WORCESTER - A federal judge has denied suspended lawyer Christopher M. Uhl's motion to cease his supervised release.

On Wednesday, the Ohio Supreme Court denied Widmer’s appeal of last year's ruling by the state's 12th District Court of Appeals.

A day after a woman reported finding an abandoned newborn crying in the sand on a Hawaii beach, police arrested her and revealed she's the baby's mother. Keala Simeona, 21, of Honolulu, was arrested Tuesday evening for filing a false police report. Police don't expect to pursue additional offenses at this time. She posted $250 bail and was released. She had told police she was parked at Sandy ...

Barr Middle School students did their own special version of "spring house cleaning" Wednesday afternoon. The Jodi Arias murder trial has drawn international attention for its graphic tales of sex and lies.

Utah County Attorney’s Office will continue to prosecute MacNeill murder case — for now by Jessica Miller The Salt Lake Tribune Published Apr 29, 2013 03:10PM MDT A judge refused Monday to derail the prosecution of Pleasant Grove doctor Martin MacNeill, accused of killing his wife in 2007 so he could continue an extra-marital affair. MacNeill’s attorneys, Randy Spencer and Susanne Gustin, have ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A stunning twist in the case of a man in prison for infecting a number of women with HIV. Today, it was revealed in court that Nushawn Williams is not HIV positive.

A Mississippi owner of a martial- arts studio charged over the weekend in connection with the mailing of letters containing ricin to President Barack Obama and a U.S. senator may face a life term if convicted.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston now, but feds will have to figure out where he goes next while awaiting trial.

INSTITUTE, W.Va. -- The state Supreme Court is making its first visit to West Virginia State University this week. The justices are scheduled to hear arguments in four cases Wednesday in the James C. Wilson University Union on the Institute campus. Th...

COLDWATER — Andrew Kelley, 22, will go to prison for two to 15 years for causing the death of Jessica Bates while driving drunk April 9th last year on Marshall Rd.

A Boulder attorney is wading into a touchy new area of legal ethics as he champions a cybertool — YouTube — for attorneys who want to take their cases beyond the courtroom and into the court of public opinion.

Brigham City » Sentencing has been postponed for a former Box Elder County sheriff’s deputy accused of sexually assaulting women during a series of traffic stops.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two Occupy protesters filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against sheriff's officers in a central Indiana county who they say shoved one of them roughly into a wall and arrested them as they tried to enter the county courthouse.

A ban on abortion at the 12th week of pregnancy is likely to be declared unconstitutional, a federal district judge said.

One man is going to prison and three are to serve brief jail sentences for their roles in a disturbance at the Lucas County courthouse last November that escalated into a near riot.

By Brad Poole TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - The trial of former Arizona congressman Richard Renzi, who faces public corruption charges stemming from his involvement in a land swap deal, began in federal court in Tucson on Tuesday. Renzi, a Republican who represented Arizona's 1st Congressional District for three terms until January 2009, faces felony charges including conspiracy, wire fraud ...

The Washington County Board of Health has appointed Court Witschey as full-time administrator at the county health department.

The invasion of privacy trial for an Iowa City landlord accused of spying on several female tenants in his buildings through peepholes in bathrooms has been reset to July. Elwyn G. Miller, 63, of Iowa City, was supposed to be tried on 11 charges of invasion of privacy involving nudity this week. But court records [...]

As D.A. Rosemary Lehmberg serves her sentence, the county attorney takes on the civil lawsuit and the next steps

The Tuolumne County District Attorney’s Office on Wednesday dismissed marijuana trafficking charges against four people arrested in a May 2011 raid on a medical marijuana dispensary in East Sonora. Jana Marie Evans, Nancy June Smith, Sara Herrin and Dannyjo Gellar Herrin, all of Tuolumne, appeared in Tuolumne County Superior Court for their trial when the charges were dropped.

A retired photographer accused of the serial “Alphabet murders” in California went on trial on Monday acting as his own attorney, joining prosecutors in picking jurors who will decide whether he is guilty of slaying four prostitutes.

The groups agreed that an executive committee is needed to start discussing the consolidation, and that meetings of the full group should be planned in the near future.

Silver Lake Regional High School senior Monica Knight has an attorney and a new court date after appearing in Plymouth District Court last Friday morning.

Dee DeQuattro ddequattro@abc6.com Massachusetts District Attorney Sam Sutter is butting heads with a district court judge over a man arrested on a drive-by shooting style crime and released on $1,000

An Oregon Tax Court judge rules that the Hewlett-Packard campus in Corvallis has been overvalued on tax bills from 2008-2011. The decision could cost Benton County $9 million in tax revenue.

Michigan's Supreme Court has ruled that taking a toke before driving is OK for state-approved marijuana patients in certain circumstances. In a unanimous ruling Tuesday, the high court decided that the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act (MMMA) supersedes a zero-tolerance drug policy provision of the Michigan Vehicle Code.

State prison authorities have adopted a stricter dress code for visitors and are limiting

By Owen Gleiberman Owen Gleiberman on '70s-set crime movie with Clive Owen's best role in years. Plus: ''Like Father Like Son''

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- U.S. District Judge Irene Keeley has disqualified herself from hearing a lawsuit filed over a 6-year-old degree scandal at West Virginia University, citing a federal statute that requires judges to step aside if their impartiali...

LAKELAND | Joel Chandler, a public records access advocate from Lakeland, is in hot water in a Ninth Judicial Circuit Court case. A judge has forwarded a document from the public records case to prosecutors for investigation.

LANSING — Medical marijuana patients can’t be prosecuted for merely driving with the drug in their system, the state Supreme Court has ruled.

Bill Schuette announced the OK-2-SAY initiative on Tuesday alongside law ... Testimony began Monday in the trial of 28-year-old Keith Thibeault of Portland. ...

A man due who appeared in court on drug charges is believed to be the same man arrested in connection with the murder of Sebrina Gianino.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Outgoing state Supreme Court Justice Paul Anderson says he's relieved the Legislature and not the courts made the call on same-sex marriage in Minnesota.

CHICAGO - A federal judge Friday quashed another judge's surprise order to release an Illinois teenager pending trial on charges he sought to join al-Qaida-linked militants in Syria.

A former senior systems administrator for the Indiana Office of Technology was sentenced last week after his conviction on a child molestation charge.

A convicted sex offender who admitted to recording young women surreptitiously at a Long Island fashion show has been sentenced to as many as three years in prison.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas death row inmate convicted of killing a fellow drug dealer while robbing him outside of a Waco convenience store 10 years ago was executed Tuesday evening. In the seconds before being injected with a lethal dose of pentobarbital, Carroll Joe Parr told his victim's wife she should talk to her brother to learn "the truth about what happened to your husband." Parr's ...

SALEM — A bill first intended to stiffen criminal penalties for making serious threats against judges has hit rocky waters, after it was amended to more broadly apply to threats against all Oregon elected officials. For the fourth time, the floor vote in the Senate on Senate Bill 92 was …

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts woman awaiting retrial in the 2010 strangulation and beating death of her wife has asked a judge to free her on bail.        

Belle Fourche attorney Mike Day will be the newest judge in South Dakota's Fourth Judicial Circuit.