Francisco Garcia had nothing to lose. Convicted of attempted murder and other crimes, a life in prison loomed ahead.

Allegheny County Council struck down a measure Wednesday night to partly reverse the ban on restraining prisoners with leg ...

At the start of a Thursday hearing, Superior Court Judge Keith O. Gregory said the first thing he wants address is to set a ...

Police in Austin, Texas have arrested five people accused of holding a half-naked woman captive in a backyard for months. They also starved her and repeatedly shot her with BB guns. The disturbing ...

“The jail must be replaced with a facility that is designed prescriptively for sustainable cost-effectiveness, improved ...

It's just freak luck that no one has died in Batavia in the last two years," one advocate said of medical treatment in the ...

We have two parties who have made totally opposite assertions about the facts, the impact, the health [of women], the ...

At a meeting Wednesday, Allegheny County Council rejected an effort to overturn a ban on leg shackles at the jail.

A historic court order for a former United Nations peacekeeper to pay child support for a daughter he fathered while stationed in Haiti raises hopes for dozens of other mothers seeking similar claims ...

Tomas Kaan Jimenez-Guzal and Milo Sedarat, both 19, were arrested on Tuesday, with both teens living in $1 million-plus ...

A fourth lawsuit has been filed against a former Kanawha County deputy who was accused earlier this year of sexually ...

An Afghan asylum seeker has been charged with murder after allegedly stabbing his female boss to death, following German ...