Michael Jace, who is probably best known as an actor who portrayed a cop on the TV show “The Shield,†may end up spending the rest of his life behind bars for killing his wife. Jace was recently sentenced by a Los Angeles judge to a minimum term of incarceration of 40 years, with a …

Ryan Collins, the man who set off a media circus when he illegally hacked into the online accounts of Hollywood celebrities and stole their private nude photos, is headed to federal prison after pleading guilty to charges of illegally accessing a protected computer. Collins, a 36-year-old resident of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, recently appeared in federal court …

Hawaii lawmakers are pushing for a law that would require state residents who own handguns to have their information entered into a database maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The FBI database would then be updated anytime a resident of Hawaii was arrested in another state. When a person in the database is …

The U.S. Justice Department recently released a letter that asks state governors to change policies on granting state-issued IDs to federal inmates who’ve served their sentences and are headed back to their local communities. The federal criminal investigation and enforcement agency is calling on governors to make it easier for convicted felons to obtain state …

New Jersey officials have fundamentally altered the state’s official policy on stun gun use by law enforcement. The policy changes were recently announced by Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman, who indicated that the new guidelines would provide police officers with clearer direction on how to use the devices as a lifesaving alternative during potentially …

NJ Gov. Chris Christie recently signed off on A206, a bill that will make it easier for some individuals in New Jersey with criminal records to get those records expunged and move on with their lives. Expunging a Felony Under previous New Jersey law, a person who had been arrested or convicted of a felony-level …