The trustee for a bankrupt Montana power cooperative is challenging in federal court a claim for $46 million from banks that financed a little-used natural gas power plant near Great Falls. The outcome ...

CHICAGO (AP) — In a rare move for terror cases, a federal judge agreed Thursday to release on home confinement an Illinois teenager charged with seeking to travel abroad and join an al-Qaida-linked militant group in war-torn Syria.

Willie Jerome Manning, who won a stay of execution in one capital case, is waiting to hear whether an Oktibbeha County judge agrees with his claim that he was denied a fair trial in 1996 when he was sentenced to death for the slayings of two elderly women.

State Rep. Tyrone Brooks made his first appearance in federal court on Wednesday. He pleaded not guilty to a 30-count indictment that includes charges of mail, tax and wire fraud.

 The first court hearing on the Natural State's 12-week abortion ban next week will not include a group wanting to help defend the law.

LOS ANGELES – LawFuel.com – The owner of a Mission Hills medical clinic who sold a bogus cancer cure to dozens of victims across the country as part of a “treatment” program that prosecutors said was “despicable, cruel and heinous” and hastened the death of some patients was sentenced today to 14 years in federal prison.

A schedule conflict has delayed the trial of an Akron man charged with shooting his wife of 45 years in a hospital intensive care unit in what may have been a mercy killing.

Nearly two dozen homeless sex offenders have filed federal lawsuits challenging Southampton Town, Suffolk County and New York State laws that prohibit them from living near schools, playgrounds and daycare centers once they are released from prison, and require that they register with law enforcement agencies for life.

PHOENIX (AP) -- A trial date has been set for a former NBA All-Star accused of squatting in a Paradise Valley home and then trying to list the place for rent on Craigslist.

A coalition of Salt Lake City media organizations is fighting to keep court hearings open in the case of the 17-year-old charged in the death of a Utah soccer referee.

Andy Murray withdrew from the French Open on Tuesday because of a chronic back injury and will now focus on preparing for the start of the grass-court season next month.

- The full Virginia Court of Appeals will consider whether a Blacksburg hookah lounge is subject to the state's restaurant smoking ban.

A court in Georgia has ordered that a former prime minister be held in jail for two months pending trial on charges of embezzlement and abuse of office.

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire man convicted of hacking to death a woman and maiming her daughter in a 2009 home invasion was sentenced once again Friday to life in prison without parole, plus 76 years.        

An Albany man, charged with beating a man to death with a board, goes on trial for murder a second time.

San Francisco, CA -- California cities and counties can ban pot shops, the California Supreme Court ruled today. The unanimous opinion states neither the state's voter-approved law legalizing medical

BP's cement contractor on the drilling rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 announced Monday that it is trying to negotiate a settlement over its role in the disaster, a focus of trial testimony ...

The advocacy of consumer protection attorney Alyson Oliver—with her team at the Oliver Law Group PC, a Michigan law firm specializing in product liability and multidistrict litigation nationwide—has been recognized in Thompson Reuters for her leadership efforts, while representing several injured women who used the birth control Mirena IUD device , in the multidistrict litigation proceedings in ...

One-eyed police killer Dale Cregan told his mother, "I'm sorry" after admitting murder, a court has heard.

Mayo — Third Judicial Circuit State Attorney Jeff Siegmeister was the featured guest at the Rotary Club of Mayo on Wednesday, April 24, and he gave a little background on himself, as well as his duties as State Attorney.

A jury in western Pennsylvania was set to begin the penalty phase of a trial for a man convicted last week or killing his mother, sister and elderly aunt in his automotive glass shop in 2009.

A South Florida Subway franchise is being sued after a recent filming of the "Harlem Shake" dance rendition went wrong inside one of its stores.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - The Iowa Supreme Court says insurers cannot impose price caps on dentists who accept their plans for procedures that aren't reimbursed.

MIAMI, May 21 (UPI) -- A convicted armed robber who testified that Rilya Wilson's foster mother had admitted killing the child has been released from a Florida prison, officials say.

By Tim McLaughlin BOSTON (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors have agreed to the release of a teenager accused of lying to FBI agents in the Boston Marathon bombing investigation while he awaits trial, according to a court filing on Monday. Prosecutors and defense lawyers for Robel Phillipos plan to ask U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler to grant the 19-year-old a pretrial release under strict ...

The Alaska Court of Appeals last week handed a partial victory to former state lawmaker Nicholas “Nick” Stepovich, who had appealed two convictions—for cocaine possession and attempted evidence tamper

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — After disrupting his capital murder trial several times with profanity-filled outbursts, a Texas man erupted in one final chaotic fit when a jury sentenced him to death on Tuesday for killing a bystander while trying to shoot his daughter outside a courthouse.

Clifton Jermaine Whatley, a suspended Detroit police officer and Canton resident, could learn as early as May whether he will face trial in Wayne County Circuit Court amid charges he orchestrated a series of robberies across southeast Michigan, including a Feb. 6 holdup inside the Canton Family Dollar store on Joy Road near I-275.

Federal judge issues gag order in Jeremy Johnson criminal case by Tom Harvey The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 14, 2013 10:13AM MDT A federal judge has signed a gag order to prevent St. George businessman Jeremy Johnson and others involved in his criminal case from making statements about it to the news media or on social media. U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Warner signed the order requested by ...

A man convicted of killing his wife in a bathtub will not have his appeal heard by Ohio's top court.

A judge sided with the attorney general and ordered Golden Valley businessman to pay the state and dozens of customers by May 8.

A Denton native and former soap opera actor could face up to nine years in prison for selling cocaine.

JUNEAU – A 27-year-old man was sentenced to a year of incarceration after being found guilty of burglarizing Charlie Brown’s Tavern in June 2012.

Convicted killer Jodi Arias has pleaded with an Arizona jury to spare her the death penalty for the sake of her family and sentence her instead to life in prison for killing her ex-boyfriend.

A Blairsville man has pleaded guilty in federal court in Johnstown to a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, said U.S. Attorney David J. Hickton.

The Marked Tree School District Gifted and Talented Program has been very active this year from participating in Mock Trials to Stock Market Games. They have been involved in these competitions from...

A judge in L.A. says attorneys perpetrated a fraud on the courts.

Man pleaded guilty to defrauding elderly in Florida land deal

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Outgoing state Supreme Court Justice Paul Anderson says he's relieved the Legislature and not the courts made the call on same-sex marriage in Minnesota.

ROGER ALFORD Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The latest lawsuit filed in Kentucky ’s dispute over legislative redistricting calls for a three-judge panel to redraw political boundaries...

WEST MIDDLESEX, Pa. - A dozen parents or guardians of truant West Middlesex students found themselves in front of a Mercer County magistrate on Tuesday.