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DETROIT (AP) – As guards cleared the packed courtroom, Monica Conyers yelled that she planned to appeal…

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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) – Former Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford was sentenced Friday to 15 years in federal prison for taking clothes, Rolex watches, loan payments and cash worth more than $240,000…

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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Bobby DeLaughter, a former Mississippi prosecutor and judge whose legal conquests became the subject of books and a movie, reported to federal prison…
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A federal jury has awarded $14 million to a man who spent nearly 15 years in prison after he was wrongly convicted in the 1988 slaying of a 12-year-old Boston girl…

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A jury in suburban Washington has convicted former U.S. congressman William Jefferson on 11 of 16 counts including bribery in a case in which agents found $90,000 in his freezer.

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MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press Writer (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni) ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson faces several obstacles […]