After taking a team photo at center court following yet another Region III tennis title for Eleanor Roosevelt High School, one player jokingly asked what seems like a legitimate question.

Tracy Bradford will remain Hilliard's law director while an OVI charge against her is pending in Franklin County Municipal Court.

There are a lot of rules if you want to gather signatures to get a question on the ballot. You have to be at least 18. You can't share your petition booklet with other people. And you have to be a resident of the state of Alaska. Now, a man from Wisconsin wants that last part of the law struck down, and he's taking his case to court.

FAIRFIELD, Conn. - The Honorable G. Sarsfield Ford of Fairfield died Sunday, May 19. He was 80. Judge Ford was born Sept. 6, 1933, in Bridgeport, son of John C. Ford and Julia Day Ford. He grew up in the North End and was a graduate of St. Patrick's school. He attended Fairfield ...

 Just three weeks before he's to stand trial for the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage, an Army psychiatrist wants his trial delayed until this fall.

Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been moved from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to a prison medical center, the U.S. Marshals Service said Friday.

Lauryn Hill was sentenced to three months in prison after failing to pay taxes on $1.8 million in earnings between 2005 and 2007, according to The Associated Press.

An audit of prisoners' sentences in Colorado has found hundreds of possible problems so far.

MOUNT HOPE — A Fayette County pill dealer who sold approximately 250 powerful prescription painkillers over a two-year period pleaded guilty Monday to federal drug charges in U.S. District Court in Charleston.

People who can't afford to hire an attorney have virtually no chance in court against well-heeled lawyers for banks and debt collection companies. by Rachel Swan Felipa Martinez is a petite woman to begin with, but standing beneath the dais in Contra Costa Superior Court she looked even tinier. Martinez had arrived with her adult daughter in tow, partly for visual assistance (a degenerative eye ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A Fayette County pill dealer who sold approximately 250 powerful prescription painkillers over a two-year period pleaded guilty today to federal drug charges, announced U.S. Attorney

The former head of a Lenox school for troubled young women and his son and son-in-law are facing prison time and have agreed to pay back the state of Vermont and the U.S. government $3 million for what the U.S. Attorney's Office calls "egregious" tax and health care fraud connected to a Bennington, Vt., school they had operated.

DENVER — Prosecutors say Nathan Dunlap harbors evil in his heart and deserves to be executed for ambushing and killing four people in a Colorado pizzeria 19 years ago.

FARGO, N.D. - A man from Honduras accused of spearheading an operation to smuggle people into the U.S. at the border of North Dakota and Canada pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court.

A Mahopac man whose car slammed into another vehicle in 2007 on Route 6 in Somers after sliding on ice will receive $22.5 million in damages from the state after winning a lawsuit stemming from the incident.

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — A Texas man who molested two of his girlfriend's children has been sentenced to 65 years in prison after rejecting a plea deal to serve 15 years behind bars. The Galveston County Daily News (http://bit.ly/10pSEYT ) reports defense attorney Calvin Jackson says Cox was apparently overcome by guilt when he turned down the sentencing plea deal.

A jury on Thursday convicted a home builder from Mesquite of stealing from a federal housing grant program intended to assist the Navajo Nation, Nevada's U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden said.

An understaffed Midland County Jail has Sheriff Scott Stephenson requesting an additional nine correctional officers from the Midland County Board of Commissioners.

Benjamin Livermore, 31, was convicted in March for gutting a $30,000 van belonging to the New Greater Church Of New York.

A previously convicted Tulsa felon was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison for physically abusing three children.

Knoxville lawyer Pamela Reeves faces more intensive investigation by federal agencies and a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee since being nominated Thursday by President Barack Obama to be the first woman to serve as a federal judge in the Eastern Tennessee District.

An Oklahoma appeals court has upheld the life prison sentence of a 38-year-old man who was convicted of first-degree murder for shooting his uncle to death.

