OMAHA (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday ordered a new trial for a Grand Island man, saying prosecutors failed to prove that a state crime lab scale used to convict him of a serious cocaine charge was properly calibrated.

LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner was arrested on federal extortion charges over the weekend and is to make an appearance in federal court.

The Heart of Rushville will host a vendor meeting for its Farmers and Artisans Market at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 9, in the Assembly Room of the Rush County Courthouse.

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

A former Harmony High School substitute teacher was sentenced to five years in prison Friday after pleading guilty to attempted sexual assault of a 16-year-old boy, Upshur County District Attorney Billy Byrd said.

Douglas Spink, an impenitent advocate for zoophilia (bestiality)—sex between humans and animals—who was released early from a sentence for drug-running charges, explained after a hearing in the U.S. District Court on Friday that, “…he’s misunderstood and maligned, and has never hurt an animal.” He said he could sum up his philosophy in a single phrase: “Humans are not the only sexual species ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A man sentenced to life in prison without parole when he was 14 years old deserves a new sentencing hearing, Arkansas' highest court ruled Thursday.

Bruce Cole is under house arrest in his home state of California awaiting a Missouri trial on felony fraud and forgery charges.

WELCH, W.Va. (AP) -- Supreme Court Chief Justice Brent Benjamin is in McDowell County to mark the opening of a new Juvenile Drug Court. The ceremony Monday afternoon in Welch also includes Circuit Judge

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A federal court judge has scheduled a hearing on June 4 on a challenge by the owner of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant.        

A man is facing life in prison after being convicted in a fatal home invasion in north Florida.

Jerome Ersland's supporters and defense team are working on getting a new trial granted, and On Friday, are calling on the public to rally with them.

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A former fire coordinator for Greenwood County will spend about four months in prison for sexually assaulting an incapacitated woman while he was on the job. Corey Grumelot accepted a plea deal Friday after four days of testimony in his trial. South Carolina Law Enforcement Division investigators said Grumelot was taking a 26-year-old woman from Abbeville to Greenville because of bad weather in ...

SACRAMENTO -- A federal appeals court on Friday denied a second request by California doctors, pharmacists and hospitals seeking to undo the state's 10 percent provider rate cut for treating the poor.

MOORHEAD - Announcing to the court he was mentally ill, a Fargo man asked to withdraw his guilty plea at his sentencing hearing Monday for two felonies connected to a Clay County police chase in a stolen vehicle after he allegedly robbed a Fargo bank in January.

Former Jacksonville Jaguars receiver Jimmy Smith has been sentenced to six years in prison in Mississippi for drug possession and weapons charges.

CANFIELD, Ohio - A former employee of Ohio's Prison System has changed his plea to guilty on two public indecency charges. According to our print partner The Vindicator, 50-year-old Michael Johns of Canfield More >>

Last June, two hours into her shift at the Toledo Correctional Institution, Officer Michelle Deiley peered through the small window on the door of James Jarrett’s cell to see the inmate naked.

Louisiana's Supreme Court says the school funding method is unconstitutional.

Two Delaware County men face life in prison without possibility of parole in a shooting death following a rap battle.

The Santa Barbara County District Attorney's Office will soon decide whether to seek the death penalty for seven of the people suspected in the murder of Anthony Ibarra.

A 34-year-old Arizona woman who has spent more than half her life behind bars for a 1992 Tucson killing is now free.

Britnea Myers, 24, is charged with murder in the death of Timothy Myers, 26, who was an Alabama National Guard member.

A measure to empower judges to decide on sentences for bail violations has drawn skeptics in the wake of the killing of Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements.

The Court of Appeals will hear a case which requires it to decide whether Attorney General Eric Schneiderman can finish what predecessor Eliot Spitzer started eight years ago and bring two former executives of American International Group to trial in a civil enforcement action.

While Attorney General Eric Holder is taking heat for his department's seizure of reporter records, the U.S. attorney who is personally overseeing those investigations is himself starting to face complaints that he's gone too far in pursuing leaks.

LeBron James blamed one person after the Miami Heat let home-court advantage in the Eastern Conference finals slip from their hands.

A federal court on Friday found that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio systematically violated the constitutional rights of illegal immigrants through "saturation" sweeps that ended up targeting people based on their appearance or perceived ancestry.

George Zimmerman's second-degree-murder case exploded across the globe so rapidly because of social media, his attorney said Saturday before a news-media banquet in Orlando.        

MINNEAPOLIS - A witness in the trial of a St. Louis man charged with killing three people at a Minnesota home says he seemed "desperate" to silence a teenager who had accused him of molesting her.

GALVESTON—The State Commission on Judicial Conduct has suspended a Galveston County judge who is fighting criminal charges. On Wednesday, a Galveston County grand jury indicted Judge Christopher Dupuy on two felony counts of obstruction, or retaliation. He’s also facing six misdemeanor indictments for official oppression and abuse of official capacity. It’s alleged that the judge held attorneys ...

The House passes a bill to speed up inmate executions and end "legal gamesmanship."

Lt. Gov. race undecided between Jackson and Snyder RICHMOND – State Sen. Mark Obenshain beat out Del. Rob Bell for the Republican nomination for attorney general at the party convention Saturday.        

Law experts say previous court rulings could allow the Marion County prosecutor to amend charges against an accused hit-and-run driver after the injured pedestrian died Tuesday.

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- A Johnson County judge – for the fifth time – has set a new trial date for an Iowa City woman accused of hitting and killing her friend with a Dodge Ram truck last summer.

Women’s Community Correctional Center inmates Joanne Liupuano, left, and Jessica Colonge perform a skit recreating an inmate’s intake process at the community presentation of the “Prison Monologues” at the Queen Lili’uokalani Children’s Center Friday.

Author(s):  For The Madera Tribune FRESNO — A Madera woman found guilty of recruiting people to receive driver’s licenses that they had not passed written and behind-the-wheel tests for has been sentenced to four years in prison. U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill sentenced Rosemary Fierros, 47, of Madera, last week, U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. A federal jury found her ...

Two Pierce County men who the U.S. government alleged are part of the “sovereign citizen” movement were sentenced Friday to federal prison for several crimes.

The trial of a man accused of robbing banks across the Midwest, including one in Quincy, has been delayed.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A federal judge has agreed to postpone the trial of a former BP engineer charged with deleting text messages about the company's response to its 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.