A DeSoto County inmate who escaped from a courthouse last summer is expected to be in court Friday for a pretrial conference.

A Mississippi capitol murder fugitive was apprehended in Vero Beach after evading authorities for nearly a month.

A Folcroft woman who threatened to throw her infant child down a hill last year and later stabbed her mother was sentenced to 11½ to 23 months in the county jail. Shylia Nesmith, 24, of the 2100 block ...