By Atossa Araxia Abrahamian NEW YORK (Reuters) - A judge on Wednesday threw out an indictment against a New York City police officer charged with manslaughter over the shooting of an unarmed teenager, but prosecutors can present the case again or appeal the decision, lawyers involved in the case said. Officer Richard Haste was indicted last year in the death of Ramarley Graham, 18, whom Haste ...

SPOKANE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington, in In re Sterling Financial Corp. ERISA Litigation, Case No.: 1-cv-0018, a summary notice has been issued as follows: TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE FOLLOWING CLASSES: The Sterling 401(k) Plan Class: All persons (except Defendants and their immediate family members) who were participants in or ...

Julio Cesar Ramirez, 37, is described as a major figure in a Casa Blanca gang; he pleaded guilty to drug and weapons charges

Child welfare workers cannot be sued in the death of a Centreville teen who died in a 2008 fire, even if they knew she was regularly tied to her bed by her parents, a federal appeals court said.

CORVALLIS — A former Oregon State University football player has entered Benton County Adult Drug Treatment Court as part of a plea agreement to settle drug and theft charges filed against him in four separate cases.

A 66-year-old Logansport man was sentenced to a maximum of 20 years in the Indiana Department of Correction Tuesday for robbing a Twelve Mile bank.

Child welfare workers can't be sued in the 2008 death of a southwestern Michigan teen who perished in a fire, even if they knew she was routinely tied to her bed by her parents ...

WASHINGTON—Ohio is throwing its full prosecutorial weight behind the fury to punish Ariel Castro , signalling the accused Cleveland kidnapper could face the death penalty. But the path to lethal injection, if it is pursued, could prove one of the strangest ever in U.S. history, hinging on the murder not of the living, but of as many as five unborn children conceived under appalling circumstances ...

The 37-year-old rapper, whose real name is Jeffrey Atkins, left a state prison in central New York in February after serving most of his two-year sentence for illegal gun possession, going straight into federal custody in a tax evasion case.

Observers are predicting a speedy confirmation to the federal bench for Jackson attorney Debra M. Brown.

Riverside County DA sponsored one of the bills, which sought to shift long-sentenced inmates from jail to prison

Riverside County District Attorney Paul Zellerbach and other local officials complain that county jails are bulging with long-term inmates

SAN DIEGO — Officials have closed Otay Mesa Road because of a grass fire, the California Highway Patrol. The wind-driven wildfire of blackened swaths of open grassland south of Donovan State Prison. The fast-moving flames began spreading shortly after 2 …

By David Beasley ATLANTA (Reuters) - A battle over Bibles is brewing in Georgia, where the governor said on Wednesday the books should be allowed to be placed in the bedside table drawers at state-owned vacation properties after an atheist's objection led to their removal. Ed Buckner, an author and former president of a group called American Atheists, said he complained to state officials last ...

Anthony Balbirnie is in a state prison for past convictions. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Greene County prosecutors this month filed new criminal charges against a man connected with the death of a teenager from the Willard area. Anthony Balbirnie previously was charged in Benton County with dumping the body of Khighla Parks, 15, in Truman Lake last September.

An Idaho man charged with attempting to assassinate President Obama by shooting at the White House practiced with his weapon for six months and may have been upset about the country's marijuana policy, prosecutors said in a newly filed court document. 

One of the men arrested in connection with the kidnapping and long captivity of three women in Cleveland has links to a sad and violent crime in Fort Wayne in 2007.

A national fraternity with chapters on more than 125 campuses must stand trial over the drinking death of a Wabash College freshman, an Indiana court said in a ruling that may force the organizations to take more responsibility for misconduct at chapter houses.

CHARLESTON, S.C. — A Myrtle Beach man was sentenced to nearly six years in prison for robbing more than a dozen banks in multiple states.

OKLAHOMA CITY, May 7 (UPI) -- An Oklahoma woman has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for defrauding would-be parents, adoption agencies and law firms.

