New Mexico's highest court will consider a dispute on Monday over whether the state's top water manager can decide proposed water rights transfers to increase flows in the drought-stricken Pecos River. ...

man shot in the groin at an Alabama hunting camp may have been mistaken for wild game... judge has overturned a Troy man's two rape convictions... flash flooding across roads occurred earlier Saturday in eastern Alabama... Fla. man trapped in car, dies from complications... SW Ga. police find new leads in 1976 child slaying... Sea turtle nests found on Ga. barrier islands...

Starting Wednesday, April 18, court clerks and sheriff’s offices across Georgia began receiving concerned calls relating to missed jury duty. The number warning the listener of serious punishment turned out to be a hoax.  

Outlaw hires big-name attorney Attorney for Sandusky biker accused of racketeering and robbery represented rapper then known as Snoop Dogg. Register INDIANAPOLIS May 14, 2013 googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display("dfp-ad-sandusky_register"); }); Christian Miller, 40, was arrested at a Homegardner Road home Oct. 25. Federal prosecutors had filed an indictment against him for his small ...

ANDOVER -- Two years after he was extradited from a maximum-security California prison, where he is serving double life sentences, Valentine Underwood remains in solitary confinement at Middleton Jail, awaiting trial for the aggravated rape and kidna

BOSTON, May 14 (UPI) -- A federal judge in Massachusetts declined to release the full list of people involved in the probe and prosecution of the late Internet activist Aaron Swartz.

BROWNSVILLE — A former South Texas prosecutor facing corruption charges was essentially a “district attorney on retainer” who used his discretion in exchange for cash, federal prosecutors told jurors

MENOMINEE-A Gladstone man is scheduled to go to trial next fall for allegedly driving drunk on a motorcycle he crashed in 2011 in Menominee County, causing serious injury to his passenger.

Vernon Luke Bowser, 46, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge J. Ronnie Greer to serve 240 months in prison after he was found guilty of conspiring to manufacture methamphetamine.

A judge on Friday upheld Steven Spader’s sentence of life without parole for the first-degree murder of Kimberly Cates in 2010. Spader, 21, also will continue to serve 76 years to life on four additional charges. Judge Jillian Abramson announced that Spader refused transport to the Hillsborough County Superior Court for his sentencing hearing Friday just as he did Monday. Abramson said the ...

After having various Republican-introduced laws challenged by courts the past two years, a GOP-backed motion that would discontinue the power of circuit judges to block state laws passed committee Wednesday.

COLUMBIANA, Ala. (AP) — Bond has been reduced for a man accused of holding a group of girls at gunpoint in a middle school locker room in February. A Shelby County judge Wednesday reduced bond for 21-year-old Ryan Matthew Sims, of Chelsea, from $5 million to $515,000. Sims is accused of prompting a lockdown at Chelsea Middle School when a group of girls were held at gunpoint in a locker room for ...

A former ArkLaTex mayor is back home after spending more than two years in federal prison for crimes she committed while in office.

The owner of SeaStreak Wall Street, a commuter ferry that crashed in Manhattan’s financial district on Jan. 9, faces at least 45 passenger claims for damages, according to a court filing.

Former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin is scheduled to appear before a judge to be resentenced on campaign corruption charges.

Wednesday, the North Carolina Court of Appeals heard arguments that will determine whether Durham author Michael Peterson should get a new trial. He was convicted of killing his wife Kathleen in 2003.

The newspaper was singled out for work on the eight-day sexual abuse trial. The Morning Call was recognized by the Associated Press this weekend with a first-place award for its coverage of the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse trial in June.        

The rap sheet against Titus Young continues to grow, and the troubled former Detroit Lions receiver now faces eight different charges and more than 7 ½ years in California prison, with two other cases pending.

Hundreds of Native American children are taken from their families every year in South Dakota through state and tribal court actions meant to protect youngsters from abuse and neglect.

