Incarcerated youths say the chance to study with college students has had a profound impact.

OAKLAND COUNTY EXECUTIVE L. Brooks Patterson has long been sort of the class clown of Republican politics. Once, to make fun of now-state Rep. Tom McMillin’s notorious obsession with gays, Patterson walked over and kissed him — on the mouth. He also loves Hitler jokes and references, and is even capable of putting himself down. Thirty-one years ago, the GOP pushed Brooks into making a hopeless ...

EDGERTON, MO. (AP) - The Leavenworth County attorney is weighing whether to file charges after three inmates escaped from a prison in the Kansas county.

By The Associated Press, The Associated Press PARCHMAN, Miss. — The Mississippi Supreme Court has indefinitely delayed Tuesday’s scheduled execution of Willie Jerome Manning amid questions involving evidence in the case — ...

A federal appeals court has ordered a new trial in a lawsuit filed by the family of a Texas soldier who was killed and others who were injured during a live-fire training exercise in Hawaii. The 9th U.S. ...

The Illinois Supreme Court has suspended an Oak Brook attorney, author and former radio host accused of misappropriating more than $2 million from her clients.        

Winkler County attorney Steve Taliaferro found himself on the other side of the law after he was indicted on Tuesday on charges of soliciting a prostitute and official oppression.

A Uintah County man serving prison time for molesting a child will get another chance to beat the rap after the Utah Supreme Court overturned his conviction Friday.

Baker & McKenzie LLP will merge with United Arab Emirates 40-lawyer law firm Habib Al Mulla on July 1, to create Baker & McKenzie Habib Al Mulla. The firm will advise clients on local and international law in its Dubai offices and, with regulatory approval, in Abu Dhabi.

The Georgia Supreme Court recently refused to consider a case involving an alleged botched 911 call that supposedly contributed to an Oglethorpe County man's death five years ago.

A Spokane, Washington man sued for defrauding investors used the 2012 Jumpstart Our Businesses Act to tout his plan to raise billions of dollars in capital, according to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

BRENTWOOD ? A Salem man who started a marijuana growing operation as a way to raise extra money to pay for an inflated home mortgage received no sympathy from the judge.

A former Boy Scout volunteer from southwestern Illinois has begun serving a six-year prison sentence for sexually molesting boys in his family.

Troy — A controversial transit center that figured into the recall of the city's mayor last year is facing a legal setback by the Michigan Court of Appeals.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - A northern New Jersey mother has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin with her husband and son in what authorities are calling "a family affair."

“We’ve got a huge problem in this state where people are not protected, we are not secure. Right now we’re just lucky.” These are the words of environmental lawyer Monique Harden, Co-Director of Advocates for Environmental Human Rights (AEHR).

NEW YORK (AP) — The former co-founder of a Connecticut hedge fund has been sentenced to 6 ½ years in prison in connection with insider trading authorities say brought in nearly $70 million in illegal profit to his firm.        

SEGUIN — Guadalupe County Commissioners Court voted 3-2 on Tuesday to adopt an ordinance designating an area within the county where the disposal of municipal or industrial waste will be allowed.

COMMON PLEAS COURT NEW SUITS 13-CV-0428 - Andre Terrell, Dayton, v. State of Ohio, c/o Mike DeWine, Ohio Attorney General, Columbus, complaint for declaratory judgment that Terrell is a wrongfully imprisoned individual. 13-CV-0429 - CitiBank, N.A., v. Lanna Kay Blair aka Lanna K. Cassel aka Kay Cassel aka Kay Jones aka Kay Blair aka Lanna K. Jones, 310 Larchmont Ave., et al., complaint in ...

DEL NORTE — Prosecutors did not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that double homicide suspect Daniel Bessey is guilty of the charges against him, but there is sufficient cause to bind him over to district court, a judge ruled on Friday.

