that he poured his "blood, sweat and soul" into defending the former football hero, who he said had been badly tainted by his sensational 1990s murder case.        

Client of Finebloom, Haenel & Higgins Has DUI Charges Reduced to Reckless Driving.(PRWEB) April 18, 2013 Sarasota DUI defense attorney AnneMarie Rizzo from the law firm Finebloom, Haenel & Higgins recently was able to get DUI charges against her client reduced to reckless driving, with adjudication withheld.According to court documents, the driver was stopped by the Florida Highway Patrol ...

 Prison workers across Oklahoma who were denied a raise in a $7.1 billion budget deal say they feel trapped in the crossfire of a political dispute between the governor and the state's prison director over how much money the agency has available in several revolving accounts.

Military recruiters across the country have been caught in a string of sex-crime scandals over the past year, exposing another long-standing problem for the Defense Department as it grapples with a crisis of sexual assault in the ranks.

The two Indiana men charged more than two years ago in a Glencoe home invasion/kidnapping case may soon go to trial. Curtis Cobb, 40, of Griffith, and James Meeks, 41, of Gary, appeared May 1 before Cook County Circuit Judge Timothy Chambers. Cobb’s attorney Rick Friedman withdrew a motion to quash the March 16, 2011, arrest, and told the judge that he would later this month for a trial date. He ...

An Idaho Springs man who pleaded guilty after a hit-and-run accident that severely injured the victim and ended in a stand-off with law enforcement was sentenced Wednesday to four years in a community corrections program.

In a unanimous decision, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals affirmed the murder verdict returned by a Monroe County jury in December 2011 against James R.L. Meadows.

Clifton Jermaine Whatley, a suspended Detroit police officer and Canton resident, could learn as early as May whether he will face trial in Wayne County Circuit Court amid charges he orchestrated a series of robberies across southeast Michigan, including a Feb. 6 holdup inside the Canton Family Dollar store on Joy Road near I-275.

May 16, 2013 7:38 AM LAS VEGAS (REUTERS) - OJ Simpson, the former football star famously acquitted of murder in 1995, offered sometimes emotional testimony in a packed Las Vegas courtroom on Wednesday as he sought a new trial in a robbery case that sent him to prison nearly five years ago.        

WICHITA FALLS, Texas - A northwest Texas rancher has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for firing multiple times at a crop-dusting airplane flying over his property.

After years of pretending to be a Navy SEAL and a member of law enforcement, a Rhode Island felon is facing multiple years in California and Rhode Island prisons after finally slipping up because of expired vehicle tags. View: Military record

A 27-year-old Richmond man was convicted in federal court Thursday in connection to an armed robbery at a Walgreens in Hampton in August.        

A former chief trial deputy under ex-Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi may testify against the embattled former prosecutor in a bribery probe as part of a deal with the U.S. Attorney's Office, Call 6 Investigator Rafael Sanchez has learned.

A Texas man will serve a life sentence after being found guilty of murder in the shooting death of a Pennsylvania high school football player while both were in Durham.

BOSTON (AP) - The dispute over where to bury suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev escalated Wednesday as a Massachusetts police chief urged someone to step forward with a cemetery plot, saying: "We are not barbarians. We bury the dead." Worcester police Chief Gary Gemme's plea came a day after he said that a deal struck Monday to bury the 26-year-old's remains at a state prison ...