Seth Penalver was acquitted last year, 12 years after being sentenced to death in a triple murder case If he could talk to Gov. Rick Scott, Seth Penalver would have one simple question.        

A Sacramento judge Monday refused to stop a strike today by thousands of employees at the UC Davis Medical Center and four other UC hospitals – but ordered a limited number of critical care employees to stay on the job.

Judge Ed Klein sentenced a 42-year-old Nacogdoches man to 12 months in state prison Thursday for driving drunk with children under the age of 15 in the car in December 2012.

SANTA CRUZ -- Three days before being sent off to prison for the rest of his life, Maurice Ainsworth Jr. was complaining about his tableware.

ALLENWOOD, Pa. (AP) - A second inmate has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a fellow inmate at a federal prison in central Pennsylvania 8½ years ago.

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.

A judge has sentenced a former New Jersey state trooper who led a high-speed escort of luxury sports cars to one year of probation.

Washington, DC – The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that Judge Daniel Hurley of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida entered supplemental consent Orders against Defendants Philip Milton of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, and Trade, LLC , based in Palm Spring Gardens, Florida, requiring Milton to pay restitution of more than $10.8 million and ...

New criminal sentencing guidelines for Indiana kick in next year to try and reduce state prison costs.

The Kentucky man whose impromptu, roadside confession exposed an alleged Lowcountry murder-for-hire plot has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation to see if he is competent to stand trial.

A 23-year-old Iowa man has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for receiving child pornography.

Zhou & Chini completes Aliso Viejo page for their California bankruptcy information website for the purpose of educating locals. Everyone should know the laws before filing for personal bankruptcy, and the new city page helps explain the different Chapters of bankruptcy and court information to help individuals seeking bankruptcy protection. (PRWeb May 07, 2013) Read the full story at http ...

GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) -- Don't judge the New York Rangers by the scores of their two losses to the Boston Bruins.

A Delaware County middle school principal pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to owning as many as 300 pornographic images of children.

NASHUA – After 22 years on the run, the Nashua man who jumped $50,000 bail and disappeared the night before a jury convicted him of beating to death his 2-year-old stepson has reportedly been arrested, convicted and sentenced on related charges,  according to the FBI. Senior Special Agent Kieran Ramsey said Thursday night that more details about the capture of Steven Kamberidis, who was 23 ...

By Mark Waite Fifth District Judge Kimberly Wanker Tuesday denied a request to consolidate two lawsuits over the Blagg Road closure, one filed by the county, the other by local business owners. She didn’t issue a ruling on requests for summary judgments by a handful of attorneys representing firms involved in the Blagg Road project,[...]

A Level 3 sex offender from the Finger Lakes is in jail in Genesee County, charged with molesting underage boys in that county from the late 1990s until the present.

LA PORTE COUNTY — A petition filed in Lake County Circuit Court seeks to move forward in a civil case against La Porte County prosecutor Robert C. Szilagyi.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A federal appeals court denied a request to block the use of a helicopter to haze wild bison as officials in southwestern Montana wrapped up the annual drive of the animals back i

(The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher, Pool). Jodi Arias looks at her family on Monday, May 20, 2013 during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Ariz.

WASHINGTON -- The FBI is investigating potential civil rights violations at the Internal Revenue Service after the agency acknowledged the agency had singled out conservative groups for extra scrutiny, Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday.

A federal judge sentenced a Kenton County man Monday to 59 years in prison for kidnapping an elderly woman at gunpoint in 2011 at a Northern Kentucky shopping center and later that year robbing a Covington bank.

The obstacles facing Kobe Bryant no longer consist of healing from a torn left Achilles’ tendon. Lately, it involves something far more suffocating than navigating a double team. Bryant’s mother, Pamela, and father, Joe, filed statements in federal court in Camden, NJ. on Monday suggesting the Lakers’ star has lied during his recent efforts to Pamela’s hope [...]

MARYLAND has become the 18th US state to abolish the death penalty, which will be replaced by life in prison without parole.        

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart is proposing a county concealed-carry ordinance if lawmakers in Springfield can't come up with a statewide law. A federal court has ruled Illinois' ban on the public possession of firearms is unconstitutional and gave the state until June 9 to come up with a concealed-carry law. But the Chicago Sun-Times reports that Dart worries that if lawmakers don't come up with ...

A Grandview, MO man who is a registered sex offender pleaded guilty in federal court to receiving child pornography over the Internet.

"The sad part is, they had a designated driver and decided not to use her. So, it's just a very, very sad case for both families," the woman's lawyer says.

One of the lead contractors on Central Maine Power Co.'s transmission line upgrade has filed a lawsuit seeking at least $43 million from the utility for what it says are work changes that cost extra time and money. Hawkeye LLC of Hauppauge, N.Y., charges in the suit filed in federal court in Por . . .

The woman Wayne County Circuit Judge Wade McCree admitted to having an affair with while he presided over her child custody case testified today that she is pregnant and said the judge asked her to terminate her pregnancy.

Montgomery County commissioners voted their support for a second federal prison in Conroe, but the facility didn’t receive a ringing endorsement from at least one county resident.

Kobe Bryant, the All-Star basketball guard, won a judge’s order that temporarily blocks a New Jersey auctioneer from selling memorabilia that has been held by his mother.

By Adam Brandolph, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Former state Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin’s new sentence will be more difficult for an appellate court to overturn, criminal defense attorneys said on ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - 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.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- An open door into a small-town storage unit last month raised a window into Robert Michael Milton’s private world. Now the 49-year-old is in Mecklenburg County Jail, accused of masterminding a three-year scheme that stole more than $600,000 from Walmart stores in three states, and put scores of investigators – including one from the Department of Homeland Security – on his ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) -- The battle to stop the expansion of a northern West Virginia surface mine is headed for the state Supreme Court. The Sierra Club is appealing a circuit court ruling that favored

The California Supreme Court has declined the appeal of a former Fullerton police officer, which means he'll face trial in the death of a homeless man.

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit that claimed the state of Minnesota was wrongfully charged for more than 37,000 abortions for indigent women.

A federal judge in Orange County this week punished a Vietnam War refugee--who eventually became an accomplished U.S. Secret Service (USSS) special agent assigned to protect former First Lady Na...

Laura Aven, 45, was granted a $2,500 bond and ordered not to use alcohol or possess any unprescribed drugs.

(Reuters) - Imprisoned Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel took the stand in a Connecticut courtroom on Thursday in his latest bid to have his murder conviction for the 1975 killing of a Greenwich teenager thrown out, according to news reports. Skakel's testimony came during a wrongful imprisonment trial in Vernon, Connecticut, before a state judge, who will decide whether to grant him a new trial on ...

On the last day of the legislative session, the chief justice of the state Supreme Court has thrown out recall petitions filed against two DFL House members over their support for legalizing gay marriage.