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By Richard Winton May 2, 2013, 11:47 a.m. The Newport Beach rehab facility which Lindsay Lohan entered Thursday for treatment as part of her sentence for lying to police has no license to provide alcohol or drug treatment as required by the judge,...

NILES — A South Bend man who helped police in solving several area burgla-ries is still going to prison, in large part because of his prior criminal record and the fact he was on parole at the time of his crimes. Thomas Martin Van-Sandt, 26, of...

Details of the accident at Aberdeen Proving Ground that left two members of an elite Navy dive unit dead in February will be aired in public for the first time Wednesday, when military lawyers hold a preliminary hearing into possible criminal charges....

By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND, June 19 (Reuters) - A former Cleveland school-bus driver accused of holding three women captive in his home and torturing them for a decade is scheduled to appear in court for a pre-trial hearing on Wednesday. Ariel Castro, 52,...

State legislative leaders should have taken their cue from U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton. In sentencing the first of eight defendants to two years in prison, she decried the scheme to kill legislation in exchange for illegal political...

A Winchester man already facing reckless homicide charges in Clark County will be arraigned today in federal court on drug trafficking charges. Harold Wayne Salyers, 53, was indicted June 6 by a federal grand jury for one count each of possession with the...

A Northern York County High School teacher was charged with allowing a student to pierce others in a classroom, Carroll Township Police said. Carroll Township Police allege that on April 16, April Beard, 34, allowed a student to pierce Beard's ear and...

The death penalty case against a couple charged with capital murder is going before a senior judge for mediation. Percy Hargrove, 27, of Georgetown, and his former girlfriend, 28-year-old Sheena Tipton of Clay City, have spent the last 18 months in...

A Berlin contractor was apprehended and arraigned Tuesday before Somerset District Judge Ken Johnson on allegations that he received advance payments to build garages and barns but did not perform the work or return the money. Jonathan Lee Swank, 42,...

A former Inverness woman today pleaded not guilty to charges that she arranged the 1979 slaying of her husband during what authorities said was a staged home invasion. Assistant Public Defender Deana Binstock entered the not guilty plea on behalf of...

The man accused of shooting two people inside New River Community College's New River Valley Mall campus is headed to a grand jury. Neil MacInnis waived his right to a preliminary hearing Tuesday afternoon.  A judge certified the case to an October...

(Reuters) WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence officials on Tuesday identified two of the more than 50 classified cases in which they say National Security Agency eavesdropping helped thwart terrorist plots including a planned attack on the New York Stock...