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In his plea agreement, Thomas Lane admitted that he knew from his training that restraining Floyd in that way created a serious risk of death. More

September 21, 2022

The judge rejected requests for leniency by Marc Wilson's attorneys, who noted that he had no prior criminal record. More

September 21, 2022

Prosecutors need more evidence before considering criminal charges against Marilyn Manson, who faces sexual assault and domestic violence allegations. More

September 20, 2022

Plant-based company Beyond Meat exec Doug Ramsey is charged with battery after fight outside college football game where he allegedly bit a man’s nose. More

September 20, 2022

Family of Easton Oliverson, who fractured his skull when he fell off a bunk bed at the Little League World Series, sues the league and bed manufacturer. More

September 20, 2022

A pretrial hearing for Cory Bigsby in Virginia court is rescheduled. He faces child neglect and endangerment charges related to his son, Codi Bigsby, 4. More

September 20, 2022

Clark County, Nevada takes action to have elected official Robert Telles, accused of murdering journalist Jeff German, removed from public office. More

September 20, 2022

19-year-old Kristin Smart disappeared from the Cal Poly campus in 1996. Paul Flores is charged with murder. His dad, Ruben, is charged as an accessory. More

September 20, 2022

A Florida brother and sister are accused of purposely crashing into a motorcyclist. Narciso and Solimar Rosario are each charged with attempted murder. More

September 20, 2022

Families of Annette Schnee and Bobbi Jo Oberholtzer, killed in 1982 in Colorado, finally see justice. Alan Lee Phillips was convicted of all charges. More

September 20, 2022

Trump's legal team told independent arbiter it does not want to answer questions about the declassification status of documents seized from Mar-a-Lago. More

September 20, 2022

Brittney Griner's legal woes in Russia and the country's invasion of Ukraine has top WNBA players opting to take their talents elsewhere this offseason. More

September 20, 2022

Host Sarah Koenig noted that most or all of the evidence cited in prosecutors' motion to overturn the conviction was available since 1999. More

September 20, 2022

Robert Bowers faces more than 60 federal charges stemming from the Oct. 27, 2018, attack at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. More

September 20, 2022

Michael Carneal was a 14-year-old freshman on Dec. 1, 1997, when he fired a stolen pistol at a before-school prayer group. More

September 20, 2022

During the first four days of the trial and over the weekend, Alex Jones criticized the proceedings from his Infowars studio in Austin. More

September 20, 2022

A judge called the police report detailing the attack “chilling” and said it described Jeff German “fighting for his life.” More

September 20, 2022

US Navy sailor Ryan Sawyer Mays is accused of setting the USS Bonhomme Richard on fire in one of the worst noncombat US warship disasters. More

September 19, 2022

Judge rules mentally ill man Robert Dear, charged with killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood, can be forcibly medicated. More

September 19, 2022

Emoni Bates, former basketball prodigy who plays for Eastern Michigan, is charged with two felonies; police found a gun in a car during a traffic stop. More

September 19, 2022

Baltimore judge orders release of Adnan Syed after overturning his conviction for the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee, a case chronicled in podcast “Serial.” More

September 19, 2022

Montana District Judge orders state officials to stop enforcing rule preventing transgender people from changing the gender on their birth certificate. More

September 19, 2022

Rapper Mystikal, real name Michael Tyler, pleaded not guilty to charges of raping and choking a woman at his Louisiana home and of drug possession. More

September 19, 2022

Elizabeth Scherer, judge overseeing Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz's penalty phase, refused to step down, rejecting his defense team's request. More

September 19, 2022

Cops say DNA evidence proves Garry Artman dumped a woman's body in Maryland in 2006. He's in custody in Michigan in connection with a 1996 cold case. More

September 19, 2022

Ricoh McClain was sentenced to 22 years in prison for murdering Kevin Davis. McClain stabbed Davis for cutting in line at a Maryland Popeyes eatery. More

September 19, 2022

A Baltimore hearing will consider a request to set free Adnan Syed based on new evidence. He's serving a life sentence for the murder of Hae Min Lee. More

September 19, 2022

Sherri Papini pleaded guilty last spring under a plea bargain that also required her to pay more than $300,000 in restitution. More

September 19, 2022

LAS VEGAS (Scripps News Las Vegas) — The Clark County elected official arrested for murdering a local journalist spoke out from behind bars to KTNV, an E.W. Scripps Company. Robert Telles is charged with open murder in connection with the fatal stabbing of Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German, who was found dead outside […] More

September 19, 2022

“The Apostle of Jesus Christ has had no choice but to accept with much pain that the agreement presented is the best way forward to protect the church and his family,” the church said. More

September 19, 2022