Updated: A reported gun incident Monday in an Iowa courtroom is prompting officials to reconsider an unusual policy that allows authorized individuals to bring firearms into the courthouse.
Convicted last year of attempting to solicit the murder-for-hire of a federal judge in Fort Worth, a Texas man has been sentenced to a 20-year prison term, the maximum for…
Relatives of a Delaware courthouse shooter could get as much as life in prison if they are convicted in an unusual federal cyberstalking case that has been brought against them.
As an “amped up” defendant was being sentenced in Thursday to 86 months for violating his probation in a drug-possession case, prosecutor Philip Miller stepped out of the courtroom to…
Three Mexican citizens have pleaded guilty in a failed attempt to pay a $1.2 million bribe to a federal judge hearing a drug cartel money-laundering case in Austin, Texas.
Convicted of four felony counts concerning the sexual abuse of a 12-year-old girl, a 52-year-old man took a pill as the jury was being polled and collapsed within half an…
Two men and one woman have been charged with arson over fires that occurred within hours of each other at a New Jersey prosecutor’s office and law firm.
A man wearing a blue uniform and black body armor was taken into custody Tuesday morning at a Chicago building that houses multiple courtrooms after he claimed to be a…
A 51-year-old man shot to death after a three-hour standoff with law enforcement outside a Florida courthouse last week was armed with a $15.99 airsoft pistol that shoots plastic BB…
No one, fortunately, was hurt. But a loaded semiautomatic handgun got past a security screener last month at an Ohio courthouse, resulting in ongoing repercussions.
A Florida courthouse was locked down Friday and police converged on the grounds after a man was spotted holding a gun and carrying a bag in the turnaround area of…
A Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer who says he is still trying to recuperate from being struck in the face by a handcuffed death-row client and knocked to the courtroom floor…
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