Latest Crime & Trial News

A Los Angeles federal judge threw out an indictment charging a dive boat captain with manslaughter in the deaths of 34 people in a 2019 fire. More

September 6, 2022

Eliza Fletcher, a schoolteacher, is the granddaughter of the late Joseph Orgill III, a Memphis hardware businessman and philanthropist. More

September 5, 2022

Actor Anne Heche died without a will, and her 20-year-old son has filed court papers to control her estate. More

September 2, 2022

An indictment said Jordan kept a roster of women who lived across the U.S. and performed sexual acts for his clients in exchange for money. More

September 2, 2022

Sexual encounters were touted to members as a form of “healing” and offered a path to scaling the seven levels of the school’s strict hierarchy. according to charging documents. More

September 2, 2022

Jurors deliberated for about 35 hours over six days in Dana Chandler's trial, who is accused of killing her ex-husband and his girlfriend. More

September 2, 2022

A federal judge tentatively declined to overturn the jury conviction of disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes on four felony counts of fraud and conspiracy. Holmes, 38, faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, plus restitution. More

September 1, 2022

In a failed attempt to bar the admission into evidence several swastikas Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz drew on assignments, his attorneys made an unusual argument Thursday at his penalty trial: he was an equal opportunity killer who shot his victims without regard to race or religion. More

September 1, 2022

Lawyers for Trump say the appointment of a special master is necessary to ensure an independent inspection of the documents seized by the FBI during the Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago. More

September 1, 2022

Columbus, Ohio police came under criticism for the killing of Donovan Lewis, a Black man who was lying on his bed when an officer attempting to serve warrants fatally shot him. More

September 1, 2022

A federal district court has ruled in favor of a Kentucky wedding photographer who challenged a Louisville ordinance banning businesses from discriminating against gay customers. More

September 1, 2022

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America One person was killed and two were injured Thursday in an apparent stabbing on the fourth day of class at an eastern North Carolina high school, police said. Jacksonville Police Chief Mike Yaniero told reporters at a news conference that two minors were taken to Naval Medical Center […] More

September 1, 2022

Shamar Duncan, a 22-year-old Indiana man, was charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a Dutch soldier and the wounding of two others in downtown Indianapolis. More

September 1, 2022

Authorities released video and documents related to charges against Gary Busey, accused of inappropriately touching at least three women. More

September 1, 2022

A judge set a March 20 trial date for 17-year-old Willard Miller, who is charged with first-degree murder in the beating death of 66-year-old Iowa high school Spanish teacher Nohema Graber. Another student, Jeremy Everett Goodale, also is charged with murder in Graber's death. More

September 1, 2022

A 14-year-old Wisconsin boy accused of killing Lily Peters, a 10-year-old girl, after luring her off a trial by suggesting they explore surrounding woods plans to waive his right to a preliminary hearing. More

September 1, 2022

Singer R. Kelly told a federal judge Thursday that he won't testify at his ongoing trial in Chicago on charges that accuse him of child pornography, enticement of minors for sex and fixing his 2008 state trial. More

September 1, 2022

Attorneys for the DOJ argued in the 39-page brief that Roof “fails to identify any meaningful disagreement in the lower courts” over how his legal representation played out at trial. More

September 1, 2022

The family confirmed that they had a family member go missing from that area in 1978, and with the help of DNA, the child was positively identified as Tracy Sue Walker. More

September 1, 2022

A child's letter to God disclosing sexual abuse brought to light a Texas man who abused two children for several years. More

September 1, 2022

Authorities said both of the children were shot multiple times in the head. Jermaine Bass claimed it was an accident. More

September 1, 2022

The sisters and widow of Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum allege Baldwin subjected them to online threats and harassment. More

September 1, 2022

With numerous Vegas archetypes suspects, Tamron Hall dives into who killed drug-addicted casino owner Ted Binion. More

September 1, 2022

New York City's Times Square is one of scores of “sensitive” places — including parks, churches and theaters — that will be off-limits for guns under a sweeping new state law. More

August 31, 2022

The FBI investigation into top-secret government information discovered at Mar-a-Lago is zeroing in on the question of whether former President Donald Trump's team criminally obstructed the probe. More

August 31, 2022

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A former Idaho lawmaker convicted of raping a 19-year-old legislative intern has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the crime. Aaron von Ehlinger must serve at least eight years before he will be eligible for parole, 4th District Judge Michael Reardon said during the […] More

August 31, 2022

A Kansas school district will pay a former middle school teacher $95,000 to settle a lawsuit she filed after she was disciplined for refusing to use a student's preferred pronouns. More

August 31, 2022

Paul Gold, who lived next door to the Cruz family when the future mass killer was 10 to 12 years old, told jurors he knew Cruz had psychological problems from their first meeting. More

August 31, 2022

The Indiana Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that religious freedom rights protect the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis from being sued by a teacher who was fired from his job at a Catholic high school for being in a same-sex marriage. More

August 31, 2022

Marc Wilson, a biracial man who says he was fending off a racist attack on a Georgia highway when he fired a gun into a pickup truck was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for fatally shooting a 17-year-old girl in the truck's back seat. More

August 31, 2022