ENID, Okla. — Lawyers for Zaloudek Grain are asking Garfield County District Court to move a negligence trial to a different county. Zaloudek Grain has been sued by the families of two teams injured in an Aug. 4, 2011, accident.

Bernard Madoff once had billions of dollars, but now he makes $40 a month doing menial prison labor. read more

KISSIMMEE – David Murillo, the first and only person convicted of murder in Celebration, will die in prison.

New York, May 4 (IANS) A Jersey City man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for targeting Indian-American families for their high-quality jewellery in a series of home break-ins in 2009.

A North Texas mother is in court today for a pre-trial hearing on a family assault case. Erica Moore is the woman who admitted beating her son with an electrical cord for engaging in a homosexual act .

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's highest court has upheld the murder conviction and life prison sentence given to a man for the shooting death of a donut maker in Columbus. The Supreme Court of Georgia's unanimous ruling was announced Monday morning. The court ruled that evidence at the trial of Tracey McKay was sufficient to find him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Evidence showed that McKay and some ...

A timeline of major legal developments involving O.J. Simpson: June 12, 1994: O.J. Simpson’s ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and friend Ronald Goldman are found dead in Los Angeles. Simpson is arrested after a widely televised freeway chase.

A former Oakland Raiders assistant coach is facing up to four years in state prison after being convicted of striking a man with a beer bottle outside a California bar.

Darius L. Bursey and Van K. Cotton, both 23, are both facing felony charges of second-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon in connection with the 2012 death of Lamar Shahid, 18, a senior at James Monroe High School.

WOBURN, Mass. (AP) — A Holyoke man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the slaying of a Connecticut man during a motel robbery three decades ago.        

A Phoenix woman who pleaded guilty to her involvement in a fake coupon ring has been sentenced to two years in prison and may have to pay up to $5 million in restitution.

TEXARKANA, Ark. (AP) — Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to order the seizure of several buildings from convicted evangelist Tony Alamo.

Patrick Hanson, 22, and Jesse Jones, 25, both of Waterville, were sentenced Monday for their roles in a drug-trafficking conspiracy, in which prescription drugs and cocaine sent from New York were sold in central Maine.

A 47-year-old Madera woman was sentenced to four years in prison for acquiring California driver's licenses illegally and then selling them, the U.S. Attorney's Office reported Monday.

Freelance innkeepers across New York City shuddered this week as a judge found that a man renting out his East Village apartment on Airbnb was violating the state's occupancy code. The decision isn't the first time that city and state ...

A CHINESE national earlier charged for carrying a firearm during the election period denied on Tuesday the charges filed against him before the Regional Trial Court (RTC). Charged with falsification of documents and the Commission on Elections (Comelec) gun ban was Jimmy Huang Te, a...

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Testimony continued Thursday in Rebecca Bryan's murder trial. She is accused of killing her husband, Nichols Hills Fire Chief Keith Bryan, in their Mustang home.

LEBANONInmate captured after walking away from garageThe state prisons department says an inmate has been captured after walking away from his work assignment as an auto mechanic at a southwest Ohio prison.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - A New Hampshire man has been sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison for bank robbery, interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle and interstate transportation of stolen property.

In this Friday, May 3, 2013 photo, Libby Hanna, president of the American Gerbil Society, holds a gerbil prior to the society's annual New England pageant Saturday in Bedford, Mass. The small rodents will be judged on body type and color, and will feature agility demonstrations where they must overcome various obstacles and race to the end of the course.

Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen hired his top aide's brother-in-law, the girlfriend of his wife's close colleague, and a protege of a local congresswoman who gave him a key campaign endorsement.

A Franklin Circuit Court judge on Tuesday ordered the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services to resume child-care subsidy payments to 18 Jefferson County day care centers while they appeal accusations of fraud.

Prisoners at Hays State Prison allegedly tipped off to upcoming security shakedowns, according to a retired employee.

POLICE killer Dale Cregan told his mother, "I'm sorry" after admitting the murders, a court has heard.

STEUBENVILLE - A special grand jury investigating additional charges in the August rape of a 16-year-old Weirton female is scheduled to begin hearing testimony Tuesday in the Jefferson County Courthous.

Follow Your Town News On The Courant's Hartford Facebook Page The main suspect in a months-long investigation into a Hartford-area drug trafficking organization is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday in Superior Court, state police announced.        

FORMER OXFORD MAN DIES IN PRISON An inmate at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Anamosa was found dead in his cell Wednesday morning. Joshua Ray Puffinbarger, 59, was serving a 10-year sentence from Johnson County for third-degree sexual abuse. According to Press-Citizen archives, Puffinbarger, of Oxford, was convicted in March 2006 of one count of [...]

Tazewell, VA (WVVA)--A trip to the Historic Crab Orchard Museum & Pioneer Park, is a chance to step back in time. The Executive Director at the Museum, Charlotte Whitted said, "We focus on Pioneer history,

MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WWAY) -- The Wilmington based Blizzard 17 & under basketball squad captured first place at the Big Shots Myrtle Beach Tournament on Sunday with a 72-64 victory over the FYB Wildcats. WWAY Full Court Press co-host Brett Blizzard is the head coach of the squad. Hoggard's Trevor Singleton shared tournament co-mvp honors with Ashley's Ridell Camidge. WWAY Full Court Press co-host ...

A Missouri mother was found guilty Tuesday of third-degree assault, a class A misdemeanor, for beating her son’s drug provider with a baseball bat . Sherrie Gavan, 54, tried everything to keep her son, Clayton, away from heroin, his drug of choice. She slept next to him while he went through withdrawals, put him in a new school and even took him to work with her. She finally just decided to go ...

A 71-year-old Fayette County man had dozens of people cash in Pennsylvania Lottery tickets worth a total $520,000 so he could get the money and not pay federal tax on the winnings.

A convicted sex offender has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for recording videos of himself sexually assaulting a 2-year-old child.

The Kansas Court of Appeals upholds the life sentence of a former Arlington City Council member for molesting a 7-year-old girl.

By Sue Zeidler LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - States and casinos racing to legalize online gaming may find some unwelcome visitors on their websites: product liability lawyers. A group of 10 lawyers and academics with experience in prior liability cases met in Indianapolis in mid-April to discuss whether a lawsuit claiming online gaming further promotes gambling addiction has a shot at winning. ...

The man accused of fatally shooting his Flagler Beach neighbor 14 months ago during an argument over barking dogs is scheduled to stand trial May 20.

JUNEAU – A 27-year-old man was sentenced to a year of incarceration after being found guilty of burglarizing Charlie Brown’s Tavern in June 2012.

Bill Schuette announced the OK-2-SAY initiative on Tuesday alongside law ... Testimony began Monday in the trial of 28-year-old Keith Thibeault of Portland. ...

Tension filled a Pottawattamie County Courthouse courtroom Thursday as the victim of an attack had to confront the man she alleges assaulted her over a 12-hour period in 2012.

WORCESTER - Testimony got under way Monday in the trial of Henry C. Papuga, former manager of Milford Water Co., on charges of tampering with water samples during a 2009 boil-water order and of making false statements about the samples.

A pot shop ban has been upheld in the California Supreme Court on Monday. While the case centered on a Riverside ban passed in 2010, the ruling may allow local governments throughout the state — including Los Angeles — to move forward with their own bans. California’s proposition 215 was passed in 1996 to permit [...] Pot Shop Ban By Anti-Pot Towns Legal In California, Court Rules is a post from ...