PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia abortion doctor convicted of killing three babies who were born alive in his grimy clinic agreed Tuesday to give up his right to an appeal and faces life in prison but will be spared a death sentence.

By Mark Hofmann, Daily Courier The day after a Connellsville mayoral candidate was held for trial for his alleged involvement in operating a chop shop, the candidate suspects politics to ...

A northeastern Pennsylvania police chief was arrested Wednesday on witness intimidation and obstruction charges after authorities say he had sex with an alleged victim in a criminal case and told her not to tell anyone.

KUWAIT (Reuters) - On a January afternoon in Kuwait City, a group of bloggers gathered around three men they would not normally expect to see in a downtown coffee shop, clutching lattes and mochas. Related Stories Kerry sees 'short time' to revive Middle East peace bid Egypt NGO law could betray revolt's ideals - U.N. rights chief Appeals court confirms jail term for Berlusconi in tax fraud case ...

OJ Simpson returns to Las Vegas court in bid for new trial in 2008 robbery-kidnap conviction        

MASON CITY — The jury in the murder trial of a Mason City man accused of strangling a woman to death last July was sworn in late Tuesday afternoon in Cerro Gordo County District Court.

HARRISBURG (AP) — A revised plan to redraw the boundaries of Pennsylvania's legislative districts won the unanimous approval Wednesday of the state Supreme Court, which rejected renewed appeals by citizen challengers and Democrats who argued the...

A University of California at Berkeley graduate student has pleaded no contest to two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated for a car crash a year ago that killed his girlfriend, who had just graduated from the university, and her 6-year-old son. Jose Lumbreras, 25, entered his plea in Alameda County Superior Court and could face up to 12 years in state prison when he is ...

CHAMPAIGN — A Rockford man who spent more than 13 years in prison before his murder conviction was thrown out was formally declared innocent Thursday in the 1993 slaying of a college student.

Dinosaur National Monument in 1997. But he pleaded guilty earlier this year to second-degree murder in the heat of passion. Before he was sentenced in America last night, the 49-year-old from Kidderminster said he was ‘sorry’ for killing the 31-year-old, in a split-second ‘action of rage’.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The case of three homeless men challenging a "No Camping" order on public lands in New Hampshire is scheduled to be heard in court.        

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- A military judge on Tuesday ordered two U.S. Army generals to testify about whether they were pressured by superiors to charge another general with the sexual assault of a female captain.

By Jason McLure LITTLETON, New Hampshire (Reuters) - A 45-year-old Greek citizen who fled the United States more than two decades ago, the day before he was convicted of murdering his 2-year-old stepson, has been retried in his home country and sentenced to 18 years in a Greek jail, U.S. law enforcement officials said on Friday. The conviction and sentencing of the man, Steven Kamberidis, was ...

The state Game and Fish Department asked a federal court Tuesday to lift a decades-old order preventing the agency from providing New Mexico residents with the majority of annual licenses to hunt bighorn sheep, ibex and oryx.

One of the men arrested in connection with the kidnapping and long captivity of three women in Cleveland has links to a sad and violent crime in Fort Wayne in 2007.

MINOT, N.D. (AP) — A Somali national was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for killing the mother of his child and three other people in North Dakota two years ago.

A Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling Wednesday means Cumberland County will be partly home to three state senators.

Batavia High School lost to Frewsburg, out of Chautauqua County, 51-50, this afternoon in the final of Regional Mock Trials Tournament. Both teams were 1-1 in the finals, presided over by Eugene F. Pigott Jr., associate judge of the New York State Court of Appeals. Frewsburg will compete in the state championship rounds in Albany. It's the first time in the 31-year history of the tournament that ...

A 35-year-old Logansport man is leaving the Cass County court system with 15 years in prison, resulting from four court cases.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Majorities in every California county voted last fall to scale back the state's Three Strikes law so thousands of inmates serving life sentences for relatively minor third offenses would have the chance to be set free.

Corrections officials plan reforms, personnel actions Maryland lawmakers called Wednesday for a sweeping inquiry into the state prison system, amid allegations that a gang effectively took over the Baltimore City Detention Center, orchestrating crimes from behind bars and impregnating female correctional officers who helped smuggle in contraband.        

