Evan Ebel forced a 22-year-old Commerce City woman to buy him the handgun he used to kill Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements in March, the woman's attorney said Tuesday.

The starting date of the criminal trial for former Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer has been postponed from July 2 until Oct. 22.

A man who attempted to smuggle heroin through Dulles Airport has been found guilty and is facing a recommended sentence of 15 years.

MOUNDSVILLE - The city is bracing for the impact of nearly a thousand members of law enforcement and corrections technology from around the world flooding the area for the 17th annual Mock Prison Riot this week at the former West Virginia...

HARLAN (AP) — The trial is beginning for a former eastern Kentucky pastor facing counts of rape and other charges involving a girl younger than 14. The Harlan Daily Enterprise reports the procee...

CHICAGO (AP) — In a rare move for terror cases, a federal judge agreed Thursday to release on home confinement an Illinois teenager charged with seeking to travel abroad and join an al-Qaida-linked militant group in war-torn Syria.

Police halt Oregon search for Susan Powell’s remains by Nate Carlisle The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 16, 2013 10:30AM MDT Having found no sign of the missing Utah wife and mother, police have ended the search in rural Oregon for the remains of Susan Powell, according to Portland station KATU. West Valley City police, who had been leading the search, have not issued any further statement as ...

Jodi Arias points to her family as a reason for the jury to give her a life in prison sentence instead of the death penalty on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix.

Many of the defendants pursued by Brian Bash and his team have few, if any, assets. And those that do have the wherewithal to fight litigation for years.

NEW BRUNSWICK — The leader of a violent Perth Amboy-based drug network linked to the Netas street gang has pleaded guilty to racketeering before a Middlesex County judge.

Fourth checked in but did no work in petition fraud probation, authorities say FARGO - Three of the 15 people who pleaded guilty to petition fraud charges in Cass County last fall - all three of them former North Dakota State University football players - failed to complete the community service required by their probation agreements, authorities allege in court records.

Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange's office announced Friday the arrest of the state's former Chief Agent for Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center (ACJIC) on numerous felony charges.

A judge on Tuesday set a May 21 court date for a woman accused of buying the gun that police say Evan Ebel used to kill Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements.

SYCAMORE — A judge declined to reduce bond Tuesday for a former Northern Illinois University student awaiting a second trial for allegedly shooting another student in the leg in February 2010.

Judge did not provide timeframe for when ruling will be given but said landmark federal trial is 'timely and pressing matter' Civil rights attorneys called for sweeping changes to the New York City police department's controversial street-stop practices in the closing arguments of a landmark federal trial. US district court judge Shira Scheindlin will now determine if the nation's largest police ...

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) -- A West Virginia man accused of gunning down Mingo County Sheriff Eugene Crum plans to ask a judge for bail June 17. Tennis Melvin Maynard also faces a tentative Oct. 21 trial.

By CHRIS MENEES Staff Reporter A man charged in the brutal stabbing of a Union City woman was sentenced to 12 years in prison after pleading to a lesser charge Friday in Obion County Circuit Court.

A school news release says 17-year-old Robert Kane Rolison was arrested Thursday night and is now in the Bleckley County jail.

Throughout Western New York, Nushawn Williams has been known for 16 years as a sexual predator who infected young women with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

An overzealous Jennifer Lawrence fan has been jailed after showing up outside the actress' home in Kentucky and sending her brother a threatening message.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Uzbekistan national living in Idaho has made his first court appearance on charges he gave support, cash and other resources to help a recognized terrorist group in his own country.        

Hulk Hogan has won a major battle in the war over his sex tape. A judge has ordered Gawker to remove their heavily-edited minute-long clip of the half-hour tape, as well as the (brilliant) article framing it, and hundreds of reader comments. Gawker’s response to the legal order? F— you. Let’s rewind. Last year, Hulk filed a [...] Gawker Refuses Court’s Hulk Hogan Sex Tape Post Take-Down Order is ...

The trustee for a bankrupt Montana power cooperative is challenging in federal court a claim for $46 million from banks that financed a little-used natural gas power plant near Great Falls. The outcome ...

An insurance salesman and purported financial adviser has been sentenced to serve up to 10 years in a New Jersey state prison for defrauding 20 clients out of nearly $1.5 million. read more

Statistics compiled by the Colorado Springs Police Department show the number of crimes committed by young people in Colorado Springs has declined in recent years. KRDO NewsChannel 13 analyzed CSPD's annual crime reports dating back to 2005. The number of reported incidents dropped from 4,790 to 4,565 incidents between 2005 and 2006. From 2006 to 2008, juvenile crime increased by about 100 ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Millions of Indiana drivers may have been overcharged when they renewed or obtained a license at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. The claim was made in a class action lawsuit filed Thursday morning in Marion County Superior Court. The suit was filed by Irwin Levin, managing partner of the Indianapolis law firm Cohen and Malad. It alleges that the state’s Bureau of Motor ...

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana -- A federal judge has agreed to postpone the trial of a former BP executive charged with concealing information from Congress about the amount of oil that was leaking from the company's blown-out well in the Gulf...

A federal judge on Friday ordered a preliminary injunction blocking an Arkansas law that would ban abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy, a court official told CNN on Friday.

A retired photographer accused of the serial “Alphabet murders” in California went on trial on Monday acting as his own attorney, joining prosecutors in picking jurors who will decide whether he is guilty of slaying four prostitutes.

The trial of an Albuquerque youth charged with murder in the shooting death of his father on a southwestern New Mexico hunting trip is being delayed.

Kevin Coughlin, a former state lawmaker who represented the Cuyahoga Falls area in Columbus for 14 years, said Monday he is running for clerk of Stow Municipal Court. The nonpartisan race will be contested on the Nov. 5 ballot. “Today I am answering a call to serve our communities by modernizing the operation of the court. We have a new courthouse, and our judges are doing a great job,” Coughlin ...

Four candidates, all cross-filed attorneys, are vying for the bench in Magisterial District Court 32-1-28 that covers Media, Nether Providence and Swarthmore in the May 21 primary election.

A Sarcoxie woman entered an Alford plea Friday in Jasper County Circuit Court to a felony count of child endangerment in a case involving the alleged abuse of her baby boy. Benita Devido, 26, entered the plea as part of a deal with the Jasper County prosecutor’s office that would limit the prison time that she might receive to no more than five years. She had been facing the possibility of up to ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A stunning twist in the case of a man in prison for infecting a number of women with HIV. Today, it was revealed in court that Nushawn Williams is not HIV positive.

A judge has granted class-action certification to a lawsuit alleging the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles has systematically overcharged Hoosiers for drivers' licenses since 2007.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Clay County man convicted on drug charges this week is headed to prison, in part as a result of the work done by two state troopers killed in the line of duty last year. Raymond Hersman, 47, of Wallback, faces at least 20 years in...

CINCINNATI - The man convicted in a murder trial that hinged on a paralyzed victim blinking his eyes to identify his shooter plans to appeal, a defence lawyer said after the verdict.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark., May 17 (UPI) -- A federal judge has blocked enforcement of an Arkansas law restricting abortion because it may violate a woman's constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy.

A southwestern Ohio drug task force is investigating steroid use and distribution among employees at a state prison.

Steven Powell will remain in prison for at least another month, and possibly longer, as Washington state law enforcement authorities work to secure a plan for where Powell will be once he's free.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa's governor made a rare move Friday by commuting the life sentence of an inmate who has been in prison for 38 years for killing his neighbor, saying the man has an "extraordinary record" behind bars that included saving the lives of two guards during a hostage situation.