Dutschke was in court Monday on charges of making and possessing ricin, part of the investigation into poison-laced letters sent to President Barack Obama and others.

Oregon man who got naked at Portland International Airport to protest TSA airport screening is in court fighting a federal fine.

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.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Deirdre Daly will become acting United States attorney for Connecticut when U.S. Attorney David Fein leaves office next week, Fein said Tuesday.        

A Lakeland man charged with killing three people in a drunk driving accident last weekend was out of the hospital and in a jail cell.

Ann Arbor, Michigan – A district judge in Michigan has issued a stipulating order allowing a pro-life sidewalk counselor to display a “free ultrasound” sign and others in his car outside of Planned Parenthood while his case moves forward in court. As previously reported, Paul Dobrowolski was ticketed last year for displaying signs inside of his [...]

The Village of Elmwood Place filed a motion with the Ohio Supreme Court on Monday regarding the controversial speed cameras, asking the judge to remove himself from the case.

Posted May 23, 2013, at 8:20 a.m. Last modified May 23, 2013, at 2:26 p.m. Dana Wilson enters the courtroom at the Penobscot Judicial Center with his attorney Jeffrey Silverstein on Thursday morning where he pleaded no contest to possession of child pornography.

A De Baca County rancher could be charged with one or more counts of animal cruelty and have his cattle seized, according to 10th Judicial District Attorney Tim Rose. Rose said on May 17, members of t...

A Quantico woman was sentenced Thursday to 8½ years in prison, far less than what was sought by prosecutors, for fatally shaking and fracturing the skull of a 9-month-old girl who had been left in her care. Amy Hunter pleaded guilty in January in U.S. District Court to second-degree murder ...

PHOENIX (AP) — Testimony is set to resume in Jodi Arias' murder trial as the prosecution continues with its rebuttal case ahead of closing arguments.        

Two Arkansas abortion providers in Little Rock won a judge’s approval to proceed with a challenge to the constitutionality of a state law making it illegal with some exceptions to abort a pregnancy after 12 weeks.

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A Jacksonville man who said he was defending himself when he fatally shot another man during a street fight has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. A Duval County judge sentenced 20-year-old Quintavis Sermond Seay on Monday for manslaughter.

Delegate Don Dwyer and his attorney spoke to the media Monday morning about his upcoming trial on charges related to a boating accident.

(AP Photo/Ferd Kaufman, File). FILE - In this May 23,1962 file photo, Billie Sol Estes, left, and his attorney John Cofer of Austin, Tex. are shown as they arrived at the federal court house in El Paso, Texas.

Former Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer will be arraigned earlier than expected. Farmer was originally going to be arraigned April 30th, but his attorney, Guthrie True, said Monday that he had another trial starting in Western Kentucky on April 29th. A federal grand jury indictment charged Farmer with four counts of misappropriating government money and property. He's accused of using the ...

DENVER, May 23 (UPI) -- The director of Colorado's parole division, the target of criticism for the past two months, has been put on a paid leave of absence, a prison official says.

Corrections officers and local law enforcement agencies said Thursday night that a missing inmate was captured in South Carolina. Inmate Ronald Billings, 38, went missing Thursday from a work release program. He was last seen at around 2:45 p.m. at a work location in Lincolnton. Billings was serving a seven-year prison sentence for breaking and entering, forgery and other property crimes. His ...

Same-sex couples who marry or join in civil unions face unique challenges to determine whether their partner qualifies as a beneficiary of their trusts, and attorneys must often navigate complex or unclear laws to guide their clients appropriately.

LAGRANGE — The Rural Lorain County Water Authority board’s use of secret ballots in a vote Wednesday to remove Mark McConnell violated Ohio’s Sunshine Laws, according to an open meetings expert and a 2011 opinion issued by Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine. “You can’t vote on anything in secret,” Tim Smith, an attorney and professor emeritus ... Read More

In addition to the prison term, the accused was sentenced to serve two years of supervised release.

NEW YORK (AP) — Actress Amanda Bynes appeared in a criminal court Friday disheveled in a long blond wig and sweats where she was charged with reckless endangerment after police said she heaved a marijuana bong out of her Manhattan apartment building.

El Paso lawyer Marco Delgado, who is a former Carnegie Mellon University trustee, is set to stand trial Monday in El Paso on charges that he conspired to launder millions for a violent Mexican drug cartel.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of David Mclymont in the 2008 slaying of U.S. Coast Guardsman Carlos Buford, who was visiting a friend in Clarksdale.

The team of public defenders now lined up to defend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev at his criminal trial are veteran defenders of a veritable rogue's gallery of criminal A-listers. Facing off against U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz, the prosecutor of Aaron Swartz, the Tsarnaev team should make these proceedings some one of the most spectacular on American soil in decades.

I beg to differ with Mr. Christopher P. Conway’s (Daily Journal, April 22) and Ms. Donna Bischoff’s (Daily Journal, April 25) characterization in their letters of the lawsuit filed against San Mateo County by the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights.

New Jersey is working hard to court visitors this season after Sandy, and conventional wisdom is that Delaware, where the superstorm was much less destructive, will see an uptick in rentals, both in cottages and hotels and motels.

Stephen Braga, an attorney based in Washington, used a little-known legal maneuver to get Damien Echols off Arkansas' death row.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A gang member convicted of working as an enforcer for a violent Memphis-based drug ring with ties to Mexican cartels was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday.

Akeem Harris (left) stands with his attorney Jeffrey Silverstein during his arraignment at the Penobscot Judicial Center in Bangor on Friday. Harris is currently being held without bail on charges related to the April 9, 2013, stabbing death of Thomas N. Taylor of Bangor.

In this July 15, 2011, file photo, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino rails against the county's 2009 affordable housing settlement with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and what he considers unfair demands from the agency.

( University of Chicago ) Prisoners who are psychopaths lack the basic neurophysiological "hardwiring" that enables them to care for others, according to a new study by neuroscientists at the University of Chicago and the University of New Mexico. "A marked lack of empathy is a hallmark characteristic of individuals with psychopathy," said the lead author of the study, Jean Decety, the Irving B ...

Former bouncer Aaron Mann sits stony-faced in the dock as his parents and sister address the court

Trial attorneys Carl Reynolds and Joe Boyd of Reynolds, Horne & Survant in Macon have settled a workers’ compensation claim for $4.5 million, possibly the largest settlement in Georgia history, according to a news release from the law firm.

(CNN) — An Arizona judge declared a mistrial in the penalty phase of the Jodi Arias trial Thursday after a...

A Flint man has been ruled incompetent to stand trial on charges that he made threatening phone calls to at least three federal lawmakers from Michigan. He claims he was implanted with radio frequency transmitters while in state prison.

The former mayor of Stockport in Morgan County was sentenced this week after being convicted of gross sexual imposition, sexual battery and rape involving a child. Get details.

The New Mexico Livestock Board received a judge's permission Friday to remove about 1,000 emaciated cattle from a drought-stricken ranch near Fort Sumner.New Mexico Livestock Board officials served...

Making official what many Democrats have expected for weeks, President Obama has nominated Chicago business executive Penny Pritzker, a longtime political supporter and heavyweight fundraiser, as his new Commerce secretary this morning.