Pitt and Penn State will play again - on the basketball court - when the Panthers host the Nittany Lions in the 2013 Big Ten/ACC Basketball Challenge on Tuesday, Dec.

Twenty-eight-year-old Benjamin Fuqua pleaded guilty Thursday in Woodbury County District Court to one count of child endangerment resulting in injury.

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

A 33-year-old Niagara Street man already jailed and facing trial in three Western New York burglaries remained jailed Thursday after Senior Erie County Judge Michael L. D’Amico increased his bail from $250,000 to $275,000 during his arraignment on an additional three residential burglaries....

George Thomas is one of four defendants accused of kidnapping, raping, torturing, and murdering Channon Christian and Chris Newsom in 2007.

Last Week, Pinal County Attorney Lando Voyles sent a letter to the Chairman, Members of the Pinal County Board of Supervisors and County Manager recommending against county employees accepting, proces

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A man sentenced to life in prison without parole when he was 14 years old could end up serving a much shorter prison term after Arkansas' highest court ruled Thursday that he deserves a new sentencing 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...

The hospitalized Boston Marathon bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was charged Monday with using a weapon of mass destruction - and the White House said he will be tried in a civilian court.

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

Lawyers and supporters for the California Innocence Project are walking 660 miles from San Diego to Sacramento, California, to personally deliver clemency petitions to Governor Jerry Brown for the release of the California 12, a dozen inmates who have strong cases of factual innocence. Follow their progress on TakePart.

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

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 ...

Comprehensive Info Center for Locating Facts about DUI Laws in Tampa, Florida. (PRWeb May 10, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/DUIAttorneyTampaFlorida/CriminalDefenseLawyers/prweb10715349.htm

A landmark $240 million verdict awarded to 32 mentally disabled Iowa plant workers who were subjected to years of abuse by their handlers will be reduced to just $1.6 million because of a federal cap, attorneys in the case agree.

A Cleveland man accused of kidnapping three women before raping and imprisoning them for over a decade has appeared in court. Related Stories Woman miraculously survives after being shot in the mouth with harpoon gun by her husband Escaped Colombian gangster undergoes sex change and dresses as a woman to evade capture Nun faces jail for damaging Tennessee nuclear plant Boston bomber, Tamerlan ...

A Sioux Falls man is set to spend more than 30 years in prison for child sex trafficking. Tajahn Clinton, 35, appeared in Federal Court Thursday as part of a plea agreement.

CENTENNIAL, Colo. -- Prosecutors in the Colorado theater shootings say laws on insanity and the death penalty are constitutional and don't need any of the explanations requested by the defense.

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.

Anderson, Johnthan G. - 04/29/2013- terroristic threatening, 3rd degree bond: $2,500- violation of Kentucky e.p.o./d.v.o. bond: 0- harassing communications bond: 0 Armstrong, Robbie Glenn - 04...

The lawyer for a San Angelo man accused of murder in a shooting death last year suggested in his opening argument to the jury that his client could have acted in self-defense.

FREEHOLD, N.J. (AP) - A New Jersey man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in a deadly botched robbery. Monmouth County prosecutors say 27-year-old Tahj Pines of Neptune was 1 of 4 men who went to Nathaniel Wiggins' Eatontown apartment in March 2008 to rob him.

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

The Indiana Court of Appeals says a man whose face was disfigured in a bicycle wreck while he was drunk can't blame Indianapolis officials or a utility for the accident.

The 2013 session of the Kansas Legislature nears an end with the chief justice of the state Supreme Court accusing a leading senator with political coercion. Meantime, efforts are picking up steam to force appellate judges into retirement and to build separate civil and criminal appeals courts.

Yesterday the Court heard the final two oral arguments scheduled for this Term. In University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar, the Court is considering what standard of proof should apply to retaliation claims brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Coverage of the argument comes from Jesse J. Holland [...]

The Air Force’s head of sexual assault prevention and response did not enter a plea to charges of sexual battery Thursday, just days after his arrest inflamed an already heated debate about the military’s efforts to stop sexual assault.

Keith Flynn had only been Orleans County state’s attorney a few weeks when he got a phone call from the Newport police on the morning of February 12, 1999. Shots had been fired in the downtown Home Health Building. Flynn rushed over, and not just because it was his job to do so: His wife was working there at the time. The shooting didn’t happen there, as it turned out. At 8:20 a.m., 34-year-old ...

A South Carolina man has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison for robbing more than a dozen banks in multiple states, including Tennessee.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Former Jacksonville Jaguars receiver Jimmy Smith has begun serving a six-year prison term in Mississippi for drug possession and weapons charges, online state corrections records show.

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

O.J. Simpson, the former football star famously acquitted of murder in 1995, took the witness stand in a Las Vegas courtroom on Wednesday seeking a new trial in an armed-robbery case that sent him to prison five years ago.

The legislation sponsored by Riverside County District Attorney Paul Zellerbach sought to shift long-term inmates from jail to prison

DALLAS, April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Three accomplished attorneys from Fish & Richardson again have earned selection to D Magazine 's exclusive listing of The Best Lawyers in Dallas. Dallas managing ...

An elderly Manhattan man broke into loud sobs yesterday as a jury heard the harrowing tale of his encounter with a power-saw-wielding madman on a subway platform in 2006.“I almost died,” Michael Steinberg, 70, told The Post outside Manhattan Supreme Court on the first day of trial in his...

WORCESTER - A New Mexico man, who said he was raped about 25 years ago by the Rev. David A. Holley, is suing the Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester in federal court and#8212; charging that local church authorities knew the diocesan priest was a pedophile, but nonetheless allowed him to practice his ministry in other parts of the country.

A Des Moines man was sentenced to 15 months in prison for stealing black walnut trees from several locations in Iowa.

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.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A central Iowa man has been given prison time for cutting down more than two dozen black walnut trees. U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt says 50-year-old Randall Todd Walker, of Des Moines, was sentenced Thursday to 15 months in prison.

BENTON COUNTY, AR - A Northwest Arkansas prison inmate arrested for raping a teenage girl in 2011 while out on a weekend furlough has pleaded guilty to the charge.

The state Supreme Court approved the revised Pennsylvania legislative boundaries this week. The current districts remain in effect through the 2014 election. On Dec. 1 of that year, the districts chan