City of Bossier City administrative offices, including offices for City Council and City Court will be closed Monday, May 27 in observance of Memorial Day.

CLINTON — The Clinton YWCA will no longer receive government funding for its domestic violence and sexual assault resource center, but Executive Director Lori Freudenberg said her organization was prepared and will continue to offer services for vict

News briefs from around Tennessee at 1:58 a.m. EDT (AP) — Gov. Bill Haslam on Monday vetoed a bill that would require images that document animal abuse be turned over to law enforcement within 48 hours, saying his main concern is its constitutionality. State Attorney General Bob Cooper last week said in a legal opinion that the measure would be "constitutionally suspect" because it could violate ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Donald Trump took the witness stand Tuesday at a civil trial where the developer-turned-TV personality is accused of wooing investors into buying condos at his namesake Chicago skyscraper by promising profit-sharing, then reneging on that promise after the sales.

An inmate once housed at the Jackie Brannon Correctional Center in McAlester recently pleaded guilty to escaping from the facility. Jeffery D. Walker, 23, pleaded guilty April 19 in Pittsburg County District Court to one felony count of escape from penal institution.

Gov. Jan Brewer has appointed three attorneys to serve on the Pima County Superior Court.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - A Los Angeles doctor was sentenced Friday to 14 years in federal prison for bilking patients out of more than $1 million by promising them that an herbal supplement she hawked could cure late-stage cancer and other diseases.

KINGMAN — A Superior Court judge took under advisement Thursday whether a Bullhead City murder suspect is incompetent to stand trial or faking being mentally ill.

PHOENIX (AP) — Ticket scalping is nothing new in the sports and music world, but for a murder trial?

A former corrections officer has pleaded guilty to conspiring to bring contraband to the inmates at the Maury County jail in exchange for cash.

High court hears arguments from judges who contend that mandatory retirement at age 70 is discriminatory, violates Constitution. HARRISBURG — When Pennsylvania last voted to amend the state Constitution in 1968, it adopted a provision to ensure that judges didn't stay on the bench longer than their minds stayed sharp.        

(WBNG Binghamton) Measure Prompted by Murder of Utica Woman by Career Rapist on Parole.

A former assistant basketball coach accused of having sexual contact with a female student has been bound over for trial in Pulaski County Circuit Court.

Four years after his wife was killed by a falling roadside tree, a judge has ordered the Ohio Department of Transportation to pay almost $4 million to a New Concord man and his family.

The new federal prison off of East Milan Road in Berlin continues to accept inmates, as prison officials slowly move towards full activation of the multi-million dollar facility.

Magisterial District Judge Randy Abraham was again certified for service as a member of Pennsylvania

African-American men in Wisconsin are incarcerated at a rate that's nearly twice the national average, according to a new study. To find out what's behind the staggering numbers, host Michel Martin speaks with Wisconsin State Senator Lena Taylor, and Marc Mauer of The Sentencing Project.

Case could be first to allow polygraph exams as evidence in trial. 

A Mississippi teenager faces 27 years in prison after running over and killing a man walking along a rural highway in a case the victim's family called a hate crime.

The former mayor of Stockport likely will spend the rest of his life in prison.

Dallas Cowboys football player Josh Brent, charged with intoxication manslaughter after a car crash that killed teammate Jerry Brown, faces possible revocation of his bail.

JACKSON, Mo. (AP) - A 19-year-old man from Arkansas could face up to 15 years in prison after admitting to stealing a car and using it to run down three joggers in Cape Girardeau, Mo.

Suit pits controversial dietary supplement maker against the state of Virginia in a tax dispute.

A karate instructor appeared in federal court in Mississippi and was ordered held on a charge that he produced the poison ricin and sent it in letters to President Obama and others.

A suspended Erie teacher facing charges in two separate child molestation cases has been released from the Erie County Prison after posting $250,000 bond, according to court records.

A 25-year-old Niles man convicted in January of molesting a 15-year-old Wheeling girl was sentenced to three years in prison Thursday. The judge said she initially considered probation, but Eduardo Patino was indicted on new sexual abuse charges while he was out on bond.

Two people suspected in setting a string of fires on Virginia's Eastern Shore have been found competent to stand trial.

Oklahoma authorities will seek extradition of a convicted rapist from Nowata who recently was sentenced in Missouri for crimes committed against two women during a 24-hour ordeal that also resulted in a Nowata County rape charge. Johnny Ray Davis Jr., 33, was ordered last week to serve 15 years in the Missouri State Penitentiary in connection with the 2011 events, which began outside a truck ...

by Palo Alto Weekly Editorial board The poor school board just can't catch a break. Try as they might to follow the advice of their attorney and send the message they won't be "distracted" and are "moving forward" from the controversy over bullying cases, one thing after another drags them back into turbulent waters.

A federal appeals panel on Monday brushed aside an attempt for a new trial and sentencing for a man facing the death penalty for his role in the slaying of an Arkansas family as part of a white-separatist plot to create a new nation in the Pacific Northwest.

By Ann Saphir and Tom Polansek SAN FRANCISCO/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Russell Wasendorf Jr., whose father went to prison for stealing $215 million from clients of the futures brokerage they ran together for nearly 20 years, is starting over. The chief operating officer of Peregrine Financial Group, which collapsed in 2012 in an embezzlement scheme orchestrated by his father, has moved to Florida from ...

The people who ran Henry's Turkey Service exploited mentally disabled workers, physically abused the men and 'stripped them of their civil rights and their dignity' for years, a federal jury in Davenport was told Tuesday.

Officials say Posey met the victim at a party in 2010 and created ads on websites, uploaded nude photos of the teen and arranged for customers to have sex with her, then took half of the money.

The Delaware Court of Chancery has ordered Wal-Mart to release internal documents detailing its directors' knowledge of allegations that the company's Mexican affiliate bribed government officials in order to obtain permits to build stores in specific locations.

Grisly new details emerged on the second day of a mass murder trial as officers who responded to the scene and a forensic pathologist described what they saw in their roles investigating the case.

Steven Mathis of Lee County, was sentenced to two years probation and banished from Leesburg, Wednesday in Superior Court.

 A Chelmsford couple on trial for mortgage fraud enjoyed a "cash hungry" lavish lifestyle from money laundering and court has been told.Carli Savill and Andrew Zacharias lived beyond their modest means on illegally gained funds it was a jury at Chelmsford Crown Court was told at the start of their trial. Savill, 34, her partner Zacharias, 32, both of Bennetts Avenue, Rettendon Common, and ...

Byron Scherf and his lawyers don't dispute that he strangled a corrections officer to death with an amplifier cord in the prison chapel of the Washington state Reformatory at Monroe.

MIDDLETOWN, DEL. — The number tattooed on his left forearm — 139755 — reminds Phil Gans every day of the 21 months he spent imprisoned in concentration camps in Nazi Germany.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Unemployment benefits have been denied to two women fired from their Iowa jobs for offensively joking about burning Jews. The Des Moines Register reports that Christina Ott and her sister, Susan Ott, were fired in late January from the TriMark Corp. plant in New Hampton.

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that federal trucking laws don't pre-empt a state claim against a New Hampshire towing company.