A Doerun man waits to find out his sentence after admitting he intentionally ran over his neighbor nearly a year ago. Craig Adams was charged with murder, but he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge.

GARDNERVILLE (AP) — A 27-year-old transient who claimed he was under the influence of demons when he robbed Bank of America branch in Douglas County has been sentenced to up to 15 years in prison.

ERIE, Pa. (AP) - A northwestern Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to 14 months to four years in prison in last year's death of a 5-month-old child. Twenty-2-year-old Matthew Clark pleaded guilty in Erie County to endangering the welfare of a child in the death of Jasper Holmes.

MORRISTOWN ‑ The New Jersey State Bar Foundation’s highest award — the Medal of Honor — will be conferred on Roseland attorney and Morristown resident Richard J. Badolato for his longtime commitment t

A dispute over greenhouse gases from oil and gas drilling will head to federal court in Montana as attorneys for the government and the industry face off against environmentalists who say too little is ...

A divided federal appeals court said today that a Michigan law barring public schools from collecting union dues can take effect, reversing a lower court ruling.

LAWTON,Okla_A man accused of a series of car burglaries in Lawton gave investigators an unusual motive. According to an affidavit, Darion Moore was questioned about the crime while he was in Lawton City

The date for the criminal case against Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill has been specially set to begin Aug. 5, according to an order signed Friday by the trial judge.

NEW YORK (TheDeal) -- Less than three weeks after issuing a report blaming former CEO Jon Corzine for the collapse of MF Global Holdings Ltd., the company's Chapter 11 trustee has sued the executive and two other board members. In a Monday, April 22, complaint, Chapter 11 trustee Louis Freeh of Pepper Hamilton LLP faulted Corzine, chief operating officer Bradley Abelow and former chief financial ...

Fraud ring stole millions of dollars from thousands of victims in 41 states.

Jhonas Enroth is suddenly a star in Sweden. He's met members of the royal family and been cheered by tens of thousands in the King's Garden after winn...

(AP Photo/Hamilton County Sheriff's Dept.) CINCINNATI (AP) - Jurors will head into a third day of deliberations in an Ohio murder case hinging on whether a dying, paralyzed man identified his shooter by blinking his eyes.

Catherine E. Greig was properly sentenced to eight years in federal prison for helping her long-time love James “Whitey’’ Bulger remain on the run from racketeering and murder charges for 16 years, a federal court ruled today.“On June 22, 2011, Greig’s many years of harboring Bulger came to an end,’’ Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson wrote for the unanimous three-judge panel. “Our consideration of her ...

An execution date has been set for an Oklahoma State Penitentiary death row inmate.

The Supreme Court has been pondering whether to take up a Wisconsin case that could reset the line separating church and state.

An attorney for the Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center says the U.S. Supreme Court has turned down Alabama’s appeal to revive portions of the state’s immigration law. The justices on Monday left in place a federal appeals court ruling that blocked parts of the law. Justice Antonin Scalia voted to hear the appeal.

MISSOULA - One of the two University of Montana Griz basketball players who was allegedly involved in a weekend fight in downtown Missoula, appeared in court Monday afternoon to face the charges against him.

The mother of a 14-year-old boy who was charged in the death of his little sister is begging the court to allow her to see her son, whose trial began earlier this week in juvenile court.

A Myrtle Beach man was sentenced to five years and ten months in prison for robbing 14 bank in six states.

Flint — A Flint man who authorities say threatened to kill three lawmakers from Michigan has been ruled incompetent to stand trial.

Loading Photo Galleries ... Candace Duran, seen in court Sept. 13, 2012, was convicted last month of voluntary manslaughter in a 2007 killing in Palm Springs.

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.

WARREN, Ohio - The man convicted of delivering a deadly dose of heroin that ended up claiming the life of a Girard teen is going to prison. James Patterson, of Youngstown, will spend the next 20 years More >>

Crime Police: Man stabs infant at Dewey Street home Suspect in Erie County jail without bond; infant flown to hospital Shawn Foucher Sandusky May 17, 2013 googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display("dfp-ad-sandusky_register"); }); A 19-year-old man allegedly stabbed an infant late Thursday night inside a Sandusky home, police said. The 11-month-old's condition wasn't immediately available ...

Judges in Butler County vary widely in how they handle requests to seal or expunge minor misdemeanor convictions. A survey by this newspaper of court personnel in Butler, Warren and Hamilton counties shows a majority of municipal and county court judges hold hearings and make people wait a year before they seal or expunge the record in minor misdemeanor cases. But if someone gets cited and ...

An attorney for Jodi Arias has told the jury deciding her fate that his client should get a life sentence for killing her boyfriend five years ago.

ST. ALBANS — Patrick Prue, 53, of Franklin pleaded not guilty on Monday in Vermont Superior Court to a charge of driving while intoxicated with death resulting involving a popular teenager from Enosburg.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said an Iowa jury awarded $240 million in damages, a record for the agency, in a trial accusing a Texas-based turkey processing company of severe abuse and discrimination against workers with intellectual disabilities.

After long cancer battle, Gardner dies at 68. She was elected clerk in 2000. After a long illness, Orange County Clerk of Courts Lydia Gardner died in a Winter Park hospital early Thursday.

The ‘less is more’ approach to cancer will be one highlight of ASCO’s annual meeting in Chicago that begins at the end of this month. On Wednesday, ASCO released thousands of abstracts on new clinical trials of cancer treatments.

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) - A woman once facing a possible life prison sentence for allegedly pimping a 17-year-old girl in Grand Forks tearfully thanked the judge and hugged the prosecutor after receiving no jail time in a case even the prosecutor called unusual.

A one-year extension of a 2008 settlement in the Sheff v. O'Neill desegregation lawsuit, approved by a state judge Tuesday, will cost about $6 million in new or reallocated funding to ensure that thousands more children are educated in racially diverse schools.        

Glenn BryantCourtesy of the WCSO The suspended Eastern Michigan University basketball player accused of choking his girlfriend had his preliminary hearing adjourned Tuesday in 14A-1 District Court because the 19-year-old woman was too ill to appear. Glenn Bryant, 22,...

This article discusses the smart and convenient way to make a large charitable donation, satisfy required IRA minimum distributions, rules, and receive income and estate tax benefits is to rollover funds from your IRA directly to a charity. (PRWeb May 13, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10717767.htm

NEW YORK, May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Morgans Hotel Group Co. (NASDAQ: MHGC) ("MHG" or the "Company") today said that it is pleased that the Delaware Court of Chancery has given the ...

CLINTON -- A Camanche man will serve as much as 20 years in prison for holding his wife at knifepoint on July 7, 2012. In April, Arthur Walker, 52, 4102 Ninth St., Camanche, pleaded guilty to third-degree kidnapping, third-degree sexual abuse and wil

The lawyers for a Texas lawyer and former Carnegie Mellon University trustee suspected of laundering drug money are seeking a trial delay.

The War on Drugs has accounted for more than 45 million arrests, made America the world’s largest jailer, and damaged poor communities at home and abroad, say the filmmakers behind the award-winning documentary “The House I Live In.” Yet for all that, drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever before.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ The Kansas Court of Appeals has upheld a ruling in 2012 by a state tax court affirming a property tax exemption for a Canadian company building the Keystone XL pipeline.

KNOXVILLE — A Kentucky man who was retried on murder charges was convicted Friday for his role in the torture and murder of a Knoxville couple in a case that has been described as one of the most heinous crimes in the history of Knox County.

In the very near future, the Jim Wells County Courthouse could look like it did in the early 20th Century.