Prosecution

As a 17-year-old boy awaits trial on charges of impersonating a physician's assistant, Osceola Regional Medical Center has tightened hospital procedures that allowed the teen to treat patients, a state report released today shows. The Florida Agency...

A Morgan County, W.Va., man has been charged with murder after admitting he woke up from a blackout earlier this month to find his girlfriend strangled in their apartment, according to the Morgan County (W.Va.) Sheriff’s Department. James T. Zell...

EL CAJON, Calif. -- The family of an Iraq war veteran charged with beating a 4-month-old puppy so badly that it had to be euthanized said their son's post-traumatic stress disorder is to blame for the abuse. Cheryl Winget sat stoically inside an El Cajon...

A convicted killer was found guilty Thursday of murdering a correctional officer at the now-closed Maryland House of Correction, opening the possibility that he will become the first person sentenced to death under the state's new capital punishment law....

A by-the-book correctional officer was murdered on the job by two prisoners who didn't want to live by the rules, a prosecutor told a jury Wednesday as the death penalty trial of the first of those inmates began in Anne Arundel County. "To them, Cpl....

CASSPOLIS -- Superman? No problem. But Super Drunk? That's a different matter entirely. This week in Cass County 4th District Court, a Dowagiac resident, Peter Edwards Jr., 46, attempted to prove at trial he wasn't guilty of Michigan's relatively new...

Former Tallahassee power broker Dr. Alan Mendelsohn can delay no more and must go directly to prison by noon Friday, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Mendelsohn, a former political fundraiser and lobbyist, had already received a seven-month delay before...

Rooks County Sheriff Randy Axelson was formally charged with nine counts of felony methamphetamine distribution Tuesday.  Ellis County Attorney Tom Drees filed the charges.  He's acting as a special prosecutor in the case. The Hays Daily News Reports...

According to Metro police, an employee at a northwest side Kroger grocery store shot a would-be robber in the face, Monday evening. The man died a few hours later. It happened at the Kroger near 71st Street and Georgetown Road a little after 6 p.m. ...

He won't be in New Orleans with the football team, but Cody Journell will be out of jail. Journell was released on a $100,000 secured bond from the Montgomery County jail Wednesday morning. He's been in jail since getting arrested for breaking and...

Blacksburg police say three men were charged with breaking and entering Wednesday night including Virginia Tech kicker, Cody Journell.   Also arrested were Matthew Dunton and Matthew Brady.  All three men are in the Montgomery County jail. Police are...

A 12th Baltimore police officer has pleaded guilty to being involved with a towing kickback scheme, prosecutors said Thursday. Rafael Concepcion Feliciano Jr., a 31-year-old officer from Baltimore, pleaded guilty to extortion and conspiracy in a U.S....