The 2013 session of the Kansas Legislature nears an end with the chief justice of the state Supreme Court accusing a leading senator with political coercion. Meantime, efforts are picking up steam to force appellate judges into retirement and to build separate civil and criminal appeals courts.

The Colorado Supreme Court will issue a decision May 28 on whether the state's public schools are adequately funded.

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A housekeeper has been sentenced to six years in federal prison in the theft of a Benjamin Franklin bust stolen in Bryn Mawr and reportedly worth $3 million.

Attorney General Jack Conway says the state has filed a Medicaid aid fraud lawsuit against the owner of an Elizabethtown clinic previously charged with health care fraud.

An Oregon federal judge has ruled the practice of limiting inmates' mail to only postcards is unconstitutional.

Robert Aronson is the Managing Attorney at Aronson & Associates, a Minneapolis-based immigration law firm serving a national and international clientele.

OMAHA (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday ordered a new trial for a Grand Island man, saying prosecutors failed to prove that a state crime lab scale used to convict him of a serious cocaine charge was properly calibrated.

A judge agreed Friday morning to let an independent lab review blood samples taken from Gary Hosey Jr., the driver who crashed into a bus stop killing four people last September.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 15 (UPI) -- A knifemaker pleaded guilty in an Alaska court to purchasing six restricted walrus tusks from an undercover agent.

The allegations against Utah Attorney General John Swallow are piling up. They aren't just coming from someone under...

Jodi Arias could face the death penalty, nearly five years after she stabbed, shot and almost decapitated her ex-boyfriend. The sentencing phase of her trial is under way.

The court issued an order on April 24 in response to questions posed by the board regarding the process it was expected to use in the latest court-mandated revision of the redistricting map.

IOWA CITY, Iowa - Two weeks after being sentenced to life in prison for the 2009 shooting death of John Versypt in Iowa City, Justin Marshall has filed a notice of plans to appeal his first-degree murder conviction.

Roy Hibbert scored 29 points, David West knocked away two passes by LeBron James for huge turnovers in the final minute, and the Indiana Pacers evened the East title series with a 97-93 victory over the Miami Heat in Game 2 of the series on Friday night.

A former New Jersey “Teacher of the Year” who admitted having sex with a 15-year-old student was spared prison time yesterday.Erica DePalo, 33, who won the Essex County honor, received a three-year suspended sentence and will be subject to lifetime parole supervision.“I feel nothing but remorse for my...

Sentencing for Kevin A. Balch, 34, was so steep because of penalties for stealing six guns.

Inmates in the Cook County jail are readying for an online chess match against inmates in Russia.

Darius McClinton-Hunter, the 17-year-old son of Detroit Tigers outfielder Torii Hunter, filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Collin County against those who accused him of sexual assault last year. According to Larry Friedman, the lawyer representing Hunter, “the suit seeks to recover damages against the girls and the parents of the girls who made the false accusations of sexual assault against Darius ...

PHOENIX : A federal judge ruled Friday that the office of America’s self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Latinos in its trademark immigration patrols, marking the first finding by a court that the agency racially profiles people.

A former corrections officer from Tower has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for having sex with a female inmate.

Sherman Townsend spent 10 years in prison for a crime another man has since confessed to committing, and the burglary conviction likely will stay on his record after a state board wouldn't issue a pardon Wednesday, April 24.

Charles Pona, accused of organizing the murder of a teenage girl, had his appeal for a retrial denied in RI Supreme Court.

CLEVELAND (AP) — An Ohio man who had been arrested for drunken-driving has been sentenced to 17 months in prison for subsequent Facebook rants against police and judges. The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer reports that 27-year-old William Bement was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to attempted retaliation. The North Olmsted man was given probation on a drunken-driving conviction on Feb. 5 ...

Georgia State Patrol Dash Cam Video shows troopers and investigators chasing Rufus Chatman, Troy Jackson, and Maurice Williams after Chatman and Jackson robbed a holiday party on Hall Road in Bainbridge.

The owner of the Argosy Sioux City has taken legal action as part of its bid to force Iowa gaming regulators Wednesday to overturn their decision last month to replace the gambling boat with a Hard Rock-branded casino in downtown Sioux City.

Friday's NBA’s pre-draft combine featured former Kansas star Ben McLemore and dozens of other draft hopefuls working through a series of on-the-court tests that will in some small way help determine where they are slotted in the June 27 draft. By Matt Tait

A jury found the three protesters on trial for trespassing on the Y-12 National Security Complex guilty on all charges.

An Iowa City man who was sentenced last month to life in prison for being present during the 2009 murder of landlord John Versypt has filed an appeal to the verdict.

A Philadelphia Common Pleas Court jury returns Monday to continue deliberating in the murder trial of West Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell.

MONTPELIER -- A group of Vermont lawmakers on Thursday called for a national constitutional convention to reverse the effects of the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision that allowed corporations greater influence in political campaigns.

A 26-year-old Vermont man caught hauling more than 100 pounds of marijuana has been given Nebraska prison time.

Former Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer misused state resources to further his personal and political agendas before 2008, federal prosecutors alleged in court documents filed late Friday.

At least 129 taxpayers voluntarily disclosed to the IRS that they held undeclared accounts at FCIB, based in Barbados, according to an affidavit by IRS Revenue Agent Cheryl Kiger. Several other people have been convicted of financial crimes involving accounts at FCIB, according to Kiger.

Two women arrested Thursday when local authorities raided a Eugene medical marijuana resource center were released from the Lane County Jail several hours later without being required to post bail. Chelsea Nicole Hopkins, 25, and Jill Marie Tanner, 32, face felony charges of delivering marijuana in connection with their work …

Eighteenth Circuit Judge George Maxwell is hearing a court case this afternoon against the Brevard School Board, attempts by opponents of the school closures to keep the schools open.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul S. Grewal in San Jose , California , ordered Google within two days to disclose what terms it’s using to find documents Apple has requested in pretrial information sharing, and to tell Apple which Google employees those documents came from.

DENVER (AP) — In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is asking a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill. The Oklahoma ...

Ronald Weems was sentenced to life in prison for murder and 10 years for abuse of a corpse.

For the third time since being convicted, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is asking to be released from prison so he can see his wife and three sons before sentencing.

It took one neighborhood years to get a court order to tear down an eyesore house in the Highland Creek neighborhood.

WASHINGTON DC— A federal court in California has authorised the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to serve a “John Doe” summons seeking information about US taxpayers who may hold offshore accounts in a Barbados-headquartered Caribbean bank.