A former Brazilian military police officer living in Massachusetts who was convicted in a mass killing in his home country has pleaded guilty to lying about his criminal past to get a U.S. visa, the U ...

A Folcroft woman who threatened to throw her infant child down a hill last year and later stabbed her mother was sentenced to 11½ to 23 months in the county jail. Shylia Nesmith, 24, of the 2100 block ...

Maricopa County Sheriff Sheridan announced jail employees would no longer be scanned for contraband or drugs, saying: “We hire the best employees on the planet, and I trust every single one of them.” ...

Robert Ricks, the father of Robert Brooks who died after corrections officers beat him at Marcy Correctional Facility, spoke at a joint hearing of the State Assembly and Senate.

The professor was arrested after breaking his bond conditions from a previous family violence charge, according to a police ...

A Norfolk man with a long history of domestic violence received the maximum sentence for his latest conviction on Thursday in ...

MADISON — District Judge James Kube had initially planned to sentence Solomon Partee to a lengthy prison term. But after ...

A former Navy detective and El Cajon police officer who choked a handcuffed Navy sailor at Naval Base San Diego to the point of unconsciousness was sentenced Wednesday to 15 months in prison.

The sentence came after the court noted the man's "abhorrent behavior, his lack of remorse, the court’s need to protect the ...

After three years of tackling a historic court backlog, Project ORCA has officially wrapped up, marking a major victory for ...

The caller reported a squatter in his basement. The “squatter” was identified as the reporting party’s friend whom he invited to stay with him. The friend advised she will leave by the end of the day, ...

A Mexican nationally living in Texas illegally was sentenced to life in federal prison on Thursday for his criminal role as leader of a drug trafficking organization ...