Coloradans who use medical marijuana off the clock can be fired from their jobs for doing so even if they aren't impaired on the job, an appeals court ruled Thursday in a major decision.

A judge has found a Minnesota man incompetent to stand trial in a random shooting that killed a 9-year-old boy in February.

Yelp reviewers are now treating prisons like hotels, reviewing food service and staff friendliness. Some prisons may even receive a one to five star rating. “Jail food may get a bad rap ... but jail employee food is off the chain!" read one review. Another suggested getting arrested in Arlington County, where officers supposedly handed out juice boxes. Aside from being sometimes entertaining ...

A former Little Rock police officer charged with manslaughter in the death of a teen appeared in court ahead of his June 18 trial date.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) â Oregon's attorney general's office is opposing an appeal from Kip Kinkel who killed his parents and two high school students in 1998 in Springfield. A response filed in Marion County Circuit Court says Kinkel has exhausted his appeals and it's too late to overturn his 112-year sentence. ...

Pat Jones is the founder of the victims advocate group V.O.C.A.L. Her mother was violently killed in 1990. We had to go through five capitol murder trials in less than four years. Each trial lasted a week. Two of the trials were in Abbeville in my home town and the other two were in Montgomery.

COLORADO SPRINGS — The first female soldier to flee the U.S. military for Canada to avoid the Iraq war will face a court-martial Monday. The Colorado Springs Gazette reports Pfc. Kimberly Rivera is charged with desertion and faces up to five years in prison and a dishonorable discharge if convicted.

By Suzi Parker LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday blocked a new Arkansas law that would ban most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy, one of the most restrictive abortion statutes in the nation. U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright granted an injunction sought by abortion rights groups, saying the ban was "more than likely" unconstitutional and ordering that ...

Outgoing state Supreme Court Justice Paul Anderson says he's relieved the Legislature and not the courts made the call on same-sex marriage in Minnesota.

Friday May 17, 2013 MIKE FAHER Brattleboro Reformer BRATTLEBORO -- More than eight months after he walked out of prison due to new DNA evidence, John Grega pleaded not guilty to the latest charges alleging that he murdered his wife in 1994. The New York man appeared in Windham Superior Court Criminal Division on Thursday as his defense attorneys and Windham County

One man is going to prison and three are to serve brief jail sentences for their roles in a disturbance at the Lucas County courthouse last November that escalated into a near riot.

Six inmates, each shackled and chained to a chair, face the front of a room at the Washington State Penitentiary as two instructors guide them through conversations about managing anger and avoiding confrontation.

Hartford — More than one year after a man was shot while walking in downtown White River Junction in what police said was a random attack, evidence in the case has not been examined by the Vermont state crime lab.

A federal judge has scheduled a settlement hearing in the Savannah harbor deepening lawsuit. The massive court case blocking Georgia's port expansion project now will come to an end on June 10. Environmental groups and South Carolina agencies had sought to stop the deepening project over water...

By Rich Cholodofsky, Tribune-Review In nine months, Westmoreland County District Attorney John Peck has added three inmates to more than 190 awaiting the death penalty in Pennsylvania. But the ...

Remee Jo Lee, 26, says if John Andrew Welden gets out of jail she's afraid he'll come after her.

The last day of the 2013 legislative session came to a productive end Monday, with Republican majorities in both Houses overriding the executive amendments of a Republican governor on the School Accountability Act and passing a flurry of local legislative acts before adjourning at midnight as required by law.

A western Pennsylvania man has been ordered to stand trial in the stabbing deaths of his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend at a hunting camp.

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE Trustee's Sale No. 02-UB-123339 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, ALLIANCE TITLE and ESCROW CORP., the duly appointed Successor Trustee, will on July 12, 2013, at the hour of 10:00 AM, of said day, FRONT ENTRANCE OF THE KOOTENAI COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 324 WEST GARDEN AVENUE, COEUR D'ALENE, ID, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, in lawful money of the United ...

Four of the seven Mendocino County residents charged in a Kansas federal court for drug trafficking have pleaded guilty. The drug trafficking case started in Lawrence, Kansas as an investigation into a $17 million drug distribution ring involving an ex-con and his brother.

The state Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Tuesday on whether Connecticut's controversial prospective repeal of the death penalty is constitutional.

A Marine officer in charge of snipers shown in a 2011 video urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters Afghanistan will be court-martialed.        

HILLSBORO, Ore. (AP) — Former Oregon football player Cliff Harris will face trial in Hillsboro on a domestic harassment charge.

FLAGSTAFF (AP) — White cinder brick walls. Cement floors. Metal tables and chairs bolted to the floor. Blue jumpsuits prevail behind locked doors that do not open for the residents.

 The first court hearing on the Natural State's 12-week abortion ban next week will not include a group wanting to help defend the law.

Prisoners at Hays State Prison allegedly tipped off to upcoming security shakedowns, according to a retired employee.

A Dewey man has been sentenced to 2 ½ years in prison and 10 years' probation for attempted sexual abuse and transporting cocaine.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - The former executive director of a Maine nonprofit that serves the poor has been sentenced to 2 ½ years in federal prison for stealing $900,000 from the organization.

WORCESTER - A federal judge has denied suspended lawyer Christopher M. Uhl's motion to cease his supervised release.

The case against a Redding man who has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of producing child pornography stems from a Tehama County arrest. According to the federal indictment out of US District Court, Sean Erin Karjala, 42, produced...

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.

PHOTO: Johana Portillo-Lopez, daughter of Ricardo Portillo, who passed away after injuries he sustained after an assault by a soccer player at a soccer game he was refereeing on April 27, becomes emotional as she speaks about her father's death during a press conference in Salt Lake City on Sunday, May 5, 2013. ...

Detroit native and ex-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.

Judge Phil Journey says Second Amendment-related issues will be among the top campaign issues in 2014.

(AP Photo/Steven Senne). Herbert Robbins, of Worcester, Mass., right, joins with other demonstrators as they display placards and chant slogans on the street outside the Graham, Putnam, and Mahoney Funeral Parlors, in Worcester, May 5, 2013.

Thomas Petters, the Minnesota businessman sentenced to 50 years in prison after being found guilty of running a $3.5 billion fraud scheme, asked a U.S. judge to set aside his punishment.

BRATTLEBORO, Vt. - More than eight months after he walked out of prison thanks to new DNA evidence, John Grega pleaded not guilty to the latest charges alleging he murdered his wife in 1994.

The following is the sentencing activity released by US Attorney Christopher A. Crofts office of the Department of Justice’s District of Wyoming -- 2011-13

A pair of bills aimed at curtailing protests by environmental activists that disrupt logging projects in state-owned forests was comfortably approved today by the Oregon House. House Bill 2595 would create a new “interference” crime which would apply to protesters who chain themselves to or sit in trees, who block …

California retailers may be liable for large money awards if they falsely advertise that their products are on sale. A federal appeals court Tuesday revived a potential class-action lawsuit alleging that Kohl's Department Stores Inc. misstated in advertising that items had been marked down.

Utah man who shot at police officers sentenced to prison by Jessica Miller The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 16, 2013 04:00PM MDT A man who got into a shootout with Davis County sheriff’s deputies in Farmington after allegedly firing a gun at other drivers on the Legacy Parkway in January was sentenced Thursday to prison for up to life. Marco Antonio Guizar, 38, of Taylorsville, was charged in ...