A southwestern Illinois judge whose colleague died of a cocaine overdose while the two were on a hunting trip together pleads not guilty during a court appearance Friday.

A Massachusetts man has indicated he would rather go to jail for defying a judge's order than testify at the trial of Luis Carvalho, who is charged with kidnapping a 20-year-old Windham woman from her home last year.

The Louisiana Attorney General's Office arrested 9 accused sexual predators across the southern part of the state. Four of those people live in Acadiana. Agents with the Louisiana Internet Crimes Against Children conducted an undercover investigation, working with hundreds of local, parish, state and federal law enforcement agencies to find online sexual predators. "Louisiana's ICAC Task Force ...

In what police are describing as a crime of opportunity, a wanted man with a criminal history dating nearly 15 years entered a front door that had been left open at a New York home near Hofstra University.A short time later, the...

A man convicted of raping three women in Massachusetts will serve two prison sentences consecutively.

Louisiana's attorney general says he plans no further investigation into the death of a chimpanzee at a New Iberia research center.

BARSTOW • Raul Aldrete was sentenced to 37 years to life in prison for shooting his ex-fiance in the left shoulder, an incident which earned him his third strike, according to court records. Aldrete, 34, was convicted in August of assault with a...

Cities and counties that offer same-sex partner health benefits don't anticipate altering their policies after the Texas attorney general called the practice unconstitutional.

DOVER, Del. - A Delaware judge is refusing to block the merger of mining company Freeport-McMoRan with oil and gas producer Plains Exploration & Production Co.

AKRON, Ohio — An Akron man will spend a decade in prison for robbing an elderly Barberton woman and causing...

A Danville Correctional Center inmate who previously had been charged with aggravated sexual assault lured a female officer into a laundry room early Thursday morning, punched her in the jaw and attempted to rape her, union officials said Friday. DANVILLE — A Danville Correctional Center inmate who previously had been charged with aggravated sexual assault lured a female officer into a laundry ...

Juror question gave the courtroom pause on Thursday

HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court is reinforcing long-standing case law on mineral rights that has guided the natural gas industry since it began exploring the Marcellus Shale formation.

The state Game and Fish Department is asking a federal court to lift a decades-old order preventing the agency from providing New Mexico residents with more licenses to hunt bighorn sheep, ibex and oryx. Read more at KOB.com

Akeem Harris (left) stands with his attorney Jeffrey Silverstein during his arraignment at the Penobscot Judicial Center in Bangor on Friday. Harris is currently being held without bail on charges related to the April 9, 2013, stabbing death of Thomas N. Taylor of Bangor.

NORFOLK Getting a job is hard enough once you've done time. Without proper identification, landing on your feet after prison can be nearly impossible, Norfolk Sheriff's officials say. So they've launched a new program that aims to provide every inmate nearing release with a state-issued ID.

Casey Anthony's bankruptcy attorneys said Judge Belvin Perry "completely eviscerated" her chance of having a fair defamation trial in Orlando because of public comments he recently made about her first-degree murder case.        

Amid questions of "legislative integrity," the Senate late Monday night concurred with an amendment to a bill to include a homeless plan for a shuttered prison in rural southeastern Colorado — an effort heavily endorsed by Gov. John Hickenlooper.

LONDON (AP) - Britain's High Court has ruled that a tweet posted by the wife of the speaker of Parliament about a politician wrongly linked to child sex abuse was libelous.

A federal court in Houston, Texas, has sentenced an Indian citizen and a Brazilian national to three years in prison for smuggling illegal migrants into the United States. Kaushik Thakkar and Fabano Amorim were also given two years of supervised release when their prison terms end. Prosecutors say the two charged Indian citizens up to $60,000 each and conspired to smuggle them into the United ...

A former Baraboo woman continues to face a homicide charge after a Columbia County judge on Tuesday denied a request to dismiss it.

JUNCTION CITY, Kan. (WIBW) -- A court hearing for a Junction City minister charged in several child molestation cases involving young boys has been pushed back.

A Greenville bakery owner was jailed Thursday following his arrest for state tax charges. South Carolina Department of Revenue investigators charged Ronnie Rodgers with four counts of failing to file an income tax return for tax years 2006 through 2009. The Department of Revenue investigation revealed Rodgers, who owned and operated a local bakery, earned income of $712,614 from 2006 through ...

Beginning today, New York lawyers must disclose on their biennial registration forms how many pro bono hours they provided and how much they made in financial donations to pro bono programs during the previous two years. The new reporting requirements were approved by Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman and the presiding justices of the Appellate Division's four departments last month.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., May 24 (UPI) -- A "court" comprised of students at a Florida school found the Wicked Witch of the West "not guilty by reason of insanity" on an attempted murder charge.

Officials say Kokesh legally imported a sport-hunted African elephant trophy mount from Namibia, but then illegally sold the two tusks.

The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into...

The former mayor of Stockport likely will spend the rest of his life in prison.

LAGRANGE — The Rural Lorain County Water Authority board’s use of secret ballots in a vote Wednesday to remove Mark McConnell from the board violated Ohio’s Sunshine Laws, according to an open meetings expert and a 2011 opinion issued by Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine. “You can’t vote on anything in secret,” said Tim Smith, [...] Click here to read this story on The Chronicle-Telegram ...

A 55-year-old Longview, Texas lawyer has been sentenced to federal prison for mail fraud in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.

DENVER — A Colorado prison inmate has died and the investigation into his death is underway. The Colorado Department of...

Do you like this? Tweet With the gaps in the general classification widened after the 2013 Tour of California time trial in San Jose, and BMC's Tejay van Garderen a virtual shoo-in for the overall victory, the domestic teams who were chasing a final podium spot are now left fighting for the remaining scraps: two more stage or maybe a minor podium placing.

Marcus Bebb-Jones who pleaded guilty to killing his wife and dumping her body in western Colorado in 1997 has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Byron Scherf and his lawyers don't dispute that he strangled a corrections officer to death with an amplifier cord in the prison chapel of the Washington state Reformatory at Monroe.

Following through on his promise of an assured benefit show for victims of the Oklahoma Tornado that ravaged the area this week, "The Voice" judge...

Orange County's judges, attorneys and law-enforcement agencies need to change the way they handle domestic-violence cases to better protect victims from being harassed, members of a special commission recommended today.        

(WBNG Binghamton) In a court filing last month, former Endicott Interconnect CEO Jay McNamara told a federal judge if the company's private jet were taken away, and it lost a subsequent lawsuit, the result would likely be bankruptcy.

Attorney Rick Esenberg formed a group of advocacy lawyers dedicated to conservative and libertarian causes.

The objection is filed to a judge's decision to seal the police affidavit in the death of Nichole Cable.

Timothy Chavers did not properly waive his rights to an attorney prior to police questioning.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Virginia man who pleaded guilty to three charges in a shooting that wounded a security guard inside the Washington headquarters of a conservative Christian lobbying group awaits sentencing in mid-summer.