The man convicted of killing four people in Minot two years ago has been sentenced to life in prison. Northwest District Judge Doug Mattson sentenced Omar Kalmio Tuesday morning for the murders of Sabrina

DNA SAMPLING & IOWA: Legislation to expand DNA sampling of people convicted of certain crimes was approved by the Iowa Senate on Wednesday, although it sparked an passionate debate in which opponents contended civil liberties are being eroded in the fight against crime.

The jury that will decide Brett Parker's fate has heard less than two days of testimony -- a fraction of the case lined up by prosecutors trying to put him in prison for life.

SHERMAN, TX -- A man accused of cheating homeowners in Sherman and Cooke County has been sentenced for the crimes.

MT. VERNON — An Iowa man accused of two vehicle carjackings earlier this year entered a negotiated guilty plea in Jefferson Circuit Court on Tuesday, and has been sentenced to 20 years to the Illinois Department of Corrections. The plea was entered

PASADENA - District attorney's officials Wednesday honored two Monterey Park men who took on a hammer-wielding robber, a Claremont woman who chased and helped capture a burglar who broke into her neighbor's home and a Palmdale man who helped capture a man who was attacking his girlfriend in Sunland.

Judge finds Utah chemist did not give away secret information by Brooke Adams The Salt Lake Tribune Published Apr 29, 2013 06:52PM MDT A case of alleged industrial espionage collapsed after a federal judge found information a former chemist for a Logan company sent to a brother-in-law who worked for a competing company was publicly available and did not constitute trade secrets. U.S. District ...

Judge Nancy Torresen tells Thomas Nelson, who stole $900,000, 'I consider this crime shameful.'

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.'

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.

VIRGINIA BEACH Police are looking for a former martial arts instructor accused of sexually abusing one of his students. Brian Lee Trial, 34, is wanted on charges of forcible sodomy and indecent liberties with a child. He is believed to be on the run, police said.

NORFOLK The jury in a civil lawsuit over strip searches at the Portsmouth City Jail handed Sheriff Bill Watson a big victory Wednesday by deciding that the workers suing him could not collect damages because they agreed to be searched.  

Posted April 29, 2013, at 3 p.m. Last modified April 29, 2013, at 5:14 p.m. ROCKLAND, Maine — A 37-year-old Tenants Harbor man accused of shooting a dog in the head because it defecated on his floor is being held without bail after his arrest Saturday evening.

NEW YORK — A Harvard Medical School research assistant who has served as a U.S. judge for 23 years now finds herself at the center of the Boston Marathon bombing case, and by extension the post-Sept. 11 issue of whether, and when, suspected terrorists deserve constitutional rights.

This is the world Robert Mendez grew up in: Inner city. Father dead by the time he was 5. Stepfather in and out of prison. Family struggling to make ends meet.

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.

A former northern Illinois comptroller sentenced this year for stealing nearly $54 million from her community has been transferred to a federal jail in downtown Chicago.

By Sharon Bernstein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California Governor Jerry Brown, under court order to produce a plan to ease overcrowding in state prisons, pointed to plans to reopen two closed facilities and move some inmates to camps, but otherwise defiantly rapped a three-judge panel for the "intrusiveness" of the case. Brown's filing stopped short of laying out precisely how the most populous U ...

JACKSON, Mississippi (Reuters) - A Mississippi inmate is facing execution on Tuesday despite an admission last week by federal authorities that statements made during his 1994 murder trial about a hair sample pushed the limits of science and were 'invalid'.        

New York : A Jersey City man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for targeting Indian-American families for their high-quality jewellery in a series of home break-ins in 2009.

The former Moreno Valley school board member still faces trial on other charges stemming from a 2012 shooting incident in front of his home

WASHINGTON, May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, said today that it plans to file a complaint against a Minnesota judge who inappropriately questioned defendants on their religious beliefs and equated mainstream Islamic principles with terrorism.Before sentencing two Muslim ...

Kentucky women’s basketball junior DeNesha Stallworth is one of 31 top student-athletes in the country who have accepted invitations to participate in the 2013 USA Basketball Women’s World University Games Team trials. Trials will take place May 16-19 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center (USOTC) in Colorado Springs, Colo., and the USA Basketball Junior National Team Committee issued the ...

A federal court in Houston has rejected an FBI request for a warrant to hack into the computer of a suspect in an attempted cyberheist. In, a sometimes testy, 13-page ruling earlier this week, U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Smith of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas characterized the government’s request as overly intrusive and infringing on Fourth Amendment protections ...

The female suspect of three Salem business armed robberies was arrested earlier this week in Fresno, Calif., Salem Police said Wednesday. More: Crimes and Courts page

Texas chiropractor convicted of patient sex abuse MCKINNEY, Texas (AP) — A North Texas chiropractor has been convicted of five counts of sexual abuse of female patients during examinations. The penalty phase begins Wednesday for 44-year-old David Allen Russell of McKinney. He faces up to life in prison. Investigators say some of the victims were teenagers. A Collin County jury Tuesday night ...

By Bernard Vaughan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Level Global Investors LP fund manager Anthony Chiasson on Monday was sentenced to 6-1/2 years in prison for insider trading, a penalty that the judge in the case said was intended to deter others in the financial industry from similar conduct. U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan also ordered the former hedge fund manager to pay a $5 million fine ...

MOUNT HOPE — A Fayette County pill dealer who sold approximately 250 powerful prescription painkillers over a two-year period pleaded guilty Monday to federal drug charges in U.S. District Court in Charleston.

Sydney, May 7 (IANS) Prosecutors have filed in an Australian court for a fresh trial of a former Indian origin surgeon in a hospital in that country for causing grievous bodily harm to a patient.

A former Clackamas County elections employee accused of ballot tampering pleaded guilty on Thursday and was sentenced to 90 days in jail.

Louisiana's Department of Transportation and Development has begun the process of decommissioning the Crescent City Connection toll plaza. Meanwhile, refunds are being issued to drivers with money left in their toll tag accounts.

In March of 2013, James K. Galloway, age 61, plead guilty to five counts of Class C Felony Home Improvement Fraud and three counts of Class D Felony Home Improvement Fraud.

BOSTON (AP) — Paula Carey, head of the probate court division, was named Monday to lead the state's trial court at a time when the judicial system in Massachusetts continues to reel from the effects of a drug testing scandal involving a former state chemist.        

A Boulder attorney is wading into a touchy new area of legal ethics as he champions a cybertool — YouTube — for attorneys who want to take their cases beyond the courtroom and into the court of public opinion.

Local Republicans in Congress condemned President Barack Obama's renewed commitment to close the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, freshening their own arguments against transferring detainees and putting Americans in harm's way.

The Pentagon is asking Congress for more than US$450 million (NZ$540m) for maintaining and upgrading the Guantanamo Bay prison that President Barack Obama wants to close.

"What can you do when you are ordered to hold ten pounds of sand in a two pound bag? You release eight pounds of sand," the district attorney said.

This August 19, 2010 file photo provided by the Mohave County Sheriff's Office shows John Charles McCluskey. An Arizona prisoner who is accused of killing a couple in New Mexico is seeking to have a key piece of DNA thrown out.

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.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A drifter previously convicted of killing and beheading hikers in Florida and Georgia was sentenced Thursday to four additional life sentences in federal prison for kidnapping and murdering a North Carolina couple in a national forest.

Robert Gregory Dempsey, also known as "Jesse Rockwell," was indicted Monday by a federal grand jury in Jackson, Tenn., on one count of possession of child pornography and one count of interstate transportation of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III said.