Two terrorism suspects charged with plotting to derail a VIA passenger train, in what police are calling a “Al Qaeda-sponsored” attack with alleged ties to Iran, will appear in court Tuesday morning.

A 56-year-old Marshall, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations

Hundreds of Native American children are taken from their families every year in South Dakota through state and tribal court actions meant to protect youngsters from abuse and neglect.

GUATEMALA CITY -- When the trial of Guatemalan General and former de facto head of state José Efraín Ríos Montt and his then chief of intelligence José Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez began on March 19, 2013, I was in Washington D.C., working with NewsHour correspondent Miles O’Brien on some new science reporting projects in a shared office. The first time I went to Guatemala was around 1989, during ...

BOSTON - Democratic leaders today put a quick stop to a move to reinstate the death penalty in Massachusetts, rejecting a House budget amendment containing a death penalty measure first proposed by former Gov. Mitt Romney in 2005.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - A federal appeals court in New York says a jury should be allowed to decide a New Jersey woman's claim that she was fired from a financial services company because she objected to being ...

Findlay and Fostoria residents and former IHOP restaurant employees were sentenced this week to two years of probation for identity theft charges involving illegal immigrants. The operation involved the former Findlay IHOP at 7777 Hancock County 236.

Lawyers and supporters for the California Innocence Project are walking 660 miles from San Diego to Sacramento, California, to personally deliver clemency petitions to Governor Jerry Brown for the release of the California 12, a dozen inmates who have strong cases of factual innocence. Follow their progress on TakePart.

MORGANTOWN — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had the legal authority to retroactively veto a water pollution permit for one of West Virginia’s largest mountaintop removal coal mines years after it was issued, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

A man from Mexico has pleaded not guilty to a major pot growing operation in Washington County. 52-year-old Moises Soto appeared in federal court in Bangor Wednesday and agreed to be held without bail until his trial. He was arrested in Texas last month. Drug agents say in September of . . .

WARREN, Mich. (AP) - Lester Stiggers has been a wanted man for 43 years, but he hasn't been hiding. Since the convicted murderer fled prison in Arkansas in 1970, he has been a quirk of justice, living openly in Michigan while considered a fugitive elsewhere.

TEXOMA -- The nation's highest court is preparing to consider whether a North Texas water district should have access to water supplies in southeastern Oklahoma.

Marcus Bebb-Jones who pleaded guilty to killing his wife and dumping her body in western Colorado in 1997 has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

It's too early to judge new Temple football coach Matt Rhule as an in-game tactician. But as a recruiter, Rhule is stocking the Owls with Big Ten- and Atlantic Coast Conference-caliber talent.

A 19-year-old man from Arkansas could face up to 15 years in prison after admitting to stealing a car and using it to run down three joggers in Cape Girardeau, Mo.

By Liz Zemba, Tribune-Review A civil trial in which a Florida woman is seeking $400,000 in damages she claims a gas-well operation caused to her property began on Tuesday ...

The United States' Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organisations gather the news.

Monterey County prosecutors and public defenders struck a deal that would bar news media and the public from obtaining murder suspect Christopher Sorenson's mental health trial transcripts — despite a judge's earlier ruling granting access to the records.

Former Preston County Animal Shelter Manager Courtney Austin and her attorney filed a lawsuit Friday in the United States District Court for the northern district of West Virginia.

A man accused of robbing a South Side Bank branch late last summer appeared in Peoria's federal court on Wednesday.

The man convicted of killing a Georgia National Guardsman a year ago has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.

WHEELING, W.Va. -- A Virginia woman charged with embezzling more than $1 million in horse racing funds from a West Virginia casino and racetrack is getting her day in court.The trial of Reva resident Anita Ambler begins Tuesday in U.S. District Court in ...

A former West Virginia sheriff was ordered into federal custody Monday and will spend a year in prison for his role in the 2010 beating of a bank robber after a high-speed chase.

When a convicted murderer is paroled from prison, where does he go?

SANFORD, Fla., May 14 (UPI) -- Prosecutors trying a Florida man for killing unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin have asked a judge to block certain testimony about Martin's past.

CROWN POINT | Prison inmates on the path to re-entering their communities and the job market will have more than 700 pieces of "gently used" professional clothing to choose from, thanks to the Lake County Bar Association and local businesswomen.

Former Broward Circuit Judge Ana Gardiner should be disbarred, not just suspended, for her misconduct during a capital murder trial in 2007, the Florida Bar argued in a brief filed to the state Supreme Court this week.        

Rushville, Ontario County - John Stenzel was sentenced to 1-3 years in prison and will have to pay over $20,000 to the victim.

The city of Sanford is making final preparations for the George Zimmerman trial, which residents say is a critical moment for their city. Residents tell Local 6 the Zimmerman trial goes beyond 17-year-old Trayvon Martin's death and that a lot is on the line with Zimmerman's fate. [VIDEO: Sanford pastors react] "Quite a bit has been going on in Sanford and there are a lot of people that are angry ...

In a reversal, the state Supreme Court has decided to hear arguments that Virginia Tech's president should be put on trial for his actions during the April 16, 2007, campus massacre RICHMOND, Va. (AP) --

TRENTON — A New Jersey appeals court says the state government cannot seize towns' affordable housing money until broader legal issues are determined.

A Ridgeland teenager was arrested at the Rankin County prison for allegedly trying to bring marijuana into the facility while visiting a family member.

The Supreme Court of Virginia is considering whether judges have a right to kick television cameras out of the courtroom without giving a reason, a controversy that stems from last year's high-profile murder trial of University of Virginia lacrosse player George Huguely V.

About 50 people have protested outside a Guatemala prison against the genocide conviction for former dictator Efrain Rios Montt.

Testimony deals with activity on defendant’s phone, as well as a conversation several days before triple killing.

LEWISTON — The U.S. Attorney’s Office honored the Lewiston Police Department, Lewiston Patrolman Ryan Rawstron, the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, the Central Maine Violent Crime Task Force and others involved in the nearly yearlong Project Hot Spot during a formal ceremony in Portland on Wednesday.

A man who claimed to be the ex-lover of Liberace pled guilty Wednesday in Washoe District Court to two counts of burglary and use of personal identification of another person.

Is Trayvon Martin shouting for help on a 911 call, or are the screams actually the voice of defendant George Zimmerman? A Tuesday court filing offered new clues to the strategy that Zimmerman’s attorney Mark O’Mara will take when the Sanford, Florida trial in the killing of 17-year-old Martin begins on June 10. In the [...] Trayvon Martin Shouts Filing Hints At New Zimmerman Defense Strategy is ...

A Merrill man stabbed his wife seven times, tried to strangle her and then hid her body in some woods near Medford following a discussion about the couple getting divorced, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

Former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin is scheduled to appear before a judge to be resentenced on campaign corruption charges.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A man accused of taking a baseball bat to his girlfriend’s head in a Liberty motel room...