Sentencing for former Box Elder County deputy postponed by Marissa Lang The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 8, 2013 11:55AM MDT Brigham City • Sentencing has been postponed for a former Box Elder County sheriff’s deputy accused of sexually assaulting women during a series of traffic stops. Scott Womack, 37, was scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday in 1st District Court, where he has pleaded no ...

Sentencing is set for a Virginia man convicted of throwing pipe bombs at police officers during a chase in Montana.

AZTEC — A Kirtland man who was convicted and served a prison sentence for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl was allowed to take back his guilty plea because he didn't know the plea could result in his deportation.

A follow-up on the recent high speed chase near Bozeman that ended with a woman in jail -- now one of her suspected partners faces more charges.

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A former DeSoto Parish School Board member was sentenced to prison on drug charges, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District in Shreveport announced on Tuesday.

A Palm Beach Gardens man has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for a bank robbery spree in north Palm Beach County in late 2012 and early 2013, Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, said in a release.        

SALEM — A homeless man was sentenced to 15 to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to raping a woman in an elevator at the Central Square MBTA commuter rail station in 2010.

NORMAN — A Colorado man was sentenced to 177 years in prison Tuesday in Cleveland County District Court after pleading guilty to nearly 20 charges, including first-degree rape and several sexual assaults on Norman college students over a 15-year span.

DAVENPORT, Iowa -- A Minnesota man has been sentenced to one year of probation for obstructing a federal prosecutor in Iowa after his son was sent to prison in an animal terrorism case.

(AP Photo). This Saturday, May 11, 2013 photo, provided by the lawyer of Dimyana Abdel-Nour, shows Abdel-Nour, 24, a Coptic Christian teacher, in a courtroom in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor, Egypt.

Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday that his decision to remove himself from the Justice Department investigation into a leak that led it to surreptitiously collect telephone records from the Associated Press leaves him unable to respond to questions about it.

In a unanimous decision, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals affirmed the murder verdict returned by a Monroe County jury in December 2011 against James R.L. Meadows.

The father-in-law of missing Utah mother Susan Powell won't be released from prison Thursday, the Washington state Corrections Department said.

Describing a massive fraud involving the enforcement of copyrights to pornography, a federal judge has referred four attorneys to licensing authorities for possible misconduct and to federal prosecutors for possible criminal violations of the U.S. Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. The ruling marked the most severe sanction to emerge from nearly 1,000 suits filed against ...

A jovial O.J. Simpson took the stand in a Las Vegas courtroom today in his bid to win a new trial, more than four years after he was sent to prison on kidnapping and armed robbery convictions.        

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A federal court has sentenced two Minnesota women to lengthy prison sentences for soliciting donations in the name of charity, then funneling the funds to Somali militants.

PHOENIX (AP) - The next phase of the Jodi Arias murder trial was postponed Thursday and will continue next week. Court officials didn't provide a reason for the delay. The trial will resume Wednesday.

HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane told a gathering of newspaper editors Friday that she opposes legislation to legalize marijuana because users often move on to harder drugs.

LEWISTON — A budget crisis threatening to force the early release of convicted criminals, layoffs of jail guards and even the closure of some Maine jails is headed to the governor's office.

James Dorset and Lana Seiler have discussed setting up an International Mentorship program for the past year. This semester, they are finally running a trial session.

By Jane Chung SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Saturday that a Korean-American tourist, jailed by the reclusive state since late last year, will face trial for "committing crimes" against the North. The move comes amid a diplomatic standoff between North Korea and the United States, and as Pyongyang has threatened to attack U.S. military bases in the Pacific and the South. A number of U.S ...

The Indiana Court of Appeal has upheld a Evansville man's conviction in the fatal stabbing of his 15-year-old stepdaughter.

A U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals judge ruled on Wednesday that Oregon's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. The case was not a direct appeal of the ban, but Judge Harry Pregerson expounded at length on its illegitimacy.

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Mott "surprised me and thrilled me. ... I lusted after that woman. I'm in my middle 50s and she's a double dozen years my junior," McCree, 56, said. 

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Since he fled prison in Arkansas in'70, Lester Stiggers, a convicted murderer, has been a quirk of justice, living openly in one state while wanted in another.

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A judge in Oregon noticed an unexpected glow on a juror’s chest while the courtroom lights were dimmed during video evidence in an armed-robbery trial.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's Cyber Crimes Unit arrested Gonzales resident John Raymond Williams, 53, on Wednesday for child pornography possession.

You can't judge the hiring of a coach based on one season, let alone half of an offseason. But you can say, 'so far, so good.'

EDGERTON, MO. — Two of three inmates who walked away from a northeast Kansas prison surrendered Friday afternoon at a northwest Missouri home where they had been holed up for hours, authorities said.

On the 50th anniversary of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brady v. Maryland , in which the justices ruled that prosecutors are obligated to provide defendants with exculpatory evidence "material either to guilt or to punishment," the Texas House tentatively approved two bills meant to prevent wrongful convictions.

As Canada girds for the terror trial of two alleged al-Qaeda plotters, the law of conspiracy will be put to its highest-profile test since the Toronto 18 prosecutions

Residents report scammer has been contacting them on private line claiming to be attorneys and even local police officers.

Michael Jackson's mother sat in court Thursday as a police detective testified that she told him the family had tried drug interventions for the singer, believing he was addicted to painkillers.

Federal prisoners can request compassionate release if they are terminally ill, but a recent investigation found that many die while their requests drift through the system. Now, prison leaders say they will simplify the approval process and start tracking requests electronically.

Chief Judge Ann Callis bade farewell Monday to the Circuit Clerk employees and the security personnel at the Madison County Courthouse.

An inmate who escaped form the Jackie Brannon Correctional Center in McAlester got more prison time added to his sentence.

By The Associated Press, The Associated Press BOZEMAN, Mont. — Billionaire Ted Turner can keep his Yellowstone National Park bison calves. The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported on Sunday that Gallatin County Judge ...