BARAGA - Two state agencies have replied to a Baraga County farmer's legal complaint, and they are asking a court to dismiss her federal cas.

The Delaware County Bar Association released results of its judicial selection committee report regarding four candidates — two Republicans and two Democrats — for the Court of Common Pleas.

Federal sentencing continues in what prosecutors describe as a large, regional conspiracy to sell cocaine in Northeast Mississippi.

A 34-year-old Arizona woman who has spent more than half her life behind bars for a 1992 Tucson killing is now free.

Here's what you get when you combine "Rockin' Robin" with "Folsom Prison Blues" and "The Joker." What say you — abomination or finger-snapping good time? The mash comes courtesy of DJ Faroff. H/T: egotripland [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

Posted May 14, 2013, at 1:14 p.m. Last modified May 14, 2013, at 2:10 p.m. ELLSWORTH, Maine — A man indicted nearly six years ago on three felony charges after allegedly forcing sexual contact on a preteen girl is finally back in Maine after he was apprehended in Colorado.

Three Magna Bank employees from the bank’s mortgage division have garnered some new distinctions recently. Laura Sinclair, a senior vice preside...

Attorney General Eric Holder recused himself from the decision to subpoena the phone records of Associated Press reporters, a source told CNN's Jessica Yellin on Tuesday. The approval fell to Deputy Attorney General James Cole, the source said. White House spokesman Jay Carney said Tuesday that the White House had no knowledge of any attempt by the Justice Department "to seek phone records of ...

Will Hunter was driving a former prison inmate to a job interview at a door manufacturing plant in Ludlow, Vt., recently when the man, in his 50s, started to question whether the trip was a waste of time.

PHILADELPHIA – A former housekeeper who stole a rare 18th Century bust sculpture of Benjamin Franklin from a Main Line client faces several years in federal prison for taking the stolen property out of state.

Lindsay Lohan is again close to being thrown in jail for not doing what a judge ordered.

A lawyer for a New York man who was charged with fraud after filing a multibillion-dollar lawsuit claiming half ownership of Facebook asked a judge Friday to suspend the criminal case to keep it from interfering with the still-pending lawsuit.

By Terry Baynes (Reuters) - Monster Beverage Corp has sued San Francisco's city attorney over an investigation the city launched last year into the safety and marketing of Monster energy drinks. In the lawsuit filed on Monday in California federal court, the company accused City Attorney Dennis Herrera of violating its constitutional rights by demanding that the company reformulate its drinks ...

One of James Holmes' lawyers asked a judge on Monday to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity in the Colorado theater shootings. Such a plea is seen as his best hope of avoiding the death penalty in the...

The Monterey County Public Defender's Office has filed a lawsuit that aims to remedy substandard health care in a jail that's "broken in every way," according to a complaint filed in federal court Thursday.

HOUSTON (AP) - Convicted ex-Enron Corp. CEO Jeffrey Skilling's more than 24-year prison sentence for his role in the once mighty energy giant's collapse could be reduced by as many as 10 years if a federal judge approves an agreement reached Wednesday between prosecutors and defense attorneys.

MONTPELIER -- A group of Vermont lawmakers on Thursday called for a national constitutional convention to reverse the effects of the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision that allowed corporations greater influence in political campaigns.

CENTENNIAL, Colo. - Lawyers for Colorado theater shooting suspect James Holmes formally told a judge on Monday that he wants to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity after outside experts diagnosed his mental illness.

A federal appeals court is refusing to block a federal permit for a West Virginia coal mine that was challenged by environmentalists. A panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that ...

Two Pierce County men who the U.S. government alleged are part of the “sovereign citizen” movement were sentenced Friday to federal prison for several crimes.

Ann McDonald, the former Kent Woodlands woman who hired two hitmen to kill her husband in 1991, died in state prison Thursday.

BOSTON — A man who sued his half brother and lost after he was paralyzed doing a flip from a trampoline into a 2-foot wading pool is entitled to a new trial, the highest court in Massachusetts ruled Wednesday.

A bipartisan panel will meet in Alamogordo next month to screen candidates for a vacant state district court judgeship in southern New Mexico. Read more at KOB.com

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A New York whitewater company broke state law by sending clients down the upper Hudson River with unlicensed rafting guides, a judge has ruled.

SALEM — A pair of bills aimed at curtailing protests by environmental activists that disrupt logging in state-owned forests was comfortably approved Monday by the Oregon House. House Bill 2595 would create a new “interference” crime that would apply to protesters who chain themselves to or sit in trees, who …

The deputy district attorneys—Patrick Connolly, now a Los Angeles Superior Court judge, and Ann Ingalls—were dismissed on the basis of absolute prosecutorial immunity, and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in January 2009 that Van de Kamp and Livesay had absolute immunity as well.

RENO (AP) — A national conservation that helps local, nonprofit land trusts buy up property to protect natural resources is creating a first-of-its-kind liability insurance company to help them cover the costs of legal battles with developers.

The state Appellate Court has issued a ruling blasting a Connecticut prosecutor for repeated misconduct and ordering a new trial for a man serving life in prison for the killing of a Waterbury bar owner in 1998.

Allen J. Hogan has been given 18 months to clean up a dump site at 663 Fifth Ave., Mansfield, under a consent order accepted April 24 by Richland County Common Pleas Court Judge James Henson.

OROVILLE — Jury selection began Monday in the trial of a 27-year-old man charged for a July 2011 shooting at a downtown Chico nightclub.

LOCK HAVEN - The Clinton County commissioners hired a second attorney for Children and Youth Services Thursday, citing an increased workload and higher level of complexity in the court proceedings as reasons for the move.

KAYSVILLE, Utah — A former Kaysville charter school teacher and Weber State University adjunct instructor appeared in court Tuesday for...

Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner has been arrested for extortion by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and is being held in Pulaski County Jail.

Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio has required prison inmates to wear pink underwear and saved taxpayers money by removing salt and pepper from prisons. He has, at times, forbidden convicted murderer Jodi Arias from speaking to the press.

Warning they will have to live with the results of their decision, a judge gave lawyers for fungal meningitis victims the go-ahead to depose three key witnesses.Discuss the fungal meningitis outbreak on Facebook Continuing coverage of the fungal meningitis outbreak

Leaders in the Latino community are claiming victory over Sheriff Joe Arpaio after a federal judge ruled that Arpaio and his deputies racially profiled Latinos during immigration sweeps.

SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio- Missing valley attorney John Schoenike, has been found. According to a report on Facebook, The message was posted shortly after 10:30 p.m. Sunday, stating: "He has been found.

A former New Jersey “Teacher of the Year” who admitted having sex with a 15-year-old student was spared prison time yesterday.Erica DePalo, 33, who won the Essex County honor, received a three-year suspended sentence and will be subject to lifetime parole supervision.“I feel nothing but remorse for my...

The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department announced these arrests. All suspects were held in the county jail, unless otherwise indicated:

Norwalk man has served nearly 20 years in prison after being convicted of wife's 1981 murder.

The Gerber man accused of sexually molesting at least eight children in his wife's in-home day care pleaded guilty to nine felony charges in Tehama County Superior Court on Monday. Ralph Elvis Martin, 64, pleaded guilty to eight counts of lewd acts...