Clinical supervisor Taeja Klug, from far left, gets Jacob Sanchez, 7, to respond to JetBlue chief pilot James Daulton, far right, during Jet Blue, Pacific Child and Family and TSA's "Wings for Autism" program, which took place at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank on Saturday, May 4, 2013. "When you have events for kids with autism like this, it brings the anxiety down," Jennifer Slater-Sanchez said.

FLEMINGTON, N.J. (AP) - A New Jersey prison inmate has been sentenced to seven years for fatally injuring another inmate during a fight last summer. Floyd Nichols, a 24-year-old Paterson resident, previously pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of Joshua Jones. He was sentenced Friday.

CITY OF NEWBURGH — Carpenters worked quickly on Wednesday morning to barricade the old brick apartment building at 98 S. William St. with plywood.

The sentences handed down this week for two convicted Waldo Canyon Fire looters was longer than those that have been given out for some killers and rapists.

SOMERVILLE, N.J. (AP) - State prosecutors say a northern New Jersey man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing one man and injuring another at a birthday party.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - A northern New Jersey mother has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin with her husband and son in what authorities are calling "a family affair."

Noted Silicon Valley law firm Hoge Fenton today announced that internationally recognized mergers & acquisitions lawyer Nancy Yamaguchi has joined the firm. She is a member of

Since the identification and apprehension (both dead and alive) of Boston Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan Tsarnaev (reportedly shot and run over with explosives strapped to him, amid unconfirmed reports he was clutching an "ACME Co." receipt) and Dzokhar Tsarnaev (apprehended as a result of history's first heroic nicotine fit )...

LAWRENCE -- Police Chief John Romero has officially asked Mayor William Lantigua to fire Carlos Gonzalez, a 25-year police veteran who is in a Florida jail awaiting trial on a child rape charge. Gonzalez also remains under investigation on sexual ass

Fresh off of an early release from 28-month prison bid, Ja Rule has recently been updating his Instagram with a ton of new pictures, but this one particular picture stands out the most. More »

Father of Sandy Hook victim faces criminal charges Heslin's son, Jesse Lewis, was among 26 people shot to death inside Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14. [...] Heslin has been among the most visible of the Sandy Hook parents lobbying for gun restrictions, including an appearance in Washington that apparently resulted in him missing a recent court date. Heslin was part of a contingent from ...

Vacco smells smoke in case Times Union Copyright 2013 Times Union. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 11:51 pm, Sunday, April 21, 2013 Former Attorney General Dennis Vacco is crying foul about the uneven enforcement of New York cigarette taxing laws and charges that improper motivations are behind a case he is defending for ...

PORTLAND -- United States Marshals said that Logan Storm, convicted of child porn possession but awaiting sentencing, was booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center Thursday afternoon. Mexican authorities captured Storm, 37, on March 12, months after he removed an ankle monitoring device and fled Oregon while awaiting his sentencing. Storm was deported from Mexico and returned to the U.S ...

A woman desperate for another child forced her 14-year-old daughter to get pregnant using syringes of donor sperm, a British judge said.

James Everett Dutschke made his first appearance in a federal courtroom after being charged Saturday with making a deadly poison sent to President Barack Obama and others. He was ordered held without bond.

CASSOPOLIS — With the theme “New Challenges, New Solutions” for National Crime Victims’ Rights Week April 21-27, Cass County paused Tuesday to pay tribute to 83 lives lost due to violent crime since 1989.

Salsa legend Willie Colon is pleading with a federal judge for leniency in his son's child pornography case, writing in a letter that he fears his own celebrity status has made his son a 'trophy collar' and would make him a 'magnet for abuse' in prison.

A man who took pictures of at least 13 women in restroom stalls has been sentenced to a decade in prison.

Sulphur's Layne Hardin is suing his ex-girlfriend Tobie Devall in a Texas court alleging she inseminated herself with his sperm from a Houston area sperm bank without his permission.

The condition of the former Minerva school gymnasium and a potential wind energy project brought members of the community out to Tuesday's Mason County Fiscal Court.

The West Virginia Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday challenging the conviction of Charles Edward Bruffey, who was convicted of armed robbery for the December 2009 robbery of the M&T Bank in Fort Ashby.

A "water war" between the states of Texas and Oklahoma will be decided by the Supreme Court. Photo Credit: Getty Images

Jurors deliberated for a second day in the trial of a Texas man accused of killing a Pennsylvania high school football player and injuring another in a Durham parking lot.

There was plenty of outrigger canoe racing but no huli's Sunday on Fort Myers Beach despite a bit of rough water as the 2013 Ultimate Water Games got...

Jailing indigents for debts costs the courts way more than the fines they owe and violates the Constitution. Ebenezer Scrooge, the Dickens character, perfectly personified the nasty rich.

LAS VEGAS -- A self-described pimp was indicted Friday on charges that could bring the death penalty if he is convicted in a fatal shooting and fiery crash that killed three people on the Las Vegas Strip in February.

A Creighton, Nebraska woman accused of stealing almost $50,000 from the city of Plainview is set to go to trial in June.

Jeffrey Skilling could be freed from prison a decade earlier than originally expected over his role in bringing down the energy trader, in one of the biggest corporate frauds in U.S. history.

The Colorado Court of Appeals has dismissed lawsuits against three companies in the deaths of five workers at a power plant in 2007.

Prosecutors have rested their case in the trial of a former Democratic county chairman and a party member accused of forging signatures on petitions used to place Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the 2008 state Democratic primary ballot.

As Rhode Island's Senate gets ready to take up the state's marriage equality bill, Rhode Islanders United for Marriage has released two new ads. Equality on Trial reports :

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — A man meticulously planned before opening fire on his daughter and her mother outside a Texas courthouse last year, wounding them both and killing a 79-year-old woman, a prosecutor said Monday at the outset of the man's capital murder trial.

A judge ruled Tuesday that investigation materials from the 1959 "In Cold Blood" murders kept by a Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent at home may not be auctioned off or publicly disclosed ...

Walmart can be sued for being negligent in hiring contractors that employ workers at their distribution centers, according to a federal ruling this week.

When journalism freshman Olivia Pryor was found dead by her roommate, Detroit resident Dishon Tyran Ambrose and Eastepointe, Mich., resident Marquez Dominique Cannon’s lives were forever changed.

Kevin Murphy was found guilty by a jury in Westmoreland County jury of murdering his mother, sister and aunt in 2009.

Credit rating agency's parent company denies fraud, tells court that U.S. government suit is "a stretch"

A 27-year-old Richmond man was convicted in federal court Thursday in connection to an armed robbery at a Walgreens in Hampton in August.        

SAN DIEGO and NEW YORK, May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --  Shareholder rights attorneys at Robbins Arroyo LLP announce that a shareholder of Ventrus Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: VTUS) filed a federal securities ...

GALLIPOLIS — In a hearing scheduled later this month in the Gallia County Common Pleas Courtroom, the court will decide if a Gallia County man accused of shooting and critically wounding a Gallipo...

A Gwinnett County judge ordered DragonCon co-founder Ed Kramer held without bond until his trial after she ruled he had violated his initial bond restrictions by visiting movie sets in other states. Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter went even further and accused Kramer of faking the physical ailments that have him wheelchair-bound in order to avoid trial. Kramer appeared in court ...