LEWISTON — The two 12-year-old boys accused of setting two separate downtown fires denied charges of arson in court Monday. Brody Covey is charged with three counts of arson in the April 29 fire on Bates and Pine streets.

SALT LAKE CITY -- Out of the grip of the federal prison system, environmental and climate activist Tim DeChristopher plans to make Harvard Divinity School his next stop. DeChristopher, 31, has achieved folk status and inspired a documentary airing Monday - all for grabbing a bidder's paddle and running up prices at a federal oil-and-gas lease auction, trying to safeguard wild lands near Utah's ...

In the fourth day of deliberations in the trial of a Philadelphia abortion doctor, jurors asked Friday for a description of the babies the doctor is accused of killing.

Attorney General Eric Holder arrived on Capitol Hill Wednesday afternoon for a flaying from lawmakers, who grilled him about an array of topics including the Department of Justice’s seizure of Associated Press phone records. Holder appeared before the House Judiciary Committee days after the AP reported that the phone calls of as many as 100 journalists were seized to determine the source of a ...

The U.S. Supreme Court Monday morning turned back Alabama's appeal of a lower court's ruling striking down a portion of the state's immigration law making it a state crime to conceal, harbor or transport undocumented aliens into the state.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is meeting with Colorado students and helping to dedicate a new state courts building in Denver.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) - A 23-year-old Iowa man has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for receiving child pornography. U.S. Attorney Nicholas Klinefeldt says Scott Allen Gibbons, of Villisca, was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty to the charge in January.

Two men with ties to southwest Iowa were sentenced to prison for receiving child pornography last week.

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.        

An Indiana man convicted eight years ago of murdering a young mother and her 4-year-old daughter says in a prison interview he's considering dropping his death penalty appeal so he doesn't have to wait several more years to step into the death chamber.

Lawyers for Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev may have to delay full representation because of sweeping federal budget cuts.

Piedmont Town Foreman John Shingler is facing a prison term of 10 years and a fine of up to $250,000 after pleading guilty to a charge of conversion of government property Thursday in U.S. District Court, Northern District of West Virginia, Martinsburg, according to court documents.

Aggravated assault at Clyman Court and Fowler Avenue.

A long-awaited report by the New York Commission on Judicial Conduct on whether judges should have special license plates on their personal vehicles concludes there is nothing inherently unethical about a judge publicly displaying his or her position, even though it may result in preferential treatment.

HARRISBURG, Pa., May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Twenty five Pennsylvania residents pleaded guilty to welfare fraud and/or were sentenced for their crimes during April, the Office of Inspector General announced today."Welfare fraud is far from a victimless crime; it essentially steals public resources reserved for those who are truly eligible for help," Acting Inspector General Michael A ...

The Michigan Court of Appeals has thrown out one of the criminal sexual conduct convictions against a former special education paraprofessional.

Dr. Barry Lefkovitch says the lawyers at he sex assault trial provided ineffective counsel and that he wants a new trial.

The Oneida Indian Nation, New York State and Madison and Oneida Counties have come to an agreement in the wake of recent casino legislation. State and local officials hope this will alleviate the decades of court battles between the Indian Nation and local governments.

Three weeks after the start of a securities fraud trial involving a Kansas City company whose leaders are accused of bilking unsophisticated investors out of millions of dollars, closing arguments that ...

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 ...

Fearing will start June 24, with a swearing-in ceremony planned for sometime that week. He will be the third person in the court’s 44-year history to hold the District 2 seat representing nine southeastern counties.

About 100 people turned out Tuesday evening to the Yokefellowship Prison Ministry Awareness Banque.

PHOENIX — The federal Bureau of Land Management has joined two San Pedro River landowners in a civil lawsuit against the Arizona Department of Water Resources, contesting its decision to grant an adequacy of water certificate to Pueblo Del Sol Water Company, developer of Tribute, a planned commercial and residential project in Sierra Vista. The BLM is being represented by Ignacio Moreno ...

A controversial measure that would change how the U.S. Census counts Illinois prison inmates is advancing in Springfield. The census counts Illinois’ prison inmates as residents of the town the prison is in, not the town they came from. That population can affect a region’s eligibility for government money. State House members narrowly approved a bill Wednesday saying the state will start ...

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.

HOUSTON (AP) - An airline passenger from Mexico caught in Texas with nearly 4 pounds of heroin in her suitcases has been sentenced to three years in prison.

Josh Petersen, the man accused of killing his infant son, appeared in court Monday. His medical history is now in the process...

A judge in northeast Tennessee is dismissing a $750,000 libel lawsuit against state Republican Sen. Stacey Campfield for publishing false information online about a Democratic candidate for the state House in 2008.

A Princeton, Illinois man was sentenced to two years in prison after his failure to block caller ID helped police link him to bomb threats that caused evacuations at several businesses.

VALLEY SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — Attorneys for a 12-year-old California boy charged with killing his sister said Wednesday they wonder if he is mature enough to aid his defense.

HOLLIDAYSBURG - A narcotics detective assigned to the federal Drug Enforcement Administration said Thursday that Rodney "Rocco" Williams of Baltimore was a "middle man" in the drug world, someone who knows where to obtain large amounts of illegal...

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.

A murder trial is scheduled to get underway in Baton Rouge on Monday. Jimmy Brown, 23, is accused of killing Wayne Pierson, 23, in 2011.

HONESDALE - A major area drug dealer was sentenced in the Wayne County Courthouse on Thursday for three charges of delivering heroin and one charge for possession of heroin.

The central figure in the state investment scandal, Marc Correra, is under criminal investigation for tax fraud in New Mexico, according to the latest divorce petition filed by his wife in a Texas court.

A call to the California Highway Patrol reporting a man with a gun at the Traver rest stop landed two Southern California men in jail Saturday.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A 26-year-old Portland man is going to prison for 25 years for producing child pornography.        

The Monroe County, Tenn., man who filed a $1 million federal lawsuit this week against the county, its sheriff and two detectives has a matching $1 million lawsuit in Monroe Circuit Court.

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

Autumn Carter's aunt lifted her arms in celebration Wednesday with the announcement that Steven Smith was dead.

Story by Mike Clary / Sun Sentinel Posted by Miranda Grossman / CBS12 News POMPANO BEACH, Fla. -- The county bus which critically injured a boy after his hand became stuck in the door accelerated to 18 miles an hour and traveled 100 feet before the teen could no longer keep up running and dropped to the pavement, attorneys for the child's family said Wednesday. ...