Woman Who Set Colo. Fire Won't Face Prison
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An appeals court Thursday threw out a former U.S. Forest Service employee's 12-year prison sentence for starting the biggest wildfire in Colorado history.
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HOUSTON Hours before she was to have been executed Wednesday in the murders of her husband and children, a Texas woman was spared when Governor Rick Perry granted her a 120-day reprieve to review disputed evidence that convicted her.
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A woman who spent about two years in prison for the stabbing death of her 10-year-old son was acquitted at her retrial Wednesday, after the defense insisted the murder was carried out by a masked intruder, possibly a Texas death-row inmate who has confessed.
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By Eric Louie, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Sep. 14--An Alameda County prosecutor said he will not ask a judge to force the mother of a murder suspect to remove trial-related postings she made on a MySpace.com page set up for her daughter.
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EASTPOINTE, Mich. - A 23-year-old woman ticketed by police after a friend was talking on a cell phone outside her home following a barbecue has landed in jail for violating the city's noise ordinance.
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The mother of six of seven children killed in an apartment fire was charged Tuesday with involuntary manslaughter after investigators discovered she was visiting a neighbor at the time, a prosecutor said.
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FORT LEWIS, Wash., Oct. 4 -- A soldier who said she was sexually harassed by noncommissioned officers and refused to return to Iraq will face a military trial.
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An immigration activist who took refuge in a church after the government ordered her deported to Mexico said Saturday she will remain holed up there, even though a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed on her behalf.
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A woman accused of running a high-end Washington prostitution ring cannot demand documents from ABC News as part of her defense strategy, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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By Terrie Morgan-Besecker, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times Leader  Sep. 12--WILKES-BARRE -- A federal magistrate has recommended that Denise Carey be permitted to continue with a lawsuit that said the city retaliated against her for speaking out against the closure of a fire station near her home.
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A man who went to prison two decades ago for setting his 6-year-old son on fire in a custody dispute was found guilty Tuesday of illegally possessing a gun &#151; a conviction that could send him to prison for life.
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The owners of a nightclub where a 2003 fire killed 100 people will plead no contest to involuntary manslaughter charges, and only one will have to serve prison time, their lawyer said Wednesday. Victims' relatives were outraged.
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A federal judge ruled that Gregory L. Reyes, convicted in August of stock-options manipulation, is not entitled to a new trial.
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SAN MATEO, Calif. - A woman who has covered her roof and property with painted slogans she calls messages from God has been ordered to remove them or face possible fines or jail time.
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A County Antrim woman is given two years probation for trying to conceal the birth of a baby by setting fire to its body.
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A woman who was fired while preparing to undergo sex-change surgery was let go in violation of state anti-discrimination law, the head of Colorado's civil rights agency has ruled.
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FORT HOOD, Texas  - A military judge on Monday  rejected a motion to dismiss charges against the suspected  ringleader of abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison after lawyers  questioned whether he could get a fair trial.