BOISE, Idaho (AP) - An Idaho man convicted of breaking into a Boise zoo and brutally beating to death a Patas monkey will spend up to a year in state prison, where he'll take part in a treatment program.

Saturday May 18, 2013 DAVE GRAM Associated Press MONTPELIER -- The Vermont Supreme Court ruled Friday that a man with multiple drunken driving convictions can sue the state's largest hospital for drawing his blood at the request of police. But the court said it's up to the Legislature to consider whether state law governing when drunken driving evidence can be

CONCORD – A Supreme Court reversal of rulings that favored a man charged with four 1989 murders clears the way for state prosecutors to continue their case against David McLeod. The state Supreme Court reversed decisions by a Cheshire Superior Court judge that barred testimony from two experts from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The experts’ opinions are based, in part, on ...

In Lane County, jail officials can't hold many offenders for more than a few hours. Lane is one of several southern Oregon counties grappling with the loss of federal timber payments.

Springfield City Councilor Dave Ralston pleaded not guilty Monday morning to a drunken driving charge and was told he will have to hire his own attorney to defend himself. Ralston, cited by a Springfield police officer on Feb. 10, will appear in Lane County Circuit Court again on June 21 …

When police saw a parolee shove his hand in his waistband, they believed he was trying to hide something. He was, according to Stark County Jail records.

Multnomah County Circuit Judge Michael McShane is known for frank conversations and helping defendants through low points in their lives.

SCRANTON 8212 A former Holy Redeemer High School football coach was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in prison on charges he enticed numerous people, including minors, from at least 15 states to engage in sexually explicit behavior over the Internet.

Instead of again holding days of hearings as he has twice this year, Superior Court Judge Gil McBride has set just one court session for Strozier this week, and it will be 9 a.m. Friday, right before the three-day Memorial Day weekend.

An Iowa City man who was sentenced last month to life in prison for being present during the 2009 murder of landlord John Versypt has filed an appeal to the verdict.

Medical and recreational marijuana is legal in Colorado, but federal law says employers can lawfully fire workers who test positive for the drug, ruled a Colorado appeals court Thursday.

Lawrence James Anderson, 54, of Corydon, was sentenced by Wayne County Judge David L. Christensen on March 25 to 10 years in prison, all suspended, three years probation and a fine for a criminal controlled substance violation. Anderson entered a neg

A Union loss in August of 1863 meant that the formation of the Supreme Court in the new state of West Virginia had to be delayed.

A 49-year-old woman was sent to prison Monday after she pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a hit-and-run that killed a 15-year-old boy.

Testimony resumes for a second week in the murder trial for a woman accused of fatally shooting her husband, Nichols Hills Fire Chief Keith Bryan.

A heavier, at times weary-looking O.J. Simpson takes the stand as he seeks a retrial in his sports memorabilia case. LAS VEGAS — On this day, there was no Johnnie Cochran. There was no brash fist-pumping former Heisman Trophy winner in a tailored suit hugging his lead defense attorney after beating murder charges in a California courtroom.        

The former football coach of Holy Redeemer High School in Wilkes-Barre was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for producing and attempting to produce child pornography, interstate extortion, and cyber stalking. Joseph J. Ostrowski pleaded guilty to persuading and …

At first, Herb Magee wasn't sure. It had been more than half a century since Magee stood in this spot, between Cell Blocks 5 and 6 inside Eastern State Penitentiary on Fairmount Avenue. The sights all around him quickly began matching up to his memories. Magee could envision inmates sitting on a low-hanging roof over a cell block, watching a basketball game, a game he was playing in.

A Florida administrative law judge has struck down a decision by the state’s parimutuel regulator to award a license to a north Florida track that offers betting on Quarter Horse barrel racing.

ATLANTA-Hamza Bendelladj, an Algerian national also known as Bx1, will be arraigned on federal cyber crime charges for his role in developing, marketing, distributing, and operating the malicious computer virus SpyEye. "No violence or coercion was used to accomplish this scheme, just a computer and an Internet connection," said United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates. ...

Elisa Baker, serving up to 18 years in prison, told WSOC-TV Wednesday that she didn't kill her 10-year-old stepdaughter, Zahra Baker, in 2010.

WACO, Texas (AP) — Texas law enforcement officials on Friday launched a criminal investigation into the massive fertilizer plant explosion that killed 14 people last month, after weeks of largely treating the blast as an industrial accident.

By David Ingram and Jane Sutton WASHINGTON/MIAMI (Reuters) - As detainees at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, press ahead with a widening hunger strike nearly three months old, President Barack Obama has come under increasing criticism for his policy of force-feeding them. But U.S. law is on his side, an analysis of court rulings shows. Most U.S. judges who have examined forced ...

The daughter of Ariel Castro, the chief suspect in the Cleveland abduction of three women freed on Monday, is serving time in an Indiana prison for attempted murder after she slashed her baby’s throat four times with a knife, court documents show.

A judge in New York said he intends to approve a $55 million settlement of lawsuits over a plan to take the Empire State Building public in potentially the second- biggest offering for a U.S. real estate investment trust.

Currently serving a prison sentence of more than 30 years, O.J. Simpson is back in court seeking a new trial.

LITTLE ROCK, AR - A federal judge resentenced former Russellville physician Randeep Mann on Wednesday to life in prison for the bombing of former Arkansas State Medical Board chairman Dr. Trent Pierce.

The father-in-law of a missing Utah woman is expected to be released from a Washington prison next month, less than a year after he was sentenced to 2 ½ years for recording images of two neighbor girls in their bathroom. Washington state Corrections Department spokesman Chad Lewis tells KING-

Prosecutors say County Executive Rob Astorino is violating one of the terms of a 2009 settlement of a desegregation lawsuit.

A Mississippi man has made a brief court appearance on a charge that he made a deadly poison that was sent in letters to President Barack Obama and others.

A woman whose daughter was taken from a Dothan doctor's office has been released from jail after pleading guilty to a criminal charge of interfering with child custody. Julie A. Bethke, 33, was sentenced to four years' probation after a four year prison sentence was suspended.

In March 2004 Rosalie Riegle, a professor of English at Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan from 1969 to 2003, was one of eight Catholic Worker peace advocates arrested for trespassing at Nebraska’s Offutt Air Force Base, the command center for the military’s entire nuclear arsenal.

Loading Photo Galleries ... Christopher Perrien, center, stands with attorneys William Hankins, left, and Bill Weise during Perrien's sentencing Thursday for the 2011 murders of Michael and Terri Greene.

A Tampa Bay area man is facing a possible death sentence after pleading guilty to two murders.

A first responder who helped treat victims of the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, last month will plead not guilty to the federal charge of possessing an explosive device in court on Wednesday, his attorney said in a statement.        

LEBANON, Mo. - It's only about 200 miles along curvy highways and country roads from Lebanon, Mo., t ...

Keith and Shauna Morgan were arraigned on animal cruelty charges in a Brick Township courtroom.

An Illinois prisoner was mistakenly released from a Wisconsin prison, and instead of fleeing, he just waited in the parking lot until he was let back in. [ more › ]

Judge Ed Klein sentenced a 42-year-old Nacogdoches man to 12 months in state prison Thursday for driving drunk with children under the age of 15 in the car in December 2012.

A Virginia man is facing felony charges after being accused of phoning in two bomb threats to the Lee County Courthouse in order to avoid going to court.

Hard time: Bruce Jackson’s 1975 photographs of an Arkansas prison farm (above) led to a career of documentary, portrait and landscape photography.