Authorities are investigating a March 14 incident in which a 50-year-old New York lawyer who represents low-income clients for the Legal Aid Society says a court officer shouted at her…
Saying that he was unable to arrange a meeting with a Wisconsin county executive to discuss court security in the wake of safety concerns raised by a high-profile courthouse shooting…
New probation violation charges have been filed against the son of a man who committed suicide immediately after shooting to death two women at a Wilmington, Del., courthouse last month.
All charges have been dropped against a suburban Chicago lawyer facing a criminal disorderly conduct case over a filing he attempted to make at the Lake County courthouse in December.
A 21-year-old man accused of calling in a courthouse bomb threat from a pay telephone in order to try to avoid his scheduled sentencing that morning in a malicious wounding…
The American Bar Association is joining with two other legal groups to warn that across-the-board budget cuts threaten access to justice and put litigants, court staffers and judges “in physical…
Maintenance director Mike Miller used to have to arrange to remove pigeon droppings from in front of the Boone County, Ind., courthouse on a daily basis. Now all he has…
An apparent altercation Tuesday among prisoners being held just outside a courtroom in a small town in Alberta, Canada, led to a sheriff’s deputy being shot in the hand and…
A man accused of walking barefoot onto the grounds of an Oklahoma courthouse last year and firing a handgun into the air pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity on…
Thomas Matusiewicz reportedly had anger issues for years before the 68-year-old shot to death his former daughter-in-law, Christine Belford, and a female friend in the lobby of a Wilmington, Del.,…
A visitor to a Pennsylvania courthouse was arrested Wednesday after authorities said he behaved in an unusual manner, falsely claimed to be both a law firm intern and an intern…
Surveillance footage obtained by the News Journal shows a man who, moments later, shot and killed two women at the county courthouse in Wilmington, Del., walking with…
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