The 84-year old man who shot Ralph Yarl when the Black teenager went to his door by mistake pleaded not guilty Wednesday in a case that has shocked the country and renewed national debates about gun policies and race in America.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that longtime Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed should have a chance to argue for testing of crime-scene evidence that he says will help clear him.
A man charged with killing a former girlfriend and her grandmother outside an Indiana factory in 2021 has pleaded guilty in a deal that takes a possible death penalty off the table, authorities said.
The family of Tyre Nichols, who died after a brutal beating by five Memphis police officers, sued the officers and the city of Memphis on Wednesday.
A southern Indiana nurse facing a criminal charge for allegedly removing a nursing home resident’s oxygen mask hours before his death from COVID-19 will avoid jail time under a plea bargain.
Indiana state Senators advanced a bill Tuesday that would make state funding available for teachers seeking firearms training, a move critics have said could increase the number of guns in school to the detriment of students.
Fox News agreed Tuesday to pay Dominion Voting Systems nearly $800 million to avert a trial in the voting machine company’s lawsuit alleging the network promoted false information about the 2020 presidential election.
Republicans blocked a Democratic request to temporarily replace California Sen. Dianne Feinstein on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, leaving Democrats with few options for moving some of President Joe Biden’s stalled judicial nominees.
The U.S. Supreme Court says New Jersey can withdraw from a commission created decades ago with New York to combat the mob’s influence at their joint port.
When the U.S. prisons director visited the penitentiary in Terre Haute, this past week, she stopped by the federal death row where Bruce Webster is in a solitary, 12-by-7-foot cell, 23 hours a day. Webster’s not supposed to be there.
The Supreme Court is allowing challenges to the structure of two federal agencies to go forward in federal court.
The U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to decide under what circumstances businesses must accommodate the needs of religious employees.
An 84-year-old white man in Kansas City, Missouri, was charged Monday with first-degree assault for shooting a Black teen who mistakenly went to the man’s home to pick up his younger brothers.
An Indiana judge has sentenced a convicted serial rapist to more than 150 years in prison, a television station reported Monday.
The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Monday upheld former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s second-degree murder conviction in the killing of George Floyd, and his 22½-year sentence remains in place.
A judge has ordered a man charged with killing two teenage girls in Delphi transferred to a different state correctional facility after the suspect’s attorneys argued that his physical and mental health is deteriorating after months in isolation.
A northwestern Indiana man will spend the rest of his life in prison for his role in the fatal shooting of a security guard during a bank robbery.
A U.S. Supreme Court order keeps in place federal rules for use of mifepristone, one of the two drugs usually used in combination in medication abortions.
A man with a history of mental illness died after 20 days locked away, naked, in a windowless, isolation cell at a southern Indiana jail, where he lost nearly 45 pounds and didn’t receive necessary care, a federal lawsuit alleges.
The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed a roughly $6 billion legal settlement to go forward that will cancel student loans for hundreds of thousands of borrowers who say they were misled by their schools.