District Court

A federal judge has ordered New York City to install crosswalk signals to aid blind people and those with bad eyesight in more than 9,000 intersections over the next 10 years

A woman identified as Jane Doe 15 is suing the estate of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, alleging he preyed upon, trafficked and sexually abused her when she was 15. The woman, now 31, who spoke at a news conference Tuesday with her attorney Gloria Allred said she grew up in a poor family in the Midwest. According to the lawsuit,...

A suspended New York judge has pleaded guilty to attempted burglary for trying to sneak into a neighbor’s home to steal her underwear.

Heather Waldron and John Hawley are losing their four-bedroom house in the hills above Blacksburg, Va. A teenage daughter, one of their five children, sold her clothes for spending money. They worried about paying the electric bill. Financial disaster, they say, contributed to their divorce, finalized in April. Their money problems began when the University of Virginia Health System pursued...

A federal appeals court has renewed a free-speech battle over a town ordinance that created a buffer zone around a health clinic that performs abortions in northern New Jersey.

A federal judge is threatening American Airlines mechanics with fines and other punishment if they carry out what American claims is an illegal work slowdown that’s causing flight cancellations.

A federal judge is threatening American Airlines mechanics with fines and other punishment if they carry out what American claims is an illegal work slowdown that’s causing flight cancellations.

A judge declined Wednesday to grant a temporary injunction that would have extended a 14-day temporary restraining order that kept a 9-year-old Grand Prairie girl on life support at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth.

A hand-written document called “Phases of a Terrorist Attack” was seized from a remote New Mexico desert compound where authorities found 11 children living in wretched conditions and, later, a dead 3-year-old boy, prosecutors said. The document, cited in a court filing Friday by state prosecutors, included vague instructions for “the one-time terrorist” and mentioned an unnamed place called “the...

The suspected child abductor found last week with 11 children and four other adults at a squalid New Mexico compound had trained at least one of the minors to use an assault rifle in preparation for a school shooting, prosecutors said in court documents filed on Wednesday. The children, who officials have said were between the ages of 1 and...

Federal judges in New York have taken the unusual step of voting to keep U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman in his job as the chief prosecutor in Manhattan in the absence of a nomination by President Donald Trump. Berman’s Jan. 3 interim appointment by the Justice Department to oversee an office of over 220 prosecutors was set to expire May 4....

A New York judge who police say repeatedly broke into his Long Island neighbor’s home to steal her underwear has been formally suspended.

Silent in his public comments for five and a half years, Rod Blagojevich has no apologies to offer. After all, he still insists he did nothing wrong. And that he will prove it.

A federal appeals court has overturned the corruption conviction of former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, citing in its Thursday decision a U.S. Supreme Court ruling from last year that limited the type of official misconduct on which such prosecution can be based.

A federal lawsuit brought by a so-called “Dreamer” deported to Mexico has been assigned to District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel, the jurist famously attacked last year by President Donald Trump. Juan Manuel Montes, 23, filed a complaint Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, alleging the government did not provide any documentation explaining the legality...

An advocacy group is suing the Department of Homeland Security to release details about every time United States border officers have searched travelers’ electronic devices over the past five years, NBC News reported. The Knight First Amendment Institute alleges in documents filed Monday that recent reporting by NBC News shows that U.S. border officers are acting unconstitutionally, violating both the...

A judge on Friday postponed the first trial over a 2015 Central Texas gunfight involving rival motorcycle gangs that left nine people dead, 20 others hurt and more than 150 bikers charged.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez’s appeal of his corruption indictment, setting the stage for a federal trial in the fall.

A prominent Florida eye doctor tied to a U.S. senator’s alleged corruption built much of his fortune by defrauding Medicare and instilling false hopes in his patients, a federal prosecutor told a jury Thursday.

An Idaho judge has ordered a 19-year-old man not to have sex with anyone before he marries as part of his sentencing for statutory rape of a 14-year-old girl. Judge Randy Stoker sentenced Cody Duane Scott Herrera of Twin Falls to five to 15 years in prison, but he suspended the sentence for a one-year rider program. If the unmarried...