The plan to forgo jury trials for defendants charged with lower-level crimes is aimed at easing an 80,000-case backlog in a court system booked as far out as 2030.

The British government has announced changes to the right to trial by jury to address a backlog in the justice system.

Home Secretary David Lammy says some jury trials are to be scrapped in a bid to clear court case backlog.

The backlog caused by the dockworkers' 72-hour strike that closed 36 ports from Maine to Texas this week — including the Port of New York and New Jersey — could take between two to three weeks to ...

Tuesday at 6 p.m.: NBC 5 Investigates senior reporter Scott Friedman talks with Fort Worth Chief of Police Neil Noakes about what the police department will do to prevent another backlog and what it ...

The UK government on Tuesday tabled a new set of judicial reforms in Parliament that will scrap jury trials for crimes that carry a likely sentence of less than three years to fast-track the process ...

Houston officials plan to hire extra crews to speed up the city's heavy trash collection after delays have caused frustration among residents.

A federal judge on Nov. 1 said HHS must clear its backlog of more than 400,000 Medicare reimbursement appeals from hospitals by the end of fiscal year 2022. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered ...

Commissioner of Education Karla Eslinger apologizes to child care providers for months-delayed payments during widespread problems with the child care subsidy program. Missouri child care providers ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House is weighing a plan to clear a record backlog of requests from small refineries for exemptions from U.S. biofuel laws, which could include approving many current ...

Oregon Senate lawmakers called in officials from the state Department of Education this week to explain why the agency is ...