A former corrections officer has pleaded guilty to conspiring to bring contraband to the inmates at the Maury County jail in exchange for cash.

A former co-owner of Private Chiropractic Care in Bryan pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to conspiring to create fraudulent auto insurance claims totaling more than $3 million over a two-year pe

NEW YORK (TheDeal) -- Less than three weeks after issuing a report blaming former CEO Jon Corzine for the collapse of MF Global Holdings Ltd., the company's Chapter 11 trustee has sued the executive and two other board members. In a Monday, April 22, complaint, Chapter 11 trustee Louis Freeh of Pepper Hamilton LLP faulted Corzine, chief operating officer Bradley Abelow and former chief financial ...

A federal magistrate has ordered a western Pennsylvania man to remain in jail until he can stand trial on federal charges that he took a 13-year-old girl across state lines for sex.

A 58-year Missoula man admitted Wednesday to felony sexual assault of a child in Lewis and Clark County.

By Adam Brandolph, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Former Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin “should thank her lucky stars” that she isn’t being fitted for a prison jumpsuit, a legal expert said ...

Fannin County Criminal District Attorney Richard Glaser released a list of people who entered plea agreements with his office during the April dockets before Judge Charles Butler of the Fannin County Court-at-Law.

Jurors hear closing arguments in the rape and false imprisonment trial of an Albany man.

In celebration of their retirement and recognition of their ongoing service to Placer County, former Judge Larry Gaddis and his wife Kathleen Tucker, have provided

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hedge Fund Level Global Investors LP co-founder Anthony Chiasson was sentenced on Monday to 6-1/2 years in prison for insider trading. At a court hearing in Manhattan, U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan also ordered Chiasson, 39, to pay a $5 million fine. Chiasson and Todd Newman, a former hedge fund portfolio manager with the now-defunct hedge fund Diamondback Capital ...

Nuvilex, Inc. is a diamond in the rough in the truest sense. Currently shares of the Silver Spring, Maryland, biotechnology firm can be purchased for around 0.15/share allowing investors to build an incredible ...

Case could be first to allow polygraph exams as evidence in trial. 

The trial begins in the beating death of a Keeseville man.

On Sunday, May 26, Valhalla Auto Restoration & Fabrication is rolling out their master craftsman automotive restoration with classic muscle car such as “The Judge” Pontiac GTO, 1969 Camaro and 1965 Mustang as well as a completely custom 1948 Cadillac and a NCRS Top Flight Award-Winning 1968 Corvette. (PRWeb May 20, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10750903 ...

By Erin Geiger Smith NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "To Kill A Mockingbird," Harper Lee, on Friday sued her literary agent, claiming he tricked her into assigning the copyright on her book to him. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Manhattan against Samuel Pinkus, the son-in-law of Lee's long-time agent, Eugene Winick, who had represented her for more than 40 ...

California Attorney General Kamala Harris met with a new statewide taskforce of district attorneys Friday to study ways to reduce gun violence and enforce existing law.

KUSA - Years before suspected murderer Evan Ebel spent most of his prison time in isolation, he lived in isolation as a teenager at a camp for troubled teens on the Pacific island nation of Samoa, 9Wants to Know has learned.

Prosecutors have asked a federal appeals court to reinstate the death penalty sentence handed down to a man who killed three people in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.  

Officials say Posey met the victim at a party in 2010 and created ads on websites, uploaded nude photos of the teen and arranged for customers to have sex with her, then took half of the money.

A 23-year-old Williamstown man was sentenced to spend the next 16 years in prison for the deaths of two passengers in a drunken, high-speed crash on Dixie Highway in 2011.

Nearly 100 people were helped this week through the Ask a Lawyer Day program conducted in the 71st District Courtroom by local bar members.

The Ohio House of Representatives passed a bill to merge the Tiffin and Fostoria municipal courts.

Meet the Maltese Falcon -like gemstone that sparked a five-year storm of desire, political intrigue and crime

MISSOULA - A Missoula man who killed two of his friends and seriously injured another one in a March 2012 DUI crash will spend four years in the Montana Department of Corrections.

CANON CITY — The death of a 23-year-old inmate at Territorial prison last Thursday has been ruled a homicide.

ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) - The last two officials convicted of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux tribe in the Dakotas have been sentenced for their roles in the crime.

One of the CIA's highest-ranking women, who once ran a CIA prison in Thailand where terror suspects were waterboarded, has been bypassed for the agency's top spy job.

EASTON - Grammy-nominated rapper Tauheed Epps, also known as 2 Chainz, was found not guilty Wednesday in Talbot County District Court on marijuana charges stemming from a traffic stop on Feb. 14.

A Mississippi death row inmate is still scheduled to die Tuesday by lethal injection, despite the FBI admitting that expert evidence presented at his 1994 murder trial was “invalid.” Willie Jerome Manning, 44, is awaiting word from Gov. Phil Bryant or the state Supreme Court to stop his execution at Parchman State Penitentiary in northwest Mississippi. Manning was convicted of the 1992 shooting ...

Roy Kuhn, Sr. was released from prison in 2007 after serving time for unlawful sexual conduct with a minor.

The Men’s Legal Center are pleased to announce the launching of a new professional group on Linkedin.com. (PRWeb May 10, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/san-diego/divorce-lawyers/prweb10669992.htm

Citing staff safety concerns and the need to limit contraband such as drugs tucked into regular mail, Santa Clara County jail officials want all mail -- excluding correspondence from lawyers -- to be limited to postcards.

A fired state education official has pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of possession of child pornography.

Charles Cullen is in Somerset County Superior Court to plead guilty to killing one of his patients. / Asbury Park Press file photo For more information on the New Jersey Poison Information and Education System, visit www.njpies.org . The free hotline number is 800-222-1222.

Jim Thorpe Borough Council has voted to appeal a federal judge's order to relinquish the famed athlete's remains so they can be reinterred on American Indian land in Oklahoma.

It's supposed to be a user-friendly township court to help settle small claims. But 13 Investigates found a system some say is out of order and failing to deliver justice.

Two Arkansas abortion providers in Little Rock won a judge’s approval to proceed with a challenge to the constitutionality of a state law making it illegal with some exceptions to abort a pregnancy after 12 weeks.

California Attorney General Kamala Harris sued J.P.Morgan Chase & Co. (JPM) in state court on Thursday, claiming the bank has "run a massive debt collection mill that abuses the California judicial process."

CONCORD ? The New Hampshire Supreme Court Tuesday upheld the murder conviction of Christopher Gribble in the 2009 slaying of a Mont Vernon woman during a brutal home invasion involving three other young men.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Waynesville, Mo., couple has been indicted by a federal grand jury for their role in a nearly $414,000 conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Pulaski and Laclede counties.

In a unique case in which a city tried to redefine “majority” in a local election, a McDonough County Circuit Court judge has ruled that having the majority of votes means simply having more than half. Since February, the results of a city aldermanic race have been under dispute in the western Illinois city of Macomb. Western Illinois University student Steven Wailand, 20, ran for 2nd Ward ...