A vulnerable young woman who said she 'felt safer in prison than in the community' took her own life behind bars after ...

He pleaded no contest to the hit-and-run-charge in March 2024 and was sentenced to time served. The other cases are still pending. He is being held without bond on the child-pornography and ...

A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer in South Carolina is scheduled to become the fifth person executed in ...

was pronounced dead last month after he was found unresponsive in his cell at the Auburn Correctional Facility amid the ongoing labor strike, although it is unclear if prison staffing played a ...

Judges with the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the conviction and death sentence of a woman convicted of capital murder in Amarillo 26 years ago.

The Mahoning Valley’s state legislative delegation liked Gov. Mike DeWine’s focus on Ohio’s economy, workforce and children in his State of the State address, but expressed disappointment that he didn ...

William Carl Jackson brandished a black and tan fake pistol at two postal workers, taking their mailbox keys, prosecutors ...

A Henderson couple arrested after police discovered an autistic child confined in a “makeshift jail cell” were sentenced to probation Wednesday. Misty Scanlan and Jeffery Scanlan pleaded ...