PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Celebrity lawyer F. Lee Bailey meets all the requirements to practice law in Maine if he can resolve his tax debt with the federal government.        

CASSOPOLIS — With the theme “New Challenges, New Solutions” for National Crime Victims’ Rights Week April 21-27, Cass County paused Tuesday to pay tribute to 83 lives lost due to violent crime since 1989.

ATOKA COUNTY, OK -- Five inmates had to be taken to the hospital after a prison fight at Mack Alford Correctional Center.It happened around 3:45 p.m. on Tuesday. Officers locked down the prison after a

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- By July 2016, all West Virginia counties will be required to participate in a drug court program and provide alternative, treatment-based sentences for certain individuals convicted of drug-related crimes. The good news is, it...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Underlying California's attempts to meet a federal court order for reducing its prison population is an unsettling question: Will the public be in greater danger as a result?

SHERMAN, TX -- A former Grayson County deputy serving time for stealing guns is back home tonight. He was released from prison late this afternoon.The former deputy had pleaded guilty in exchange for a

WASHINGTON (AP) — Prosecutors say a Virginia man who planned a mass killing at the Washington headquarters of a conservative Christian lobbying group should spend 45 years in prison for his plot.

This is the world Robert Mendez grew up in: Inner city. Father dead by the time he was 5. Stepfather in and out of prison. Family struggling to make ends meet.

One thing is certain, Benjamin W. Muntz is going to prison. For how long is an unanswered question after Judge Robert C. Noonan decided he needs to know whether the District Attorney's Office will indict Muntz on any new charges. The DA is considering whether to charge Muntz with bail jumping. More than a year ago, Muntz failed to appear for his sentencing on Class D felony convictions of ...

SOUTHAVEN – Southaven Mayor Greg Davis is due back in a Hinds County Chancery Court in Jackson next Wednesday, April 10, in a showdown with Mississippi State Auditor Stacey Pickering over alleged misspent funds amounting to more than $70,000 including fines and penalties.

The former agriculture commissioner's attorney, Guthrie True, said that doesn't allow enough time to prepare.

Sometimes oversharing on the internet does more than just annoy your friends. It can even land you in jail

BRENTWOOD ? A Salem man who started a marijuana growing operation as a way to raise extra money to pay for an inflated home mortgage received no sympathy from the judge.

PHILADELPHIA (CNN) — It’s late afternoon on a recent Friday when Shree McKinley walks past the Women’s Medical Society. Making...

It may be weeks before Kansans know if prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Kyle Flack, accused of killing four people in Franklin County this spring. It will take far longer — 10 years or more — before anyone in the state is actually put to death for a crime. And that time gap, advocates on both sides of the death penalty debate say, suggests the state remains deeply uneasy about the ...

In the fourth day of deliberations in the trial of a Philadelphia abortion doctor, jurors asked Friday for a description of the babies the doctor is accused of killing.

Mark C. Jackson testified Thursday in his two-day drug trafficking trial in 12th Judicial District Court.

The Kentucky Court of Appeals has upheld the conviction of a former death row inmate in a 1998 slaying in Lexington.

ROCKFORD - A bill that made its way out of the house in Springfield on Wednesday and is now on its way through the senate could both help and hurt Stateline communities. 

Kobe Bryant has won a judge's order that temporarily blocks a Camden County auctioneer from selling memorabilia given it by the basketball great's mother.

District attorney, executive director of Criminal Justice Coordinating Council speak at wreath-hanging event

The teen accused in the murder of missing Middle Georgia State College student Jmaal Keyes makes his first court appearance.

Defendant's checkered past Times Union Copyright 2013 Times Union. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 9:52 pm, Tuesday, April 23, 2013 Richard Barnes told a judge at his arraignment on Tuesday on a felony DWI charge that he had a lot of experience with the criminal justice system. Barnes, 66, was associated with the Hells ...

This August 19, 2010 file photo provided by the Mohave County Sheriff's Office shows John Charles McCluskey. An Arizona prisoner who is accused of killing a couple in New Mexico is seeking to have a key piece of DNA thrown out.

Cerapedics, Inc. announced today that its Board of Directors has appointed Glen A. Kashuba as the company’s new chief executive officer, effective June 1, 2013.

COMMON PLEAS COURT NEW SUITS 13-CV-0428 - Andre Terrell, Dayton, v. State of Ohio, c/o Mike DeWine, Ohio Attorney General, Columbus, complaint for declaratory judgment that Terrell is a wrongfully imprisoned individual. 13-CV-0429 - CitiBank, N.A., v. Lanna Kay Blair aka Lanna K. Cassel aka Kay Cassel aka Kay Jones aka Kay Blair aka Lanna K. Jones, 310 Larchmont Ave., et al., complaint in ...

Gilbert Udoto says he's thankful that a judge sided with him, and ordered the city to re-instate the liquor license for Big Daddy's Lounge on Broadway and East Broad Avenue.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WHNT) – On Friday, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals denied Amy Bishop’s appeal of her guilty plea....

MONTROSE, Colo.—A judge won't stop a re-trial for a Texas businessman accused in the drowning death of his wife in Colorado.

A federal appeals court says a Nevada developer must exhaust his legal battle over the Grand Canyon Skywalk contract dispute in tribal court before going to the federal level.

Still big question on whether or not Ed Kramer will ever face trial read more

WORCESTER - A Massachusetts Trial Court officer has been identified by court officials as the woman in a pair of people found dead with gunshot wounds on a Hadwen Road porch this morning.

Grisly new details emerged on the second day of a mass murder trial as officers who responded to the scene and a forensic pathologist described what they saw in their roles investigating the case.

May 14, 2013, Judge Frank H. McCartney presiding:

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt requested that the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals set an execution date for Oklahoma State Penitentiary death row inmate Brian Darrell Davis.

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Vietnam has issued a new law allowing domestically produced chemicals to be used in lethal injections, a change that should enable it to resume the currently stalled executions of more than 530 people on death row.

A former Boy Scout volunteer from southwestern Illinois has begun serving a six-year prison sentence for sexually molesting boys in his family.

A 23-year-old Chattanooga woman was sentenced Monday to 16 years in prison for a 2010 homicide near the intersection of Main and Willow streets.

An Orangeburg man has been charged with conspiring to kill a South Carolina prison guard wounded in a hit authorities have said was orchestrated behind bars with an illegal cellphone.

A Kentucky man will remain in federal detention while he seeks a local lawyer to represent him in connection with an alleged murder-for-hire plot to kill real estate agent Nancy Latham of Mount Pleasant.

Despite defense concerns, the U.S. Attorney's office says it doesn't plan on using hearsay testimony in its case against Pam Ward, according to court documents filed Monday.