HOUSTON — A San Antonio man condemned for the 2005 slaying of a pregnant Lubbock woman whose body was stuffed in a piece of luggage found at the Lubbock city landfill has lost an appeal at Texas' highest criminal court. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday agreed with the Lubbock trial court, which rejected an appeal from Rosendo Rodriguez, 33.

The media circus that is Jodi Arias' murder trial is in its final stretch, as the jury began deliberations Friday following closing arguments. The jury, which has been in court since January, will resume deliberations Monday.

With help from his fellow trial attorneys, Georgia injury lawyer Howard Spiva is on a mission to expand the Heads in Helmet program in every city in America. (PRWeb April 24, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/4/prweb10665372.htm

The Iowa Supreme Court is expected to decide whether insurers can require dentists who accept their plans to offer discounts on services that aren't covered.

The Iowa Supreme Court says insurers cannot impose price caps on dentists who accept their plans for procedures that aren't reimbursed. The court's 7-0 ruling Friday is a victory for dentists who can now ...

The Federal Bureau of Prisons is reviewing the frequency and fairness of solitary confinement in all federal prisons. A rollback on "solitary" is already underway in some states. Randall Pinkston reports on the impact the rollback is having on Mississippi.

The doctor admitted there were clues that he was working at a Fort Lauderdale pill mill – his salary went up 400 percent, the "chaotic" waiting room overflowed with patients from out of town and he was told to give everyone the maximum number of pain pills.        

A lesbian couple can't cohabitate, a Texas judge ruled, because one woman's divorce settlement bars overnight guests except spouses   — and the lesbian couple can't marry in Texas.

After trying, so far unsuccessfully, to stop his execution in the courts, attorneys for Nathan Dunlap have formally asked Gov. John Hickenlooper to spare the condemned killer's life.

After ruling in favor of a fellow judge, DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Daniel Coursey on Friday withdrew from presiding over a lawsuit brought by members of a special purpose grand jury.

The state of Florida ranks 49th in the country on the spending of mental health services. That's why critics say many jails and prisons have mentally ill populations of at least 30 percent.      Experts say offender would be less likely to lead a life of crime if they received the medication and counseling they need. ...

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.

Fighting gun related crimes in Lowndes County just got a whole lot easier. Eyewitness News reporter Eames Yates got an inside look at the Valdosta Crime Lab's new ballistics program.

El Paso County, for now, is not violating the Texas Constitution and can continue to provide health benefits to the domestic partners of its employees, a district court judge ruled on Tuesday.

By News Staff news@abc6.com An entry of default has been made against a Traffic Tribunal Magistrate in a racial discrimination lawsuit. Documents filed with Superior Court on Tuesday indicate that Traffic

By Barbara Corbellini Duarte - Diane Wilson, 65, stopped eating on May 1 to honor the Guantanamo Bay prisoners who have been on a hunger strike for 99 days.

BOISE, Idaho - A bankruptcy judge has ordered a tax-protesting former Idaho state representative to submit to intense new scrutiny of his finances, something federal lawyers say is necessary to prevent him from hiding assets from creditors including the U.S. government.

After 38 years in the legal profession, the last 15 of them on the federal bench at the U.S. District Courthouse in Urbana, Michael P. McCuskey has decided he'd like to scale back. Come July 1, the veteran jurist will transition to senior status.  URBANA — After 38 years in the legal profession, the last 15 of them on the federal bench at the U.S. District Courthouse in Urbana, Michael P ...

Longtime Washoe County District Attorney Dick Gammick says he will not run for re-election in 2014, and will retire once his term ends.

The inmates are part of a new program aimed at easing violence in some of the most dangerous units inside the penitentiary, reducing the number of prisoners in solitary confinement and making them less likely to reoffend.

HELENA — A 49-year-old Browning man has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of sexually assaulting a 51-year-old woman last year. The Independent Record reports Donald Carl Salois was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Sam Haddon during a hearing in Helena.

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

FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) — A north Alabama man will remain in jail while charged in the death of his 3-month-old son.

Michael Walker, 28, and Terry D. Martin, 28, both of Texarkana, Arkansas, were sentenced for their roles in the distribution of crack cocaine in Texarkana.

SAMMY HAGAR LAWSUIT IN IOWA: A judge says rocker Sammy Hagar did not defame a Playboy bunny with whom he allegedly fathered a child when he accused her of extortion in his memoir.

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.        

SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal court in San Francisco Tuesday struck down Arizona's ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

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 is taking the unusual step of asking the environmental community for ideas about how to punish a Texas natural gas company convicted of illegally storing mercury in Rhode Island, after the Supreme Court...

Cathy Humphries was sentenced to eight years in prison Monday.

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.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a state law that forbids most people between ages 18 and 20 from obtaining permits to carry concealed handguns. A three-judge panel handed down its decision Monday, May 20.

Scott, awaiting trial on gun charge, is suspected of committing Mother's Day attack that injured 19 people.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Mario Pizano was in court on Tuesday taking a plea deal for driving drunk and killing his brother, who was a passenger in his car. Police say

The media circus that is Jodi Arias' murder trial is in its final stretch, as the jury began deliberations Friday following closing arguments. The jury, which has been in court since January, will resume deliberations Monday.

The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled Friday that a man who has served 26 years in prison for a Newport murder has the right to have DNA tests done on evidence in his case.

Four of the seven Mendocino County residents charged in a Kansas federal court for drug trafficking have pleaded guilty. The drug trafficking case started in Lawrence, Kansas as an investigation into a $17 million drug distribution ring involving an ex-con and his brother.

At least 36 parolees in Colorado have been convicted or accused of murder while on supervised release from prison since 2002, a review by The Denver Post found.

HUNTSVILLE — Capital murder defendant John Ray Falk Jr., a 46-year-old prison inmate charged in the death of a correctional officer, will be back in the Brazos County courthouse on June 25, five months after his original trial ended abruptly when the judge declared a mistrial.

A Broward County lawyer was indicted Thursday on federal charges that he overbilled the Seminole Tribe of Florida by more than $1 million.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Supreme Court of Alabama has denied requests by Brookwood Medical Center and St. Vincent's Hospital, refusing to consider continued arguments against ...