AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - A Maine woman serving a 17-year sentence for the suffocation death of her foster child wants her probation conditions eased once she's released from prison.

The Potter County district attorney is appealing the dismissal of charges involving a man accused of taking more than $300,000 from an elderly woman in Galeton in 2011.

A state appeals court on Thursday urged the Wisconsin Supreme Court to take a case brought by two unions challenging the constitutionality of Gov. Scott Walker's law effectively ending collective bargaining for most public workers.

Four candidates, all cross-filed attorneys, are vying for the bench in Magisterial District Court 32-1-28 that covers Media, Nether Providence and Swarthmore in the May 21 primary election.

State Corrections Commissioner Brian Owens told the department's board in February of plans to spend millions to fix broken locks and harden cells -- meaning a floor-to-ceiling remake of several housing units where the most violent prisoners will live.

The doctor admitted there were clues that he was working at a Fort Lauderdale pill mill – his salary went up 400 percent, the "chaotic" waiting room overflowed with patients from out of town and he was told to give everyone the maximum number of pain pills.        

CHARDON, Ohio, May 22 (UPI) -- The families of three students killed in an Ohio school shooting have sued United Way over its distribution of the Chardon Healing Fund.

A trial for a West Branch man, who was granted a new trial last year after being convicted in the 2007 death of his 3-month-old daughter, is reset to Sept. 25, in Linn County District Court. Curtis A. Miller, 33, waived his 90-day right to speedy trial Friday and pleaded not guilty to the amended [...]

A judge sentenced Scott Olsen to up to 35 years in prison without parole.

A million-strong petition may have failed to save him from execution, but Troy Davis and the campaign to save his life is now recalled in a new photo exhibition to be staged at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast.

The case of prosecuting Boston Marathon bombing suspect - Dzhokhar Tsarnaev - has been entrusted to two noted American attorneys one of whom is an Indian-American.        

A judge on Wednesday set Aug. 18-24 as the week in which Nathan Dunlap should be executed for killing three teenagers and their 50-year-old manager in an Aurora Chuck E. Cheese restaurant in 1993.

EDGERTON, MO. (AP) - 2 of 3 inmates who walked away from a northeast Kansas prison surrendered Friday afternoon at a northwest Missouri home where they had been holed up for hours, authorities said.

In New York, a judge has dealt a setback to Airbnb, the popular website for short term apartment rentals. The judge ruled an Airbnb user violated a New York City law when he rented a room to a visitor from out of town. The judge's decision casts doubt on New Yorkers' ability to make use of the site legally.

In the latest round in a two-year legal battle, a state appeals court Tuesday heard arguments in a dispute that stems from the Florida Department of Health allowing three hospitals to operate trauma centers.

Norbert Frost of the Law Offices of Norbert U. Frost shares his findings as presented at the Mechanic’s Bank Third Wednesdays program. (PRWeb May 21, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/Divorce-Lawyer/Family-Lawyer/prweb10752258.htm

A former Southside resident was found guilty of felony sexual abuse charges after a retrial, according to a news release from Etowah County District Attorney Jimmie Harp.

Long-time criminal-justice reformer David Onek has been named the new executive director of the Northern California Innocence Project at Santa Clara University School of Law

WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) - A West Fargo man charged with attempted murder in a shooting in the North Dakota oil patch city of Williston has been sentenced on a lesser charge, angering the paralyzed victim and the city's police chief.

HINTON (WVVA) - An arson charge against a Summers County man accused of setting the fire that destroyed a row of apartments in Hinton has been dropped. Billy Gill appeared in court Friday where the arson

Parker Gilbert, 20, was charged with four felony counts of aggravated sexual assault, Diane Carroll, the deputy court clerk in New Hampshire’s Second Circuit state court, said in a phone interview.

Kiera Wilmot was handcuffed at her high school, hustled into the back of a police car and taken to jail for something that should have sent her to a few days of after-school detention.        

AKRON, Ohio (AP) - An Ohio man is standing trial for allegedly shooting his wife of 45 years in a hospital intensive care unit in what may have been a mercy killing.

The U.S. Attorney General's office for the District of Kansas issued a press release Thursday that includes a federal indicment of a Finney County man.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The only inmate convicted of murder following the 1971 Attica prison uprising has died in Canada, where he had made a name as a civil rights and peace activist.

A billboard company that lost an initial appeal last month before the East Norriton Zoning Hearing Board on a validity challenge to the township’s billboard ordinance has filed a lawsuit in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court challenging the denial.

An Army sergeant was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole for the 2009 killings of five fellow service members at a combat stress clinic in Iraq.

BOISE, Idaho – An Uzbek national facing terrorism-related charges in Idaho will remain jailed pending his trial after waiving his right to a detention hearing.

By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - A Korean-American sentenced to 15 years hard labour in North Korea was a missionary who used his tourism business to form groups to overthrow the government, the state's Supreme Court said. Kenneth Bae, 44, was sentenced earlier this month after being detained late last year leading a tour group in the North Korean city of Rason, on the border with China. ...

Little ’16 said the effects of the crime forced him to drop a course and change dorm rooms.

Double-killer Ernest 'Kentucky' Pendergrass will be freed from state prison within about a month and allowed to return to Santa Rosa.

Toxic Park Whirlpool wants to change venue Seeks to move a class-action lawsuit from Sandusky County Court in to a federal court in Toledo. Tom Jackson Fremont May 10, 2013 googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display("dfp-ad-sandusky_register"); }); Whirlpool Corp. seeks to move a class-action lawsuit from a county court in Fremont to a federal court in Toledo. A Fremont law firm filed the ...

Two Kazakh men associated with the alleged Boston Marathon bombers went before a federal immigration judge this morning on allegations they violated their student visas.        

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. ...

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 Hartford Connecticut lawyers of Parent & Parent have launched a new website to better educate state and local community of tax law and their options when choosing legal representation. (PRWeb May 22, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10750420.htm

LAS VEGAS, May 22 (UPI) -- A federal appeals court has ordered a rehearing of a businessman's claim that Nevada officials unfairly denied him a license to operate a swingers' club.

IOWA CITY, Iowa - An Iowa City attorney says a recent court ruling is evidence that landlords across Iowa City are breaking the law on a “grand scale.” Last week a judge ruled in favor of two tenants, who sued Big Ten Property Management, after not receiving their full deposit upon moving out.

Nearly two dozen homeless sex offenders have filed federal lawsuits challenging Southampton Town, Suffolk County and New York State laws that prohibit them from living near schools, playgrounds and daycare centers once they are released from prison, and require that they register with law enforcement agencies for life.

Silver Lake Regional High School senior Monica Knight has an attorney and a new court date after appearing in Plymouth District Court last Friday morning.

Anti-fracking laws passed in two New York towns were upheld by an appeals court, which rejected arguments by a dairy farm and a Norwegian energy company that the bans are superceded by state law.