TROY, Ala. — An Alabama judge has overturned two rape convictions against a Troy man, saying prosecutors failed to share evidence that was relevant to the man’s defense.

The Arkansas Court of Appeals released opinions Wednesday. The court’s ruling and the names of the cases are reprinted here. The full opinions and other court proceedings, including per curiam decisions, orders and submissions, can be found on the Internet at courts.state.ar.us.

COMMON PLEAS COURT NEW SUITS 13-DP-0352 - Nikki A. Cochran, 4316 Carona St., v. Ronnie T. Cochran, 4316 Carona St., petition for domestic violence civil protection order. 13-DP-0353 - Taheekah Nicole Mahmood, 1967 Portage Path, v. William Jack Robinson IV, 1361 Woodward Ave., petition for domestic violence civil protection order. 13-DP-0354 - John Layne, 2107 Troy Road, Apt. D2, v. Josh Vitatoe ...

Sunlight shot into the A.B. Shaw firehouse Wednesday, glinting off a handgun presented as evidence in the robbery trial of 23-year-old Jeremy Bost, of Ghent.

A court awarded Stephen James custody of his sons. But he could not get authorities to act when the mom abducted the two boys. So James turned to KXAN.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire tax preparer has been sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for falsifying income tax returns.        

The Supreme Court appeared skeptical Tuesday of a claim by Texas that it has a right under a 30-year-old agreement to cross the border with Oklahoma for water to serve the fast-growing Fort Worth area. ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Prosecutors told a federal jury on Wednesday that a man they say is the brother of leaders of Mexico's most blood-soaked criminal organization used the proceeds from their brothers' ill-gotten gains to bankroll his horse-racing stable. Trevino is the central figure of five men charged in a Texas federal court with using a race horse breeding operation to launder millions of ...

The Bay State already has among the nation’s strictest firearms laws, but Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley, who announced last month he is running for mayor, aims to further toughen those regulations to help stem gun violence — a move gun rights advocates say will do little to cut crime.

NATIONAL STORIES: CNN Exclusive: CNN Exclusive: Brothers call Ariel Castro a 'monster' Ariel Castro's brothers no longer refer to him as kin. Instead, they call him "a monster" who should rot in jail after being accused of kidnapping and holding three young women hostage in his home for a decade. "I had nothing to do […]

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Celebrity lawyer F. Lee Bailey meets all the requirements to practice law in Maine if he can resolve his tax debt with the federal government.        

A Minnesota man has been sentenced to one year of probation for obstructing a federal prosecutor in Iowa after his son was sent to prison in an animal terrorism case.

New York auto accident lawyer David Perecman at The Perecman Firm discusses the dangers of solid waste and recycling collection following an accident in which a car hit a sanitation worker who was directing traffic around his truck. (PRWeb May 08, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/NYpersonalinjurylawyer/NYpersonalinjurylawyer/prweb10707434.htm

Jurors in the Jodi Arias murder trial said Wednesday they were unable to reach a unanimous verdict on whether she should be sentenced to life in prison or death for killing her one-time boyfriend, prompting the judge to...

"Barefoot Bandit" Colton Harris-Moore won't have to serve any additional prison time for his two-year run from the law in stolen cars, boats and airplanes under a plea deal reached in Skagit County.

The sentencing for a Richmond man found guilty of felony hit-and-run was postponed Thursday.

MISSOULA - Jason Washington will spend two years in federal prison in connection to his former medical marijuana business. A Missoula jury found Washington guilty in January of "conspiracy to manufacture and distribute marijuana" and "possession with intent to distribute marijuana."

WASHINGTON – D.C. United ended their seven-game losing skid with Sunday's 1-1 draw with Sporting Kansas City, but the capital club's winless streak remains – and so does the need for reinforcements.

NEWTON — Sheriff Michael Strada threw open the doors of Sussex County Jail Tuesday evening to welcome members of local businesses for a tour of what some may consider the most infamous business in town.