Palm Beach attorney Robert Montgomery Jr., who represented the state of Florida in a landmark lawsuit against tobacco companies, has died. He was 78.

After serving eight months behind bars for a conviction of receiving stolen property, Annette McWashington Pruitt was excited about the prospect of being able to vote again.One of her first stops after being released from prison was the Jefferson County...

A former Alabama state trooper is scheduled to go on trial in October for a slaying that occurred on darkened streets during a historic civil rights demonstration in Marion in 1965.Circuit Judge Tommy Jones declined to dismiss an indictment against...

Two large pharmaceutical companies said Thursday they will appeal a jury verdict ordering them to pay more than $114 million for overcharging the state’s Medicaid program for prescription drugs.GlaxoSmithKline PLC and Novartis AG announced plans to...

Former track star Tim Montgomery has pleaded guilty to a federal heroin distribution charge days before he was set to go to trial in Virginia.Montgomery entered the plea Thursday and faces a minimum of five years in prison.The Olympic gold medalist and...

Prescription drug company GlaxoSmithKline says it will appeal a nearly $81 million verdict in a lawsuit that accused it of overcharging Alabama’s Medicaid program.A jury in Montgomery on Tuesday found the company liable. It also found Novartis...

A former track star who had been scheduled for trial next week on heroin distribution charges instead has opted for a plea hearing Thursday.Olympic gold medalist Tim Montgomery’s plea agreement hearing is set for 2 p.m. in U.S. District Court in...

A jury has ordered two pharmaceutical companies to pay $114 million to Alabama for overcharging for Medicaid prescription drugs.The jury found that GlaxoSmithKline should pay the state nearly $81 million in compensatory damages and that Novartis should...

The Alabama parole board has again denied an early release for a black man who was convicted in the 1964 rape and murder of a pregnant white woman.The three-member board turned down Johnnie Daniel Beecher’s bid for parole Tuesday.Beecher was a fugitive...

An attorney for Alabama asked jurors Monday to award the state as much as $800 million from two pharmaceutical companies accused of overcharging for Medicaid drugs.The state claims GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis engaged in fraud from 1991 to 2005,...