CHICAGO - An town Iowa letter carrier has been sentenced to 37 years in prison for sending dud pipe bombs with threatening letters signed "The Bishop."

More than three dozen inmates in two Central Valley state prisons have died after contracting the disease. Court-appointed monitor calls state's response to the deaths 'anemic.' SACRAMENTO — The national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stepped in to investigate outbreaks of valley fever in two California prisons where more than three dozen inmates have died after contracting the ...

By: CBS4 News, newsroom@cbs4qc.com It could soon be easier to solve crimes in Iowa. The state senate approved a bill Wednesday that would require certain convicts to submit DNA samples for a federal

A Sarcoxie woman entered an Alford plea Friday in Jasper County Circuit Court to a felony count of child endangerment in a case involving the alleged abuse of her baby boy. Benita Devido, 26, entered the plea as part of a deal with the Jasper County prosecutor’s office that would limit the prison time that she might receive to no more than five years. She had been facing the possibility of up to ...

Former BP Plc (BP/) executive David Rainey won a bid to dismiss a charge he obstructed a congressional investigation into the 2010 oil spill because his indictment was flawed, a U.S. judge ruled.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The state of Arkansas is asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging a law that bans most abortions 12 weeks into a pregnancy, arguing the new restriction is constitutional.

BETHESDA, Md. -- AREVA Med, an AREVA subsidiary specializing in the development of new innovative therapies to fight cancer, announced today that it will present pharmacokinetics data on the company's ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Millions of Indiana drivers may have been overcharged when they renewed or obtained a license at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. The claim was made in a class action lawsuit filed Thursday morning in Marion County Superior Court. The suit was filed by Irwin Levin, managing partner of the Indianapolis law firm Cohen and Malad. It alleges that the state’s Bureau of Motor ...

Winchester Medical Center is leading the way for interventional cardiologists everywhere, as it has recently initiated a clinical trial to test a new treatment of heart disease.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a state law that forbids most people between ages 18 and 20 from obtaining permits to carry concealed handguns. A three-judge panel handed down its decision Monday, May 20.

The first group that claims they were unfairly scrutinized by the Internal Revenue Service filed suit today against the agency in federal court in Washington, D.C., seeking damages and the granting of their long-delayed tax-exempt status application. True the Vote, a Houston-based voter watchdog group, filed...        

Yesterday the Hon. Pamela A.M. Campbell, a circuit court judge in Pinellas County, Fla., issued an order compelling Gawker to remove from the internet a video of Hulk Hogan fucking his friend's ex-wife, as well as a 1,400-word narrative of the video written by former Gawker editor A.J. Daulerio and 466 user-submitted comments. Here is why we are refusing to comply. Read more...        

2 NEWS Investigates is denied access to key decision makers, but is invited to a reintegration facility designed to give prisoners the life skills they need to succeed.

A public records lawsuit filed to the Ohio Supreme Court and connected to a former special education teacher ended with a settlement approved by the Kings school board Tuesday evening.

We now know a missing Lowndes County man investigators believe faked his death faces child sex charges in Florida.

One got 10 years in prison, the other 20 for funneling money to a group fighting in Somalia.

Russell Wilkinson, one of four suspects in the Nathan Latham murder-for-hire plot, is scheduled to be arraigned on federal charges in the case this afternoon.

GORHAM – Arrested in Gorham in March, a convicted serial rapist in Massachusetts who fled 34 years ago faces sentencing in two weeks.

A Coast Guard rescue swimmer whose disappearance led to a massive search in Hawaii pleaded guilty to desertion Tuesday, saying he left work one day, decided never to return and spent the next three months camping in the mountains. A military judge sentenced him to more than six months confinement and a bad conduct discharge.

California prison overcrowding has had a big impact on local jails.  A look inside one state prison reveals why thousands of inmates have been released.

Frank Lewis PDT Staff Writer Attorneys for former Portsmouth pain clinic operator Tracy Bias made a motion to have U.S. District Court Judge Michael R. Barrett “preclude inadmissible hearsay a...

By Ladd Egan (KUTV) The massive steel doors are open at imprisoned polygamous leader Warren Jeffsâ secret Utah compound, revealing mansions with thick walls, heavy doors and carpeted walls. Former FLDS member Willie Jessop bought the six-acre property for $3. ...

PHOENIX - Calling a woman's rights "unalterably clear," a federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down Arizona's nearly year-old ban on abortions at 20 weeks and beyond.

An inmate serving time at the Federal Prison Camp in Marion, Illinois, was arraigned on escape charges.

Lamar County saw the second day of testimonies in the State of Texas versus Steven LaRue today.

Altria Group, Inc. (MO) Annual Meeting of Shareholders Call May 16, 2013 9:00 AM ET Executives Marty Barrington – Chairman and CEO Brandt Surgner – Corporate Secretary Denise Keane – EVP and General Counsel ...

A divided federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit against Electronic Arts Inc by a former Rutgers University star football quarterback, who accused it of using his image in a video game without permission. ...

A blow up between Democrats and Republicans at the state Capitol has put a sweeping anti-crime measure in jeopardy.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- A Louisiana businessman serving 15 years in federal prison for distributing oxycodone and methadone illegally through pain clinics in eastern Kentucky has lost his bid for a new trial.   U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove ruled that there is "sufficient evidence" to support the jury's guilty verdict in the case of 47-year-old Michael D. Leman of Slidell, La. A jury ...

After months of twists and turns in a dramatic trial rife with sex, lies and digital images, jurors in Arizona have decided the fate of Jodi Arias.

A South Dakota judge has set bond at $75,000 for a Virginia man accused of hauling 24 pounds of marijuana in the trunk of his rental car.

A federal court Tuesday struck down Arizona's ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy absent a medical emergency. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the law violated a woman's constitutionally protected right to terminate a pregnancy before a fetus is able to survive outside the womb.

A western Missouri prosecutor who heads a statewide association for prosecuting attorneys said Tuesday that lawmakers' failure to pass a new sentencing structure for juveniles could delay or jeopardize the trials of teens accused of murder.

The recent arrest of a suspected serial rapist illustrates the crime-fighting benefit of broadening Nebraska's law on collecting DNA from convicted felons, authorities say

An Albany man, charged with beating a man to death with a board, goes on trial for murder a second time.

The case against Raymond James March, who is accused of abducting a 25-year-old Ypsilanti woman who was forced into a car on March 6, has been sent to the Washtenaw County circuit court for trial.

UNION (WVVA) - A woman convicted of embezzling funds from the town of Alderson will spend the next 1-10 years in prison. Jacalyn Ann "Jackie" Villars, former employee of the Town of Alderson, learned

A Washtenaw County man has been sentenced to at least 30 years in prison for the death of ...

Briefly ASK A LAWYER: West Pasco Bar Association's annual Law Week kicks off Monday. Declan Mansfield will head up the "Ask A Lawyer" program on Wednesday. Sign-ups are available from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at CARES, Rao Musunuru Center, 12417 Clock Tower Parkway, Hudson, and at CARES, Claude Pepper Center, 6640 Van …

Pictures and video of a dead Osama Bin Laden will not go public.

ASHEVILLE — The former director of a nonprofit drug rehab program and winner of a prestigious statewide leadership award was sentenced to a year in federal prison for filing a false tax return.