The people who put up a new billboard in Richmond hope it will jog some old memories. VCU student Cody Woodson was shot and killed walking back home from a neighborhood market in April 2021. Nine months later, the 20-year-old student's homicide remains unsolved. More
January 12, 2022
Attorneys for a woman who left her Alabama home to join the Islamic State terror group plan to continue fighting for her and her young son even though the Supreme Court declined to consider her lawsuit seeking to re-enter the United States, one of the lawyers said Wednesday. More
January 12, 2022
Ethan Crumbley, accused of murdering four classmates in a shooting at Oxford High School, pleaded not guilty. More
January 12, 2022
By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — After decades of dealing with the boyhood trauma of being molested by a priest, Jim Bartko sued the Roman Catholic church two years ago. But the lawsuit was dismissed when he died four days after speaking publicly about it. A new law has now revived his […] More
January 12, 2022
Kansas man arrested in 2019 robbery, kidnapping and shooting deaths of two men whose bodies were found hours apart in an Oklahoma ditch and a Kansas trailer. Kansas Bureau of Investigation said Ralph Thomas Salas Jr. was booked into the Seward County Jail. More
January 12, 2022
A judge agreed to delay a state court trial for three former Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd's death, though he didn't immediately set a date. More
January 12, 2022
Eric Lira, 41, of El Paso, is the first person to be charged under a new U.S. anti-doping law governing international sports competitions. More
January 12, 2022
A man who lived at the house was arrested on an obstruction charge after the remains were found, but no charges were filed in the death itself. More
January 12, 2022
A suspect in the 2012 slayings of a British-Iraqi family vacationing in the French Alps and a cyclist has been detained, a French prosecutor said Wednesday. More
January 12, 2022
A judge gave the green light Wednesday to a lawsuit against Prince Andrew by an American woman who says he sexually abused her when she was 17. More
January 12, 2022
The trial of Chandler Halderson, accused of killing and dismembering his parents, has been postponed because he tested positive for COVID-19. More
January 12, 2022
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Scripps News Nashville) — The 1988 murder and rape convictions of both Joyce Watkins and the late Charlie Dunn have been vacated almost 34 years later, according to a court order issued by Judge Angelita Blackshear Dalton. >>>READ COURT ORDER DOCUMENTS<<< A court date is scheduled for Wednesday, January 12 at 9 a.m., […] More
January 12, 2022
Fayetteville police said Monday that a preliminary investigation determined Jason Walker “ran into traffic and jumped on a moving vehicle." More
January 12, 2022
A Tennessee man wanted in the fatal shooting of rapper Young Dolph in his hometown of Memphis was captured Tuesday in Indiana. More
January 12, 2022
A man charged with killing 18 older women in the Dallas area over a two-year span is set to be retried in April after the first jury to hear a murder case against him deadlocked. The retrial of Billy Chemirmir, 49, in the death of 81-year-old Lu Thi Harris is scheduled to begin on April 25. More
January 11, 2022
An attempt by Baton Rouge officials to have an attorney found in contempt of court for releasing video of a controversial arrest was a "bad faith" effort to retaliate against the attorney for exercising his free speech rights, a federal court judge has ruled. More
January 11, 2022
The parents of a five-time champion on the game show "Jeopardy!" are accusing a Las Vegas-area hospital where he underwent abdominal surgery of causing his death in February 2021. Brayden Smith, who died at 24, was one of the last "Jeopardy!" contestants to appear with host Alex Trebek before Trebek died in November 2020 after battling pancreatic cancer. More
January 11, 2022
Several current and former inmates of color at a maximum security prison in Massachusetts have filed a federal lawsuit alleging they were subjected to violent beatings by guards in retaliation for a previous assault on a corrections officer by prisoners. More
January 11, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld an Oklahoma appellate court decision that the high court's landmark McGirt ruling on criminal jurisdiction in Indian Country does not apply retroactively to state convictions that are finalized. More
January 11, 2022
Angelo Colon-Ortiz has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge in the death of Vanessa Marcotte, 27, in the town of Princeton, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) west of Boston. More
January 11, 2022
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A jury has been selected in Kenosha County Circuit Court to hear the case against a man charged with killing three people and wounding three others in a shooting at a crowded bar. Twenty-five-year-old Rakayo Vinson is facing three counts of first-degree intentional homicide and three counts of attempted first-degree intentional […] More
January 11, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal of a woman who left home in Alabama to join the Islamic State terror group, but then decided she wanted to return to the United States. The justices declined without comment on Monday to consider the appeal of Hoda Muthana, who was born in New Jersey in October 1994 to a diplomat from Yemen and grew up in Alabama near Birmingham. More
January 11, 2022
Another former inmate at a federal prison in New Jersey has admitted his role in a scheme to use drones to smuggle drugs and other contraband to inmates into the facility. Johansel Moronta, 29, of Linden, pleaded guilty Monday to possessing and obtaining contraband while in prison and violating his federal parole. More
January 11, 2022
A Fitchburg man has pleaded not guilty to 14 charges, including multiple counts of child rape and assault and battery on a child under age 14, according to authorities. Stephen R. Goodsell, 32, was held on $5,000 bail at his arraignment Monday in Worcester Superior Court More
January 11, 2022
A 29-year-old Springfield man has been sentenced to life in prison in the 2019 death of a 7-month-old baby. Marc Carrier (Greene County Jail)The Springfield News-Leader reports that child's mother and prosecutors asked for the life term before 31-year-old Marc Carrier was sentenced Friday. More
January 11, 2022
Judge set bail at $1 million for a man who reportedly believed he was demonically possessed and admitted to killing a Marysville resident, saying "voices" told him to do it. Anthony Boggess was booked into the Snohomish County Jail in Everett for investigation of second-degree murder and first-degree attempted arson in the death of former roommate, James Thrower More
January 11, 2022
Tou Thao, J. Kueng and Thomas Lane face a Jan. 20 trial for allegations that they deprived Floyd of his rights while acting under government authority. More
January 11, 2022
The Oklahoma Department of Corrections does not currently have execution protocols in place for any method other than lethal injection. More
January 11, 2022
The U.S. government will agree to drop pending perjury charges against British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell if her sex trafficking case goes to sentencing later this year, prosecutors said. More
January 11, 2022
Last week, Kayla Montgomery was charged on suspicion of obtaining $1,500 in food stamps from December 2019 to June 2021 for Harmony Montgomery. More
January 11, 2022
