PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia abortion doctor convicted of killing three babies who were born alive in his grimy clinic agreed Tuesday to give up his right to an appeal and faces life in prison but will be spared a death sentence.

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.

A 45-year-old Greek citizen who fled the United States more than two decades ago, the day before he was convicted of murdering his 2-year-old stepson, has been retried in his home country and sentenced to 18 years in a Greek jail, US law enforcement officials said on Friday.        

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.

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

BRATTLEBORO -- Attorneys for a man accused of killing a Brattleboro woman in 2011 should have their request for the suppression of evidence denied, wrote Paul Van de Graaf, First Assistant and Criminal Chief for the U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont, in filings to the U.S. District Court.

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.

The Internal Revenue Service said it would refund fees collected for registered tax return preparer tests that were canceled due to a court injunction.

Ulmer & Berne LLP announced a significant expansion of its trademark capabilities, with the addition of accomplished trademark attorney Thomas Williams as a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property & Technology Practice.

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Two men charged with murdering an Idaho woman who disappeared three years ago had a pact to kill each other's wives, according to court documents released in the case.

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...

WASHINGTON -- The chairman of a Senate committee says the sexual battery arrest of the Air Force officer who led the branch's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response unit underscores how far the Defense Department has to go in addressing the plague of sexual crimes in the military.

By Jason McLure LITTLETON, New Hampshire (Reuters) - A 45-year-old Greek citizen who fled the United States more than two decades ago, the day before he was convicted of murdering his 2-year-old stepson, has been retried in his home country and sentenced to 18 years in a Greek jail, U.S. law enforcement officials said on Friday. The conviction and sentencing of the man, Steven Kamberidis, was ...

Robert Braddock Jr. walks outside federal court in New Haven, Conn., Monday May 13, 2013. Braddock, the finance director for ex-Connecticut House Speaker's failed congressional campaign last year, is on trial on conspiracy and campaign finance charges.

A 35-year-old Logansport man is leaving the Cass County court system with 15 years in prison, resulting from four court cases.

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.

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Greenwood Avenue — A participant in the New Jersey Intensive Supervision Program — an intensive form of parole used as an alternative to prison — who has a no-bail state warrant for his arrest was found at One Greenwood Ave. at 5:28 p.m. on Friday, April 26, by Montclair police officers dispatched to the address, police said.

A federal appeals court denied asylum Wednesday to a Christian family that fled Germany so they could home-school their children, after ruling that U.S. immigration laws do not grant a safe haven to people everywhere who face restrictions that would be prohibited under the Constitution.

Former Jacksonville Jaguars stand-out wide receiver Jimmy Smith is serving a six-year prison term in Mississippi for drug possession and weapons charges, online state corrections records show.

(Reuters) — A Philadelphia doctor avoided the possbility of the death penalty for murdering babies during late-term abortions by agreeing not to appeal his convictions, and he was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison, the city prosecutor said.        

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 ...

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. 

California's attorney general accused Chase Bank of using false documents in court cases to collect credit card debts

There are a number of politics pieces in this week's issue of Crain's. Bronx Assemblyman Eric Stevenson twice turned down bribes, saying he would provide assistance to businessmen in the borough free of charge. Only on a third try by a government informant did he take a $10,000 bribe. That's a foundation for an entrapment defense, attorneys say. And it is coming into play in the case involving ...

An American judge known for his harsh and autocratic courtroom manner was jailed for 28 years for conspiring with private prisons to hand young offenders maximum sentences in return for kickbacks amounting to millions of dollars. Related Stories Parliament brawl leaves Venezuelan politicians battered and bruised Revealed: Man claiming to be Vietnam veteran Sgt John Hartley Robertson who went ...

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

Signature Bank , a New York-based full-service commercial bank, announced today the appointment of two executives, effective May 13, 2013, both of which will strength

Jodi Arias could face the death penalty, nearly five years after she stabbed, shot and almost decapitated her ex-boyfriend.

A Wisconsin judge has set sentencing for July 15 for a man who admitted killing his three daughters in the girls' River Falls home.

Hackers may have grabbed as many as 160,000 Social Security numbers and up to one million drivers license numbers from the Washington State Administrative Office of the Courts, according to information provided on the Court's website yesterday. The hackers responsible for this breach used a flaw in Adobe's ColdFusion software to access this data, though the court confirmed that only 94 Social ...

A former Dewey & LeBoeuf partner who sued Barclays Bank after it demanded that he make good on what he claims is a fraudulent $540,000 loan agreement is now trying to spread the blame for the loan's creation to several of the defunct firm's onetime leaders, including former Dewey chairman Steven Davis.

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge warned Osama bin Laden's son-in-law Wednesday that a lawyer he hired to represent him on charges he conspired to kill Americans could end up in prison himself.

HOUSTON (AP) - Convicted ex-Enron Corp. CEO Jeffrey Skilling's more than 24-year prison sentence for his role in the once mighty energy giant's collapse could be reduced by as many as 10 years if a federal judge approves an agreement reached Wednesday between prosecutors and defense attorneys.

SALT LAKE CITY — A judge has pushed back the initial court date for a 39-year-old man accused of brandishing a gun inside the West Valley City police lobby.

An Akron federal judge has scheduled a hearing Tuesday for 51-year-old Robert Berryhill of Aurora. The court docket calls it an arraignment and guilty plea hearing.

GOSHEN — Sexual assault charges against a New York City police officer from the Town of Wallkill will be dropped after the complainant recanted, a prosecutor said Tuesday in Orange County Court.

Kevin Baxter of the L.A. Times has the details: Dodgers prospect Yasiel Puig was arrested by police in Chattanooga, Tenn., early Sunday and charged with speeding, reckless driving and driving without proof of insurance. A spokesman for the Hamilton County jail confirmed that Puig was booked Sunday morning and released a short time later. He…

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.

PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Federal budget cuts have caused delays in at least one terror-related court case in New York and prompted a federal judge in Nebraska to say he is "seriously contemplating" dismissing some criminal cases.