LITTLE ROCK, AR - A federal judge resentenced former Russellville physician Randeep Mann on Wednesday to life in prison for the bombing of former Arkansas State Medical Board chairman Dr. Trent Pierce.

BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge has certified the extradition of a Massachusetts man facing an attempted murder charge in Scotland for allegedly poisoning another student's wine.        

Two brothers will get jail time for their part in a car chase that ended in a fatal accident.

HERSHEY, Pa. (AP) - The treasurer of a central Pennsylvania volunteer fire department has been charged with stealing more than $129,000 from the agency since shortly after he was elected treasurer last year.

An eastern Pennsylvania man convicted in the shooting death of his wife 3½ years ago has been sentenced to life in prison despite his angry proclamation of innocence.

The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services released details Wednesday on the administration's plan to resolve a gang issue at the Baltimore city jail.

Peoria -- Jurors are expected to return to court in the trial of a man charged with beating five members of a central Illinois to death in 2009.

SALT LAKE CITY -- Out of the grip of the federal prison system, environmental and climate activist Tim DeChristopher plans to make Harvard Divinity School his next stop. DeChristopher, 31, has achieved folk status and inspired a documentary airing Monday - all for grabbing a bidder's paddle and running up prices at a federal oil-and-gas lease auction, trying to safeguard wild lands near Utah's ...

A small farmer from Indiana lost his patent dispute on Monday at the Supreme Court, a ruling that could have enormous impact in a variety of biotech fields.

Gloucester County is expanding its plan to outsource its entire inmate population beyond South Jersey. Some inmates could be shipped to the Essex County jail in Newark - about 90 miles northeast of the jail in Woodbury.

Consumer Attorney Services appointed Tarah Seabre as supervising attorney in May to help improve the working efficiency of its national foreclosure defense team. (PRWeb May 21, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/consumer-attorney-service/foreclosure-defense-team/prweb10744996.htm

Montgomery County commissioners voted their support for a second federal prison in Conroe, but the facility didn’t receive a ringing endorsement from at least one county resident.

For 90 minutes Tuesday night, seven men and one woman who hope to be Washington County’s next judges threw themselves on the mercy of the court of public opinion.

Seahawks quarterback Josh Portis was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence on May 5, and will be arraigned in King County District Court in Redmond on May 28.

Former state lawmaker Shawn Tornow (TOR'-noh) of Sioux Falls has told the South Dakota Supreme Court he should have acted differently in two instances that arose when he was an assistant city attorney for the city of...

A businesswoman in southern China has been sentenced to death on charges of defrauding investors as the government tightens controls on informal financing that is widely used by entrepreneurs.

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Rapper Shyheim has been released on bail after he was arrested in New York following a drug raid on his home.The hip-hop star and frequent Wu-Tang...

A former Harmony High School substitute teacher was sentenced to five years in prison Friday after pleading guilty to attempted sexual assault of a 16-year-old boy, Upshur County District Attorney Billy Byrd said Monday.

EASTON, Pa. (AP) — A man called one of the commonwealth's 10-most-wanted fugitives has been sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison in the stabbing death of a man during a game of dominoes nearly two de

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas doctor charged with operating a pill mill out of his Manhattan clinic that was popular among police officers and Fort Riley soldiers made a brief court appearance Tuesday and waived his right to a preliminary hearing.

Rams’s attorney has argued that the boy was sick and could have died as a result of seizure.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The owner of a Rhode Island tax preparation firm has been sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for underreporting more than $1 million in income and failing to pay nearly $400,000 in federal taxes.        

When the Notre Dame men's tennis team opens 2013 NCAA Tournament action today at Ohio State versus Washington, the Irish will take the court looking to extend a coaching career that has spanned nearly half a century. Bobby Bayliss - nearing the end of his 26th season at Notre Dame and 44th overall as a Division I head coach, plus a couple early years assisting on various levels - is set to ...

Secretary of State Scott Gessler has won the latest but perhaps not the last battle over whether ballots should be mailed to inactive voters.

A Dearborn County jury has recommended life in prison for a man convicted of murdering an Indiana woman.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - State officials say a former prison camp in central New York has drawn a winning bid of $241,000 at auction from a Westchester County-based business that did not immediately disclose its plans.

Wayne County Circuit Judge Wade McCree is facing the Michigan Judicial Tenure Board accused of misconduct in office.

A Bay City man has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for running a heroin trafficking operation.

A inmate has died after officials say he was stabbed by another inmate in a Kentucky prison.

Aggravated assault at Clyman Court and Fowler Avenue.

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.

Prosecutors are seeking 45 years in prison for a Virginia man who planned to shoot up the headquarters of Christian lobbying group, the Family Research Council, in August 2012. Floyd Lee Corkins II hoped to shoot as many people as possible at the pro-life group’s headquarters, according to U.S. District Court documents. He claimed he bought 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches, which he planned to rub in ...

U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced Wednesday that the sentencing of four Idaho individuals that conspired to distribute methamphetamine and who were involved in the Aryan Knights has ended.

A 32-year-old hairstylist tearfully described in court Tuesday how a Torrance podiatrist pulled down her pants and underwear and squeezed her exposed breasts during an exam to obtain shoe inserts to soothe her aching feet.

By LISA M. REED Staff Writer IRON MOUNTAIN - A five-year study about the Michigan Prisoner Re-entry Initiative (MPRI) indicates there were more parolees returned to prison in Dickinson County than any other Upper Peninsula county.

One of the nation's foremost experts on keeping clients off death row is joining Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's defense team.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - An Idaho man convicted of breaking into a Boise zoo last fall and brutally beating to death 1 of 2 Patas monkeys has been ordered to spend up to a year in a treatment program at a state prison.

Sanofi (SAN) won a U.S. appeals court ruling yesterday that revives a patent-infringement claim over generic versions of the allergy drug Allegra. A trial judge erred in interpreting a patent on the drug that covers a process to make the active ingredient in the medicine, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said in an opinion posted on the court’s website.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) - A 23-year-old Iowa man has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for receiving child pornography. U.S. Attorney Nicholas Klinefeldt says Scott Allen Gibbons, of Villisca, was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty to the charge in January.

In court documents filed this week, the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles admits it may have “inadvertently” overcharged some Hoosiers for their driver’s licenses. Read more at www.WISHTV.com