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A former South Laurel Middle School teacher and basketball coach was sentenced to just over 20 years in federal court last week. William Trevor Goodson, 32, of Antioch, Tennessee was sentenced Jan. 28 ...

Authorities transferred Roosevelt Sifford, 24, on Sunday to the Palm Beach County Jail from a state prison facility in Lake ...

A Springfield High School student is at the Butler County jail following a shoplifting ... They will appear Feb. 5 in Butler Cunty Juvenile Court for a hearing. The Journal-News is not identifying ...

A Philadelphia man showed no emotion as a judge sent him to prison for having sexual contact with a 15-year-old girl while ...

As Allegheny County grapples with the ongoing opioid ... public safety, criminal courts, and juvenile justice. Reach her at [email protected]. Abigail Hakas is a reporter at Next ...

The leader of Florida’s Department of Juvenile Justice on Tuesday vowed to have a “good strong transition plan” for Broward’s ...

Two men admitted to robbing postal carriers for their universal mailbox keys so they could steal checks sent in the mail.

Authorities transferred Roosevelt Sifford, 24, on Sunday to the Palm Beach County Jail from a state prison facility in Lake Butler after ... Dixon also was a juvenile the day DaCosta died.

He brought up those increasingly dangerous guns when I sat down with him and three of his fellow chief juvenile officers. Sierra Elliott’s 36th Circuit covers Butler, Ripley and Carter Counties.

(KSNB) - A Doniphan teen accused of blackmailing female victims has taken a plea deal in Hall County District ... the case moved to juvenile court but District Judge Andrew Butler denied the ...