ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The CEO of what had been one of the nation’s largest privately held mortgage lenders was sentenced Tuesday to more than three years in prison for his role in a $3 billion scheme that officials called one ...

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Maryland State Police say an inmate is back in custody one day after he escaped from the state prison complex near Hagerstown. They say Baltimore City Police detectives and a state police fugitive team captured 36-year-old Jerome Taylor shortly after ...

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WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Friday overturned an order releasing a Yemeni detainee from Guantanamo Bay and ruled that circumstantial evidence of terrorist ties can be enough to keep a prisoner. Government attorneys argued Hussain Salem Mohammad Almerfedi ...

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Eugene E. Gardner would have been better off had he not appealed his armed-robbery conviction and the 25-year prison sentence he received at trial. But Gardner appealed both his guilt and punishment in quick succession to two separate panels. First, ...

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Criminal Law Escape BOTTOM LINE: The defendants’ convictions for second-degree escape were legally valid even though the convictions were predicated on their failure to obey a court order was legally invalid. CASE: Hill, et al. v. State, No. 93, Sept. ...

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WASHINGTON — Some prisoners already serving time should benefit from a new law that lowers sentences for crack cocaine offenses, but only if their crimes did not involve weapons and they do not have lengthy arrest records, U.S. Attorney General ...

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has turned down an appeal from Guantanamo detainees who fear they may be tortured or jailed if they are released from the U.S. naval base in Cuba. The justices on Monday rejected a plea from ...

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that California must drastically reduce its prison population to relieve severe overcrowding that has exposed inmates to increased violence, disease and death. The decision, however, doesn’t mean the prison gates will ...

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MUNICH — Retired U.S. autoworker John Demjanjuk was convicted of thousands of counts of acting as an accessory to murder at a Nazi death camp and sentenced on Thursday to five years in prison, a groundbreaking verdict that closed one ...

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ROCKVILLE — A Monrovia woman has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for attacking her boyfriend’s pregnant daughter-in-law with a stun gun. Thirty-nine-year-old Christine DeVaux was sentenced Tuesday in Montgomery County Circuit Court in Rockville. She pleaded guilty in ...

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