A schedule conflict has delayed the trial of an Ohio man charged with shooting his wife of 45 years in a hospital intensive care unit in what may have been a mercy killing.

STEUBENVILLE - Charges were filed Monday in juvenile court against a 17-year-old female who allegedly was driving the getaway vehicle following a shooting Thursday in Mingo Junction.

Utah man gets prison for shooting neighbor over ‘telepathic’ rape by Jessica Miller The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 16, 2013 03:04PM MDT Farmington • A Centerville man who shot and wounded his neighbor, apparently believing the man had been “telepathically” raping his wife, was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in prison. In January, Michael Selleneit, 55, pleaded guilty — but mentally ill — to ...

MARTINSBURG - Feeling that inadequate measures are being taken to ensure clean water in Berkeley County, nonprofit organization Potomac Riverkeeper is prepared to get a resolution from federal court.

An Oregon Tax Court judge rules that the Hewlett-Packard campus in Corvallis has been overvalued on tax bills from 2008-2011. The decision could cost Benton County $9 million in tax revenue.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was arrested just four days after the Boston Marathon bombings. But that arrest sparked a national debate about a suspect's Miranda rights. Attorney Aaron Sachs discusses the public safety exception in this week's Legally Speaking.

By: CBS4 News, newsroom@cbs4qc.com It could soon be easier to solve crimes in Iowa. The state senate approved a bill Wednesday that would require certain convicts to submit DNA samples for a federal

The trial is beginning for a former eastern Kentucky pastor facing counts of rape and other charges involving a girl younger than 14.

May 22, 2013 6:16 AM WASHINGTON (AFP) - Shamed US financier Bernie Madoff, serving a 150-year prison sentence, is back in the spotlight as the star of an exhibit in a US museum dedicated to gangsters and serial killers.        

MCKINNEY, Texas (AP) — A judge has ruled that a North Texas lesbian couple can't live together because of a morality clause in one of the women's divorce papers.

A divided federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit against Electronic Arts Inc by a former Rutgers University star football quarterback, who accused it of using his image in a video game without permission. ...

Galaxy Gaming, a Las Vegas manufacturer of casino table games, has been deemed unsuitable to do business in California by a judge, a recommendation that could call into question the company’s Nevada gaming license.

A Cambria County judge took a half-hour Tuesday to find a Johnstown man guilty of four of the five charges he faced in relation to the shooting of his girlfriend in the fall.

There will be no new trial for a northern Iowa man who shot and wounded his ex-wife, their two-year son...

A Covington man convicted of kidnapping an elderly woman from the Crestview Hills Town Center in May 2011 will face sentencing in federal court Monday.

The woman convicted of attempting to kill her husband in March was sentenced to prison Wednesday in Judge Edward O’Farrell’s Courtroom. O’Farrell sentenced Mary Darlene Brown, 64, to serve six years. He promised that he would grant judicial release after five years, and consider a request for early release after serving three and a half years.

COLORADO SPRINGS - The father whose son was taken into DHS custody after the 13 year old was found living with rodents and feces appeared, in court Tuesday.

It's a question that has haunted law enforcement for nearly 10 years. Who would approach a young couple while they were camping and execute them as they slept back in 2003?

The trial of an Albuquerque youth charged with murder in the shooting death of his father on a southwestern New Mexico hunting trip is being delayed.

Bernie Madoff's fraudulent investment operation not only ruined thousands of investors' financial futures, it remains fascinating to the public. And now his misdeeds are featured in a permanent exhibit at the National Museum of Crime & Punishment.

The owner of a Henryetta trucking company has been sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty to concealing stolen property, conspiracy and racketeering.

Idaho man charged in Uzbekistan terrorism plot appears in court by John Miller The Associated Press Published May 17, 2013 10:55AM MDT BOISE, Idaho • An Uzbekistan national living in Boise said little during his first court appearance Friday on federal charges from Idaho that he gave support, cash and other resources to help a recognized terrorist group in his home country plan a terrorist ...

Posted April 26, 2013, at 3:56 p.m. Last modified April 26, 2013, at 5 p.m. MACHIAS, Maine — Washington County Sheriff Donnie Smith said Friday that if the judges serving the county’s District Court don’t start arraigning prisoners in a timely fashion, he plans to sue the court system.

JUDGE BLOCKS OFFER: A Clarinda prison inmate's bid to send his victims more of the money he earns from a private-industry prison job has been blocked by a Polk County judge.

A convicted sex offender has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for recording videos of himself sexually assaulting a 2-year-old child.

With help from his fellow trial attorneys, Georgia injury lawyer Howard Spiva is on a mission to expand the Heads in Helmet program in every city in America. (PRWeb April 24, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/4/prweb10665372.htm

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a state law that forbids most people between ages 18 and 20 from obtaining permits to carry concealed handguns. A three-judge panel handed down its decision Monday, May 20.

HARTFORD — The state Supreme Court has ruled in an ex-NFL player's case that Connecticut lawyers can't be sued for fraud for their conduct in court cases because of a centuries-old legal doctrine called absolute immunity.

Defendant tells judge: 'Your honor, I didn't steal anything. I did flee the scene.'

PHOENIX - Calling a woman's rights "unalterably clear," a federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down Arizona's nearly year-old ban on abortions at 20 weeks and beyond.

The Boy Scouts of America said Thursday it will release to attorneys 10 years of confidential files it uses to keep pedophile suspects from becoming troop leaders or volunteers. No timetable for release of so-called “perversion files” — files of troop leaders or volunteers accused of sexual abuse of Scouts — was given, but the BSA has 30 days to comply. Salinas also ordered that the names be ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Determined to check the growing epidemic of sexual assaults in the armed forces, a House panel is poised to approve a series of revisions to longstanding military law. They include stripping commanding officers of their unilateral authority to change or dismiss a court-martial conviction and requiring that service members found guilty of sexual offenses be dismissed or ...

A new program aims to ease violence in some of the most dangerous units inside the Washington State Penitentiary, reducing the number of prisoners in solitary confinement and making them less likely to reoffend.

A panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday struck down a restrictive Arizona law, or “medical regulation as it was called,” that sought to prohibit abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy except in cases of medical emergency. It was the second time in as many weeks that a federal court has ruled against an anti-abortion statute, in each case on grounds that it violated the U ...

SAN DIEGO – The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that cities have the authority to ban medical marijuana dispensaries. San Diego Mayor Bob Filner said he hopes San Diego won’t travel that road. In a 7-0 ruling in a case …

Eric Simmons pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to distribution of oxycodone.

A Twin Falls County judge needed to excuse himself from a courtroom April 23 to collect his thoughts after listening to arguments surrounding the eight-year abuse of a child. "I've never seen a case that approached the depravity, cruelty and harm to a child," said Justice Richard Bevan when he returned to the bench.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

Cathy Humphries was sentenced to eight years in prison Monday.

NEW YORK  — The Dow Jones industrial average punched through another milestone Tuesday: its first close above 15,000.

Nathan Christopher Dwight was accused of carjacking a woman and using her car in a violent armed robbery.  But after years in prison, the case against him was overturned.

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Shawnee Co. District Attorney Chad Taylor says he will move forward with a new trial for the suspect in a Topeka double murder case.