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The case against George Wagner IV will begin with a jury tour of the crime scenes where eight members of the Rhoden family were killed. More

August 31, 2022

By Katie McLaughlin FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Court TV) — An open records request has revealed how Parkland Shooter Nikolas Cruz spent some of his time behind bars, and the results are nothing short of disturbing.    Earlier this year, after jury selection began in the penalty phase of the trial, officers discovered dozens of […] More

August 31, 2022

An Australian man was convicted on Tuesday of murdering his wife 40 years ago after a renewed police investigation that was triggered by a popular podcast. More

August 31, 2022

The filing offers yet another indication of the sheer volume of classified records retrieved from Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida. More

August 31, 2022

Indianapolis police arrested a man Tuesday in connection with a shooting over the weekend that left one Dutch soldier dead and two wounded. Shamar Duncan, 22, of Indianapolis, was arrested on a preliminary charge of murder. More

August 30, 2022

Robert Dear, mentally ill man charged with killing three people and wounding eight others at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic in 2015 could become competent to stand trial if he is forcibly given anti-psychotic medication, a prison psychologist said. More

August 30, 2022

Prosecutors rested their case Tuesday at R. Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago after presenting two weeks of testimony, including from four Kelly accusers, in their bid to prove the singer enticed underage girls for sex, produced child pornography and successfully rigged his 2008 state trial. More

August 30, 2022

A judge in Virginia dismissed a lawsuit Tuesday that had sought to declare two books as obscene for children and to restrict their distribution to minors, including by booksellers and libraries. The books in question were “Gender Queer: A Memoir” by Maia Kobabe and “A Court of Mist and Fury” by Sarah J. Maas. More

August 30, 2022

A jury began deliberating murder charges Tuesday in the trial of a biracial man who says he was trying to fend off a racist attack on a Georgia highway when he fired a gun into a pickup truck and fatally shot a 17-year-old girl riding in the back seat. Marc Wilson, 23, faces life in prison if he's convicted of felony murder in the killing of Haley Hutcheson. More

August 30, 2022

The Ohio Supreme Court said it would not take up an appeal of a $25 million judgment against Oberlin College in a business' lawsuit claiming it was libeled by the school after a shoplifting incident involving three Black students. More

August 30, 2022

During his middle school years, Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz frequently cursed at teachers and made threats, and his drawings of gunshot victims were so disturbing that one teacher kept them for years, turning them over to authorities immediately after he massacred 17 people. More

August 30, 2022

Matt Araiza, nicknamed the “Punt God,” was cut by the Buffalo Bills on Saturday, two days after the civil lawsuit was filed. More

August 30, 2022

Scott V. Spina Jr. pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud, three counts of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft for posing as the former Patriots player. More

August 30, 2022

Larry Millete is charged with killing his missing wife, Maya Millete. Prosecutors believe he killed her because she wanted a divorce. More

August 30, 2022

Cynthia Abcug, 53, denied she was involved in planning a raid on the foster home where her then 7-year-old son lived in the fall of 2019. More

August 30, 2022

Singer Mariah Carey, Marlo Hampton of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta," Atlanta United player Brad Guzan and the Atlanta Falcons' Calvin Ridley all had their homes broken into, the indictment says. More

August 30, 2022

A jury acquitted former Texas police officer Ravinder Singh of criminally negligent homicide after a gunshot meant for a menacing dog instead killed a woman named Margarita Brooks. More

August 29, 2022

Two more accusers took the witness stand at R. Kelly’s child pornography and solicitation of minors trial. More

August 29, 2022

A federal judge in Illinois sentenced Floyd E. Brown to 55 years in prison for the shooting death of a deputy U.S. marshal. More

August 29, 2022

Jury selection began on Monday for George Wagner IV, who faces a potential death sentence if convicted of the murders of eight people. More

August 29, 2022

A judge began hearing evidence Monday to determine if five men will face trial for their alleged roles in a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. More

August 29, 2022

A newly unsealed FBI document about the investigation at Mar-a-Lago not only offers new details about the probe but also reveals clues about the arguments former President Donald Trump's legal team intends to make. More

August 29, 2022

Sheila O'Leary, a vegan woman convicted of murder in the malnutrition death of her young son, was sentenced to life in prison. More

August 29, 2022

BALTIMORE (Scripps News Baltimore) — Filming of the Apple TV+ series “Lady in the Lake,” which stars Natalie Portman and has been going on for months around Baltimore, was forced to postpone after producers were threatened with extortion. Baltimore police confirmed: “On August 26, 2022, at approximately 4p.m., on the scene of a movie shoot […] More

August 29, 2022

Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz's attorneys presented testimony that the mass killer exhibited violent, disruptive and troubled behavior from his earliest years and, just before his sixth birthday, witnessed his adoptive father's sudden death. More

August 29, 2022

Joshua Pruitt, a Maryland man affiliated with the far-right Proud Boys extremist group, was sentenced to more than four years in prison for storming the U.S. Capitol, where authorities say he encountered Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer. More

August 29, 2022

A South Carolina judge sided with prosecutors who asked him to put strict controls on how Alex Murdaugh's defense can review evidence before the disgraced lawyer's murder trial in the deaths of his wife and son. More

August 29, 2022

A 19-year-old man suspected in the random shootings of four people, three fatally, was captured after a tip from someone close to him. More

August 29, 2022

Former Twitter executive Peiter Zatko — also known by his hacker handle “Mudge” — received a subpoena from Elon Musk’s team. More

August 29, 2022

Lawyers who secured a $1.1 billion settlement in the deadly collapse last year of a beachfront Florida condominium building were awarded more than $70 million in fees. More

August 29, 2022