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WASHINGTON — The outcome of a fight over a Louisiana law regulating abortion providers could signal whether a fortified conservative majority on the Supreme Court is willing to cut back on abortion rights. The high court is expected to decide ...

Rose Ann Hlavka came home to the modest brick apartment building just northwest of Portland, Oregon’s downtown around 10 p.m. expecting to find her 20-year-old sister, Anna Marie. The siblings not only shared a home but they both worked at ...

The 2013 weapon conviction of a woman who has already served her sentence has been upheld in a split decision by a state appeals court, with a dissent filed by the minority. Bernadine Young, who is also known as Bernadine ...

BUFFALO — After being locked up for 27 years for a murder he didn’t commit, Valentino Dixon has shed the confines of prison in a big way, logging thousands of miles during his first few months of freedom to field ...

A state appeals court reversed a Monroe County Family Court decision to terminate the parental rights of a woman with a history of mental illness. On Dec. 20, 2016, Judge Patricia E. Gallaher terminated the rights on the ground of ...

RICHMOND, Va. — To get elected as a district attorney, sounding tough on crime used to be the most effective campaign strategy. But in recent years, district attorneys have been winning elections by sounding big on reform. In January, at ...

WASHINGTON — Two class-action lawsuits that could come before the Supreme Court this term seek to determine just how bad a cybersecurity lapse must be before customers can sue. In both cases, federal appeals court judges formally approved lawsuits by ...

Mayor Lovely A. Warren on Friday announced the appointment of Melissa Barrett as Rochester City Court judge. Barrett, who has worked as a principal court attorney and as a defense counsel in the city court, fills the seat vacated by ...

Jeb Tyler, the former vice president of multi-level marketing company 5LINX, was sentenced to 14 months in federal prison Wednesday for defrauding investors. Tyler, 45, pleaded guilty in June to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and filing a false tax ...

The Wintergarden at Legacy Tower was once again the setting for the Monroe County Bar Association’s Bench and Bar celebration Thursday night.  MCBA Executive Director Kevin Ryan and his staff greeted guests as they arrived. Ryan later introduced MCBA President ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Several national fraternities and sororities sued Harvard University on Monday over a 2016 rule that discourages students from joining single-gender social clubs, marking the first legal challenge to the school’s policy. Two fraternities and two sororities filed ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday called for his former attorney Michael Cohen to serve a “full and complete” sentence, weighing in on the fate of a onetime loyalist who is arguing that he does not deserve prison time ...