Jennifer Reeves accepts family and consumer sciences post Writer: Steve Byrns, 325-653-4576, s-byrns@tamu.edu Contact: Scott Durham, 325-653-4576, ms-durham@tamu.edu LLANO – The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service has named Jennifer Reeves their new agent for family and consumer sciences in Llano County. The announcement was made by County Judge Wayne Brascom and Scott Durham, [...]

Former local developer Brandon Barber will remain in jail, after the defendant’s attorney would not concede to the court that...

Lt. Gov. race undecided between Jackson and Snyder RICHMOND – State Sen. Mark Obenshain beat out Del. Rob Bell for the Republican nomination for attorney general at the party convention Saturday.        

At a special meeting tonight, May 7, Asheville City Council members voted unanimously to sue the state of North Carolina over House Bill 488, a bill forcibly transferring the city’s water system to the Metropolitan Sewerage District. After a brief closed session, Council members emerged and City Attorney Bob Oast presented a resolution authorizing staff to proceed with a lawsuit to halt the ...

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — The Nevada Assembly has approved allowing courts to order mentally ill defendants who have regular run-ins with the law to complete tailored outpatient treatment plans.

A Franklin County Municipal Judge has announced that he will retire after a decade on the bench. Get details.

RUSSELL WASENDORF: The court-appointed receiver charged with identifying and recovering the assets of disgraced financier Russell Wasendorf's sprawling business empire says his team's work is winding down after 10 months. 59 photos: Inside the Russell Wasendorf estate

Drakes Bay Oyster Co. Published: Monday, May 13, 2013 at 2:22 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, May 13, 2013 at 2:22 p.m. Drakes Bay Oyster Co.'s fight for survival, which has divided West Marin County neighbors and gained national attention, resumes Tuesday at a federal courthouse in San Francisco.

The reward for Joanne Chesimard, who fled prison after being convicted of the N.J. trooper's murder, was doubled on Friday to $2-million

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court won't order new legislative elections in Mississippi, despite a lawsuit that said current lawmakers were chosen in outdated districts that diluted black voting strength.

A court hearing is being held today in state Supreme Court for Clayton Whittemore, the Oneida County man accused of beating his girlfriend, 18-year-old Alexandra Kogut, to death inside her dorm room at The College at Brockport on Sept. 29, 2012.

The retrial of a convicted sex offender charged in the 1979 slaying of a 20-year-old woman and the attempted killing of her young son has begun in western Indiana.

O.J. Simpson's former lawyer defended himself point-by-point Friday against allegations he botched the former football star's armed-robbery trial, after giving damaging testimony that Simpson actually knew his...

Items taken from Trayvon Martin's cell phone are among new details released by attorneys for George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer accused of killing Martin without provocation 14 months ago. FULL STORY

Two defendants have already pleaded guilty in the 2010 death of inmate Rocrast Mack at Ventress Correctional Facility in Barbour County.

By Terry Baynes (Reuters) - Monster Beverage Corp has sued San Francisco's city attorney over an investigation the city launched last year into the safety and marketing of Monster energy drinks. In the lawsuit filed on Monday in California federal court, the company accused City Attorney Dennis Herrera of violating its constitutional rights by demanding that the company reformulate its drinks ...

Parolee Evan Ebel ditched his ankle monitor and investigators say he went on to murder Colorado Prison Chief Tom Clements and Nate Leon of Denver. We've now learned nearly 30 other parolees have been convicted of murder in Colorado, just since 2002. Other parolees await trial, accused of murder. Seven of those parolees turned murderers are from southern Colorado. One of them, Aaron Wilkerson ...

Orlando, Fla. — Casey Anthony's attorneys say comments made by the judge who presided over her criminal trial raise questions about whether she can get a fair defamation hearing in state court in Orlando.

