As actress Lindsay Lohan herself reportedly admitted in a Twitter post over the weekend, she has failed a drug test while on probation in two drunken-driving cases.
A federal appeals court has overturned the conviction of a woman who participated in a 2001 ecoterror attack on a university research center in Seattle.
A pop singer who rose to fame with Wham! in the 1980s will be singing the blues in jail after receiving an eight-week sentence from a British judge today for…
Alberto Delgado was born in the United States. But he doesn’t speak English very well, because he grew up in Mexico with his mother after his parents divorced.
A federal appeals court has ordered a new sentencing hearing in a drug case because of the trial judge’s “extraneous and inflammatory comments,” including a remark about Hitler’s dog.
The former chief executive officer and tax attorney for the Quellos Group LLC hedge fund have accepted a plea agreement that will require them to pay the Internal Revenue Service…
Still fighting what some observers considered a too-lenient “public warning” over her 2007 refusal to authorize a court clerk to accept a late execution-eve appeal, the top criminal court judge…
The JetBlue flight attendant who became fed up with a passenger and jumped down an emergency chute will undergo a mental health evaluation that could help him avoid jail time.
Almost 30 years after he traveled to New York to gun down John Lennon, his convicted killer, Mark David Chapman, won’t be getting out of prison anytime soon.
The daughter of prosecutor and former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani will have a shoplifting charge dismissed and her case closed and sealed if she completes a day of…
Moments after being sentenced to 40 years in prison for aggravated assault for cutting his niece with a butcher knife, a Texas man slit his own throat this morning in…
A Hollywood, Fla., lawyer was sentenced to three years and 10 months in federal prison for embezzling $1.6 million in loan proceeds, including $1 million in a refinancing of his…
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