The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into...

While under federal court oversight, California's prison mental health system has been spending far more on anti-psychotic drugs than other states with large prison systems, raising questions about whether patients are receiving proper treatment. Figures compiled by The Associated Press show that California has been spending a far greater percentage on anti-psychotic medication for inmates than ...

A Johnstown man accused of firing three shots on Franklin Street last month, sending residents scurrying, will stand trial in Cambrai County court.

OJ Simpson is due to make an appearance in Clark County District Court next month as part of an appeal for a new trial in his Las Vegas robbery and kidnapping case.

A clemency hearing has been scheduled for a death row inmate who is scheduled for a June 18 execution.

Ohio kidnap suspect Ariel Castro has made his first appearance in court since his arrest. Castro is charged with charged with four counts of kidnapping...

With other accusers stepping forward, a former yeshiva teacher changed pleas yesterday on the third day of his New Jersey trial and admitted he sexually assaulted a 12-year-old boy while working as a camp counselor.Rabbi Yosef Kolko, 36, shifted uncomfortably on the stand in the Toms River courtroom as...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ordered a hearing to examine allegations by a woman on death row for killing an Amarillo man that her defense was deficient, according to Associated Press reports.

Campfield blogged in '08 race that Roger Byrge had drug arrests, later determined to belonged to Byrge's son More

Gloucester County is expanding its plan to outsource its entire inmate population beyond South Jersey. Some inmates could be shipped to the Essex County jail in Newark - about 90 miles northeast of the jail in Woodbury.

A central Kentucky man was going to face the death penalty if found guilty of murder. Instead, he entered a plea in the case.

The California Senate leader is proposing increasing mental health services to reduce how many end up in jail or ERs. In Massachusetts, officials plan greater scrutiny of how insurers cover mental health care.

A judge has ordered a psychiatric evaluation for a 25-year-old man accused of a string of five homicides in northern Nevada.

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A Palm Bay man says a case of love versus the law has left his daughter, a high school student, facing criminal charges that could land her in prison and require her to register as a sex offender.

John McClellan was convinced the state prison intended to harm his family. Prison staff allegedly recognized and documented that McClellan was delusional. But the inmate’s paranoia fueled a cycle of misconduct. Rather than treat his behavior as a symptom of his mental illness, staff allegedly repeatedly placed McClellan in solitary confinement for breaking prison rules.

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

The Supreme Court of California ruled this week that cities in the state can ban marijuana dispensaries. The ruling comes 17 years after California became the first state to legalize the medical use of marijuana. The court decided that local governments are allowed to regulate land use and that exercising that sort of authority does not conflict with a resident’s right to possesses marijuana ...

A federal judge on Friday halted a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority arbitration proceeding initiated by the North Carolina Eastern Municipal Power Agency against Citigroup Inc. (C), Reuters reported Monday.

Aggravated assault at Clyman Court and Fowler Avenue.

Douglas Yeboah first met George Leader about eight years ago while working as a chaplain at the state prison in Chester.

Numerous homes and business were damaged by the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas last month. Regardless of who's to blame for the explosion, injury attorney Jeff Raizner says insurance companies still have to pay out. (PRWeb May 13, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10728056.htm

By Liz Zemba, Tribune-Review Five candidates are seeking two openings on Common Pleas Court in Fayette County. Gerald Solomon and Ralph Warman retired and work as part-time senior judges. ...

A Delaware County Court of Common Pleas judge ordered the city of Chester to cease and desist any interference with the parking facilities operated by TIBC Partners, a business that owns several lots near PPL Park.

Wayne County must pay back $32 million that Executive Robert Ficano took from pensioners in 2011 to make the county's annual payment to the retirement system, the Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled.

Pike County District Attorney Ray Tonkin announced the criminal sentences issued by Pike County President Judge Joseph F. Kameen. Friday, April 19: Sean Mahon, 32, of Canadensis was sentenced to the Pike County Correctional Facility for 6 months and 3 days to 23.5 months, ordered to pay a fine of $1,500 and had his driver’s license suspended for two years for the crimes of driving under the ...

Testimony has started in the trial of a man accused of shooting and seriously injuring his wife last year.

SANTA FE (AP) — A New Mexico judge appears poised to rule that the state can continue to pay for private school students’ textbooks. District Judge Sarah Singleton concluded a... Read more »

A California judge ruled a man guilty of texting while driving, after he was seen using a map application on his phone, not sending a text nor talking.

U.S. Attorney Joe Hogsett did answer questions during a phone conversation with me this morning about his office's work to root out public corruption.

A housekeeper has been sentenced to six years in federal prison in the theft of a Benjamin Franklin bust stolen in suburban Philadelphia and reportedly worth $3 million.Andrea Lawton, 47, of Mobile, Ala.,

Connecticut Judge G. Sarsfield Ford, who sentenced serial killer Michael Ross to death in 1987, has died. He was 79.

President Obama has nominated a Knoxville lawyer to serve on a federal bench.

Laura Aven, 45, was granted a $2,500 bond and ordered not to use alcohol or possess any unprescribed drugs.

By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Thursday alleged that a former federal government lawyer helped the Cuban intelligence service recruit a woman who was later sentenced to 25 years in prison for spying. An indictment filed in 2004 was unsealed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia charging Marta Rita Velazquez with conspiracy to commit espionage for ...

Lansing — An Ingham County judge has scheduled a hearing to determine whether Gov. Rick Snyder and other state officials should be held in contempt of court for failing to produce records related to Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr's appointment.

York, PA - Here's a look at some of the ways that York County will be impacted by the revised redistricting plan that the state Supreme Court upheld Wednesday: --- the 48th state Senate District will pick up nine York County municipalities: Conewago, East Manchester, Newberry and

The former chief executive of an Allendale-based medical device company who raised $9.5 million from 800 small investors has been charged with stealing more than $230,000 in investor funds, some of it used to cover gambling expenses and other personal expenses.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 21 (UPI) -- A U.S. appeals court Tuesday struck down an Arizona abortion law banning the procedure after 20 weeks unless there's a medical emergency.

A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that a German family could not claim asylum in the United States because it would face penalties in Germany for home-schooling its children.

Tradewinds — Companies on the go, people on the move the Salt Lake Tribune Published May 3, 2013 05:59PM MDT Spectrum Engineers has announced Pat Garey joined the firm as a principal electrical engineer. He has more than 22 years of experience in consulting, design and in the engineering of education, health care, commercial, institutional, governmental, municipal and industrial projects. Blake ...