Speakers are Vartan Gregorian, President of Carnegie Corporation of New York; Joel I. Klein, CEO at Amplify; Michael Clinton, Publishing Executive at Hearst Magazines; and Malachy E. Mannion, District Judge for the U.S. District Court; Commencement Ceremonies to be Held May 14, 15, and 17 (PRWeb May 13, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10729034.htm

Meet Millie Gordon once and you'll never forget her. She's 80-something (adamantly not specifying) and considers herself to have so many kids, she loses count after 500.

A drunken driver whose SUV plowed into a car that immediately caught fire, killing a 43-year-old Perris woman at the wheel, was sentenced today to 15 years to life in prison.

The pay packages were earlier rejected by shareholders in a nonbinding say-on-pay vote.

The Center for Investigative Reporting wanted to find out what consequences drivers face when they kill a pedestrian in the five largest Bay Area counties. It’s a difficult question to answer because the relevant data is scattered among numerous and disparate agencies: police departments, district attorneys’ and coroners’ offices, and the Department of Motor Vehicles – to name a few. We made ...

A 30-year-old Uzbek national who has been arrested on federal terrorism charges pleaded not guilty in a Boise, Idaho court.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A former New Jersey county Teacher of the Year who admits having sex with a 15-year-old student from her honors English class has been spared prison time.

A former fire coordinator for Greenwood County will spend about four months in prison for having sex with a woman who was incapacitated while he was on the job.

An Oregon State Police trooper accused of fondling a woman during a traffic stop pleaded guilty Tuesday in Clackamas County Circuit Court to official misconduct.

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana state prison officials are using customized playing cards for a deadly serious purpose: To help unlock the mysteries of unsolved murders and persons gone missing.

A new audit finds that hundreds of Colorado inmates may be serving incorrect sentences due to clerical errors.

There are a number of politics pieces in this week's issue of Crain's. Bronx Assemblyman Eric Stevenson twice turned down bribes, saying he would provide assistance to businessmen in the borough free of charge. Only on a third try by a government informant did he take a $10,000 bribe. That's a foundation for an entrapment defense, attorneys say. And it is coming into play in the case involving ...

Jurors in the red light civil trial heard from a former North Carolina Department of Transportation employee. This is the second day the defense has called witnesses to the stand. The families of three people killed in a 2009 street racing crash are suing Crescent Resources for $15 million.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has charged a Dallas-based debt management firm with defrauding its customers. The state's enforcement action sought an asset freeze and temporary restraining order against Shane V. Garner and Credit Alliance Group (CAG) dba Credit Services Today.

Efforts to gather data and develop recommendations to reduce the use of solitary confinement in Texas jails and prisons seem to have withered this session in the face of opposition from officials who oversee those facilities. But the lawmakers behind the proposed legislation are not prepared to accept defeat.

As Maryland Republicans turned up the heat on Gov. Martin O’Malley over a high-profile corruption case in a Baltimore jail, the Democratic governor announced new steps Thursday to beef up security and uproot corruption.

A convicted sex offender was indicted Tuesday on new charges that he sexually abused two Massachusetts boys in Maine, according to court documents.

(May 13, 2013) A forensic psychologist indicated that Dora Tejada is not criminally responsible for the suffocation and death of her 3-year-old daughter on Nantucket in 2011 as her trial on a single charge of second-degree murder got underway Monday in Nantucket Superior Court.

Fossil fuel industry frustrated by federal delays By Bob Berwyn SUMMIT COUNTY — The fossil fuel industry continues to battle over energy development in court, most recently by asking a federal appeals court to overturn a previous lower court ruling that spurred the Bureau of Land Management to reconsider its plan for northwest Colorado’s Roan […]

By Verna Gates BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - The Alabama Supreme Court justice chosen just last week to help steer the state's Jefferson County through the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history stepped down on Tuesday after apparently deciding he was not a good match for the job. Mike Bolin, 65, could not be reached for immediate comment on his decision to leave Alabama's largest county ...