Jase Lauck, 24, is in the Hancock County Jail on charges of domestic violence by strangulation, kidnapping, and obstructing official business.

More than 1,700 people have been left without lawyers since that time, said Rebecca Jacobstein in court Wednesday, chief of ...

More criminal defendants could be released in Massachusetts due in part to a work stoppage by private attorneys.

A Colorado funeral home owner who stashed nearly 190 dead bodies in a decrepit building and sent grieving families fake ashes received the maximum possible sentence of 20 years in prison on Friday ...

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey on Tuesday announced that she is appointing Eric Paley as secretary of the Executive Office of Economic Development.

A total of 10 inmates escaped in a New Orleans jail break on May 16. Escaped inmate Antoine Massey was caught, and Derrick Groves remains at large.

The Oklahoma County Criminal Justice Authority announced that the jail is facing a significant budget shortfall that could leave the facility without sufficient operation funds as soon as Aug. 1.

An inmate who escaped from the Orleans Parish Correctional Facility in May and was on the run for more than a month has been captured, authorities said Friday. Antoine Massey was taken into ...

Man jailed on attempted criminal homicide faces new murder charge in Nashville apartment parking lot shooting James E. Johnson, 21, has been indicted by the Davidson County Grand Jury on a charge ...

Prosecutors have agreed with a request by Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers to delay his Tennessee jail release.

BOSTON — Democratic governors are urging Congress to reject a proposal that would require states to pick up a larger portion of costs for the federally funded "food stamp" program, ...

A man who killed a 14-year-old boy in London during a rampage with a sword was on Friday jailed for a minimum of 40 years.