Murder & Mayhem

Authorities didn't immediately say if the 42-year-old suspect was the dead children's mother. More

September 15, 2022

Judge Elizabeth Scherer called the decision without warning to her or the prosecution “the most uncalled for, unprofessional way to try a case.” More

September 14, 2022

Officials say Robert Telles had superficial self-inflicted wounds when he was arrested Sept. 7 after a brief standoff with police at his home. More

September 14, 2022

Fetal alcohol researcher testifies school shooter Nikolas Cruz’s birth mother drank more during pregnancy than any woman he’s ever seen documented. More

September 13, 2022

Robert Telles stood in shackles in a Las Vegas courtroom as his lawyer requested the delay, which prosecutors did not oppose. More

September 13, 2022

At 5, tests showed Nikolas Cruz had impairments in 10 intellectual categories including memory, reasoning, language and impulsivity, a doctor said. More

September 13, 2022

Three young children were found dead off New York's Coney Island boardwalk. Police believe they were drowned by their mother. More

September 12, 2022

Defendant George Wagner IV was charged in Pike County Court in the 2016 slayings of the Rhoden family near Piketon in southern Ohio. More

September 12, 2022

Chaos reigned in the home where Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz grew up, testimony in his ongoing penalty trial has shown. More

September 12, 2022

Florida teen Noah Galle is accused of driving a BMW at 151 mph near Delray Beach, rear-ending an SUV, killing six farmworkers inside. More

September 9, 2022

Darrell Brooks, the man accused in the Waukesha Christmas Parade attack in Wisconsin, withdrew his plea of not guilty by insanity in court on Friday. More

September 9, 2022

Authorities say Las Vegas reporter Jeff German's investigation and follow-up stories were the motivation for Robert Telles to fatally stab German. More

September 9, 2022

Surveillance footage at the Kroger captured the moment Taahviya Chapman barrels toward the two men near the doors of the grocery store. More

September 9, 2022

The DNA of a jailed elected official who was angered by past and upcoming newspaper stories was found on the hands of a Las Vegas investigative reporter who fought for his life while being stabbed to death outside his home, authorities said Thursday. More

September 9, 2022

Charles Adelson is accused of hiring hit men to kill his ex-brother-in-law in 2014, FSU law professor Dan Markel. More

September 9, 2022

A Washington state teen who was the center of a missing person case is now accused of murdering his mother's ex-boyfriend. More

September 8, 2022

A Las Vegas-area elected public official was arrested Wednesday as the suspect in the fatal stabbing of a veteran newspaper reporter. More

September 7, 2022

The survivors who were able to walk out of Sandy Hook Elementary School nearly a decade ago want to share a message of hope with the children of Uvalde. More

September 7, 2022

A Tennessee judge revoked bond Wednesday for a man charged with killing a Memphis woman who was abducted during a pre-dawn run near a university campus. More

September 7, 2022

Investigators are serving search warrants related to the Sept. 3 homicide of Las Vegas investigative reporter Jeff German. More

September 7, 2022

A Florida judge denied Courtney Clenney’s request to limit the release of "irrelevant and prejudicial" smartphone evidence. More

September 6, 2022

Lawmakers crafted a major bipartisan law on gun violence. The measure, signed by President Joe Biden, was part of a response to a string of shootings over the summer, including the slaying of 19 children at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. The package included tougher background checks for the youngest gun buyers and help for states to put in place “red flag” laws that make it easier for authorities to take weapons from people adjudged dangerous. More

September 6, 2022

Students in Uvalde went back to school Tuesday for the first time since a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers in a classroom attack. More

September 6, 2022

Longtime Las Vegas journalist and investigative reporter Jeff German was found dead outside his home Saturday morning. More

September 6, 2022

Eliza Fletcher, a schoolteacher, is the granddaughter of the late Joseph Orgill III, a Memphis hardware businessman and philanthropist. More

September 5, 2022

Jurors deliberated for about 35 hours over six days in Dana Chandler's trial, who is accused of killing her ex-husband and his girlfriend. More

September 2, 2022

In a failed attempt to bar the admission into evidence several swastikas Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz drew on assignments, his attorneys made an unusual argument Thursday at his penalty trial: he was an equal opportunity killer who shot his victims without regard to race or religion. More

September 1, 2022

A judge set a March 20 trial date for 17-year-old Willard Miller, who is charged with first-degree murder in the beating death of 66-year-old Iowa high school Spanish teacher Nohema Graber. Another student, Jeremy Everett Goodale, also is charged with murder in Graber's death. More

September 1, 2022

A 14-year-old Wisconsin boy accused of killing Lily Peters, a 10-year-old girl, after luring her off a trial by suggesting they explore surrounding woods plans to waive his right to a preliminary hearing. More

September 1, 2022

Attorneys for the DOJ argued in the 39-page brief that Roof “fails to identify any meaningful disagreement in the lower courts” over how his legal representation played out at trial. More

September 1, 2022