Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Gail Atwater and her two young children were driving home from soccer practice in March 1997 when they realized that a rubber bat that was usually affixed to the window of their pickup truck was ...

Benton County is moving forward on a new 286-bed pod at its jail to house those charged with misdemeanors as the facility ...

What is a typical case in the American criminal justice system? If you listen to Donald Trump's tales of "American carnage" or watch the news coming out of Chicago or Baltimore, you might be tempted ...

One day after oral arguments in a high-stakes battle over whether a corporation must comply with laws and regulations that violate the religious beliefs of the family that owns the company, the ...

Just before Christmas, Janice Dotson-Stephens died in a San Antonio jail. The 61-year-old grandmother had been arrested for trespassing, a class B misdemeanor in Texas. She couldn’t afford the $300 ...

Benton County is considering building a new jail facility to house misdemeanor offenders, Sheriff Shawn Holloway said.

BOISE, Idaho. -- Some Idaho lawmakers are now looking into adding criminal charges for anyone who administers an mRNA vaccine, like a COVID or flu shot. HB 154, if passed, would amend Idaho state code ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A new Louisiana law aimed at raising fines for misdemeanor DWIs could have an unexpected consequence: flooding courtrooms with jury trials. Signed by Gov. Jeff Landry last ...

Some charges against those arrested at Spokane’s immigration enforcement protest that spurred police to deploy smoke cannisters and PepperBalls were dismissed by the Spokane County Prosecutor’s Office ...

Community members will have access to legal relief and support services at the “1 Douglass Misdemeanor Expungement Clinic and ...