Murder & Mayhem

Jurors in the federal hate crimes trial of the three white men convicted in Ahmaud Arbery’s slaying announced Tuesday that they had reached a verdict. More

February 22, 2022

Lane, J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao are charged with depriving Floyd of his right to medical care as Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd's neck for 9 1/2 minutes. More

February 22, 2022

PALM SPRINGS, Fla. (Scripps News Tampa) — A Palm Springs, Florida woman was arrested on a charge of first-degree murder after she stabbed her husband more than 140 times and bludgeoned him with a meat cleaver, police said. According to a Palm Springs police report, Ricardo Green, 41, called 911 on the evening of Feb. […] More

February 21, 2022

Thomas Lane said he asked twice if George Floyd should be rolled onto his side, and Officer Derek Chauvin told the officers that Floyd would stay where he was. More

February 21, 2022

Three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery on a residential street acted out of "pent-up racial anger" and should be convicted of hate crimes, a federal prosecutor told a jury Monday. Defense attorneys argued that the Black man was fatally shot in self-defense and had acted suspiciously during prior trips to the neighborhood. More

February 21, 2022

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The judge who sentenced white former Officer Kim Potter on Friday to two years in prison for killing Black motorist Daunte Wright cited the difficult job that police face — and Potter’s remorse — as justification for giving her a light sentence.    Hennepin County District […] More

February 18, 2022

Defense attorneys called a single witness: a neighbor who suggested that a man they reported to police in 2019 was likely white. More

February 18, 2022

The former suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she confused her handgun for her Taser when she fatally shot Daunte Wright was sentenced Friday to two years in prison. More

February 18, 2022

A former college basketball star charged with killing his son was granted bond Wednesday morning. More

February 18, 2022

Deputies with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man for the murder of his ex-girlfriend. Wayne Lotz, was booked into the Jefferson County Jail on charges of first-degree murder, tampering with evidence and tampering with a deceased human body. More

February 17, 2022

The Rev. Al Sharpton told the hundreds gathered Thursday for the funeral for Amir Locke that the 22-year-old Black man who was shot by Minneapolis police as they served a no-knock search warrant had done nothing wrong. More

February 17, 2022

By STEVE KARNOWSKI and TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s killing testified Thursday that he didn’t act on another officer’s suggestion to roll Floyd on his side after he stopped breathing, didn’t ask Officer Derek Chauvin to check for a neck pulse and […] More

February 17, 2022

Retired police captain Curtis Reeves shot and killed Chad Oulson during an argument over cell phone usage in a movie theater. More

February 17, 2022

The three white men who pursued Ahmaud Arbery are charged with violating his civil rights and targeting him because he was Black. More

February 17, 2022

J. Alexander Kueng, one of three officers charged in connection with George Floyd's death, said he deferred to Derek Chauvin. More

February 16, 2022

BOSTON (AP) — A former Staples Inc. executive convicted of trying to bribe his three children’s way into elite universities was sentenced to serve 15 months in federal prison on Wednesday, the longest sentence so far handed down in the sprawling college admissions bribery scandal. More

February 16, 2022

A South Carolina man has been sentenced to life in prison for a killing that went unsolved for more than four decades until a DNA match helped investigators crack the case. Charles Ugvine Coleman pleaded guilty to murder Tuesday in the March 1976 death of Elizabeth Ann Howell Wilson before his trial started at the Fairfield County Courthouse More

February 16, 2022

Minnesota prosecutors have apparently backed away from their pursuit of a longer-than-usual sentence for the suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she confused her handgun for her Taser when she killed Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black motorist. More

February 16, 2022

A Las Vegas man accused of providing a 13-year-old girl with drugs, which police say led to her death, has pleaded guilty in court and now faces seven to 20 years in prison. Marcus Crowley entered a guilty plea on the charges of Voluntary Manslaughter with Use of a Deadly Weapon and Sexually Motivated Coercion on Wednesday. More

February 16, 2022

Two of the three white men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery repeatedly used racial slurs in text messages and social media posts, an FBI intelligence analyst testified. More

February 16, 2022

An Ohio woman accused of stabbing her 5-year-old daughter to death is being held on a $2 million bond. More

February 16, 2022

MINNEAPOLIS (Court TV) — The former suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she confused her gun for her Taser when she killed Daunte Wright will be sentenced Friday on two counts of manslaughter.   >>>WATCH MN v. KIM POTTER (2021) ON DEMAND<<< Prosecutors say the appropriate sentence for Kim Potter is seven years, a presumptive […] More

February 15, 2022

Curtis Reeves was accused of fatally shooting a man in movie theater during a dispute over cell phone use and popcorn. More

February 15, 2022

The funeral for Amir Locke, the 22-year-old Black man who was shot by Minneapolis police executing a search warrant, will be held Thursday in the church that hosted Daunte Wright's funeral last April. More

February 15, 2022

A former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd's killing testified Tuesday that he was relying on his fellow officers to care for Floyd's medical needs while he controlled onlookers as police tried to arrest the Black man. More

February 15, 2022

SHAWNEE, Kan. (AP) — The father of an infant killed in a house fire in suburban Kansas City, Kansas, has been charged with first-degree murder and other crimes in the case. The fire was reported around 1 a.m. Sunday in Shawnee, and firefighters battling the flames found the body of the infant inside home. The […] More

February 15, 2022

Prosecutors were to begin calling witnesses Tuesday in the federal hate crimes trial of three white men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery. On the trial's first day in the port city of Brunswick on Monday, prosecutors told the jury they have evidence that each of the defendants had a history of making racist comments. To win convictions on the hate crime charges, they must prove to the jury that Arbery was chased and fatally shot because he was Black. More

February 15, 2022

The disappearance of Savannah Spurlock launched a firestorm of public interest, but after the man accused pleaded guilty to murder and other charges in 2020, there were still many questions unanswered. More

February 15, 2022

Investigators believe Letecia Stauch killed her stepson on January 27, 2020, before driving his body to the Florida panhandle. More

February 15, 2022

The amendment would require a court to consider the defendant's potential risk to public safety when setting bail. More

February 15, 2022