Colleen Dugan Schearer bested Jason Bowen to replace retiring District Judge Dean Patton to serve Laureldale and Muhlenberg Township.

When Kevin Stoltz shared his reaction with the Mirror Tuesday evening following his victory in the Northern Blair County magisterial district judge race, he was at home with the team that helped shepherd him through the campaign against Suzanne Bigelow-Cherry in the spring primary and fall general election.

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered government officials to provide immigration detainees at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview enough food, water and bed space.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging the deportation of a doctor from Lebanon who was deported from Boston’s Logan Airport earlier this year despite having a visa after immigration officials said she supported a Hezbollah leader and attended his funeral.

A public complaint was issued by the Judicial Tenure Commission against Taylor District Court Judge Joseph Slaven in May, alleging he used his position to support another judicial candidate, publicly berated his chief judge and flipped off a camera at the courthouse on nine occasions.

We’ve always talked about it since I was young, about legacy building, and this was always the goal in the back of my mind forever,” said the newly minted attorney.

District Judge Gail Horne Ray was recused before a December trial for a suspect in the Madison Brooks rape case.

U.S. District Judge Rodney Sippel, of the Eastern District of Missouri, threatened to disqualify Doe Run's lawyers in an Oct. 29 order as part of long-running litigation involving lead exposure from a Peruvian land mine.