A Central Florida judge is facing a public reprimand after court records show he asked a Black defendant during a plea hearing whether she had ever “chopped cotton.”

A Wisconsin man accused of killing his parents and stealing their money to fund his plan to assassinate President Donald Trump has pleaded guilty to homicide.

Three members of a violent cultlike group will be tried together on charges of trespassing and illegal gun and drug possession in rural western Maryland.

A West Virginia couple has received the maximum sentences for abusing their adopted children.

We learned today that a man in Orange County was sentenced to 25 years in prison after shooting his girlfriend in the back, leading to her death, according to the Orange County Circuit Court.

A woman accused with her husband of forcing their adopted children to perform hard labor denied confining two of the children to a shed.

A judge has refused to allow a Michigan school shooter to withdraw his guilty plea to two dozen charges, including terrorism and first-degree murder.

The teen suspect in a shooting that injured 10 people at Cabana Live last month is expected to appear in court.

A federal judge has postponed sentencing for six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges for torturing two Black men.

A judge has handed down the last sentences involving a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

A man charged with attempted murder who escaped from a psychiatric hospital in Oregon while fully shackled was arrested after he was found floundering in a muddy pond.

Prosecutors in Michigan have notched another conviction in a 2020 plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

A liberal Milwaukee judge and a conservative former state Supreme Court justice have won Tuesday’s primary to face off in a Wisconsin Supreme Court race that will determine majority control.

A conservative tilt on the Wisconsin Supreme Court has given Republicans victories in high-stakes cases in recent years, from voting restrictions to gerrymandered legislative districts.

Amber Heard has notified a Virginia court that she intends to appeal the $10 million judgment she was ordered to pay ex-husband Johnny Depp during a high-profile defamation trial.

The judge in the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial has made a jury’s multimillion-dollar award official.

More than $1.4 million has been raised for a man who spent 43 years behind bars before a judge overturned his conviction in a triple killing.

People must claim funds by Sept. 1.