In March 2023 Oakland County Circuit Judge Mary Ellen Brennan dismissed civil lawsuits against the school district and employees ruling they were entitled to governmental immunity. Under Michigan ...

Oakland County Judge Mary Ellen Brennan denied the girls immediate release and scheduled a hearing for Monday at 10 a.m.We remain hopeful that Judge Brennan reconsiders her earlier decision ...

Mary Ellen Barnes examines a jar of jam Tuesday at the Douglas County Fair. She will travel to eight county fairs this year to judge countless jars of jam, without tasting any of them. Ask Douglas ...

Judges might be the most obscure names on your ballot, but they’re quite possibly the elected official you’re most likely to ...

A Michigan judge's decision to send a 15-year-old girl to juvenile detention for violating her probation by not completing her online schoolwork during the coronavirus lockdown has prompted ...

The parents of Philadelphia teacher Ellen Greenberg are blasting what they call an "unjust" investigation into her 2011 death that was ruled a suicide after her fiancé found her in the kitchen ...

NEW YORK - A judge in Queens has ruled that the city shutting down a cannabis shop that was operating without a license was unconstitutional. The decision calls into serious question the Mayor ...

In a ruling Thursday, state District Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer stood by her July decision to dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against Baldwin. She said prosecutors did not raise ...

Mary Ellen Cagnassola is a former crime editor at PEOPLE. She left PEOPLE in 2022. Before joining PEOPLE, Mary worked as a fact-checking reporter at Newsweek in 2021 and was a lead reporter at ...

A representative for James Schwartzman, Ellen's fiancé Sam Goldberg's uncle and a distinguished judge in Pennsylvania, responded to these claims on his behalf, saying police gave him permission ...