Connecticut’s court system is expanding access to its electronic document filing system to include people representing themselves in civil court cases, The Associated Press reports.

The state Supreme Court has revoked an attorney's law license for having sex with a teenage girl.

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.

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.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla., May 14 (UPI) -- A man convicted in a series of rapes and murders in Florida has been scheduled for execution next month, officials say.

An attorney representing several employees of the Gage County Sheriff’s Office has asked for a protective order in U.S. District Court to prevent Sheriff Millard “Gus” Gustafson from being required to complete a statement that could be used as evidence in an upcoming trial.

An airline passenger from Mexico caught in Texas with nearly 4 pounds of heroin in her suitcases has been sentenced to three years in prison. A federal judge in Houston sentenced 21-year-old Yessica Chanel ...

A 24-year-old man faces up to 30 years in prison after being convicted of manslaughter and child neglect in the death of his 5-month-old son.

Kaitlyn Hunt would plead to a lessor charge of child abuse, and serve two years of house arrest and a year of probation.

Cambridge radar technology pioneer Aveillant has lined up alongside Raytheon and Lockheed Martin in crucial trials for the US government designed to ensure aircraft movements aren’t obstructed by wind farms. Read more...

At exactly 9:36 this morning, the CapeFlyer â the MBTA's new train service from South Station to Hyannis â set off on its inaugural run.        

A judge refused to set bond Tuesday for a 48-year-old woman charged with capital murder in the death of her granddaughter, who prosecutors say was run to death as punishment for a lie.

Two sisters facing charges that they endangered the lives of infants at their Northern California daycare center by binding them too tightly in swaddling blankets didn't intend to hurt the babies and contend they didn't commit child abuse, their attorney said

The man convicted of killing Indiana University coed Jill Behrman in 2000 arrived in a Morgan County courtroom in shackles Tuesday morning to hear his attorneys argue that his original trial lawyer was incompetent. John Myers is serving a 65 …

The Alabama Department of Corrections is investigating the death of an inmate.

A Washington state judge has sentenced an inmate to death for killing a state corrections officer in a prison chapel two years ago.

Utah man sentenced to life in prison for murdering girlfriend, mutilating her body by Jessica Miller The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 20, 2013 01:28PM MDT A 44-year-old Orem man will spend the rest of his life in prison for fatally stabbing his live-in girlfriend last year and mutilating her body, a judge ruled Monday. In order to escape the death penalty, Steven Gray pleaded guilty in March ...

Friends of Larry Delassus, the disabled Hermosa Beach Navy veteran who died in court in December while opposing foreclosure of his home, filed a wrongful death lawsuit this week against the bank that defaulted him and sold his home.

KINGMAN – A judge told a panel of potential jurors that harvest in Kansas won’t get them ...

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) - Lawyers for Kobe Bryant and an auction house are scheduled to make arguments before a federal judge in New Jersey about whether mementos from Bryant can be sold.

CARROLL COUNTY -- Evan Pearson, the Berryville man accused of harboring a runaway girl last fall, is scheduled to be arraigned on June 10 on charges stemming from a string of burglaries this...

Attorneys for Carnegie Mellon University and a California firm were arguing whether a federal judge should reduce or increase a jury's $1.17 billion patent infringement verdict in favor of the school. ...

CENTREVILLE, Mich. (AP) — Child welfare workers can't be sued in the death of a southwestern Michigan teen who perished in a fire, even if they knew she was regularly tied to her bed by her parents, a federal appeals court said.

From the News Service of Florida: In the latest round in a two-year legal battle, a state appeals court Tuesday heard arguments in a dispute that stems from the Florida Department of Health allowing three hospitals to operate trauma centers.

David Wayne Sconce's past life as a mortician has come back to haunt him decades after he gained notoriety for stealing body parts from corpses and plotting to kill a funeral business rival.Sconce, 56, is to be sentenced Monday...

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

Mid-Columbia legislators — Reps. Terry Nealey, Larry Haler, Brad Klippert, Maureen Walsh, Joe

Trayvon Martin's shooter will go to trial. SANFORD – Murder defendant George Zimmerman will not have a "stand your ground" hearing before his trial, after he waived that right in court today.        

The boys of Lester Middle dripped with sweat. They raced up and down the court, doing layup drills. The orange glow of the fluorescent gym lights flashed off the hardwoods. Coach Desmond Merriweather barked out signals.

Local health club owner John Brinson is among the plaintiffs. A federal appeals court has ruled that employers shouldn't be forced to display posters informing employees of their right to form a union, a victory for a group of business plaintiffs that includes Lehigh Valley fitness club chain owner John Brinson.        

One of the emergency responders at last month's deadly Texas fertilizer plant explosion is now charged with possessing materials for a pipe bomb, a court document states.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Majorities in every California county voted last fall to scale back the state's Three Strikes law so thousands of inmates serving life sentences for relatively minor third offenses would have the chance to be set free.

A judge from McHenry County is holding a hearing Tuesday afternoon in the involuntary-manslaughter case against Richard J. “R.J.” Vanecko, a nephew of former Mayor Richard M. Daley. The hearing before Judge Maureen P. McIntyre is being held at the Cook County regional courthouse in Rolling Meadows. Vanecko, 38, of Costa Mesa, Calif., was indicted Dec. 3 by a Cook County grand jury that charged ...

A man who pled guilty for operating a rolling meth lab in January of this year, has been sentenced to five years in prison. 32-year-old Justin Sanders admitted to possession of pseudoephedrine and lithium. Saunders

Parolee Evan Ebel ditched his ankle monitor and investigators say he went on to murder Colorado Prison Chief Tom Clements and Nate Leon of Denver. We've now learned nearly 30 other parolees have been convicted of murder in Colorado, just since 2002. Other parolees await trial, accused of murder. Seven of those parolees turned murderers are from southern Colorado. One of them, Aaron Wilkerson ...

WILMINGTON, Del. - A judge in Delaware ordered attorneys for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to turn over more information to shareholders seeking records on how the company responded to allegations of bribery involving ...

A Philadelphia Common Pleas Court jury returns Monday to continue deliberating in the murder trial of West Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell.

(Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from the Washington Informer) — Mignon Clyburn, a veteran policymaker from the Public Service Commission of South Carolina, has been appointed acting chair of the Federal Communications Commission, the first woman to ever hold the post.

We believe the California State Supreme Court was right last week when it ruled that marijuana dispensaries have no legal standing under Prop.

NEW YORK (AP) - A judge on Friday refused to delay enforcement of his decision giving women of all ages broad access to morning-after birth control, calling the government's appeal frivolous, a "silly argument" and an insult to the intelligence of women.

One of the two men convicted in a 1989 Clark County murder is back in jail after allegedly trying to abduct a girl in Laurel County last week.