Justice System

CANNES, France (AP) — After two weeks, 20 films and parade after parade down the red carpet, the Cannes Film Festival has not produced a clear-cut frontrunner for the Palme d'Or. The prestigious award, given to the best film in competition, will be...

Jim Judge, who resigned last fall as Lake Emergency Medical Services executive director amid talks of privatization, has landed a top-management position in neighboring Volusia County. He will head Volusia's emergency management department, taking...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Voters in southeast Missouri are running out of time to request absentee ballots by mail or fax for next month's congressional election. The special election to replace Republican Jo Ann Emerson in the 8th Congressional...

Caryn Kelley's defense rested its case Friday afternoon, without testimony from the College Park woman accused of fatally shooting her boyfriend, Phillip Peatross, in 2011. Kelley had been expected to testify during the trial. The surprise came after...

SACRAMENTO -- California lawmakers are pushing an alternative to Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to use new revenue generated by Proposition 39, which changed the corporate tax code when voters approved it in November. Brown and Democrats in the Legislature are...

In a new court filing, George Zimmerman's attorneys detail how they hope to use information they've gathered about Trayvon Martin's character, and why they think a judge should allow it. The document is in response to a motion by the state seeking to...

The FBI is investigating whether members of the Los Angeles Police Department's elite SWAT and Special Investigations Section units violated the law by purchasing large numbers of custom-made handguns and reselling them for profit, according to...

Connecticut government officials often fail to seek ethics opinions in advance of doing something that lands them in hot water. Connecticut has an excellent Office of State Ethics to help officials deal with potential conflicts of interest, and to...

Buckle up. Not only could it save your life, but in most states, it's the law. According to the Department of Transportation, safety and legal ramifications are hitting motorists and more are using seat belts ??? though still not all......

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo was extradited on Friday to the United States to face money-laundering charges, just days after former dictator Efrain Rios Montt's genocide conviction was overturned. A U.S. grand...

WASHINGTON — President Obama took pains to place the new restrictions on targeted killings he announced Thursday into the context of a broad reappraisal of the nation's anti-terrorism effort. Drones are not "a cure-all for terrorism," he said in...

William Stanley Nair Jr., 26, stopped wearing an electronic monitoring device at 4 p.m. Friday. The device was a condition of his bond while he awaited trial on conspiracy to commit homicide. The former Friedens resident, who now lives along Berlin Plank...