By Jonathan Kaminsky OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) - Federal authorities on Wednesday arrested a man charged with mailing a letter containing the deadly poison ricin to a U.S. district judge in Spokane, Washington, the FBI said. Investigators have no information to suggest the Spokane envelope is related to a batch of ricin-tainted letters addressed to President Barack Obama and other U.S ...

Former Oregon football player Cliff Harris will face trial in Hillsboro on a domestic harassment charge.

Gov. Jerry Brown has appointed former Rancho Palos Verdes Mayor Doug Stern to a Los Angeles Superior Court judgeship.

76-year-old gets up to 10 years for killing baby daughter more than 50 years ago after traumatized son comes forward

Robert Gregory Dempsey, also known as "Jesse Rockwell," was indicted Monday by a federal grand jury in Jackson, Tenn., on one count of possession of child pornography and one count of interstate transportation of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III said.

SUNNYSIDE, Wash. - A Yakima County judge sentenced a Sunnyside man Wednesday to six and a half years in prison for manslaughter.

Jacksonville, Fla – Consumer Attorney Services became aware of delayed foreclosure processing times in Tennessee and added Raven Perry-Beach to their national foreclosure defense team in April to address homeowner concerns. Consumer Attorney Services plans to utilize Perry-Beach’s knowledge of bankruptcy, debt settlement, and foreclosure defense to help Tennessee homeowners find foreclosure ...

EDGERTON, MO. - A third inmate who walked away from a northeast Kansas prison was captured late Friday, hours after the other two surrendered at a Missouri home where they had been holed up for hours, authorities said.

NEW YORK – With the simplest of sentences, NBA veteran Jason Collins set aside years of worry and silence to become the first active player in one of four major U.S. professional sports leagues to come out as gay.

SALT LAKE CITY – Utah’s Attorney General accepted money from a number of businesses that have faced federal or state...

By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - A 76-year-old Wisconsin woman was sentenced on Wednesday to 10 years in prison for killing her infant daughter more than half a century ago, after the girl's brother persuaded police to reopen the case. Ruby Klokow, who pleaded no contest to second-degree murder in February, was sentenced in Sheboygan County Circuit Court for the 1957 death of her daughter Jeaneen ...

A St. Paul man faces 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possessing a gun and methamphetamine as a repeat felon.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — O.J. Simpson's former lawyer's work is expected to again draw withering criticism Tuesday in a Las Vegas courtroom where the imprisoned former football star and his new attorneys are trying to convince a Nevada judge that Simpson deserves a new trial.

The appeals process makes it unlikely that convicted cop killer Nickolus L. Johnson will keep his date with the executioner next year.

A man charged with murder decades after one of the nation's most infamous child disappearances can be brought to trial, a judge ruled Wednesday, turning down the man's claim that the case was too thin to proceed.

ELKO — A Nevada Department of Health and Human Services citation issued against the Elko County Jail in early April came after an inmate complained about conditions at the facility where there was one toilet per 16 inmates in her cell block, according to the report issued by the inspector for the Nevada State Health Division.

Phillip R. Bushnell, 31, of Sequim, was sentenced to serve 24 months probation by a Clallam County Superior Court judge on May 8. Bushnell pleaded guilty on April 17 to three counts of delivery of methamphetamine.

Sentencing is set for a Virginia man convicted of throwing pipe bombs at police officers during a chase in Montana.

MISSOULA — A University of Montana basketball player has pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct involving a weekend fight outside a Missoula bar. Keron DeShields, 20, entered his plea Monday in Missoula Municipal Court, while a judge granted a request by the sophomore guard's graduating teammate, Will Cherry, to postpone his court appearance until next week.

JACKSON, Miss., May 7 (UPI) -- Mississippi's Supreme Court Tuesday stopped the execution of Willie Jerome Manning, convicted in the shooting deaths of two college students.

Pettway has already been convicted of killing a woman in broad daylight in a public park.

