The Arkansas Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s decision to try a teenager as an adult for his alleged role ...

A scaled-back version of the Maryland bill to reduce auto-charging children in adult court and to house minors charged as adults in non-adult facilities is set to pass out of the State Senate on ...

The Reno-based National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges has selected 10 new courts to join their Implementation ...

SALISBURY, Md. – A proposal in Annapolis could reshape how Maryland handles serious crimes involving children.

Senators beat back four Republican amendments Wednesday to advance a bill that would reduce the number of crimes for which youth are automatically charged as an adult, with a final vote possible this ...

On April 29, 1979, the new Jackson County Juvenile Home, located on what was once the county poor farm, was dedicated.

A Butler County grand jury on March 3 indicted a Middletown police officer on two counts of dereliction of duty, court ...

A former Harvard-Westlake water polo player alleges that for years he was sexually assaulted and faced racial harassment even after reporting it to his coach and school administration.

Nearly five years after a teenager was killed in Independence, a man accused of fatally shooting her is set to stand trial as an adult.

A 16-year-old is facing charges in the armed robbery of a 15-year-old that unfolded Wednesday in the 2400 block of West ...

A sessions court on Wednesday granted bail to the father of the juvenile allegedly involved in last month’s fatal accident in Vidyavihar that claimed the life of Ghatkopar-based businessman Dhrumil ...

The Maryland Senate advanced a bill to move 7 charges from the adult to juvenile system, with supporters saying it leads to ...