Latest Crime & Trial News

Defendant George Wagner IV was charged in Pike County Court in the 2016 slayings of the Rhoden family near Piketon in southern Ohio. More

September 12, 2022

Alex Jones is set to go on trial a second time for calling the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax, causing victims' families emotional harm. More

September 12, 2022

Closing arguments began Monday for R. Kelly and two co-defendants on federal charges of trial-fixing, child pornography and enticing minors for sex. More

September 12, 2022

Devin Williams' mother told KTVU-TV that her son had been in a romantic relationship with Maria Tran and he believed she was unmarried. More

September 12, 2022

The indictment came days after Cleotha Henderson’s arrest in the death of Eliza Fletcher, a mother of two and a kindergarten teacher. More

September 12, 2022

Chaos reigned in the home where Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz grew up, testimony in his ongoing penalty trial has shown. More

September 12, 2022

17-year-old Harley Wilson, who had cocaine and alcohol in her system, faces charges in a rollover crash that killed an Oklahoma teen and injured others. More

September 9, 2022

Florida teen Noah Galle is accused of driving a BMW at 151 mph near Delray Beach, rear-ending an SUV, killing six farmworkers inside. More

September 9, 2022

Darrell Brooks, the man accused in the Waukesha Christmas Parade attack in Wisconsin, withdrew his plea of not guilty by insanity in court on Friday. More

September 9, 2022

DNA evidence found on a napkin helped lead a jury to find Jerry Westrom guilty of murdering Jeanie Childs after the 1993 case went cold for 29 years. More

September 9, 2022

A federal judge in Florida has dismissed Donald Trump's lawsuit against 2016 Democratic rival Hillary Clinton and former top FBI officials. More

September 9, 2022

Authorities say Las Vegas reporter Jeff German's investigation and follow-up stories were the motivation for Robert Telles to fatally stab German. More

September 9, 2022

Ezekiel Kelly, accused of killing four people and wounding three others in a livestreamed Memphis shooting rampage, has been granted a public defender. More

September 9, 2022

Alabama death row inmate Toforest Johnson, seeking a new trial for a 1998 conviction, says he did not murder a sheriff's deputy. More

September 9, 2022

At R. Kelly's Chicago federal trial, ex business manager Derrell McDavid expressed doubts about Kelly’s insistence he never sexually abused minors. More

September 9, 2022

Thousands of people in cities across the U.S. finished Eliza Fletcher's run Friday morning, a week after she was kidnapped and killed. More

September 9, 2022

Surveillance footage at the Kroger captured the moment Taahviya Chapman barrels toward the two men near the doors of the grocery store. More

September 9, 2022

The DNA of a jailed elected official who was angered by past and upcoming newspaper stories was found on the hands of a Las Vegas investigative reporter who fought for his life while being stabbed to death outside his home, authorities said Thursday. More

September 9, 2022

Charles Adelson is accused of hiring hit men to kill his ex-brother-in-law in 2014, FSU law professor Dan Markel. More

September 9, 2022

The killing of wife, mother, and kindergarten teacher Eliza Fletcher shocked the Memphis community and led to a flood of support for her and her family. More

September 8, 2022

Donald Trump’s longtime ally Steve Bannon pleaded not guilty to duping donors who gave money to build a wall on the U.S. southern border. More

September 8, 2022

Boulder County DA is going after parents and business owners in the case of a teen suspect in a DUI causing a crash that killed 2 people on prom night. More

September 8, 2022

Denver woman Charlotte Chavez is charged with child abuse resulting in death after an autopsy found that her baby girl died with fentanyl in her system. More

September 8, 2022

Kevin Thomas Ryan, a 43-year-old Estes park, Colorado man, was arrested on multiple felony allegations related to child sex crimes. More

September 8, 2022

Jose Flores Ortiz was arrested on charges of impersonating a peace officer after he attempted to stop an off-duty officer in Brighton, Colorado. More

September 8, 2022

Lawrence Costella, special education teacher at Atholton High School in Maryland, is charged with possession and distribution of child pornography. More

September 8, 2022

Montgomery County, Maryland Sheriff's deputy James Tappen Hall was murdered 51 years ago. Larry David Smith was arrested on Wednesday for the killing. More

September 8, 2022

A Washington state teen who was the center of a missing person case is now accused of murdering his mother's ex-boyfriend. More

September 8, 2022

Arkansas State Police have given a special prosecutor findings of their investigation into officers caught on video beating and holding down suspect Randal Worcester. More

September 8, 2022

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s longtime ally Steve Bannon surrendered Thursday to face state money laundering and conspiracy charges in New York alleging he duped donors who gave money to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Bannon is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday afternoon. Prosecutors […] More

September 8, 2022