With the details hinging on what North Carolina legislators and the courts do, Asheville City Council gave staff the go-ahead May 17 to start drafting the 2013-2014 budget. The proposal assumes that the city and Buncombe County may consolidate parks and recreation operations by early next year — a move that could save the city $5 million per year. It also assumes that the city water system will ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Supreme Court of Alabama has denied requests by Brookwood Medical Center and St. Vincent's Hospital, refusing to consider continued arguments against ...

Steven Powell will remain in prison for at least another month, and possibly longer, as Washington state law enforcement authorities work to secure a plan for where Powell will be once he's free.

After trying, so far unsuccessfully, to stop his execution in the courts, attorneys for Nathan Dunlap have formally asked Gov. John Hickenlooper to spare the condemned killer's life.

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 ...

Schiff Hardin LLP has added a distinguished team of state and local taxation attorneys to the firm’s Ann Arbor office.

Longtime Washoe County District Attorney Dick Gammick says he will not run for re-election in 2014, and will retire once his term ends.

A man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for manslaughter after his first-degree murder conviction was thrown out in 2010.

With help from his fellow trial attorneys, Georgia injury lawyer Howard Spiva is on a mission to expand the Heads in Helmet program in every city in America. (PRWeb April 24, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/4/prweb10665372.htm

Scott, awaiting trial on gun charge, is suspected of committing Mother's Day attack that injured 19 people.

Steelers wide receiver Plaxico Burress, who spent nearly two years in prison after accidentally shooting himself in a New York nightclub, is launching a men’s luxury hosiery line.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Closing arguments have started in the case against five men charged in a Texas federal court with using a race horse breeding operation to launder cartel drug money. The defendants are charged with money laundering conspiracy related to operations of a horse ranch near Lexington, Okla.

A judge granted the Kansas City charter a temporary injunction one day before the school was to close.

Prosecutors are recommending no prison time for an Oakland County woman who forged her late father's signature and ....

The doctor admitted there were clues that he was working at a Fort Lauderdale pill mill – his salary went up 400 percent, the "chaotic" waiting room overflowed with patients from out of town and he was told to give everyone the maximum number of pain pills.        

BOISE, Idaho — An Uzbekistan national living in Idaho has been arrested on federal charges that he gave support, cash and other resources to help a recognized terrorist group in his home country plan a terrorist attack. Fazliddin Kurbanov, 30, is expected to make his first appearance in U.S. District Court Friday morning, one day after federal agents arrested him during a raid of his small Boise ...

WASHINGTON, May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In the wake of a ruling today by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., attorneys for nine groups that sought to slow down the Vogtle nuclear reactor project so that necessary post-Fukushima environmental and safety enhancements could be implemented by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued the following statement.The three ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In response to a federal court order, Gov. Jerry Brown pushed a novel approach through the Legislature two years ago to dramatically reduce California's prison population.

Calif. doc with 'cancer cure' gets 14 years prison Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 1:50 pm, Friday, May 17, 2013 LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California doctor has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for bilking her patients out of more than $1 million by promising that an ...

(AP Photo/Steve Ueckert). NRA Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer Wayne LaPierre speaks during the leadership forum at the National Rifle Association's annual meeting Friday, May 3, 2013 in Houston.

At least 36 parolees in Colorado have been convicted or accused of murder while on supervised release from prison since 2002, a review by The Denver Post found.

U.S. District Judge Sue Robinson in Wilmington, Delaware , also canceled a jury trial that was scheduled to begin today over two patents for 3-G network communications held by Long Branch, New Jersey-based Golden Bridge.

MELROSE -- Ronald P. Corbett Jr., the former acting Probation Department commissioner, jokes that walking into the firestorm created by the department's patronage scandal was a "walk in the park" compared to his new job -- curbing a new puppy.

Many of the defendants pursued by Brian Bash and his team have few, if any, assets. And those that do have the wherewithal to fight litigation for years.

The Kiwanis Club of Batavia hosted its annual Law Day Dinner and honored six individuals for their outstanding career achievements in law and law enforcement. Family Court Judge Eric Adams, above, was the keynote speaker. Here are the honorees and information about their accomplishments as provided by the Kiwanis Club. Gary A. Graber - Town Justice, Darien, New York Judge Graber has been the ...

FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) — A north Alabama man will remain in jail while charged in the death of his 3-month-old son.

Nearly two dozen homeless sex offenders have filed federal lawsuits challenging Southampton Town, Suffolk County and New York State laws that prohibit them from living near schools, playgrounds and daycare centers once they are released from prison, and require that they register with law enforcement agencies for life.

"The petition for post-conviction relief is plainly untimely," Assistant Attorney General Laura Cadiz wrote in a document filed in Marion County Circuit Court.

MCKINNEY, Texas - A judge has ruled that a North Texas lesbian couple can't live together because of a morality clause in one of the women's divorce papers.

A man who attempted to smuggle heroin through Dulles Airport has been found guilty and is facing a recommended sentence of 15 years.

A judge on Tuesday set a May 21 court date for a woman accused of buying the gun that police say Evan Ebel used to kill Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A federal judge is taking the unusual step of asking the environmental community for ideas about how to punish a Texas natural gas company convicted of illegally storing mercury in Rhode Island, after the Supreme Court struck down an $18 million sentence he previously imposed.

The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled Friday that a man who has served 26 years in prison for a Newport murder has the right to have DNA tests done on evidence in his case.

A judge on Tuesday reluctantly suspended a criminal case against a man accused of kidnapping a woman on Highway 99 in Turlock, because the defendant says he needs a Somali interpreter.

The United States Attorney in Northeast Indiana announced charges against 20 people Friday and credits the arrests with dismantling a major drug trafficking operation in Northeast Indiana.

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...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark., May 17 (UPI) -- A federal judge has blocked enforcement of an Arkansas law restricting abortion because it may violate a woman's constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy.

PASADENA — Delegate Don Dwyer and his attorney will be speaking to the media about his upcoming trial on charges related to a boating accident. The Anne Arundel County Republican has scheduled a news conference in Pasadena on Monday, one day before a trial is scheduled in the case. Dwyer is charged with operating a [...]

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) -- The Kansas Supreme Court has upheld the convictions of a man serving life in prison with no chance of parole for murdering a teenager.,who was also an internet porn model.

Southeastern Louisiana University conferred degrees on approximately 1,200 graduates May 18 at the university’s spring commencement exercises. Retired Chief Judge Burrell J. Carter of the Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeals was the keynote speaker at the 10 a.m. ceremony...

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