According to court transcripts, Richard T. Snyder tried to avoid serving on a jury by identifying himself as a judge and then ...

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed the funding pullback on Wednesday, saying that FEMA was ...

CLAIM: FEMA sent $59 million last week to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants. Sending this money ...

From the daily newsletter: an editor’s note from Daniel Zalewski. Plus: Jia Tolentino on Joan Didion on Martha Stewart; ...

The Democratic plan to push the special election calendar to replace Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY-21) to June in what ...

New York Chief Judge Rowan Wilson, at his State of the Judiciary address, shared the podium with the head of corrections and ...

A feature built into the body cameras worn by Marcy prison guards allowed state corrections officials to retrieve footage hours after the incident.

The South Carolina Supreme Court has set a March 7 date for the latest execution in the state's suddenly busy death chamber.

Steve Coleman was kept for 21 months after his parole date because the state could not find a nursing home placement.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Officers intentionally kept the conditions in a local Alabama jail “as filthy as possible” to convince county commissioners to increase salaries and jail budget, a ploy that ...

Chris Swanson, the high-profile sheriff of Michigan's Genesee County, is launching a Democratic bid to become the battleground state's next governor.

Demetrius Frazier became the fourth inmate in the US to be put to death by the method as he served his sentence for the 1991 ...