A 22-year-old soldier from western Missouri has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for killing man while he was on leave for his wife's funeral.

Thankfully we are a nation of laws and not of men, so the myopic ruling of a federal appeals court setting aside the appropriate verdict and damage award arising out of the racist hiring practices of the New York City Fire Department will be appealed and overturned.

A New York judge has refused to suspend his ruling giving women of all ages broad access to morning-after birth control. 

Nearly 60 years after the Korean War ended and after 15 years of struggle to change his military records, Duane Broten was recognized for his time spent as a prisoner of war in Korea.

A suspended Erie teacher facing charges in two separate child molestation cases has been released from the Erie County Prison after posting $250,000 bond, according to court records.

MINEOLA, N.Y. — In what police are describing as a crime of opportunity, a wanted man with a criminal history dating nearly 15 years entered a front door that had been left open at a New York home near Hofstra University.

BROWNSVILLE — A former South Texas prosecutor facing corruption charges was essentially a “district attorney on retainer” who used his discretion in exchange for cash, federal prosecutors told jurors

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts judge has set a trial date for a woman accused of killing a pregnant woman and cutting the unborn baby from her womb almost four years ago.        

State attorneys successfully quashed testimony on issues key to Vernon Hershberger's defense, including the quality of his raw milk.

An Iowa man has been sentenced in a Nebraska federal courtroom to 18 months in prison for having stolen explosives.

Biosense Webster, Inc., a worldwide leader in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias, will showcase its portfolio of cutting edge innovative technologies and its unrivaled leadership in atrial fibrillation ablation at the 2013 Heart Rhythm Society’s 34th Annual Scientific Sessions in Denver.

Having convicted Jonathan LeBaron of first-degree murder on May 1, a 12-member jury reconvened Tuesday in Key West to consider whether to recommend the death penalty.

The soldiers vs. KBR case in Oregon has almost crossed into its fifth year, but it has taken nearly its final turn. KBR will seek a modification, then will appeal

The state Liquor Commission has won the first round in what is likely to be a series of court battles in Concord and Nashua over a $200 million, 20-year warehouse contract awarded in November.

TALLAHASSEE -- For more than a year, a quietly simmering legal battle over the partisan intentions of Florida's Legislature and Fair Districts backers has been playing out over whether the state's re-drawn maps are still designed to protect ruling Republicans.

SEATTLE — “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.

PROVO -- The Utah County Attorney's Office will continue prosecuting the Martin MacNeill case for the time being. Fourth District Judge Samuel McVey ruled Monday morning on one of two motions …

As many as 4 million Indiana drivers could become plaintiffs in a lawsuit alleging the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles has overcharged for driver's licenses since 2007.

A Canadian man accused of leading a conspiracy to sell drugs in North Dakota and other states is scheduled for sentencing in federal court.

WSIL TV -- A new report says Menard prison is one of the most problematic in the state and conditions have gotten worse in the past year.

The Nebraska Supreme Court has ordered a new drug trial for a Grand Island man, saying prosecutors failed to prove the accuracy of a state lab scale.

A challenge to the private ferry monopoly on Lake Chelan, James Courtney v. Jeffrey Goltz, was heard Monday, May 6, in federal appeals court in Seattle. Courtney, whose family owns the Stehekin Valley Ranch, has been trying to start a ferry service between Chelan and Stehekin since the late 1990s, a

The Oswego County man who killed his sister-in-law and left her body in Onondaga County last year will spend 25 years to life in prison.

SOUTH BEND -- During the last few seconds of her life, Cherlyn Reyes was aware she was facing imminent death as she crouched in the bathroom facing a gun, the judge told the court.

WILKES-BARRE 8212 Two days after a federal judge sentenced him to 25 years in federal prison related to online sex-related crimes, a former Holy Redeemer football coach was back in a courtroom pleading guilty to three sex-related charges at the state level.

A jury should be allowed to decide a New Jersey woman's claim that she was fired from a financial services company because she objected to being sexually harassed by a top executive, although evidence ...

Wednesday a man could learn when he will face a trial in the death of his teenaged sister.

Attorneys want Utah man’s alleged murder confession barred by Jessica Miller The Salt Lake Tribune Published Apr 19, 2013 08:49AM MDT Attorneys for one-time death row inmate Douglas Lovell want to bar his admission in court to a 1985 murder from a new trial slated for next year. After hearing arguments on Friday, 2nd District Judge Michael Lyon said he would issue a written ruling at a later ...

SAN JOSE -- Jon Reno St. James, who operated the Party Bus of Santa Cruz, appeared in Santa Clara County Superior Court on Friday to answer manslaughter charges related to the July 2012 death of a Santa Cruz woman who fell from a bus onto Highway 17.

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — A Bangor man accused of killing his 49-year-old girlfriend told police they were involved in an altercation before she died.        

A Washington man accused of leading police on a high-speed chase following a Belgrade purse snatching last July will spend five years in the Montana State Prison.

A state audit says nearly half of the court fines and fees levied against traffic ticket and criminal offenders go uncollected, costing Virginia about $171 million each year.

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine filed suit Friday in Lucas County Common Pleas Court against a Maumee man and his loan modification business, which the state claims misleads and swindles consumers.

Tejay van Garderen raced to a dominating individual time trial victory Friday in the Tour of California to extend his overall lead over Australian Michael Rogers.

The parents of an Indiana Area Senior High School student have taken the school district to court to have his district-ordered punishment for an underage drinking incident overturned.

INDIANAPOLIS – Since 2009, Mayor Greg Ballard has made approximately $10 million of city money available to pay for community crime prevention programs, but city leaders are uncertain if the funds have been well spent. “There’s some isolated success in …

Convicted killer Nicole Diar has applied to have her life prison sentence commuted because of “family hardship.” Paperwork sent to Lorain County officials by the Ohio Parole Board this week doesn’t contain any further explanation for why the 37-year-old Diar … Click here to read this story on The Chronicle-Telegram . Content copyright The Chronicle-Telegram . Your #1 source for Lorain County News.

A Clinton woman has been sentenced to prison and ordered to pay restitution after pleading guilty to identity theft and other crimes.

Five states have moved to adopt tighter abortion regulations, including North Dakota, where a new law prohibits abortions as soon as a fetal heartbeat is detected. Jeffrey Brown gets perspectives from Charmaine Yoest of Americans United for Life and Ilyse Hogue of NARAL Pro-Choice America (4/30).

The man who prosecutors say ran daily operations at two north-central West Virginia bath salts wants his trial delayed three months.

HILO — A coin dealer who survived a brutal hammer attack almost two years ago said he’d have gone “on top of Mauna Kea” to buy the rare Hawaiian coins he believed the man accused of assaulting him possessed. “That’s how bad I wanted to do the deal,” Donald Nigro said Wednesday on the witness stand in the trial of 70-year-old former mortician Robert Diego, who’s charged with attempted murder ...