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Delve into the chilling realm of crime, where murder, mystery and chaos reign, and the ultimate battle for justice that follows.

Graphic photos of Ahmaud Arbery’s wounds shown to jury
Graphic photos of Ahmaud Arbery’s wounds shown to jury

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Jurors were shown graphic, closeup police photos Monday of the gunshot wounds that killed Ahmaud Arbery, while the first officer to find the 25-year-old Black man bleeding in the road testified he did not try to render medical aid because it would not have been safe. […] More

November 8, 2021

Sheriff: Missing girl found after using TikTok hand signals
Sheriff: Missing girl found after using TikTok hand signals

LONDON, Ky. (AP) — Law enforcement officials in Kentucky say a 16-year-old girl missing from North Carolina has been found after someone noticed her using a distress signal made popular on TikTok. According to the Laurel County Sheriff’s Office, police have charged the driver who had the girl in his car with unlawful imprisonment and […] More

November 8, 2021

Attorneys present jurors with dueling portraits of Arbery
Attorneys present jurors with dueling portraits of Arbery

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Prosecutors and defense attorneys on Friday presented dueling portraits of Ahmaud Arbery, who was either an innocent Black runner fatally shot by three white strangers or “a scary mystery” who had been seen prowling around a Georgia neighborhood. >>>READ MORE: The Killing of Ahmaud Arbery: Daily […] More

November 5, 2021

Prosecutor: Arbery’s killers ‘did everything’ on assumptions
Prosecutor: Arbery’s killers ‘did everything’ on assumptions

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — White men in pickup trucks chased Ahmaud Arbery for five minutes, and one threatened to shoot him, as they cut off the jogger’s escape from a Georgia subdivision and ultimately killed the 25-year-old Black man with a shotgun, a prosecutor told a trial jury Friday. >>>READ […] More

November 5, 2021

The Killing of Ahmaud Arbery: Daily Trial Highlights
The Killing of Ahmaud Arbery: Daily Trial Highlights

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (Court TV) — Gregory McMichael, Travis McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan are on trial for the February 23, 2020, killing of Ahmaud Arbery. DAY 14 – 11/24/21 The jury requests to see two videos, three times each: original cellphone video (shortened version) and high contrast version. The jury also requests to hear Greg […] More

November 5, 2021

Witnesses: Threat, lunge for gun from 1st Rittenhouse victim
Witnesses: Threat, lunge for gun from 1st Rittenhouse victim

By AMY FORLITI, TAMMY WEBBER and MICHAEL TARM Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — The first man shot by Kyle Rittenhouse on the streets of Kenosha was “hyperaggressive” that night, threatened to kill Rittenhouse, and later lunged for his rifle just before the 17-year-old fired, witnesses testified Thursday. >>>READ MORE: Kenosha Protest Shooting Trial Daily […] More

November 4, 2021

Arbery death trial dominated by race before it even begins
Arbery death trial dominated by race before it even begins

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The trial hasn’t even started and yet issues of race are dominating the case in which three white men are charged with murder for chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery.    The 25-year-old Black man’s slaying has become part of the broader reckoning on racial injustice […] More

November 4, 2021

Prosecutors show Rittenhouse trial jurors video of protests
Prosecutors show Rittenhouse trial jurors video of protests

By TAMMY WEBBER, MICHAEL TARM and AMY FORLITI Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — The jury at Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial over a string of shootings on the streets of Kenosha watched one of the central pieces of video evidence Wednesday — footage of a man chasing Rittenhouse and throwing a plastic bag at him […] More

November 3, 2021

WATCH LIVE: Motions argued ahead of opening statements in Arbery murder trial
WATCH LIVE: Motions argued ahead of opening statements in Arbery murder trial

BRUNSWICK, Ga (Court TV) – A jury of 12 have been selected in the murder trial of Ahmaud Arbery’s accused killers. Ahead of the opening statements, the court will hear arguments on outstanding motions. The defendants’ “use of force” experts, introducing polygraph examinations, and the victim’s toxicology report on the date of the incident, are […] More

November 3, 2021

EXPLAINER: Does it matter how long jury selection takes?
EXPLAINER: Does it matter how long jury selection takes?

By KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — As jurors in the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse listened to opening statements in a Wisconsin courtroom Tuesday, attorneys in south Georgia questioned potential jurors for a third week in the trial of three men charged in Ahmaud Arbery’s slaying.    It took the judge and […] More

November 2, 2021

Judge freezes Alex Murdaugh’s money as lawsuits grow
Judge freezes Alex Murdaugh’s money as lawsuits grow

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A prominent South Carolina lawyer whose wife and son were killed five months ago and has since found himself part of a half-dozen state investigations and a number of lawsuits had his assets frozen Tuesday by a judge worried he and his son might be scheming […] More

November 2, 2021

Starkly different portrayals of Rittenhouse in Kenosha trial
Starkly different portrayals of Rittenhouse in Kenosha trial

By MICHAEL TARM, AMY FORLITI and SCOTT BAUER Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Jurors heard starkly different portrayals of Kyle Rittenhouse — instigator or victim — in opening statements at his trial Tuesday on charges of shooting three people on the streets of Kenosha during a turbulent protest against racial injustice. >>>READ MORE: Kenosha […] More

November 2, 2021