Judge says ban violates 'constitutional right to choose to terminate her pregnancy before the foetus is viable' A federal court on Tuesday struck down Arizona's ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, absent a medical emergency. The 9th US circuit court of appeals said the law violated a woman's constitutionally protected right to terminate a pregnancy before a foetus is able to survive ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — For two years, the Columbia County Jail north of Portland restricted inmates' personal mail to the sending and receiving of postcards.

As more information comes out about the relationship between Gov. Bob McDonnell, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and the head of a company suing the state, one local Republican lawmaker said the state's ethics laws work well, but another said accepting extravagant gifts from political supporters sends the wrong message.        

The California Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Monday that cities and counties have the right to ban medical marijuana dispensaries within their borders, despite the existence of a state law that p

There was more than one storm brewing Tuesday night as a Henderson County Jury of eight women and four men handed down four life sentences and one 20 year sentence to Danny Ray Lusk, 37 of Kemp.

A Philadelphia abortion doctor was found guilty Monday of three counts of first-degree murder. His crime was not seeking to kill the three babies, as abortion is legal in Pennsylvania through the 24th week of gestation, but killing them once they had already been removed from their mothers' wombs.

CLEVELAND (AP) - An Ohio prosecutor says he may seek the death penalty against the man accused of imprisoning three women at his home for about a decade for forcing them to suffer miscarriages.

The defendant accused of providing firearms to the gunman in Webster's Christmas Eve slayings returned from South Carolina without incident after being allowed to travel by a magistrate judge.

WASHINGTON -- Lying about receiving a military medal could become a crime, under a bill headed to the president's desk. The Stolen Valor Act cleared the Senate Wednesday and the House earlier this week.

The doctor convicted of orchestrating a 2009 bombing that left the chairman of the Arkansas State Medical Board with serious injuries has again been sentenced to life in prison.

WORCESTER, Mass. — A Massachusetts resident charged in an international investigation has pleaded guilty to solicitation of child kidnapping and charges of possession and distribution of child pornography. Forty-year-old Geoffrey Portway, a British citizen living in Worcester, pleaded guilty Monday in federal court. He could face at least 18 years in prison under an agreement with prosecutors ...

LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Two men facing arson charges in connection with one of three major fires in downtown Lewiston that destroyed nine buildings and displaced more than 180 people are expected to make their first court appearance on Monday or Tuesday.        

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — A Wisconsin woman convicted of killing her baby more than 50 years ago has been sentenced to up to 10 years in prison. Seventy-six-year-old Ruby C. Klokow of Sheboygan pleaded no contest three months ago in her daughter's 1957 death. Prosecutors recommended a jail sentence of 45 days because of her age and challenges associated with prosecuting a decades-old case. But Judge ...

COEUR d'ALENE - The driver accused of smashing into at least five vehicles in a high-speed chase on Interstate 90 had been arrested for DUI four other times, court records show.

NEW YORK, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Bernstein Liebhard LLP today announced that a class action has been commenced in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California on behalf ...

Jayme Biendl's sisters Deborah Hamm (left) and Christine Hamm (middle) hug their sister-in-law, Edie Hamm, after the jury leaves the courtroom Wednesday morning in Snohomish County Superior Court.

A Fayette County pill dealer who sold approximately 250 powerful prescription painkillers over a two-year period pleaded guilty Monday to federal drug charges in U.S. District Court in Charleston.

A 45-year-old Flagstaff man faces 340 years in prison after being sentenced in a child-sex case that included voyeurism, surreptitious videotaping and extensive downloading of child pornography.

LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley is proud to  announce today that the U.S. Justice Department has recognized Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) John Luke Walker for his exemplary efforts to protect children. AUSA Walker is the recipient of the Child Protection Award at the annual National Missing Children's Day commemoration held in Washington, D.C. today. The ...

NEW YORK — A Harvard Medical School research assistant who has served as a U.S. judge for 23 years now finds herself at the center of the Boston Marathon bombing case, and by extension the post-Sept. 11 issue of whether, and when, suspected terrorists deserve constitutional rights.