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DENVER (Scripps News Colorado Springs) – The judge who presided over the trial and original sentence for Rogel Aguilera-Mederos in the deadly I-70 truck driving crash criticized Gov. Jared Polis in an order Tuesday for commuting the truck driver’s sentence from 110 years to 10. Jefferson County District Court Judge Bruce Jones wrote in the […] More
January 6, 2022
A Batavia, N.Y. man has been charged with manslaughter and for endangering the welfare of a child after his wife died while they were overdosing on drugs. Makeen Ithna-Asheri was charged with manslaughter in the 2nd degree and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child after his wife, Anda Ithna-Asheri died following an overdose in front of their children. More
January 6, 2022
Three former Minneapolis police officers charged with federal civil rights violations in George Floyd's death will go on trial Jan. 20. More
January 6, 2022
In addition to the stimulus payment, convicted Boston Marathon bomber DzhokharTsarnaev has received money from dozens of sources during his incarceration. More
January 6, 2022
The three men convicted of felony murder and other violent crimes for the 2020 death of Ahmaud Arbery will return to court Friday for a hearing to determine their punishment. More
January 6, 2022
An Illinois child welfare worker was stabbed to death during a home visit in a town south of Springfield. Diedre Silas, investigator for the state Department of Children and Family Services, was conducting a welfare check on children living in the home in Thayer when she was stabbed. Benjamin H. Reed. Reed is charged with first degree murder and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon in the stabbing death. More
January 5, 2022
A judge on Wednesday denied bail to the second of two people charged with killing one police officer and wounding another at a northern Illinois hotel last week. Darius Sullivan, 25, and Xandria Harris, 26, are charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder in the Dec. 29 attack that killed 49-year-old Bradley police Sgt. Marlene Rittmanic and wounded her partner, Officer Tyler Bailey, who remains in critical condition. More
January 5, 2022
An attorney for a man accused of driving his son to a Dallas-area gas station store where the 14-year-old is accused of fatally shooting three teens and wounding a fourth says the father didn't know his son had a gun. Attorney Heath Harris told The Dallas Morning News he believes evidence will show that 33-year-old Richard Acosta, who is charged with capital murder, is innocent. More
January 4, 2022
A judge delayed the trial for Theodore Edgecomb, who is charged with reckless homicide in the death of Jason CLeereman. More
January 3, 2022
Drew Peterson, the former Chicago-area police sergeant who was convicted in 2012 of killing his third wife, is set to return to court this month after a judge agreed to hear his motion to vacate the verdict. More
January 3, 2022
By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday shortened the prison sentence of a truck driver convicted in a deadly crash to 10 years, drastically reducing his original 110-year term that drew widespread outrage. The decision on Rogel Aguilera-Mederos’ sentence was among several year-end commutations and pardons issued by […] More
December 31, 2021
The sex-trafficking trial of Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, ended with a guilty verdict, but that hasn’t stopped the flow of false news that has swirled around the case. On Thursday, posts emerged falsely claiming that trial documents were sealed to protect Epstein — who died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial for sex crimes […] More
December 31, 2021
By MALLIKA SEN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — With Wednesday’s guilty verdict in the sex-trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, here’s a look at what the once high-flying Jeffrey Epstein confidante was accused of and what’s next for her: WHO WERE GHISLAINE MAXWELL’S ACCUSERS? The prosecution hinged on the accusations of four women — Annie Farmer and the […] More
December 30, 2021
LONDON (AP) — Prince Andrew wasn’t on trial in the Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking case but her conviction is bad news for the man who is ninth in line to the British throne. With the conclusion of the Maxwell case, attention will now turn to a U.S. civil suit in which the plaintiff alleges Maxwell […] More
December 30, 2021
PHOENIX (AP) — A trial date next April has been set for a man charged with attempted murder and other crimes in a Dec. 14 shooting that left a Phoenix police officer critically wounded. A Maricopa County Superior Court judge on Thursday entered not guilty pleas for Essa Williams and set several court dates leading […] More
December 30, 2021
By COLLEEN SLEVIN and THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A man accused of killing five people in a rampage in Denver is believed to have written fictional books self-published online that named some of his real-life victims and described similar attacks. The writings are part of the investigation into what led Lyndon James […] More
December 30, 2021
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WPTV) — The upcoming sentencing trial for the man who confessed to killing 17 people at a Parkland high school in 2018 will be delayed until February. More
December 30, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced a St. Paul man to more than eight years in prison for burning, looting and damaging businesses during a 2020 protest against police brutality in Minneapolis. U.S. District Judge Patrick Schlitz sentenced 32-year-old Victor Devon Edwards on Wednesday to 100 months in prison and two years of […] More
December 30, 2021
“I don't want to speak for all the jurors, but I think we believed she was a good person and even believed she was a good cop,” the juror said. More
December 30, 2021
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles business manager whose clients had included Nicki Minaj and the Kardashians was killed, and her boyfriend was charged with murder, authorities said Wednesday.Police found Angela Kukawski, 55, dead in her car in Simi Valley northwest of Los Angeles on Dec. 23, a day after she was reported missing, police said in a statement. More
December 29, 2021
FREMONT COUNTRY, Idaho (Scripps News Boise) — Mark Means, the attorney for Lori Vallow, is disqualified from representing her according to a memorandum decision. Means represented both Chad Daybell and Vallow at times, according to the court document.. Means posted on Twitter and sent a press release on April 28, 2020, stating the office […] More
December 29, 2021
The British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted Wednesday of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by the American millionaire Jeffrey Epstein. More
December 29, 2021
Authorities have not released a motive. Both teens attended the victim's Spanish class at Fairfield High School, where she had taught since 2012. More
December 29, 2021
By STEFANIE DAZIO, CHRISTOPHER WEBER and MORGAN LEE Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 14-year-old was shopping for Christmas clothes last week with her mother when the pair heard screams and hid in a dressing room, where the girl was fatally shot by Los Angeles police after an officer fired a rifle at a […] More
December 28, 2021
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo won't face criminal charges stemming from allegations from two women — including a state trooper — that he planted unwanted kisses on their cheeks, a suburban prosecutor said Tuesday. It's the latest in a series of decisions about whether a raft of sexual assault and harassment claims against Cuomo will end up in criminal court. More
December 28, 2021
The judge presiding over the sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell cited an “astronomical spike” in the number of coronavirus cases in New York City as she explained Tuesday why she was urging jurors to work longer hours. More
December 28, 2021
It was one of the most heinous crimes in North Dakota history, defense attorney Bruce Quick acknowledged in his opening statement. More
December 28, 2021
DALLAS (AP) — The wife of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was arrested Christmas Eve on a domestic violence charge that the right-wing provocateur said stems from a “medication imbalance.” Sheriff’s deputies took Erika Wulff Jones into custody and booked her into an Austin jail around 8:45 p.m. Friday. Jail records show the 43-year-old faces misdemeanor […] More
December 27, 2021
A truck driver sentenced to 110 years for an explosive crash that killed four people in suburban Denver moved a step closer Monday to potentially having his prison term reduced. More
December 27, 2021
The jury deliberating the fate of Ghislaine Maxwell at her sex trafficking trial requested a white board and different colored sticky notes Monday as it signaled that it had plenty of work to do after a long holiday weekend. More
December 27, 2021
