Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt said more information is needed about future electricity demand at Public Service Co. of Oklahoma before a compliance plan to deal with regional haze is decided by state environmental officials. A public hearing into the plan will go ahead Monday.

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. Hennepin County Judge Todd Barnette Friday gave 35-year-old Eddie Mosley three consecutive life sentences without parole. Barnette had found Mosley guilty Thursday in the killings of 59-year-old ...

Dentists can set their own fees on services that insurers do not reimburse, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday in a decision that will mean higher out-of-pocket costs for patients.

The Parañaque Regional Trial Court (RTC) has sentenced to life imprisonment a Taiwanese after he was found guilty of possessing methamphetamine hydrochloride or shabu, considered a dangerous drug. Paranaque RTC Branch 259...

A Camp Pendleton Marine and two women accused in the death of a military wife from Fallbrook pleaded not guilty Friday to special circumstance allegations of murder during a kidnapping that could lead to the death penalty.

LAS VEGAS (AP) - The last time O.J. Simpson was in a Las Vegas courtroom, he stood next to defense attorney Yale Galanter before being handcuffed and hauled off to prison for up to 33 years.

Legislative Bill 44 would give judges the option of sentencing juvenile murderers to 40 years to life in prison.

LITTLE ROCK — About 26,000 Arkansas children have an incarcerated parent, according to Dee Ann Newell, executive director of Arkansas Voices for the Children Left Behind. The group held its 19th annual Mothers in Prison, Children in Crisis event Friday at the state Capitol to raise awareness about the issue of mothers and children separated by incarceration. Eighty percent of incarcerated men ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - Jane Kelly will become a federal appeals court judge Friday with an unusual background that supporters say makes her a perfect fit for the job and a potential U.S. Supreme Court candidate.

Ingham County Register of Deeds Curtis Hertel Jr. Monday, April 22 — Ingham County Register of Deeds Curtis Hertel Jr. hopes that recent court rulings will help stem the tide of what he says are illegal foreclosures in the county.

By Chris Buckley, Valley Independent A Georgia woman charged in a drug and weapons case faces trial in Fayette County Court. Kayla Kathleen Creamer, 28, of Moultrie, waived her right ...

BCG Attorney Search has released its “State of the Market Report for Spring 2013”. The report talks about the recent trends in the legal sector and recruiting across the US.Pasadena, CA (PRWEB) April 22, 2013 BCG Attorney Search has released its "State of the Market Report for Spring 2013". This report includes recent trends in the legal sector and recruiting across the US.CEO Harrison Barnes ...

Disbarred Hendersonville attorney and former congressional candidate Sam Neill, left, leaves federal court Wednesday with attorney Joe Cheshire after being sentenced to three years in federal prison for income tax fraud.

A trial is set to begin next month in the death of a 24-year-old Virginia Beach man, fatally shot following a parking lot dispute at the Oceanfront.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich will pick from three local attorneys to replace former Domestic Relations Judge Craig Baldwin in Licking County Common Pleas Court.

The trial date for a first-degree assault case has been pushed back yet again, this time because of an eight-month delay in receiving medical records.

A Pennsylvania teen faces up to a year in jail for baring his backside in front of classmates.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A former U.S. Postal Service official has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for accepting at least $40,000 in bribes to help a Maryland company receive $6 million in contracts. Forty-eight-year-old Gene Quarles of Spotsylvania pleaded guilty earlier this year in federal court in Alexandria to bribery of a public official. Prosecutors had sought a two-year sentence.

By Jim Forsyth SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - A Texas judge on Wednesday ruled that the "Bible banners" waved by cheerleaders during football games in a small school district are constitutionally protected free speech and that the tradition will be allowed to continue. No law "prohibits the cheerleaders from using religious-themed banners at school sporting events," State District Judge Steven Thomas ...

A western Iowa woman has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of her 15-month-old son.

Buckets sit underneath the cupola housing the clock tower of the Crawford County Courthouse as well as underneath other areas of the roof — not in storage for the building’s cleaning crews, but for catching water from potential rain storms.

Police say he set fire to an apartment with a baby inside. With the accused on his way to prison the mother of the infant says she's relieved he'll be...

RALEIGH, N.C. Former presidential contender John Edwards has reactivated his license to practice law and is setting out on the speaking circuit. The two-time presidential candidate and former North Carolina senator is scheduled to appear June 6 at a private retreat in Orlando, Fla., for lawyer clients of the marketing firm PMP.

A Belington lawyer convicted of defrauding the West Virginia Public Defender Services will spend a year and a day in prison.

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — Some of Florida's top politicians and law enforcement officials were named as defense witnesses Tuesday for a Jacksonville lawyer charged with being the mastermind behind a veterans' charity that prosecutors say was actually a gambling operation at strip malls that offered sweepstakes games across the state.

TRENTON — A judge has sentenced a New Jersey state trooper who led a high-speed escort of luxury sports cars to Atlantic City to one year of probation.

Stevan Villa Triste, 44, of Round Mountain was sentenced by Elko Municipal Court Judge Barbara Nethery to serve 30 days in Elko County Jail, suspended one year on condition of serving 10 days in Elko County Jail with credit for 11 hours served, completing DUI counseling, attending AA meetings, abstaining from alcohol and drugs, attending a victim-impact panel, installing an ignition interlock ...

BEAVER, Pa. - A judge says a western Pennsylvania sheriff accused of threatening to cut a political campaign worker's hands off and shoot an online news reporter should go to trial.

Posted by Scott T. Smith / CBS12 News ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Comments made by the judge who presided over Casey Anthony's criminal trial raise questions about whether she can get a fair defamation hearing in state court in Orlando, her attorneys said in filings for her bankruptcy case. ...

A judge has rejected a plea deal for a former sheriff's deputy in central Kentucky who is accused of stealing drugs from an evidence locker.

WASHINGTON - Prosecutors say a Virginia man who planned a mass killing at the Washington headquarters of a conservative Christian lobbying group should spend 45 years in prison for his plot.

The Sierra Club and Earthwatch may join an oil and gas lawsuit involving the city of Longmont, but may not expand the issues under consideration, a Boulder County District Court judge said in one of a series of rulings Monday.

A federal court jury in Las Vegas found a Nevada-based homebuilder guilty of siphoning off federal money that was supposed to be used to build Navajo Nation affordable homes for his own gambling and personal expenses.

A woman arrested on a felony charge of permitting the abuse of child abuse was released on bond less than an hour after she was booked into jail.

The Louisiana governor channels the right's fury over the scandal.

The embezzlement case against the former executive chef at Virginia's Governor's Mansion is scheduled to go to trial in October.

An Ottawa police officer testified in court Thursday that Donna Jones died one day before the officer could meet with her concerning allegations of spousal abuse.

Jim Saunders has been named the new executive editor of the News Service of Florida. Saunders replaces founding executive editor David Royse , who will become the News Service’s associate editor of special projects.

The jury heard closing arguments this afternoon by prosecutors and defense attorneys in the trial of Ladipo Chad Bethea, who if found guilty could face the possibility of a death sentence. The trial is being held before Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Virginia Vinson.

AUBURN, Maine (AP) — Maine authorities have charged two more men in connection with the death of a man believed by one of the alleged assailants to be a police informant.        

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt requested that the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals set an execution date for Oklahoma State Penitentiary death row inmate Brian Darrell Davis.