A 35-year-old Logansport man is leaving the Cass County court system with 15 years in prison, resulting from four court cases.

Utah man gets prison for shooting, killing his father by Jessica Miller The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 20, 2013 10:54AM MDT Farmington • A 30-year-old Roy man who shot and killed his father two years ago at a Kaysville motel was sentenced Monday to prison for up to 30 years. Joseph Allen Nance was originally charged in 2nd District Court with first-degree felony murder and being a ...

During the sentencing portion of his jury trial Wednesday, a 36-year-old Nacogdoches man found guilty of one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and two counts of burglary habitation became very disruptive.

PHILADELPHIA – A former housekeeper who stole a rare 18th Century bust sculpture of Benjamin Franklin from a Main Line client faces several years in federal prison for taking the stolen property out of state.

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.

Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction officials say a new bill to increase sentences for repeat violent offenders with guns would cost $880.4 million over 20 years and force the department to open a new 750-cell prison.

A city man accused of trying to kill a 7-year-old girl on New Year's Eve has a new lawyer.

O.J. Simpson's former lawyer defended himself point-by-point Friday against allegations he botched the former football star's armed-robbery trial, after giving damaging testimony that Simpson actually knew his...

Now Howard has joined four other County Sheriffs in signing his name to a friend of the court brief, seeking to intervene on behalf of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, in its federal lawsuit seeking to strike the Safe Act down.

A man escaped from a Sidney, Montana prison today and remains on the loose. Larry Speldrich is 25 years old and is 6-1 weighing in at 210 lbs. He has what is described as a military style haircut and

The Washington Court of Appeals has overturned a Thurston County kidnapping and robbery conviction, due to insufficient evidence and a prosecutor’s misconduct.

RENO (AP) — A national conservation that helps local, nonprofit land trusts buy up property to protect natural resources is creating a first-of-its-kind liability insurance company to help them cover the costs of legal battles with developers.

A state appellate court ruling this week that a Waikoloa developer can’t be required to extend Paniolo Drive doesn’t mean that developer won’t be building the road, a county housing official said Friday. The Intermediate Court of Appeals on Monday upheld a 3rd Circuit Court decision that Waikoloa Heights Land Investors couldn’t be required to construct the road extension based on a 1990 ...

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.

As Oklahoma's prison population continues to grow, the state has become more and more reliant on private prisons to house offenders.

After years of waiting, Mary Hutchison’s relatives had to endure two final painful pauses Friday before James Ealy was convicted of strangling her in 2006. A Lake County jury announced it had reached a verdict after barely three hours of deliberations, but jurors hadn’t completed all the paperwork, forcing them to leave the courtroom for another 15 minutes. When they returned, Ealy was found not ...

HOUSTON (AP) - Convicted ex-Enron Corp. CEO Jeffrey Skilling's more than 24-year prison sentence for his role in the once mighty energy giant's collapse could be reduced by as many as 10 years if a federal judge approves an agreement reached Wednesday between prosecutors and defense attorneys.

A Virginia judge's ruling threatens to jeopardize the way Virginia is using private companies to run the Beltway Express Lanes and build similar lanes on Interstate 95.

MILWAUKEE, May 14 (UPI) -- A man who fatally shot six people at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin grew more radical in the months before the August incident, federal court documents indicate.

Sandusky County Common Pleas Judge John Dewey has removed himself from the Jacob Limberios case.

HELENA, Mont. -- The Montana Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed a lower court's ruling granting a new trial to a man convicted in 1984 of a murder he says he didn't commit.

The Lee County Sheriff's Office, in partnership with Prather & Swank Elder Law Attorneys, Ginny Yates, Registered Professional Guardian and Elder Care Consultant with Markham-Norton and Abby Services, will host an "Aging Wisely" seminar from 9 to 11 a.m. May 9 at Christ United Methodist Church, at 1430 Homestead Road N.

Proposed legislation would double penalties for using a gun during a felony offense in Ohio, targeting the less than 1 percent of Ohioans with repeat violent felony convictions who are committing 57 percent of the state's violent crime.

Mandan Middle Schoolers appeared in court today to stand trial. Actually, it was just a mock trial at Morton County Courthouse. They are commemorating Law Day, a time to remind Americans of the role they play.

A federal court has entered a final judgment against Henry's Turkey Service, reducing a recent $240 million jury verdict against the company to $1.6 million.

Judge Jeffrey Neary has found Cameron guilty of involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment in Monona County courthouse, in Onawa, Iowa.

SALT LAKE CITY – On Wednesday, legislators discussed a possible change to the way the Utah Attorney General is selected....

The following deeds were recorded at the Lancaster County Courthouse April 22-26.Adamstown BoroughPaul R. Funk IV, Danielle K. Funk and Danielle K. Howett conveyed 27 W. Main St. to Paul R. Funk IV and Danielle K. Funk for $1.Charlotte M. Eyster conveyed 4 Cameron Court to Kelly J. Mowrer and Christ...

A Columbus man involved in one of the largest black tar heroin busts in Washington County history was sentenced Monday in Washington County Common Pleas Court to three years in prison -half the time being served by a Vincent man involved in the bust.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — The court-appointed receiver tasked with identifying and recovering assets of a convicted Iowa investment broker says he’s almost done.

George Zimmerman's second-degree-murder case exploded across the globe so rapidly because of social media, his attorney said Saturday before a news-media banquet in Orlando.        

  NORFOLK Attorneys for a Somali man charged with hijacking a yacht off the coast of Africa in 2011 and killing four Americans on board claim their client is intellectually disabled and therefore ineligible for the death penalty.

A federal appeals court is refusing to block a federal permit for a West Virginia coal mine that was challenged by environmentalists. A panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that ...

House-Senate conference committee members Wednesday finalized a $547.3 million appropriation to fund state prisons, public safety and other justice system functions for the 2014 fiscal year that begins July 1. The overall funding level in Senate File 447 was an increase from the House’s $534.5 million proposal and Gov. Terry Branstad’s $535.2 million plan for [...]

The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office and Central Alabama CrimeStoppers are asking for the public's help to find a man who walked off of a work detail Thursday afternoon and is now considered an armed and dangerous escapee.

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

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.

Court appointed special advocates (CASA) asked the Lincoln County commissioners Monday for a donation so their program can continue to grow. The county board took no action on the request.

BRATTLEBORO -- Three organizations fighting for the closure of Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon are asking the Vermont Supreme Court to deny an appeal, filed by the plant's owner, of a pair of decisions rendered by the state's Public Service Board.

The trial for a Vineland High School 9-10 teacher charged with harassing a student is now scheduled... - 2:39 am

'Person of interest' in Uintah County homicide is back in Utah by Michael Mcfall The Salt Lake Tribune Published Apr 25, 2013 06:56PM MDT The fugitive who authorities are calling a “person of interest” in the murder of a Roosevelt man was back in Utah on Thursday. Jesse Anthony Saenz, 24, was already a wanted man after he allegedly skipped bail in Vernal, where he was awaiting trial for rape ...