A Merrill man stabbed his wife seven times, tried to strangle her and then hid her body in some woods near Medford following a discussion about the couple getting divorced, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

Drama and controversy have surrounded the last two Del Norte County district attorneys, with each bringing a set of his own headlines and distractions. Still, the District Attorney’s Office has continued to function with the aid of its staff of deputies, laboring quietly in the background — until now. Meet Interim District Attorney Katherine Micks. While the title is temporary, Micks has been a ...

A man from Mexico has pleaded not guilty to a major pot growing operation in Washington County. 52-year-old Moises Soto appeared in federal court in Bangor Wednesday and agreed to be held without bail until his trial. He was arrested in Texas last month. Drug agents say in September of . . .

Before the new Walworth County Child Advocacy Center opened earlier this month, Deputy District Attorney Joshua Grube said young victims were forced to tell their stories over and over again.

A jury should be allowed to decide a New Jersey woman's claim that she was fired from a financial services company because she objected to being sexually harassed by a top executive, although evidence ...

The Supreme Court of Virginia is considering whether judges have a right to kick television cameras out of the courtroom without giving a reason, a controversy that stems from last year's high-profile murder trial of University of Virginia lacrosse player George Huguely V.

The proposal from Sen. John DeFrancisco would allow court officials to quickly dip into the unlawful, childhood past of defendants who are accused of sex offenses as adults.

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts' highest court will consider cases in which prosecutors are challenging how lower courts are handling drug convictions jeopardized by alleged misconduct of a chemist at a state drug-testing lab.        

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A group of Vermont lawmakers on Thursday called for a national constitutional convention to reverse the effects of the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision that allowed corporations greater influence in political campaigns.        

SANFORD, Fla., May 14 (UPI) -- Prosecutors trying a Florida man for killing unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin have asked a judge to block certain testimony about Martin's past.

Memphis test fraud ringleader gets 7 years Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 12:54 pm, Monday, May 13, 2013 (AP) — A federal judge in Memphis has sentenced a longtime Memphis educator to seven years in prison in a test-taking fraud scheme. The 59-year-old Mumford pleaded ...

A Mt. Vernon man was sentenced to 40 years in prison for predatory criminal sexual assault of a child.

The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit challenging billions of dollars in sales tax exemptions, without weighing in on the exemptions' legality. Legislators have been awaiting ...

A jury has been chosen for the corruption trial of a former South Texas prosecutor.

Although he wasn't in the courtroom Wednesday, a former state blood analyst was center stage during a North Carolina Court of Appeals hearing on Mike Peterson's effort to be cleared in his wife's 2001 death.

Rachel Swan Special to The S.F. Examiner Like every court system in California, San Mateo County felt the pinch of budget cuts this year, and it’s enough to rattle administrators. In January, Gov. Jerry Brown proposed cuts that would leave the court with a crippling $4.5 million deficit. Barring a May revision of that proposal, the court would have to adjust by eliminating five commissioners ...

Six members of the Lake County State’s Attorney’s independent Case Review Panel have their work cut out for them. The panel (CRP) is in the process of reviewing its first three cases — a murder, a sex assault and a battery/resisting arrest case.

A former Baraboo woman continues to face a homicide charge after a Columbia County judge on Tuesday denied a request to dismiss it.

OROVILLE — Jury selection began Monday in the trial of a 27-year-old man charged for a July 2011 shooting at a downtown Chico nightclub.

New Mexico's highest court gave a green light Monday to the state's top water manager to decide proposed water rights transfers to help increase flows in the drought-stricken Pecos River.

In the past two weeks the number of states recognizing same-sex marriages has risen from nine to 12, with new marriage bills signed into law in Rhode Island, Delaware, and – on Tuesday – in Minnesota.

Confusion lingers in Utah over teen access to ‘morning after pill’ by Kirsten Stewart The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 18, 2013 06:40PM MDT Every week it seems new, conflicting information surfaces about Plan B, who can buy the emergency contraceptive and where. In April, a Reagan-appointed federal judge issued an order to make the so-called “morning after” pill available over the counter to ...