At a press conference last Tuesday morning, Apr. 9, City Council Member Daniel Dromm introduced a bill and a resolution addressing solitary confinement in New York City jails. read more

A Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling Wednesday means Cumberland County will be partly home to three state senators.

WASHINGTON -- The chairman of a Senate committee says the sexual battery arrest of the Air Force officer who led the branch's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response unit underscores how far the Defense Department has to go in addressing the plague of sexual crimes in the military.

Nathaniel Johnson served four years in prison for a robbery he did not commit after a witness misidentified him as the robber. (Robert Kirkham/Buffalo News file photo)

A federal judge has refused to dismiss a $75 million lawsuit accusing a Mississippi casino of serving a heavily medicated man so many free drinks that he collapsed in the bathroom of his hotel room and ...

The seizure of cell phone video of the incident when a man died in sheriff deputies' custody is raising legal questions. Some attorneys argue a number of civil rights were violated when officers insisted that witnesses turn over the phones.

Dinosaur National Monument in 1997. But he pleaded guilty earlier this year to second-degree murder in the heat of passion. Before he was sentenced in America last night, the 49-year-old from Kidderminster said he was ‘sorry’ for killing the 31-year-old, in a split-second ‘action of rage’.

DALLAS, May 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Award winning trial attorney Michael Lyons has again been honored by D Magazine's yearly listing of the top attorneys in Dallas, Texas.  The annual list for 2013 is ...

An Ohio man convicted of raping and murdering a six-month-old baby was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday after a last-ditch plea for mercy was dismissed.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Former Jacksonville Jaguars receiver Jimmy Smith has begun serving a six-year prison term in Mississippi for drug possession and weapons charges, online state corrections records show.

The U.S. Attorney for Colorado has called the abuse of prescription drugs an "epidemic."

A man imprisoned for the attempted murder of a San Joaquin County prosecutor is now under investigation for the death of a fellow inmate at California State Prison, Corcoran.

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A state-mandated transfer of the Asheville water system will be tested in court. At a special May 7 meeting, Asheville City Council members voted unanimously to sue the state of North Carolina over House Bill 488, legislation that gives control of the system to the Metropolitan Sewerage District of Buncombe County. The stage is set: The bill passed both chambers of the North Carolina General ...

Inequities in education are an important factor in high incarceration rates for black males, according to a group of experts speaking at Ohio State Friday.

By KEVIN McGILL  /  Associated Press    NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Louisiana's Supreme Court has ruled that the funding method for a private school tuition voucher program pushed through the Legislature last year by Gov. Bobby Jindal is unconstitutional.      Tuesday's 6-1 decision upholds a state district court ruling that the Louisiana Constitution forbids using money earmarked for public schools in ...

The state Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs' Division of Financial Institutions has issued a cease-and-desist order against Kathleen Patricia Morris, also known as Tricia Morris, and her once-prominent Maui mortgage brokerage.

PHOENIX (AP) — The jury in Jodi Arias' Arizona murder trial has resumed deliberations.        

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky : Court documents show that a Canadian man is facing charges that he stalked the brother of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence.

A man arrested after an altercation on a Springfield street appeared in Clark County Municipal Court Thursday morning and pled not guilty to a charge of criminal damaging.

POMEROY, Ohio - One man has been jailed for murder and two others are charged as accomplices after a Pomeroy man was found dead in a Meigs County motel, officials said on Thursday. The Meigs County Sheriff's Department arrested 32-year-old Ryan .

By Bernard Vaughan NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge has set November 18 for the start of the criminal trial of Michael Steinberg, the most senior employee of Steven A. Cohen's hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors to be indicted for insider trading. U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan in Manhattan also declined to allow Steinberg's case to be randomly assigned to another judge. Steinberg's lawyer ...

More than four years after the world last heard from O.J. Simpson in court, one of the nation's most famous prisoners who also happens to be a former South Florida resident, spoke again Wednesday in a bid to win freedom from a sentence that could keep him behind bars until he dies.