Editor's note: In December 1984, Daniel Remeta, Lisa Dunn and Mark Walter left Traverse City, Mich., ...

WASHINGTON — An Idaho man charged with attempting to assassinate President Barack Obama by shooting at the White House practiced with his weapon for six months and may have been upset about the country’s marijuana policy, prosecutors said in a new court document.

Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction officials said a new bill to increase sentences for repeat violent offenders with guns would cost $880.4 million over 20 years and force the department to open a new 750-cell prison.

FONTANA--Possible Republican gubernatorial candidate Abel Maldonado appeared Thursday to call attention to his plans for a ballot measure that would repeal California prison realignment, a controversial law that requires local authorities to houses and monitor some offenders who would otherwise be

A former Oregon State University football player has entered Benton County Adult Drug Treatment Court as part of a plea agreement to settle drug and theft charges filed against him in four separate cases.

GREAT FALLS - Jason Charles Shouse was sentenced to 600 months (50 years) in prison followed by lifetime supervision after pleading guilty to sexual exploitation of children and production of child pornography.

WESTLAND — A former Dearborn resident accused of writing bad checks is headed to trial.

A northern Idaho judge has rejected a request by a Moscow man charged with helping another man kill his wife to be released on his own recognizance or have bail set.

OJ Simpson was back in a Las Vegas courtroom to ask for a new trial in the armed robbery-kidnapping case that sent him to prison in 2008.The former football hero and a new set of lawyers hope to convince a judge during the hearing...

Amanda Knox has proclaimed her innocence in an emotional American television interview, as she prepares to release her autobiography. In an ABC News programme, to...

Robert Aronson is the Managing Attorney at Aronson & Associates, a Minneapolis-based immigration law firm serving a national and international clientele.

SPOKANE, Wash. - KHQ's Alex Rozier has learned that the Spokane Country Club, one of the most historic golf courses in Eastern Washington, filed for bankruptcy on Thursday in Federal Court.

BOSTON - Justices of Massachusetts' highest court heard arguments Thursday on whether special magistrates who are trying to unburden trial courts of a flood of drug cases tainted by a state laboratory scandal may release convicts on bail before they're granted new trials.

Ariel Castro appeared in an Ohio court charged with kidnapping and raping three women missing for a decade.

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana state prison officials are using customized playing cards for a deadly serious purpose: To help unlock the mysteries of unsolved murders and persons gone missing.

Meet Millie Gordon once and you'll never forget her. She's 80-something (adamantly not specifying) and considers herself to have so many kids, she loses count after 500.

NEW YORK - The federal judge overseeing the stop-and-frisk trial that has put New York Police Department officers in the spotlight says she knows she's not the government's favorite judge.

100 YEARS AGO April 24, 1913 If there is any truth in the old adage that cleanliness is next to godliness, convicts at the Arkansas penitentiary soon are expected to “get next.” The Penitentiary Board is installing modern shower baths at the prison to replace antiquated tubs long used and convicts, at least, will be given more sanitary toilet environments. For many years past the penitentiary ...

A female Air Force instructor who had sex with a recruit was sentenced to three months in jail Thursday, but will remain in the service for now. [...] Allen's military defense team bashed the prosecution's call for six months in jail, a bad-conduct discharge and reduction to airman first class. Allen pleaded guilty to having sex in 2011 with an airman in training at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, Miss ...

By Lisa Maria Garza WACO, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas paramedic who responded to a fertilizer plant explosion last month pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to possessing pipe bomb components, his lawyer said, after agreeing to postpone his detention hearing. A hearing for Bryce Reed scheduled for Wednesday afternoon in Waco was canceled, Daryl Fields, a public affairs officer for the U.S. Attorney's ...

O.J. Simpson was seen laughing as he made his way back into a Las Vegas courtroom on Monday to ask for a new trial in the armed robbery-kidnapping case that sent him to prison in 2008.