By Bernard Vaughan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Diamondback Capital Management portfolio manager Todd Newman was sentenced to 4-1/2 years in prison on Thursday for insider trading in the stock of Dell Inc and Nvidia Corp . U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan also ordered Newman, 48, to forfeit $737,724 and to pay a $1 million fine. Sullivan called Newman a "decent" man and said it "breaks my ...

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.

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.

John Edwards said last year after his criminal trial on campaign finance charges that he believed he could still do some good in his life.  

Documents filed in federal court said a former prison guard charged with killing two Tennessee post office workers should not face the death penalty because the punishment is unconstitutional.

BROCKTON -- A man charged with committing a murder here Tuesday afternoon would have been behind bars, but he was free because his drug dealing conviction had been tossed out after it was discovered that disgraced state chemist Annie Dookhan handled the evidence and testified at his trial, officials said today. Donta Hood, 22, appeared today in Brockton District Court, where he pleaded not ...

A 24-year-old parolee has been charged after a police pursuit in Homer Township and the City of Midland that reached speeds of 100 mph because the man didn’t want to go back to prison.

MISSOULA — An ex-University of Montana quarterback has been sentenced to two years in prison on drug charges related to his medical marijuana business. Jason Washington's sentencing Wednesday follows a conviction on conspiracy to manufacture and distribute marijuana and possession with intent to distribute.

Lucas James Gautreaux, 33, of Northeast Portland, works as a dishwasher for the food service provider at Oregon Episcopal School in Raleigh Hills, according to the private school's director of marketing and communications. He was arrested on federal charges and booked into the Multnomah County Jail, according to court records.

A federal appeals court says a Nevada developer must exhaust his legal battle over the Grand Canyon Skywalk contract dispute in tribal court before going to the federal level.

This August 19, 2010 file photo provided by the Mohave County Sheriff's Office shows John Charles McCluskey. An Arizona prisoner who is accused of killing a couple in New Mexico is seeking to have a key piece of DNA thrown out.

A former convict has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his girlfriend in a crime that Central Texas prosecutors say also included the rape of the woman's granddaughter.

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man charged with mailing ricin-tainted letters to national leaders wrote in online postings that he had uncovered a conspiracy to sell human body parts on the black market, and on Thursday his attorney said he was surprised by his arrest and maintains he is innocent.

By Emily Lane JACKSON, Mississippi (Reuters) - A Mississippi inmate due to be executed on Tuesday was granted a last-minute reprieve because of overstated evidence, while Texas executed a man convicted of killing another person during a robbery in 2003, authorities said. The Mississippi state Supreme Court granted a stay of execution to Willie Jerome Manning, 44, after federal authorities said ...

Boston Marathon bombings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was transferred from hospital to prison Friday, officials told NBC News.

A three-year slump in the number of applicants for the Monterey County Civil Grand Jury has sparked... - 3:25 pm

By Bernard Vaughan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Level Global Investors LP fund manager Anthony Chiasson on Monday was sentenced to 6-1/2 years in prison for insider trading, a penalty that the judge in the case said was intended to deter others in the financial industry from similar conduct. U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan also ordered the former hedge fund manager to pay a $5 million fine ...

RALEIGH, NC (WWAY) -- A Chadbourn man was sentenced in federal court to 360 months behind bars, following five years supervised release, more than two years after a violent crime. John Moore, 22, was convicted in December 2010 of carjacking, and possession of a firearm during a federal crime of violence. According to evidence presented at trial, on March 1, 2010, Moore broke into a residence in ...

New York construction accident lawyer David Perecman from The Perecman Firm commends all the construction workers who worked on One World Trade Center. The flag-draped spire was hoisted to the top of the building on May 2. (PRWeb May 07, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/NYconstructionaccidentlaw/NYconstructionaccidentlaw/prweb10707417.htm

North Korea said Saturday that it would put a US citizen on trial for trying to overthrow the communist regime, in the face of soaring tensions between Pyongyang and the West.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A Minnesota judge has sentenced a Missouri man to life in prison without parole for the fatal shootings of a Brooklyn Park home day-care provider and her elderly parents last year.