The former head of a Lenox school for troubled young women and his son and son-in-law are facing prison time and have agreed to pay back the state of Vermont and the U.S. government $3 million for what the U.S. Attorney s Office calls "egregious" tax and health care fraud connected to a Bennington, Vt., school they had operated.

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BALTIMORE, MD – One prison guard getting pregnant with an inmate’s baby sounds crazy. But four officers impregnated by the same convict?! That’s the case before a judge in Maryland. In all, the Baltimore sun is reporting: 25 people face …

A Georgia man is set to appear in a Virginia court for child endangerment charges.

New York auto accident lawyer David Perecman of The Perecman Firm alerts drivers to the danger of debris on the road. Construction debris recently caused a multi-vehicle accident in Buffalo, New York.New York, New York (PRWEB) April 23, 2013 Cars were hit with construction debris that fell from an overpass onto cars on Route 33. The debris hit a van and led to a multi-vehicle accident involving ...

Three people who pleaded guilty in connection with a Colbert County murder are now headed to prison.

VIRGINIA BEACH A jury trial kicked off this morning for a teen accused of fatally shooting another teen and leaving his body behind a civic league building.

Three-judge panel has 90 days to issue an opinion on her vehicular homicide convictions.

By Chuck Weber/CBS 12 WEST PALM BEACH-- Legislation ending permanent alimony overwhelmingly passed both houses of the state legislature. But Wednesday, hours before the deadline, Gov. Rick Scott vetoed the measure. Now CBS 12 has learned of last-minute efforts to salvage an alimony deal. ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- A Thurston County jury has awarded $75,000 to a woman bit by a neighbor's dog. The Olympian reports the woman was seeking payment for medical expenses, plus pain, inconvenience, emotional stress, scaring and other general damages. After a weeklong trial, the jury voted 10-2 to award Linda Astorga more than $25,000 for past and future economic damages plus another $50,000 ...

A Minnesota man has been sentenced to one year of probation for obstructing a federal prosecutor in Iowa after his son was sent to prison in an animal terrorism case.

A federal judge in Houston declined to stop a lawsuit against ExxonMobil that alleges violations of the Clean Air Act at the company’s Baytown facilities.

After years of pretending to be a Navy SEAL and a member of law enforcement, a Rhode Island felon is facing multiple years in California and Rhode Island prisons after finally slipping up because of expired vehicle tags.

The Alabama Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments about whether it should reconsider its decision to overturn a $5 million verdict against the town of Gurley in a long-running legal battle over a quarry project.

Christi McCoy, attorney for Paul Kevin Curtis, speaks outside of federal court in Oxford, Miss. on Monday, April 22, 2013. Paul Kevin Curtis is in custody under the suspicion of sending letters that tested positive for ricin to U.S. President Barack Obama and U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss.

Ben McLemore's former AAU coach says he received thousands of dollars in cash, lodging, meals and trips from a middle man who courted the Kansas player on behalf of sports agents and financial advisers during the 2012-13 college basketball season.

A Wauseon woman who pleaded guilty of child endangerment will learn her punishment Friday.

Four men are given prison sentences in the US state of Minnesota in connection with the recruitment of fighters for a Somali militant group.

Although a trial is already set to begin at the end of the month, a Virginia Beach man was indicted Monday on second degree murder charges.

No decisions have yet been made, but Williamson County government continues to explore the designation of a special court for military veterans who have service-related disabilities and are accused of committing non-violent crimes.

Drug Court saves the county $13,000 per individual who graduates the program.

by Mark Curtis ABC6 Chief Political Reporter  mcurtis@abc6.com        Prosecutors in the Boston Marathon bombings will eventually have to decide whether or not suspect Johar Tsarnaev should face the federal death

Two local men pleaded guilty this week in federal court to robbing a series of banks of nearly $22,000 in Central New York and Massachusetts earlier this year, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Authorities captured a prison escapee in Denver Friday night after he had been on the lam for a month.

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board has denied clemency for a death row inmate scheduled to be executed next month.

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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In separate rulings issued against Wells Fargo and Citibank, a federal judge in California rejected attempts by the two banking giants to dismiss lawsuits.

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.        

Our gain of Hertz World Headquarters in Lee County will be the loss of Park Ridge, New Jersey. WINK News' Genevieve Judge spent Friday afternoon chatting with people in Park Ridge about the fact that the company is packing up.

The glistening, slimy, pink and gray orbs plopped one after another off the conveyor belt into a white plastic container, where Mark Smith waited to shovel chips of ice on top of the "jellyballs."

Bessie Elmore, left, and her daughter Cheryl McDonald visit with William Elmore at Orange Correctional Center in Hillsborough. Bessie started Straight Talk, a support group for families of prisoners.

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A former South Texas police officer has been sentenced to more than five years in prison in a guns case with ties to Mexico. A federal judge in Brownsville sentenced 31-year-old Armando Duenez (DWHEN'-ehz). He pleaded guilty in January to conspiracy to export firearms and failure to appear. Investigators say Duenez was a Rio Hondo police officer at the time of the ...

Incarcerated youths say the chance to study with college students has had a profound impact.

LONGMONT -- Renee Dulany-Hughes says all bets are off when someone is convicted of a crime. The former Longmont woman supports a bill winding its way through the Colorado Legislature that would expand the required collection of DNA samples from those convicted of felonies and sexual assault-related misdemeanors to everyone convicted of first-degree misdemeanors.

BELFAST, Maine (NEWS CENTER) - A 25-year-old man from Jackson has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for the drug-related fatal shooting of a Florida firefighter.

Numerous questions are swirling Sunday about what's next in Bisard's case, in light of the latest incident and Bisard's own admissions.

GAINESVILLE - The focus was on children Friday morning as dozens of people gathered in Kenyon Plaza in downtown Gainesville for the annual observance of National Crime Victims' Rights Week.

A judge ruled that Hustler publisher Larry Flynt cannot evict his brother from his store on Elm Street.

Gregg County Commissioners on Monday gave their OK to financing for a 200-unit retirement facility to receive up to $40 million in financing via bonds issued by a corporation in North Central Texas.

A.M. Best Co. has released the latest installment of the Insurance Law Podcast, a series that examines timely insurance issues from an attorney’s point of view.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A 35-year-old Denham Springs man has been sentenced in Baton Rouge federal court to nearly five years in prison and ordered to pay two life insurance companies more than $1.4 million for frauds he committed against them.