A transnational smuggling ring that left a Guatemalan man to die in 100-degree heat has been dismantled, with five members receiving federal prison sentences. CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Five members of a ...

Inmates in Texas prisons want a federal court to force the state to provide air-conditioning for all of its prison cells. By Lauren McGaughy Reporting from Austin. A federal judge in Austin will soon ...

A federal case that is set to go to trial on Monday could force Texas to air-condition dozens of its prisons, as attorneys argue the state is exposing inmates, guards and other staff members to ...

The potentially record-shattering heat wave roasting California this week reminds Lawrence Cox of the people locked in suffocating state prison cells with no windows. Temperatures inside aging prison ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A woman imprisoned for shooting her husband to death in a widely publicized 1993 crime was released on Thursday after Gov. Mike DeWine commuted her sentence. On Tuesday, DeWine ...

A man who raped, stabbed and murdered a 19-year-old Indianapolis woman more than 30 years ago was sentenced to 45 years in prison on Friday, closing a decades-old cold case. Dana Shepherd, 53, was ...

A former Miami Heat security officer has been sentenced to three years in federal prison and ordered to pay nearly $1.9 million in restitution for stealing hundreds of game-worn jerseys and other ...

This fire was coming from inside the house. Marcos Thomas Perez, a former security officer for the Heat, was sentenced to three years in federal prison and is ordered to pay $1.9 million in ...

FILE - Miami Heat's LeBron James (6) gestures after a play against the San Antonio Spurs during the first half in Game 7 of the NBA basketball championships, June 20 ...