A 48-year-old Hungry Horse woman pleaded guilty April 30 in federal court in Missoula to a charge of theft of government money for taking supplemental security income (SSI) she was not entitled to receive.

A Middlesex Superior Court jury has awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars to the former operator of Duxbury’s municipal golf course, after finding that the town unfairly ousted the company from managing the 9-hole course.        

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May 14, 2013, Judge Frank H. McCartney presiding:

LA CROSSE, Wisconsin (WXOW)-- A La Crosse woman is sentenced to 30 days in jail after being charged in connection with an armed robbery in Onalaska back in February of 2012. On Wednesday, a judge also sentenced 33-year-old, Jennifer Rondeau-Wilbur, to serve two years probation.

As the protest threatens to claim lives, and world revulsion grows at the prisoners' plight, Obama faces intense pressure to step in When the military doctors force-feed Guantánamo Bay detainee Fayiz al-Kandari with a tube shoved into his stomach there are three stages to the pain. First, there is the sensation of the tube passing near his sinuses as it is pushed through his nose and into his ...

More than four years after Troya Sheckles was gunned down in Shelby Park while watching her young cousin play, a jury found Steven Pettway guilty of killing the 31-year-old to prevent her from testifying in a murder trial.

Indicted Highland Park Schools board member and union activist Robert Davis is alleging the state's Emergency Loan Board violated the Michigan Open Meetings Act when it appointed Kevyn Orr to be emergency manager of Detroit.

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 ...

WOODLAND, Calif., May 22 (UPI) -- A California defendant in a hearing on an assault charge said the words he hurled at the gay man he allegedly beat up did not make the beating a hate crime.

A Texas judge issued a ruling to force a lesbian couple in McKinney, Texas to stop living together. [ more › ]

B456 Systems Inc., the bankrupt electric-car battery maker formerly called A123 Systems Inc., won court approval of a plan to exit bankruptcy that pays creditors from the proceeds of selling virtually all its assets.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Celebrity lawyer F. Lee Bailey meets all the requirements to practice law in Maine if he can resolve his tax debt with the federal government.        

A 26-year-old Longview, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.  

A Virginia man who was once one of the nation's most prominent swimming coaches is scheduled to be sentenced in Maryland for sexually abusing one of the girls he instructed.

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — A judge has denied a request for a new trial from an Alabama death row inmate convicted of killing a Mobile police officer. Lawyer for Vernon Madison had argued prosecutors improperly excluded black jurors during his 1994 trial. Al.com reports (http://bit.ly/18swA1D ) that U.S. Distric Kristi DuBose ruled prosecutors had legitimate, non-discriminatory reasons for blocking ...

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee– Attorneys for some trucking companies suing Pilot Flying J are asking a judge this morning to grant a...

Arguments have begun in the court case over the 38 Studios collapse. According to a Providence Journal report, a Rhode Island Superior Court judge heard arguments yesterday over a motion from defendants to have the case dismissed.

Before he was a flight risk, Kwame Kilpatrick was so broke he couldn't fly without help from a female gospel singer, who prison officials outed as the source of plane tickets used by the former mayor to travel between Texas and Detroit.

This story has been corrected to reflect the maximum possible prison term for Mr. Smith is 6 years. An earlier version of this story indicated a larger number. The Bonanza regrets the error.

A judge in Fort Wayne ordered suspended Indianapolis police officer David Bisard to remain in jail until his trial in October for an alcohol-related crash in 2010.

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — A football player from Pennsylvania says he was texting and talking with his girlfriend moments before a shooting in a Durham parking lot in which a teammate was killed and he was wounded.

Attorneys in North Carolina's redistricting lawsuits will return to court early next month because a three-judge panel wants to hear more evidence.

EAST LIVERPOOL - A Steubenville man who claimed to be a police officer when picked up by a trooper from the Lisbon highway patrol post was back in East Liverpool Municipal Court this week.

A high-speed pursuit spanning two counties ended approximately 20 miles from where the chase began and a woman was taken into custody, according to reports. Lindsey Daniels, 24, of near Minster, appeared via video arraignment in Miami County Municipal Court. She faces nine charges, including two counts of possession of drugs, failure to comply, driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs ...

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is asking Congress for more than $450 million for maintaining and upgrading the Guantanamo Bay prison that President Barack Obama wants to close.

Federal prosecutors rested their case against Harvey Whittemore this afternoon – after four and a half days of testimony -- and his lawyers began calling witnesses.

This week in history: court rulings, wars and uprooting of the capitol.        

(AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher, Pool). Jodi Arias stands as the jury enters the courtroom on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix.

Medical and recreational marijuana may be legal in Colorado, but employers in the state can lawfully fire workers who test positive for the drug

A man with ties to Kingsport and who escaped from a Kentucky prison was spotted in the area Thursday, but was apparently able to continue evading capture.

Cummins & White, LLP, a well-known diversified, full-service business and insurance law practice, today announced that Erick Becker has joined the firm as a partner and will lead the labor and employment ...

Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell and Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli are being investigated by a Richmond prosecutor over the omission of gifts from their financial disclosure forms, according to statements from Cuccinelli’s office.

A Washington man wanted for allegedly assaulting and kidnapping his estranged girlfriend last month was arrested early Wednesday during a warrant sweep by members of the Washington County District Attorney’s Drug Task Force,

A Corydon doctor under investigation by the Indiana attorney general's office will be allowed to continue practicing medicine for at least another month under an agreement the Indiana Medical Licensing Board approved Thursday.

CHICAGO (AP) - An Iowa letter carrier has been sentenced to 37 years in prison for sending dud pipe bombs with threatening letters signed "The Bishop."

A federal appeals court has upheld a Missouri law banning protests within 300 feet of funerals but has struck down a broader law that could have kept protesters even further away.

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren has questioned three more federal agencies’ enforcement practices by asking if they’ve studied the costs of favoring settlements with big financial firms over taking them to trial.

WASHINGTON — Early in an opinion issued recently by a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Judge A. Raymond Randolph says: “Although the parties have not raised it, one issue needs to be resolved before we turn to the merits of the case.” The issue he raised but could not resolve — that is up to the Supreme Court — illuminates the Obama ...

A federal court has sentenced two Minnesota women to lengthy prison sentences for soliciting donations in the name of charity, then funneling the funds to Somali militants.

AP Photo/Julio Cortez - John Jackson, left, and his wife Carolyn Jackson, of Mount Holly, N.J., walk out of Martin Luther King, Jr. Courthouse, Thursday, May 9, 2013, in Newark, N.J.