EVERETT — The legalese, stacks of paperwork and courtroom procedures all can be a complicated maze to maneuver for anyone who steps into a courthouse. The confusion is compounded for people whose ...

It wasn’t your garden-variety pot case for court interpreter Lisa McNaughton. Two marijuana growers were charged with killing a man in the hills above Healdsburg, and a former employee was testifying ...

A Rockland County resident sued the county’s drug court and the state court system last Friday, accusing court officials of barring him from a diversion program because of his limited English ...

BETHEL -- Imagine going to court -- but everyone's speaking a language you barely understand, using words that aren't even directly translatable. In the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, where elders and even ...

Angel Coeto Salas, at left, describes before the court, with the help of an interpreter, what he witnessed on Nov. 24 during a fatal hit-and-run, Wed. Dec. 31, 2014. 29-year-old Galina Stoyanova ...

Federal law enforcement began investigating California’s courts seven years ago after receiving complaints that two Korean-speaking women in Los Angeles had been denied court interpreters. Courts in ...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) - Prosecutors had nearly wrapped up their case against a man accused of robbing six Iraqi immigrants in Aurora when the judge announced that the pair of Arabic interpreters ...

Interpreter use in South Dakota courtrooms has more than doubled in the last decade, according to the Unified Judicial System. Requests for translation services, which cost the state more than $26,000 ...

Almost daily, people stumble into the high-stakes world of criminal and civil court seeking justice — but the already daunting atmosphere is made even more intimidating by the fact that they don't ...