Judge says Florida teen unfit for trial
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A teenager accused of raping an 8-year-girl and leaving her for dead in an abandoned landfill has been declared mentally incompetent and unfit to stand trial.
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17-year-old is punished for call to school official's home to ask why school had not been canceled.
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A 15-year-old girl is to spend Christmas in custody because she is "out of control", a High Court judge rules.
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MIAMI - A teen whose life sentence in the beating death of a 6-year-old playmate was thrown out on appeal went before a judge yesterday on charges he violated his probation by walking around late at night with a pocket knife.
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Children can be forced to testify against a parent in criminal proceedings if they do not live with the parent, the state's highest court ruled Tuesday in the case of a man charged with raping two of his daughter's teenage friends.
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A homeless street preacher accused in the sensational 2002 kidnapping of Utah teen Elizabeth Smart was again found mentally unfit to stand trial on Monday after he screamed at a judge to repent and was forcibly removed from court.
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SANTA MARIA, Calif.  - A judge refused on Monday  to order the teenage boy who accuses Michael Jackson of  molesting him to be examined by a psychiatrist chosen by the  pop star's lawyers.
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A Florida law that allows students at failing public schools to attend private schools at taxpayers' expense is unconstitutional, a state appeals court ruled Monday.
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A 14-year-old boy accused of fatally slashing a classmate in a school restroom may stand trial despite having a mental illness, a judge ruled Wednesday.
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PENSACOLA, Fla. &#151; A teen's death at a juvenile boot camp has led to a shake-up in Florida's criminal justice system, the resignation of Florida's top law enforcement officer, and now aggravated manslaughter charges for seven former guards and a nurse.
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A judge has ruled that a 16-year-old boy fighting to use alternative treatment for his cancer must report to a hospital by Tuesday and accept treatment that doctors deem necessary, the family's attorney said.
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Heating up: What's wrong with the way Shelby County's Juvenile Court works? The debate over adding a second judge to the court has brought long-simmering issues to a boil. V1  Behind bars: Presidential hopeful Sen.
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A man who had consensual sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17 is not eligible for release on bail while appealing his 10-year prison sentence, a judge ruled Wednesday.
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Teen faces prison for unleashing malicious variant of MS Blaster worm last year.
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A 16-year-old accused of videotaping two youngsters who were taught to smoke pot has been ordered to remain in the custody of Tarrant County juvenile authorities.
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A US federal judge started hearing a lawsuit calling for the inclusion on Florida's voter rolls of about 10,000 people whose registration forms were rejected because they were not properly filled out.
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A 17-year-old Romanian foreign exchange student was arraigned Monday in Osceola County Circuit Court.