WAYNESBURG – The Messenger recently obtained information from local courts regarding updates on six unrelated criminal cases, including a man charged with firing shots at police, a suspect charged with stealing more than $10,000, and a woman found guilty of animal cruelty.

The veto could prompt lawmakers to fight it out in the courts. TALLAHASSEE – Gov. Rick Scott vetoed $368 million in lawmaker pet projects Monday and blocked a 3 percent tuition hike for Florida colleges and universities.        

By Laura Szepesi Leona Gilland Martin was living proof of the old saying that you can’t judge a book by its cover. Short, slim and quiet, she seemed ...

Logan Alan Murphy was convicted of burglary, breaking and entering and vandalism in Stark County.

Pot smokers can be fired from their jobs in Colorado even though medical and recreational marijuana remains legal in the state. That’s according to a new ruling in the Colorado Court of Appeals, which stated Thursday that “off-duty” smoking can result in the smoker being lawfully fired. The court chose not to introduce employment protection [...] Pot Smokers Can Be Fired, Rules Colorado Court is ...

CHICAGO (AP) — A U.S. district judge in Chicago is scheduled to hear the government's appeal of a decision to release an Illinois teenager accused of seeking to join al-Qaida-linked militants in Syria.        

A federal court Tuesday struck down Arizona's ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy absent a medical emergency. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the law violated a woman's constitutionally ...

A New Mexico judge appears poised to rule that the state can continue to pay for private school students' textbooks. Read more at KOB.com

The Indiana Supreme Court has upheld the state law limiting punitive damages awarded in civil lawsuits and directs most of that money to a state victims fund. Read more at www.WISHTV.com

WALLA WALLA, Wash. - A new program at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla is working to cut down violence and reduce the number of inmates in solitary confinement.

Moments before being sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison, Justin Marshall looked into the eyes of the family of John Versypt and said he did not kill their husband, father and brother. “I am innocent,” Marshall said during his sentencing hearing Friday. “I don’t know who did this, who did such [...]

Sylvester’s Sly Bail Bonds was founded in 2008. His livelihood depends on the Eighth Amendment. Not the part that outlaws cruel and unusual punishment — the founders’ reaction to British practices of branding, whipping and long prison terms in colonial America. Sylvester’s business relies on the portion that prohibits judges from placing an “excessive bail,” on those who are innocent until ...

NASHUA, N.H. -- A New Hampshire man who fled a day before being convicted in 1991 of killing his 2-year-old stepson has been tried and convicted again in Greece, where he is serving an 18-year sentence for the boy's death, authorities said Friday.

Condemned prison guard killer William Van Poyck should die by lethal injection on June 12 as scheduled, a deeply divided Florida Supreme Court ruled late Monday.

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced Tuesday a joint $500 million federal and state settlement to resolve civil and criminal allegations that Ranbaxy.

A 50-year-old man goes on trial Monday in Las Cruces in the 2010 killings of a New Mexico couple and their business partner from California.

Crime Debt collector demands payment Erie County deputies hunting for a Sandusky man who allegedly stomped the tar out of a delinquent debtor Saturday at the Greenfield Village Mobile Home Park. matt westerhold Sandusky Apr 29, 2013 googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display("dfp-ad-sandusky_register"); }); Deputies have two felony assault warrants out for 30-year-old Adam White. Deputies ...

Former National Basketball Players Association Executive Director Billy Hunter sued the union, its president and his publicist, alleging that they engaged in secret negotiations with team owners to end the 2011 lockout.

The Ohio Supreme Court will revisit the case of the state’s only female Death Row inmate next week.

The Rhode Island Supreme Court says former lead paint companies that were sued by the state are responsible for paying their own legal expenses.

By The Associated Press, The Associated Press CHICAGO — A federal judge on Friday quashed another judge’s surprise order to release an Illinois teen pending trial on charges he sought to join ...

The wrongful death lawsuits lodged against the state for Virginia Tech's handling of the April 16, 2007, shootings go to the Virginia Supreme Court on Tuesday in what is the first step toward a full court review.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Records show that a political figure at the center of a Las Cruces judicial scandal was in regular contact with former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson's staff to offer input on appointments to the bench in Dona Ana County.

Las Vegas attorney Stanley Walton pleaded guilty Wednesday to a charge brought against him in February 2011 that he participated in a scheme to obtain mortgage loans from financial institutions using straw buyers and false loan applications, Nevada's U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden said.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez is currently awaiting trial for the 2011 shooting, which didn't injure anyone but left more than five bullet marks on the executive mansion.

ST. JOSEPH COUNTY-- Convenience stores in Indiana are going to court over the right to sell cold beer.

TALLAHASSEEU.S. Supreme Court rejects Florida death penalty challengeThe U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up a case that tested the constitutionality of part of Florida’s system for imposing the death penalty.

The Berks County District Attorney announced charges against 25 people as part of a major drug trafficking investigation.

The Texas fertilizer plant that exploded last month, killing 14 people, injuring more than 200 others and causing tens of millions of dollars in damage to the surrounding area had only $1 million in liability coverage, lawyers said Saturday.

BALTIMORE (AP) - A Delaware man has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for plotting to sell heroin and cocaine on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

Federal judge in Camden will hear arguments next month over Bryant family memorabilia squabble.

The murder trial against Jeffery Trevino will be delayed by two months after the body of his wife, Kira Trevino, was found in the Mississippi River Wednesday, May 8...

By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE (Reuters) - A U.S. Army soldier was sentenced on Thursday to nearly 12 years in a military prison for shooting and killing a fellow soldier early on Christmas Day, officials said. Army Specialist Marshall Drake, stationed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, shoGrant Wis Private Grant Wise in the face in what military prosecutors described as an alcohol ...

The Indiana Supreme Court has upheld the state law limiting punitive damages awarded in civil lawsuits and directs most of that money to a state victims fund.

A Circuit Court judge has denied a request to exhume the bodies from gravesites at the Dozier School

A 25-year-old Tacoma man accused of killing a woman in a wrong-way crash on Highway 520  in Seattle on April 4 pleaded not guilty to vehicular homicide this morning in King County Superior Court. Michael Anthony Robertson, who was injured in the crash that killed Morgan Fick Williams, 58,

The veto could prompt lawmakers to fight it out in the courts. TALLAHASSEE ¿ Gov. Rick Scott vetoed $368 million in lawmaker pet-projects Monday and blocked a 3 percent tuition hike for Florida colleges and universities.        

Testimony continued Tuesday during the second day of O.J. Simpson's bid for a retrial in connection with is robbery and kidnapping conviction in 2008.

The nation’s top military appellate judges will scrutinize a seemingly sluggish Air Force court that’s vexed airmen from Alaska to Florida and beyond.

Sanofi (SAN) won a U.S. appeals court ruling yesterday that revives a patent-infringement claim over generic versions of the allergy drug Allegra. A trial judge erred in interpreting a patent on the drug that covers a process to make the active ingredient in the medicine, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said in an opinion posted on the court’s website.

The law made the procedure illegal if performed about 18 weeks after fertilization, earlier than the time recognized by Supreme Court precedents.