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07/19/11 Seventh Judicial District Judge Steve Dobrescu on Monday sentenced two brothers from Washington to maximum sentences of 22 years, 8 months at the end of an emotion-packed sentencing hearing for the attempted murder of a White Pine County Sheriff's sergeant 10 months ago.
07/18/11 The Associated Press The Associated Press BEAVERTON, Ore. An Oregon judge says a 75-year-old federal magistrate judge died Monday while working in a community garden in the Portland suburb of Beaverton. Chief U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken describes Magistrate Judge Donald Ashmanskas as "everything you hoped to have in a judge." She says she's stunned by his death but adds, "we know if he was in ...
07/18/11 BEAVERTON (AP) An Oregon judge says a 75-year-old federal magistrate judge died Monday in the garden of his suburban Portland home. Chief U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken describes Magistrate Judge Donald Ashmanskas as "everything you hoped to have in a judge." The Oregonian says the cause of death was not immediately known. Ashmanskas became a U.S. magistrate judge in 1992, previously serving as a ...
07/15/11 Attorneys for Nikki Araguz failed this week to persuade 329th District Judge Randy Clapp to revisit in any way his ruling voiding the marriage of deceased Wharton fire Capt. Thomas Araguz III.
07/15/11 DAVID SINGLETON The Times-Tribune SCRANTON, Pa. Senior U.S. District Judge William J. Nealon has celebrated any number of milestones during a legal and judicial career spanning more than 60 years. On Saturday, he marks another. Nealon, who was sworn in as judge for the U.S. Middle District of Pennsylvania on Dec. 15, 1962, after his appointment by President John F. Kennedy, will have served on ...
07/15/11 When federal District Judge Thomas F. Hogan approved a $3.4 billion settlement with several hundred thousand Native American plaintiffs last month, it was the largest court-ordered payout in the history of the United States government.
07/15/11 WASHINGTON, D.C. Judge declares mistrial in Clemens case The judge declared a mistrial this morning in baseball star Roger Clemens' perjury trial over inadmissible evidence shown to jurors. U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton said Clemens could not be assured a fair trial after prosecutors showed...
07/15/11 When federal District Judge Thomas F. Hogan approved a $3.4 billion settlement with several hundred thousand Native American plaintiffs last month, it was the largest court-ordered payout in the history of the United States government Copyright 2011 Summit Daily News. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Summit ...
07/14/11 WASHINGTON--U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton today (Thursday) called an abrupt end to the perjury trial of pitching great Roger Clemens, declaring a mistrial and ruling that federal prosecutors offered previously banned evidence that sought to bolster the credibility of a key government witness and Clemens' former teammate, Andy Pettitte.
07/14/11 share: digg facebook twitter Gabriel was convicted Wednesday of firing seven shots at Khristopher Jones, 19, described by family members as a poet who loved basketball and singing. The lengthy sentence came despite a ruling from state District Judge Angus McGinty earlier in the day barring prosecutors from telling jurors about another shooting that Gabriel was suspected of being involved in ...
07/14/11 Former Pennsylvania Game Commissioner Stephen L. Mohr admitted Tuesday to illegally buying six puppies last month that were determined to be part wolf.Mohr, 61, of 144 Race St., Bainbridge, pleaded guilty before District Judge William G. Reuter of Mount Joy to two summary counts of importing ...
07/14/11 (CNN) -- The criminal conspiracy trial of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is tentatively scheduled to begin in October, U.S. District Judge Norwood Carlton Tilley Jr. said Thursday.
07/13/11 PHOENIX - According to a press release, Jas Lucas Colelay, 23, of Whiteriver, AZ, has been sentenced by a U.S. District Judge to 190 months in prison followed by lifetime supervised release.
07/12/11 An Alabama woman has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for kidnapping a 4-day-old boy while claiming to be an immigration agent. Tammy Silas of Ardmore, Ala., was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Todd Campbell for her guilty plea to the 2009 kidnapping.
07/11/11 On June 27, Christopher Krause asked U.S. District Judge John Adams to assign him to Morgantown. He'll serve time on the campus-style grounds featuring a pond, bocce courts and a chapel situated in a verdant valley in the Appalachian Mountains three hours from Cleveland.
07/11/11 District Judge Reginald Badeaux has been censured after he failed to recuse himself from hearing the divorce case involving two of his former friends.
07/09/11 Chief U.S. District Judge Robert Pratt, the top-ranking judge for the federal court district that includes Des Moines, plans to take semi-retirement next year.
07/09/11 LAS CRUCES - Retired state District Judge Jerald A. Valentine will be honored with the Justice Seth D. Montgomery Distinguished Judicial Service Award during the State Bar of New Mexico's annual ceremony Friday at the Buffalo Thunder Resort in Santa Fe.
07/09/11 WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) -- The perjury trial of pitching great Roger Clemens has begun. U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton turned immediately today to selecting a jury from a pool of 125 Washington residents. The judge has said he hopes to find 12 jurors and four alternates by early next week for a...
07/08/11 The Associated Press The Associated Press RAPID CITY, S.D. South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley says the state hasn't decided whether to appeal a judge's order keeping the state's new abortion law from going into effect. Jackley tells KOTA-TV that he wants Gov. Dennis Daugaard, the legislature and his office to agree on a path forward after U.S. District Judge Karen Schreier's June 30 ...
07/07/11 The U.S. attorney's office says a 52-year-old Charlo woman has been sentenced to 2? years in prison after pleading guilty to embezzling nearly $677,000 from a Polson credit union over a decade. Kathleen Sammons was sentenced Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy in Missoula. | 
