A convicted sex offender was indicted Tuesday on new charges that he sexually abused two Massachusetts boys in Maine, according to court documents.

A man who authorities say created a fake job to gain work release from jail and then killed a former Michigan state trooper and his wife has been sentenced to ...

(Reuters) - The state of Ohio on Wednesday executed a man who was convicted of killing a 6-month-old girl during a drunken sexual assault in 1998. Steven T. Smith, 46, was put to death at 10:29 a.m. ET (1439 GMT) by lethal injection at a state prison in Lucasville, Ohio, according to the state corrections department. Smith answered "no," when asked by the prison warden if he had any final words ...

The brother of 43-year-old Clifford Wischnewsky, whose body was found in a private driveway in Brazos County just over a year ago, was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole.

Grandmother Ericka Gallego of El Monte, California was sentenced to eight years in prison for kidnapping her own four-month-old granddaughter in 2011 and attempting to pass the girl off as her own two-week-old daughter. Gallego had apparently been faking a pregnancy for months before she scooped the girl up from her own son's bedroom and tried to throw herself a baby shower the next day. [ more ...

NEPTUNE — A Neptune man was sentenced to 50 years in state prison after being convicted in December for taking part in a 2008 murder, Acting Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni of the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office announced in a press release Friday.

Riverside County District Attorney Paul Zellerbach and other local officials complain that county jails are bulging with long-term inmates

A not-yet-public U.S. federal court order has apparently halted wire transfers between payments startup Dwolla and the largest bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox. Dwolla , based in Des Moines, Iowa, offers inexpensive wire transfers. Mt. Gox , headquartered in Tokyo, runs a popular exchange where people can buy and sell the virtual currency bitcoin. The intent of the court order is not clear, although ...

POMEROY, Ohio - One man has been jailed for murder and two others are charged as accomplices after a Pomeroy man was found dead in a Meigs County motel, officials said on Thursday. The Meigs County Sheriff's Department arrested 32-year-old Ryan .

A Michigan man released from prison after doubts were raised about the woman who accused him of rape is pleased that she's being charged with fraud in a separate case.

Associated Press PITTSBURGH An appeals court has overturned the guilty verdict against a 15

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A federal judge has agreed to postpone the trial of a former BP engineer charged with deleting text messages about the company's response to its 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

A Houston-area man must serve nearly 20 years in prison for enticing a 9-year-old Minnesota girl he met online into posing nude and email him the photo.

Robin Lunceford, originally slated to spend her life behind bars, testified that a Kendall woman confessed to murdering the foster child.

NEW DETAILS: Arkansas' highest court says a man sentenced to life in prison without parole when he was 14 years old deserves a new sentencing hearing.

Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC and KSF partner, the former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., remind investors that they have until July 22, 2013 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities ...

The Monterey County Public Defender's Office has filed a lawsuit that aims to remedy substandard health care in a jail that's "broken in every way," according to a complaint filed in federal court Thursday.

Ariel Castro, 52, is due to appear in court today on four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape after he was arrested at his home on Monday after the three women were rescued from captivity.

An Oswego County man who was wrongfully imprisoned for attacking his wife has won a $5.5 million dollar award from the state, according to papers filed April 30 in State Claims Court.

Lester Stiggers killed his own father in Arkansas.  Sent to prison, he escaped to Michigan where he was granted asylum in 1970.  Now there is a new effort to put him back behind bars.

The suspect in a fatal shooting in Puna chased a witness out of the home where the slaying occurred while brandishing a handgun, according to court documents filed by police. Don Sambrana, a neighbor of both the suspect and victim, told police that he was in the same room and within 10 feet of the victim, 40-year-old Mateo D. Balinbin Jr. of Nanawale Estates, when the shooting occurred on Monday ...

Bruce Cole is under house arrest in his home state of California awaiting a Missouri trial on felony fraud and forgery charges.

Utah man gets prison for shooting, killing his father by Jessica Miller The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 20, 2013 10:54AM MDT Farmington • A 30-year-old Roy man who shot and killed his father two years ago at a Kaysville motel was sentenced Monday to prison for up to 30 years. Joseph Allen Nance was originally charged in 2nd District Court with first-degree felony murder and being a ...

LAS CRUCES — The family of the former college instructor who died in January after being hit by a car while crossing the street at New Mexico State University has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in 3rd Judicial District Court.

The following incidents were listed among the official reports of the Lake Forest and Lake Bluff police departments. Readers are reminded that an arrest does not constitute a finding of guilt. Only a court of law can make that determination.

Two Spring Hill men pleaded guilty in federal court for their involvement in a racially-motivated conspiracy to interfere with the housing rights of African-American residents of the Spring Lake subdivision of Spring Hill, the Justice Department announced.

Serious assaults of two correctional officers in the last two weeks prompted a lockdown of the Somerset Correctional Institution for a second day Friday, according to Heidi Sroka, SCI public information officers and superintendent assistant.

A Pittsburgh police officer charged with insurance fraud almost two years ago lost some of his police powers, but he didn’t lose his job. As Target 11 Investigator Rick Earle discovered, he’s being paid his full salary while serving probation. Officer Vernon Gibson works at the warrant office at the City Municipal Court building downtown. He’s been assigned to that office since he was charged ...

PHOENIX : A federal judge ruled Friday that the office of America’s self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Latinos in its trademark immigration patrols, marking the first finding by a court that the agency racially profiles people.

HANAHAN -- The Navy brig here is once again being mentioned as a possible site to hold and put terror detainees on trial.

A man imprisoned for the attempted murder of a San Joaquin County prosecutor is now under investigation for the death of a fellow inmate at California State Prison, Corcoran.

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 new law makes it a crime for agents to enforce federal legislation on "Made in Kansas" firearms        

CHARLESTON, S.C. — A Myrtle Beach man was sentenced to nearly six years in prison for robbing more than a dozen banks in multiple states.

Ute Tribe stakes new legal claim to ‘Indian Country’ by Brian Maffly The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 25, 2013 10:48AM MDT A long-simmering feud between the Ute Tribe and local authorities in eastern Utah has reignited into a flurry of suits and countersuits aimed at settling the vexing question of who holds jurisdiction in “Indian Country.” In papers filed last month in U.S. District Court ...

House-Senate conference committee members Wednesday finalized a $547.3 million appropriation to fund state prisons, public safety and other justice system functions for the 2014 fiscal year that begins July 1. The overall funding level in Senate File 447 was an increase from the House’s $534.5 million proposal and Gov. Terry Branstad’s $535.2 million plan for [...]

TORRINGTON >> As the anniversary of the death of beloved Torrington real estate agent Thomas J. “TJ” Zappulla approaches, the fate of the woman allegedly responsible for his death is being decided in a rural New Hampshire court.

Corbin and Knox County officials are now playing the waiting game after Circuit Court Judge Greg Lay announced he would take their respective arguments in the ongoing occupational tax dispute under submission.

An Illinois man who spent more than 13 years in prison before his murder conviction was thrown out was formally declared innocent Thursday in the 1993 slaying of a college student.

According to a recent report from CNN, the number of homes foreclosed upon is returning to levels not seen since well before the housing meltdown began in 2007 -- a positive development that has won a ...

Friday's federal appeals court ruling upholding the conviction and 28-year prison sentence of kids-for-cash judge Mark A. Ciavarella Jr. brings a case that gravely embarrassed the legal profession in Luzerne County and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ne