Murder & Mayhem

The trial began Monday for a man who is charged with killing 18 older women in Dallas and its suburbs over a two-year span. More

November 15, 2021

Opening statements were expected Tuesday in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. More

November 15, 2021

Travis and Greg McMichael said they armed themselves and sped after Ahmaud Arbery because they thought he was a burglar, and they wanted to catch him and hold him until police arrived. More

November 15, 2021

The trial of father and son Greg and Travis McMichael and their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan wrapped up its first full week of testimony Friday. More

November 15, 2021

With a verdict near, Gov. Tony Evers said that 500 National Guard members would be prepared for duty in Kenosha if local law enforcement requested them. More

November 15, 2021

By SCOTT BAUER, MICHAEL TARM and AMY FORLITI Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — The jurors who will decide Kyle Rittenhouse’s fate will be allowed to consider lesser charges if they opt to acquit him on some of the original counts prosecutors brought, the judge said Friday during a contentious hearing in which both sides […] More

November 12, 2021

Iowa teens Willard Noble Chaiden Miller and Jeremy Everett Goodale both 16-years-old formally charged with first-degree murder in the death of high school Spanish teacher Nohema Graber. More

November 12, 2021

Billy Chemirmir is scheduled to go on trial Monday Nov. 15 2021 in the deaths of one of 18 women he's accused of killing in Texas over a two-year span. More

November 12, 2021

William Looper told investigators he beat and abused the boy for two weeks and couldn't explain why, Solicitor David Stumbo said. More

November 12, 2021

Jurors will soon begin deliberating in a case that left Americans divided over whether Rittenhouse was a patriot taking a stand against lawlessness or a vigilante. More

November 12, 2021

A police officer testified Friday he planned to give Ahmaud Arbery a trespass warning for repeatedly entering a home under construction before he was chased and shot dead. More

November 12, 2021

Joseph Elledge - Missouri man who admitted burying wife's body and misleading authorities for more than a year about her whereabouts - was convicted Thursday of second-degree murder. More

November 12, 2021

Defense rested in murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse - setting stage for closing arguments Monday in shootings that left Americans divided over whether he was a patriot or a vigilante. More

November 11, 2021

Rittenhouse trial attorneys sparred over technology used to zoom video and enlarge images - prosecutors alleged defense was taking advantage of 75-year-old judge's lack of understanding. More

November 11, 2021

Rittenhouse prosecutors could ask jury to consider lesser charges - a move that could secure a conviction for some crime but take a possible life sentence off the table. More

November 11, 2021

Jurors in trial of three white men charged in Ahmaud Arbery's killing watched security videos showing other people entering home under construction in months before Arbery was killed. More

November 11, 2021

By MICHAEL TARM, SCOTT BAUER and TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Less than three seconds elapsed between the time a protester in the streets fired a shot in the air and Kyle Rittenhouse opened fire with his rifle, a use-of-force expert testified for the defense Thursday at Rittenhouse’s murder trial. >>>READ MORE: […] More

November 11, 2021

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (Court TV) — The Satilla Shores resident who called police on Ahmaud Arbery expressed regret on the witness stand Wednesday for his part in the chain of events that led to Arbery’s death. Matt Albenze was the first civilian witness to testify in the murder trial of Greg McMichael, Travis McMichael and William […] More

November 11, 2021

In Kenosha, Wisconsin, the prosecution calls Gaige Grosskreutz, the man Kyle Rittenhouse shot, who survived. More

November 11, 2021

The murder case against Kyle Rittenhouse flirted with a mistrial Wednesday after the lead prosecutor angered the judge with his questioning of the defendant. More

November 10, 2021

Heather Mack - Chicago woman arrested in U.S. on murder conspiracy charge in 2014 slaying of her mother in Indonesia - will remain locked up after her attorney waived a detention hearing. More

November 10, 2021

NEW YORK (AP) — Two Washington Post reporters are working on a biography of George Floyd, from his family history in the tobacco fields of North Carolina to his murder last year in Minneapolis by a white police officer. Viking announced Wednesday that “His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for […] More

November 10, 2021

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Kyle Rittenhouse took the stand in his murder trial Wednesday, testifying about how he shot three men during a protest against police brutality in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year.    Rittenhouse killed Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and wounded Gaige Grosskreutz. He faces multiple charges, including […] More

November 10, 2021

One of the three white men standing trial for the death of Ahmaud Arbery said they had him “trapped like a rat” before he was fatally shot, a police investigator testified Wednesday. More

November 10, 2021

Defense attorneys at Kyle Rittenhouse's murder trial ask the judge to declare a mistrial after prosecutors posed what appeared to be improper questions of Rittenhouse on the stand. More

November 10, 2021

A Salvadoran immigrant who admitted fatally shooting four people in Nevada during a two-week rampage in 2019 pleaded guilty Tuesday to the remaining two killings as part of a deal with prosecutors that will spare him the death penalty. More

November 10, 2021

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The man who initiated the chase that ended in Ahmaud Arbery’s death quickly changed his story about why he suspected the 25-year-old Black man running in his neighborhood was a criminal, two police officers testified Tuesday.    Glynn County police Officer Jeff Brandeberry told a […] More

November 9, 2021

By SCOTT BAUER, TAMMY WEBBER and AMY FORLITI Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — The first man killed by Kyle Rittenhouse on the streets of Kenosha was shot at a range of just a few feet and had soot injuries that could indicate he had his hand over the barrel of Rittenhouse’s rifle, a pathologist […] More

November 9, 2021

A judge said live video coverage will be allowed as former police officer Kim Potter stands trial in the death of Daunte Wright. More

November 9, 2021

Joseph Elledge - Missouri man accused of killing his wife and burying her body in a park - testified they had a turbulent relationship and he had been considering divorce before her death. More

November 9, 2021