DENVER (Scripps News Denver) — A Grand Junction man was sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in federal prison for distributing deadly fentanyl-laced pills, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announced. Christopher Huggett, 30, began selling counterfeit pills that appeared to be oxycodone in 2017, according to the plea agreement. The pills contained […] More

March 10, 2022

Colorado man Alexander Albayero sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing a man outside an Aurora nightclub. More

March 10, 2022

A prosecutor cast an ex-convict Thursday as a mobster-like figure who coerced his daughter’s college friends to join his “family” as he accumulated power, sex and money, forcing one woman into a sex work enterprise so lucrative that she gave him $1 million in a single year. More

March 10, 2022

In December of 2020, Trezell and Jacqueline West reported to authorities that their adoptive toddler sons Orson and Orinn had gone missing. More

March 10, 2022

Movie director Ryan Coogler was briefly handcuffed by Atlanta police after a bank employee mistook him for a robber when he passed her a note while trying to withdraw a large amount of cash from his account. More

March 10, 2022

A suburban Minneapolis woman has been sentenced to nearly nine years in prison in the death of her 8-year-old son who was locked in a garage overnight during the winter. More

March 10, 2022

Opening statements were underway Thursday in Boston federal court in the case against Jovan Vavic, the only coach of the many implicated to challenge his charges in court. More

March 10, 2022

Authorities described the clinics as “pill mills” and said they were frequented by people suffering from addictions and drug dealers seeking high-dosage prescription drugs. More

March 10, 2022

A jury on Wednesday convicted a man of raping and stabbing to death a woman in her Sacramento-area apartment, 40 years after her death. More

March 10, 2022

By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer A March 30 hearing has been set on a proposed $83 million lawsuit settlement for people who lost property and belongings in the collapse of a Florida beachfront condominium building that killed 98 people. Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Michael Hanzman said Wednesday that he would consider any objections to […] More

March 9, 2022

By Katie McLaughlin Tara Grinsted’s alleged killer is finally headed to trial 16 years after her murder. Justice for the former beauty pageant contestant and popular high school history teacher may never have come had it not been for Payne Lindsey. Lindsey is the creator and host of “Up and Vanished,” a podcast credited with […] More

March 9, 2022

Sherri Papini, California woman arrested for allegedly faking her own kidnapping and lying to federal agents, was released from jail after family posted $120,000 bond. She also must undergo psychiatric treatment and surrender her passport. More

March 9, 2022

A Florida woman who was found dead in her septic tank may have been alive when she was placed there, Martin County's sheriff said Tuesday. More

March 9, 2022

Four men face trial: Fox, Brandon Caserta, Barry Croft Jr. and Daniel Harris. Prosecutors say the men came up with the plan to snatch the Democratic governor because they were angry about pandemic restrictions she imposed. More

March 9, 2022

IRWIN COUNTY, Ga. (Court TV) — The man who confessed to killing Tara Grinstead in 2005 is now pleading not guilty as he prepares for trial five years after his indictment. Ryan Alexander Duke, 36, is charged with malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, burglary, and concealing a death in connection with Grinstead’s death.  […] More

March 8, 2022

Federal judge in Texas overstepped his authority when he blocked President Joe Biden's requirement that all federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19. More

March 8, 2022

Six teenagers are each charged with first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder in a shooting on the grounds of East High School near downtown Des Moines Iowa. More

March 8, 2022

Lawyers for Prince Andrew and American woman Virginia Giuffre, who accused him of sexually abusing her when she was 17, formally asked a judge to dismiss her lawsuit. More

March 8, 2022

Roberto Silva Jr. pleaded guilty to killing two workers and wounding two others at a Nebraska Sonic Drive-in restaurant. More

March 8, 2022

Florida Dunkin' employee Corey Pujols -- accused of fatally punching customer Vonelle Cook, who used a racial slur -- pleaded guilty to felony battery and sentenced to two years house arrest. More

March 8, 2022

A Texas man was convicted on Tuesday of storming the U.S. Capitol with a holstered handgun, a milestone victory for federal prosecutors in the first trial among hundreds of cases arising from last year’s riot. More

March 8, 2022

Former officer James Burns argued the grand jury proceedings that led to his indictment in 2018 should have been held under rules in effect when the shooting happened. More

March 8, 2022

They're accused of taking critical steps over several months, including secret messaging, gun drills in the woods and a night drive to northern Michigan to scout her second home and figure out how to blow up a bridge. More

March 8, 2022

Maxwell's lawyers say the verdict should be thrown out over the juror's apparent failure to disclose before the trial began that he’d been a victim of childhood sexual abuse. More

March 8, 2022

Jeannine Jaramillo faces two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Santa Fe police Officer Robert Duran and Frank Lovato. More

March 8, 2022

Congress gave final approval to legislation that for the first time would make lynching a federal hate crime in the U.S., sending the bill to President Joe Biden to sign into law. More

March 7, 2022

Las Vegas police officer Caleb Rogers. arrested for attempting to rob a casino on The Strip, is charged in federal court in connection with two other casino robberies. More

March 7, 2022

Mississippi judge to hold hearing to determine if death row inmate Blayde Nathaniel Grayson truly wants to request an execution date and is mentally competent to waive appeals. More

March 7, 2022

Dozens of the nation's top law enforcement officials have signed a letter released Monday urging the U.S. Senate to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. More

March 7, 2022

WNBA star Brittney Griner detained at Moscow airport after Russian authorities said a search of her luggage revealed vape cartridges containing oil derived from cannabis which could carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. More

March 7, 2022