The Indiana Court of Appeal has upheld a Evansville man's conviction in the fatal stabbing of his 15-year-old stepdaughter.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — An audit of Louisiana's food stamp program for low-income families released Monday said weak oversight has allowed for duplicate benefits, overpayments and more than $1 million paid to ineligible residents, some of whom were in prison at the time.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A convicted serial burglar blamed for stealing from dozens of North Texas businesses has been sentenced to 49 years in prison. Investigators say Ricketts in 2011 committed burglaries in Tarrant, Collin, Dallas and Denton counties mainly at sandwich stores and pizza chains.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - A landmark $240 million verdict awarded to 32 mentally disabled Iowa plant workers who were subjected to years of abuse by their handlers will be reduced to just $1.6 million because of a federal cap, attorneys in the case agree.

He gets nearly 22 years in attack, robbery of student.

EVERETT, Wash. - A jury in Washington state convicted an inmate of first-degree aggravated murder Thursday in the strangulation of a female prison guard.

State Rep. Jay Barnes and Sen. Will Kraus agree — they encourage Gov. Jay Nixon to sign the veterans courts bill the Legislature sent him this week.

A Wauseon woman who pleaded guilty of child endangerment will learn her punishment Friday.

Monday May 13, 2013 PITTSFIELD -- A 29-year-old North Adams ex-convict who had been out of prison for less than two months when he knocked out a 60-year-old with a punch is heading back to state prison for a two- to four-year stint after pleading guilty to felony assault and battery. Shane M.

In the Southwestern Indiana hamlet of Santa Claus nearly 70 years ago, an Evansville industrialist had an inspiration. With little there for children but a post office that handled Santa letters, why not offer something more. Much more.

The Phoenix jury deciding whether Jodi Arias should be sentenced to life in prison or death has resumed deliberations.

The offices of sheriff and district attorney in Schuylkill County are up for election with the two major political parties seeking nomination of candidates in the Municipal Primary Election, which will be held Tuesday, May 21. Polls open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. There is also nomination for a magisterial district judge seat.

O.J. Simpson's former lawyer has some explaining to do. More >> O.J. Simpson's former lawyer has some explaining to do. More >> An Uzbekistan national living in Idaho has been arrested on federal charges that he gave support, cash and other resources to help a recognized terrorist group in his home country plan a terrorist attack.

After a 20-year run in Philadelphia and a seven-year stint in Greenville, S.C., the USA Cycling Professional Road & Time Trial National Championships are coming to Chattanooga for the first time this weekend.

LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Two men facing arson charges in connection with one of three major fires in downtown Lewiston that destroyed nine buildings and displaced more than 180 people are expected to make their first court appearance on Monday or Tuesday.        

PRINCETON — Trial began Tuesday for a McDowell County woman charged with first-degree robbery in connection with a Bramwell convenience store holdup that left her accomplice and husband dead.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota woman was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison for sending money to an al-Qaida-linked group in her native Somalia, despite her insistence that she was only trying to help the poor in the war-torn East African country.

A Suring man accused of setting several fires in Northeastern Wisconsin has pleaded guilty in federal court to igniting fires in a church and two taverns in Oconto County.

Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill stood in federal court Monday and compared her experience in the music business to the slavery her ancestors endured before a judge sentenced her to three months in prison for failing to pay about 1 million in taxes over the past decade.

A Washington state man convicted of murdering a Juneau woman is scheduled to be sentenced next week.

Over the past few months, states like Kansas and North Dakota have moved so-called "fetal personhood" measures forward as a challenge to Roe v. Wade. Friday, Alaska's Supreme Court reaffirmed that such anti-abortion laws would not hold up in this state. Listen now.

Authorities expect to extradite an alleged fugitive sex offender found in Arizona behind the wheel of a car believed stolen from an eastern Utah homicide victim, who also was a registered sex offender.

Re: “Sympathy, no; clemency, yes,” May 12 editorial. The Denver Post editorial makes a very compelling argument for why the death penalty should not be used in the case of Nathan Dunlap. The numbers show how unevenly the death penalty is carried out in Colorado. No execution should take place in such a flawed and [...]

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio- The Mahoning Youngstown Community Action Partnership (MYCAP) will host their Community Action Awareness Day Friday, May 17, 2013 from 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. at the Wick Park Recreation Center, located inside of Wick Park, 260 Park Avenue, Youngstown.

An Okfuskee County judge has granted a motion by a man charged in the shooting deaths of two young girls near Weleetka and the death of his 23-year-old girlfriend to be tried for both crimes at the same time.

Posted By: Michele Wright / CBS 12 News DENVER (AP) â The long journey toward a verdict in the deadly Colorado theater shootings enters a new and critical phase Monday when suspect James Holmes asks a judge to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity. ...

"Being Oscar: From Mob Lawyer to Mayor of Las Vegas - Only in America" (Weinstein Books), by Philadelphia native Oscar Goodman, with former Inquirer staff writer George Anastasia, arrived in bookstores Tuesday.

Monday's Results Baseball CATHOLIC PRELIMINARY ROUND Cardinal O'Hara 6, Lansdale Catholic 5 Father Judge 11, Archbishop Carroll 4

An appeals court rejected a legal challenge to Measure A, Santa Clara County's sales tax boost approved by voters in November.

A judge did not rule Monday on whether conversations accused murderer Mark F. Stevens had with a confidential informant can be included in his trial, saying more testimony is needed.

Gov. John Hickenlooper on Wednesday stunned Colorado by indefinitely delaying the execution of a death-row inmate, a decision that didn't give any outright victories to either side of the death-penalty debate and set the Democrat up for accusations of trying to have it both ways.

HONOLULU (AP) — A jury has been selected for the murder trial of a federal agent charged with shooting a man inside a Waikiki McDonald's restaurant. The Honolulu prosecutor's office says nine men and three women were selected as jurors Tuesday. The alternates are two men and two women.

A Ridgeland teenager has been arrested at the Rankin County prison for allegedly having marijuana while attempting to visit his sister.

A central Pennsylvania man is in jail, facing charges he stole two packages of adult diapers and shoe inserts from a Carlisle pharmacy.

HARTFORD, Conn. – A group of Connecticut organizations that support gun rights, pistol permit holders and gun sellers filed a lawsuit in federal court Wednesday against Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and other state officials, arguing the state's new gun control law violates their constitutional rights.

A 19-year-old Norfolk teen has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for the shooting death of 43-year-old Jackie Delice.

A previously convicted Tulsa felon was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison for physically abusing three children.

NEWTON — Sheriff Michael Strada threw open the doors of Sussex County Jail Tuesday evening to welcome members of local businesses for a tour of what some may consider the most infamous business in town.

NEWPORT NEWS — A man imprisoned for nearly 23 years in a capital murder case was released on bond Friday, walking out of jail into the morning sunshine on 26th Street in downtown Newport News.        

Page County Attorney, Jeremy S. Peterson, reports the following activities in the Iowa District Court for Page County on Monday, May 13. The Honorable Richard H. Davidson, Judge of the Fourth Judicial

Justice Asks Attorney: You Could End Up Winning This Battle But Losing The War, Right? In highly anticipated arguments Tuesday before the Connecticut Supreme Court, a convicted killer's lawyer offered what he called a "simple" solution to settling the controversy over a death penalty repeal that excludes inmates already on death row when the law was changed.