By Jessica De Nova/KTVL.com KLAMATH FALLS, Ore.-A handful of new suspects are in custody in connection with a major Klamath County drug bust. The bust started early Wednesday after an investigation into a double murder led deputies to evidence of a drug cartel. ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner was arrested on federal extortion charges over the weekend and is to make an appearance in federal court.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Already facing a potential contempt order, Gov. Jerry Brown now must leap another hurdle to meet a court-ordered deadline this week to say how he will reduce crowding in California prisons.

Sex offenders cluster at Salinas motel; Supreme Court considers housing restrictions.

LAS VEGAS — O.J. Simpson won a small victory on Tuesday when he returned to court for Day 2 of his attempt to win a new trial in his robbery case, when a judge said he could have one hand unshackled to drink water and take notes. Simpson managed a...

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.

BOSTON (AP) — 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.

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.

An Eddyville woman is accused of smuggling contraband into the Kentucky State Penitentiary.

UPDATE: The Los Angeles Times reports that Lindsay Lohan violated her probation by leaving Morningside Recovery on Thursday, where she was to begin 90 days of court-ordered treatment. Deputy Santa Monica city attorney Terry White said that he learned Lohan … Continue reading →

HELENA, Mont. -- The Montana Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed a lower court's ruling granting a new trial to a man convicted in 1984 of a murder he says he didn't commit.

On June 13, 1996, 18-year-old Angie Dodge was raped and murdered in her Idaho Falls apartment. In 1998, Chris Tapp was sentenced to 25 years to life for the crime. But, for years, renowned DNA expert and Boise State Professor Greg Hampikian has championed Tapp's innocence.

By Ronnie Cohen SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Authorities have asked the public for help in tracking down a onetime member of the so-called Billionaire Boys Club who served prison time in connection with his father's slaying and is now sought as a suspect in a San Francisco traffic death last summer. An arrest warrant issued in March charges Reza Eslaminia, 52, whose original murder trial helped ...

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 ...

One man facing drug-related charges in Dodge County District Court was sent to prison Monday, but another man convicted on a separate drug-related offense was given an additional 30 days to find inpatient treatment before sentence is passed.

They handled her with (presidential) kid gloves. Prosecutors and defense lawyers selected Caroline Kennedy as Juror No. 7 for a Manhattan crack sale trial without questioning her on her ties to DA Cyrus Vance, or on the drug problems of her several cousins, or on the tragic pair of assassinations...

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.

By Lisa Maria Garza DALLAS (Reuters) - A Texas paramedic, who responded to a fertilizer plant explosion last month, is expected to plead not guilty in federal court on Wednesday to possessing pipe bomb components, his lawyer said. Bryce Reed, 31, faces one count of unlawfully possessing an unregistered destructive device. Texas officials have said no evidence linked Reed's arrest to the plant ...

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.

Under the scrutiny of a forensic audit ordered by Gov. Robert Bentley, Alabama State University has tapped former Federal Judge U.W. Clemon, Montgomery's WSFA 12 News reports.

A judge has refused to set bond for Joyce Garrard, the grandmother accused in the death of her granddaughter.

In August 2009, a Stanton laundromat janitor lured an 11-year-old girl into a closet with the promise of free perfume, locked the door and sexually molested her. At his 2011 trial in Orange Cou...

The partially decomposed body of a Butte man found in a rugged area near the city has been sent to the Montana Crime Lab.

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. 

Clients give Ivashuk five-star “excellent” reviews to lead the way to the Florida Attorneys Avvo 2013 Clients' Choice Award (PRWeb May 07, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/florida-attorney/jeff-ivashuk/prweb10707640.htm

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.

The Michigan Court of Appeals has stopped Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr and two state emergency loan board members from giving depositions in a lawsuit claiming open meetings violations in the state's selection of Orr.

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 ...

Fossil fuel industry frustrated by federal delays By Bob Berwyn SUMMIT COUNTY — The fossil fuel industry continues to battle over energy development in court, most recently by asking a federal appeals court to overturn a previous lower court ruling that spurred the Bureau of Land Management to reconsider its plan for northwest Colorado’s Roan […]

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

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 ...

By Kevin Gorman, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Pitt and Penn State will play again – on the basketball court – when the Panthers host the Nittany Lions in the 2013 Big Ten/ACC ...

OJ Simpson returns to Las Vegas court in bid for new trial in 2008 robbery-kidnap conviction        

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.

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

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 [...]

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.

ST. JOSEPH COUNTY-- Convenience stores in Indiana are going to court over the right to sell cold beer.

The South Carolina Court of Appeals has overturned the conviction of a former Clemson student in prison on a charge of aiding and abetting a homicide by child abuse.

No one is seriously suggesting that California will soon become another Cyprus, the Greek-speaking Mediterranean island nation whose economic bailout plan includes dunning holders of “large” bank accounts as much as half their holdings and freezing the rest. But since a federal bankruptcy judge gave the go-ahead for the city of Stockton to seek shelter from more than $1 billion in debts via ...

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.