A man charged with murdering his wife in Boone last year walked free from jail this morning after a judge lowered his bail to $500,000 cash or surety.

Citing delays from numerous legal challenges, Wasatch Wind Intermountain, LLC is applying to the state Industrial Siting Council for an extension of the permit deadline for its proposed Pioneer Wind P

PHILADELPHIA, May 3 (UPI) -- The jury deciding the fate of Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell failed to reach a verdict Friday in his murder trial.

The former head of a Lenox school for troubled young women and his son and son-in-law are facing prison time and have agreed to pay back the state of Vermont and the U.S. government $3 million for what the U.S. Attorney's Office calls "egregious" tax and health care fraud connected to a Bennington, Vt., school they had operated.

Retired Marin County Superior Court Judge Henry J. "Hank" Broderick, who replaced slain judge Harold Haley on the Marin Superior Court bench and presided over the infamous San Quentin Six Trial, died May 7 at his home in San Rafael.

He gets nearly 22 years in attack, robbery of student.

The accused gunman who shot a Sioux City police officer during a traffic stop will stand trial Aug. 6.

A federal appeals court has ordered a new trial in a lawsuit filed by the family of a Texas soldier who was killed and others who were injured during a live-fire training exercise in Hawaii. The 9th U.S. ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A Minnesota judge has sentenced a Missouri man to life in prison without parole for the fatal shootings of a Brooklyn Park home day-care provider and her elderly parents last year.

A Mississippi man's house is uninhabitable after investigators searched it but failed to find evidence of the deadly poison ricin, a lawyer said Monday, arguing that the government should repair the home.

RALEIGH, NC (WWAY) -- A Chadbourn man was sentenced in federal court to 360 months behind bars, following five years supervised release, more than two years after a violent crime. John Moore, 22, was convicted in December 2010 of carjacking, and possession of a firearm during a federal crime of violence. According to evidence presented at trial, on March 1, 2010, Moore broke into a residence in ...

A former Kaysville teacher and basketball coach has been ordered to stand trial on 11 felonies.

Richard Earl Witcher Jr. of Gloucester, was sentenced to 18 years in prison Friday for the 2011 murder of Karen Kay Kelly.

The Law Offices of Elizabeth R. Wellborn, P.A. today announced that Jacob Linhart joined the firm as litigation managing attorney. With nearly 30 years of legal experienc

A registered sex offender is headed to prison after pleading guilty to capital murder in the death of a Central Texas woman, whose granddaughter was raped.

Charging documents filed in a violent northern Nevada crime spree accuse a 25-year-old man of killing an elderly couple in their home ahead of Mother's Day then slaying a newspaper deliveryman and another couple nearby days later.

A former Boy Scout volunteer from southwestern Illinois has begun serving a six-year prison sentence for sexually molesting boys in his family.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Fired West Virginia Schools Superintendent Jorea Marple will get her day in court about one year from now. In an order filed Thursday, U.S. District Judge Thomas E. Johnston scheduled her lawsuit against the state Board of Educat...

(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren). Soldiers assisting with communications and security tasks stand outside the building at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., where the court-martial for U.S.

An ex-NFL player “secretly” turned himself in because of child abuse allegations three days after being cut by his former team. New York Giants linebacker Michael Boley surrendered to authorities in Alabama on Feb. 8 and was charged with child abuse.   After pleading guilty to charges as part of a plea deal, Boley was entered into a pre-trial diversion program. Under the terms of the agreement ...

One of the accused killers of a Brevard County Sheriff’s Deputy is expected to be back in court toda

Baker & McKenzie LLP will merge with United Arab Emirates 40-lawyer law firm Habib Al Mulla on July 1, to create Baker & McKenzie Habib Al Mulla. The firm will advise clients on local and international law in its Dubai offices and, with regulatory approval, in Abu Dhabi.

Two inmates have been indicted in the 2011 killing of a fellow prisoner at the federal penitentiary in Atlanta.

ST. LOUIS (AP) - A Missouri Court of Appeals has restored $28 million in punitive damages to the families of five people who died in the crash of a skydiving plane shortly after takeoff from a rural Missouri airport.

A Batavia woman has been sentenced to prison for being under the influence of alcohol when she crashed her car after she drove her child to school late last year. Jeanette Baum, 32, of the 0-99 block of North Lincoln Avenue, Batavia, was sentenced Friday by Kane County Circuit Judge John A. Barsanti to four years in the Illinois Department of Corrections. On Jan. 4, 2013, Baum pleaded guilty to ...

A jury has sentenced a Kentucky man who was retried for the killing of a young Knoxville, Tenn. couple.

Winkler County attorney Steve Taliaferro found himself on the other side of the law after he was indicted on Tuesday on charges of soliciting a prostitute and official oppression.

A South Dakota teenager accused of sexually abusing girls at his mother's home day care has been sentenced.

MOUNT HOLLY — The Burlington County Jail is open for business and soon could accept up to 75 inmates a day from nearby Gloucester County, bringing with them the potential for millions of dollars in ne

Property owners in Haackensack who sued the city to stop a Main Street redevelopment plan that could have subjected them to eminent domain welcomed news that a court overturned a decision in the city's favor.

A Las Cruces man sentenced to two life prison terms for the 1979 killings of his wife and three stepchildren will be eligible for parole later this year, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday in a decades-old legal fight waged by the inmate.

Members of the Community Relations Board for the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth heard Thursday about a system used to track information about federal inmates.

A former staff member of the state House was sentenced Monday, April 22, to five years in prison for his conviction on 12 counts of possessing child pornography.

WCAX-TV reporter Matt Henson, 31, was suspended from work after Lyndonville police say he groped a Lyndon State College student in March. Henson, seen here earlier this year, denied two criminal charges Monday in Vermont Superior Court in St. Johnsbury.

An Arizona man who became a fugitive rather than go on trial in two assault cases now faces 7½ years in prison after being apprehended a decade later.

Lawbeat: 4th balk could land sales tax deadbeat in prison In November 2012, Popolizio pleaded guilty to one count of felony criminal tax fraud in exchange for a sentence of one to three years behind bars. [...] the case has been adjourned on dates in January, February and April. In January 2012, underweight dogs were seized from Popolizio's South Side breeding kennel in the town of Worcester ...

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.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A couple of weeks before her ex-husband agreed to sell the Los Angeles Dodgers, Jamie McCourt reached a divorce settlement that gave her $131 million tax-free... Read more »

A 27-year-old Richmond man was convicted in federal court Thursday in connection to an armed robbery at a Walgreens in Hampton in August.        

Criminal judge first on the stand in Granger trial Beaumont Enterprise Copyright 2013 Beaumont Enterprise. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 11:15 am, Monday, April 22, 2013 Granger previously was charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child, a trial which was in recess on March 14, 2012, when a gunman opened fire on ...

Pennsylvania judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. has been sentenced to almost three decades in jail after conspiring with private prisons to trade kids for cash. In the private prison industry, longer sentences earn more money from the state. Since 2003, Ciavarella received millions of dollars in bribes for condemning minors to maximum prison sentences. In one case, Ciavarella sentenced a 10-year-old to ...