- Frederick Police say a man in prison on a child sex abuse conviction has been charged in another case.

A federal judge in Michigan ruled Tuesday against a suit brought by a group of Christian evangelists who were attacked last year at the largest Arab gathering in the United States.

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Supreme Court has agreed to review a pair of cases, one that involves a school principal’s failure to immediately pass along a student’s report of rape and the other about expectations of privacy for commenters on news media websites.

An inmate at the Okeechobee Correctional Institution had to be coaxed off the roof of a building Friday morning, a Florida Department of Corrections spokeswoman said. Shortly after 10 a.m., an inmate was found in an area of the prison that he wasn't supposed to be, spokeswoman Misty Cash said. Instead of returning to the proper area, the inmate ran off and managed to climb up to the roof of a ...

Denison Public Works Director David Howerton, left, presents a street medallion to City Attorney Tom Akins in a retirement reception for Akins on Friday. The medallions, which are now given to those special to the city, were once incorporated into the city streets.

View full sizeChristopher Adams of Moss Point was sentenced to 18 years in prison on two counts of sexual battery. (Jackson County Sheriff's Office) PASCAGOULA, Mississippi -- Jackson County Circuit Judge Dale Harkey sentenced Christopher Adams of Moss Point today...

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has dismissed a discrimination complaint filed by the executive director of Black Hawk County Veterans Affairs against the county's board.

Indiana prison officials are hoping inmates will help solve some cold case slayings.

The State of Tennessee will receive approximately $40 million as a result of the settlement of a long-running dispute between two publicly traded corporations and the court-appointed Receiver for two Tennessee ...

Former Biloxi Mayor Pete Halat Jr., who was released from prison a year ago for participating in a 1987 murder plot against a Mississippi Gulf Coast judge and his wife, is scheduled to leave a halfway house in Hattiesburg today.

A prison murder case began Tuesday at the Baldwin County Courthouse and ended promptly the following day with a guilty verdict.

WATERLOO, Iowa --- The Iowa Court of Appeals sided with the city over the sale of a road for housing development.

The Erie region will lose a seat in the state House of Representatives after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court today upheld new boundaries for the chamber that will take effect with the 2014 elections.

The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the murder convictions of former Braintree resident and biology professor Amy Bishop April 26 without publishing the opinion, The Huntsville Times reported. Bishop had appealed her guilty plea in the shootings of University of Alabama-Huntsville colleagues, three fatal and three non-fatal, during a Feb. 12, 2010 faculty meeting.

The Florida injury attorneys at Bernstein & Maryanoff have been representing clients for 30 years in legal matters that have arisen from car accidents, trucking accidents, DUI accidents, other forms of ...

Waller, Nashville's oldest and largest law firm, today announced the addition of 17 new attorneys to the following key practice groups:

Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley, P.C. , a multi-service law firm offering litigation and transactional services nationally and internationally, has added six attorneys to its offices in California, including ...

Michael Sherman was arrested for robbing his neighbor after investigators followed a trail of coins from the crime scene to his house.

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ — New Jersey casino regulators have approved Revel's plans for turning around the financially troubled business. The state Casino Control Commission voted Wednesday on Revel's reorganization plan, which has already been approved by a bankruptcy court. The plan sheds most of the casino's debt in...

NEWARK -- It was about 2:50 p.m. on April 15 when two explosions went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. About 10 minutes later, in an unrelated case, two men in New Jersey were sentenced to federal prison on terrorism-related charges.

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In information released by the Supreme Court of Georgia, the court has accepted a petition for voluntary discipline and has ordered a review panel for Albany attorney Johnnie Mae Graham.

Whoever replaces Brian Burgess as the next Vermont Supreme Court justice will likely spend a good deal of time “on the bench” — in both senses of the term. Vermont’s top judges recuse themselves with unusual frequency, legal experts say, owing mostly to the state’s small size and the potential conflicts that arise from friendships and past professional associations. Last week alone, Associate ...

A Northern California man faces up to six years in prison after pleading guilty to reckless driving causing the death of an Incline Village couple who was hit in a pedestrian crosswalk at Lake Tahoe in December 2011.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court approved a revised set of maps for the state House and Senate seats May 8.

McGlinchey Stafford is pleased to announce the addition of three new attorneys to the firm’s Florida offices. Mizell Campbell Jr. and Jennifer Chapkin have joined the firm in Fort Lauderdale, and Elizabeth “Betsy” Haslett has joined the Jacksonville office.

KNOXVILLE — The defense team for torture-slaying suspect George Thomas continued today to hammer the lack of proof tying their client to the crimes.

OTTUMWA -- An Ottumwa man was sentenced to a decade in federal prison following a drug bust at his home last summer. Ottumwa Police Department and Southeast Iowa Inter-Agency Drug Task Force officers executed a search warrant at 1214 N. Adams St. on

An octogenarian nun and two codefendants used bolt cutters to cut through fences and spent about two hours inside a Tennessee national security plant that has had a hand in making, maintaining or dismantling parts of every...

By GERT K. HIRSCHBERG (The writer is a retired trial lawyer, an American Board of Trial Advocates member since 1978 and a former professor of torts at five California law schools. He counts 4,000 of his former students among California’s lawyers and judges.

Judge Lancaster was the head administrator for the district, advising the other judges and overseeing budgets and personnel. He was 63.

Zhou & Chini top rated bankruptcy lawyers in San Bernardino finished up another city page on their Wiki site. The new page offers locals insightful information on bankruptcy laws and the various Chapters individuals can utilize. (PRWeb May 16, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/bankruptcy-information/San-Bernardino-Attorney/prweb10733954.htm

ONLY, Tenn. (AP) — Officials say a fire broke out in the administration building of a western Tennessee prison, but inmates were not affected. The fire at the Turney Center Industrial Complex Sund...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - New Jersey casino regulators will hear Revel's plans for turning around the financially troubled business. The state Casino Control Commission is to vote Wednesday on Revel's reorganization plan, which has already been approved by a bankruptcy court.

The Supreme Court of New Jersey has blocked an appeal the Diocese of Camden to block the state from using eminent domain to take vacant land located at a cemetery run by the catholic organization.

A federal judge has rescheduled the trial of an inmate accused of participating in a deadly prison riot last year in Mississippi.

The federal courts in Vermont have agreed to allow journalists to carry computers, iPhones and other electronic newsgathering tools past security checkpoints at federal buildings.

SEN. KENT SORENSON: The Iowa Senate Ethics Committee has asked the state Supreme Court chief justice to appoint a special investigator to look into alleged ethics violations by state Sen. Kent Sorenson, R-Milo.

An attorney has asked to delay the trial of an inmate accused of participating in a deadly prison riot last year in Mississippi.

The man who killed 32-year-old Jacinta “Patty” Ayala in front of a Burger King in Frederick in 2011 will serve life in prison for the crime.

Consumer Attorney Services adds George Anthony Yuthas in April to its growing national team of foreclosure defense attorneys. Yuthas’ 39 years of experience practicing law in Colorado makes him an asset to Consumer Attorney Services’ national team of lawyers. (PRWeb May 02, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/consumer-attorney-service/colorado-foreclosure-help ...