Former National Basketball Players Association Executive Director Billy Hunter sued the union, its president and his publicist, alleging that they engaged in secret negotiations with team owners to end the 2011 lockout.

Crime Debt collector demands payment Erie County deputies hunting for a Sandusky man who allegedly stomped the tar out of a delinquent debtor Saturday at the Greenfield Village Mobile Home Park. matt westerhold Sandusky Apr 29, 2013 googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display("dfp-ad-sandusky_register"); }); Deputies have two felony assault warrants out for 30-year-old Adam White. Deputies ...

Judge Herbert E. Phipps will become the new chief judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals on July 1, the court said.

SANTA FE - A Las Cruces man whose murder trial was postponed 12 times is asking the New Mexico Supreme Court to overturn his conviction.

A 73-year-old Henryetta man has pleaded guilty to federal charges of racketeering and receiving stolen farm equipment in a case that included multiple defendants and several Oklahoma counties, including Washington County. Phillip Howard Hawk pleaded guilty to one count of racketeering, one count of conspiracy and five counts of receiving stolen farm equipment this week in Washington County Court.

Mario McNeill told a judge late Tuesday that he wants all or none of a taped November 2009 interview with investigators shown to the jury in his capital murder trial.

Logan Alan Murphy was convicted of burglary, breaking and entering and vandalism in Stark County.

Waller, Nashville's oldest and largest law firm, today announced the addition of 17 new attorneys to the following key practice groups:

Superior Court Judge Jim Ammons ruled Friday after hearing from four mental health authorities that the trial of 32-year-old Mario McNeill will go ahead.

Mississippi Corrections Commissioner Chris Epps says the prison system faces a budget crunch, partly because the Parole Board releases fewer inmates these days.

ATLANTA — Georgia state Rep. Tyrone Brooks has been charged in a 30-count federal grand jury indictment with mail fraud, wire fraud and filing false tax returns, U.S. District Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said Thursday.

  THE PIPELINE To paraphrase an old lawyer hate joke – Q. What do you call 42,000 Asian Pacific American (APA) attorneys in a pipeline? A. A good start…to being nominees for US Supreme Court. “We’re on the cusp of an Asian American justice,” said author and...

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A Missouri man convicted in February of killing a Nebraska woman more than 20 years ago has lost his bid for a new trial.

CANYON COUNTY — The Southwest Idaho Juvenile Detention Center has been awarded a $26,700 grant to help meet federal standards for sexual abuse prevention.

Pot smokers can be fired from their jobs in Colorado even though medical and recreational marijuana remains legal in the state. That’s according to a new ruling in the Colorado Court of Appeals, which stated Thursday that “off-duty” smoking can result in the smoker being lawfully fired. The court chose not to introduce employment protection [...] Pot Smokers Can Be Fired, Rules Colorado Court is ...

A conservative watchdog group has filed suit in Federal court in an effort to obtain records on the costs of President Obama's vacations in Hawaii.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Arkansas prison officials say they didn't know a 63-year-old fugitive was sick when they sought his return from Michigan.

Canton police arrested a man the Ohio prison system says is “dangerous and possibly armed” in a northwest Canton neighborhood.

Sylvester’s Sly Bail Bonds was founded in 2008. His livelihood depends on the Eighth Amendment. Not the part that outlaws cruel and unusual punishment — the founders’ reaction to British practices of branding, whipping and long prison terms in colonial America. Sylvester’s business relies on the portion that prohibits judges from placing an “excessive bail,” on those who are innocent until ...

The Indiana Supreme Court has upheld the state law limiting punitive damages awarded in civil lawsuits and directs most of that money to a state victims fund. Read more at www.WISHTV.com

BALTIMORE (AP) - A Delaware man has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for plotting to sell heroin and cocaine on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

SANTA FE — A Las Cruces man whose murder trial was postponed 12 times is asking the New Mexico Supreme Court to overturn his conviction.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Records show that a political figure at the center of a Las Cruces judicial scandal was in regular contact with former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson's staff to offer input on appointments to the bench in Dona Ana County.

Lawyers for six plaintiffs today announced a $19.6 million settlement of a lawsuit against the Chicago Province of the Society of Jesus involving allegations of sex abuse by now-defrocked Jesuit priest Donald McGuire.        

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Records show that a political figure at the center of a Las Cruces judicial scandal was in regular contact with former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson's staff to offer input on appointments to the bench in Dona Ana County.

VERNON, Conn. — Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel launched a barrage of criticism Thursday against the attorney who represented him at his murder trial, portraying an overly confident lawyer having fun and basking in the limelight while making fundamental mistakes from poor jury picks to failing to track down key witnesses.

Athena Castile, an 11-week-old baby from Norwalk, died Friday morning after being stabbed by her second cousin, police said. Charged with aggravated murder is Denzel Castile, 19, of Sandusky. He is being held without bond in the Erie County jail.

The contract for Willcox City Attorney is up for renewal, and Ann Roberts has expressed her interest in becoming a part-time city employee, rather than continuing her status as a contract employee.

The Berks County District Attorney announced charges against 25 people as part of a major drug trafficking investigation.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A U.S. Army soldier was sentenced on Thursday to nearly 12 years in a military prison for shooting and killing a fellow soldier early on Christmas Day, officials said. Army Spc.

The Georgia Supreme Court yesterday issued a legal reprimand against Democratic Party of Georgia Chairman Mike Berlon following two ethics rules he broke while representing a former client. The Loganville lawyer, who chalks the matter up to a minor disagreement, says he asked Georgia's highest court to issue the reprimand, considered the least severe punishment for lawyers who violate State Bar ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A U.S. Army soldier was sentenced on Thursday to nearly 12 years in a military prison for shooting and killing a fellow soldier early on Christmas Day, officials said.Army Spc. Marshall Drake, stationed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, shot Pvt. Grant Wise in the face in what military prosecutors described as an alcohol-fueled joke that went awry.Drake was ...

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina judge declares that a man accused of raping and killing a 5-year-old Fayetteville girl is competent to stand trial in a case that could end with the death penalty.

The Ohio Supreme Court will revisit the case of the state’s only female Death Row inmate next week.

The conviction of Kelly Simino for the 2006 murder of his one-time girlfriend Brandi Mathews has been upheld by the Missouri Court of Appeals in a ruling April 24.

A 50-year-old man goes on trial Monday in Las Cruces in the 2010 killings of a New Mexico couple and their business partner from California.

OXFORD, Miss. - The second Mississippi man to fall under suspicion for mailing poison-tainted letters to President Obama and others will be facing a grand jury, a judge ruled Thursday.

A Delaware man has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for plotting to sell heroin and cocaine on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

Assignment Judge Georgia Curio may be the last to publicly weigh in on the impact of Gloucester County’s plan to close the county jail and send inmates to other county correctional facilties.Curio’s office, however, was among one of the first to meet with county officials in planning for big-time change in how Gloucester County’s court system does business.

CLARK FREEPORT - The second US military ship acquired by the government under the Excess Defense Article and Military Assistance Program with the US set sail last Monday off the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in North Charleston, South Carolina in the US for a three-day sea trial before finally journeying to the Philippines by next month.