State legislatures are grappling with how to fund new prisons that Republican governors say are needed to ease overcrowding. A proposal to build a 3,000-inmate prison in Arkansas hit a roadblock in ...

One of two North American river otters who escaped from a Wisconsin zoo last month has returned home safe and sound. Louie and Ophelia got through a hole in a fence at the NEW Zoo & Adventure Park in ...

New York state prisons will release some inmates early because the system does not have enough corrections officers, weeks after the state fired more than 2,000 guards who went on strike over poor ...

An angry judge in Boston is holding an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in contempt after he detained a suspect while he was on trial. Boston Municipal Court Judge Mark Summerville made ...

A plea deal reveals that an Alabama sheriff’s deputy will plead guilty to assaulting a man suffering from a mental health crisis. Carl Carpenter has agreed to plead guilty to two counts of deprivation ...

A Glens Falls man has been arrested in a Saratoga County stabbing. Richard E. Daniels III, 25, is accused of stabbing a ...

Marcus Lewis, 33, of Tuscaloosa, was charged with two counts of criminal possession of a weapon. Lewis was arraigned in Albany City Criminal Court and sent to Albany County Jail. Bail was set at ...

Hoosick Falls Middle School is the winner of New York State's first “What's So Cool About Manufacturing” video competition in ...

The county is allowing a limited number of food truck vendors to set up for the lunch hour at the Washington County Municipal Center at 383 Broadway, Fort Edward. Spaces will be made available in the ...