Two judges in Luzerne County, Penn., have reportedly agreed to plead guilty and resign from office in an ongoing federal investigation of $2.6 million that authorities say the judges were…
Reversing a trial judge, a Washington appeals court struck down today as unconstitutional a state law permitting a juvenile accused of chronic truancy to have his or her case initially…
Prosecutors say they likely will agree to exclude a confession by an 8-year-old Arizona boy questioned about the murder of his father without the presence of a lawyer or family…
Responding to a report that three white prostitutes were soliciting, plainclothes police officers in Galveston, Texas, wound up arresting a 12-year outside her home one August day in 2006, according…
Prosecutors said yesterday that the 8-year-old boy accused of murdering his father and the father’s friend methodically reloaded a .22-caliber rifle as he committed the crime, pumping at least four…
An 8-year-old Arizona boy appears in court today after being charged with two counts of premeditated murder in the shooting deaths of his father and a co-worker.
Rejecting an insanity defense, a Florida jury last night convicted a teenager who was 14 at the time he admittedly stabbed a middle school classmate to death of first-degree murder.
Although he stopped short of appointing the receiver sought by reform advocates, a California judge said at a hearing in Oakland yesterday that the state’s youth prisons are in serious…
A teenage son who allegedly murdered his father, a Maryland lawyer, his mother and two younger brothers as they slept earlier this year will be tried as an adult, a…