A Florida appeals court today reversed the child pornography conviction of a former elementary school principal serving a five-year prison term after finding that the face photos of 11- and…
A suspect has been indicted in the slaying of an undercover police informant who was murdered after an FBI report identifying him by name was reportedly circulated throughout his Baltimore…
Once upon a time, in Maryland as in many other states, motorists pulled over for speeding or other moving violations got a randomly issued court date along with their ticket,…
Lawyers who worked for a now-shuttered New Hampshire law firm that got into the mortgage modification business told of their ethical qualms in a hearing Thursday into alleged legal violations.
A federal appeals court has booted a Tennessee federal judge from a case involving state health care for children, citing his “accusatory language” and “unproductive turmoil” in the legal dispute.
A lawyer for a defendant sentenced to death in a Connecticut home invasion and triple murder claims Twitter messages about the trial created a circus atmosphere that affected the verdict.
After a federal judge’s acceptance of a plea deal last month, after he was accused of carrying loaded firearms in his vehicle and buying drugs for a stripper with whom…
The family of a 5-year-old boy who, at his teacher’s suggestion, was voted out of his kindergarten class by the other children has won a $350,000 settlement of a federal…
Federal agents say they have arrested a 23-year-old Russian “spam king” allegedly responsible for generating some 10 billion unwanted e-mails daily—a third of the world’s total—from a network of infected…
In a complaint filed under seal in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan, a court-appointed trustee winding up the business affairs of convicted swindler Bernard Madoff has accused a major bank…
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