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
OnlyFans model Courtney Clenney has been extradited to Florida and denied bond on a charge of second-degree murder, according to jail records. More
August 29, 2022
Maryland’s highest court has ruled that Washington, D.C.-area sniper Lee Boyd Malvo must be resentenced. More
August 29, 2022
George Wagner IV, the first in his family to stand trial, was convicted of the murders of 8 members of the Rhoden family. More
August 26, 2022
WAUKESHA (Scripps News Milwaukee) — Darrell Brooks, the man accused of killing six people and injuring dozens in the Waukesha Christmas Parade, was back in court Friday for a motion hearing. The hearings came after defense attorneys filed several motions, including one to suppress interrogation recordings from the night of the parade. Brooks […] More
August 26, 2022
A probable cause affidavit alleges Benjamin Plank, 35, fatally shot Oklahoma County Deputy Bobby Swartz, wounded deputy Mark Johns and shot at the third deputy as they tried to serve him with eviction papers. More
August 26, 2022
Medical examiners confirmed Friday that convicted Ponzi schemer and Jeffrey Epstein mentor Steven Hoffenberg was the person found dead in a Connecticut apartment earlier this week. More
August 26, 2022
A school district in southwest Missouri has decided to bring back spanking as a form of discipline for students, but only if their parents agree. More
August 26, 2022
Aaron Thomas, 55, the former successful boys' coach at North Kingstown High School, was released on $10,000 personal recognizance after pleading not guilty in Washington County Superior Court to second-degree sexual assault and second-degree child molestation. More
August 26, 2022
Though the document offers the most substantial description of the investigation, federal officials also redacted significant portions of it to protect the identity of witnesses and to avoid revealing sensitive investigative tactics. More
August 26, 2022
Plano police said in a statement Esmeralda Upton, 58, of Plano, was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault and terroristic threat charges. More
August 26, 2022
During a recorded phone call with the accuser, he said, “This is Matt Araiza. I don’t remember anything that happened that night” and hung up. More
August 26, 2022
A domestic assault case against singer Michelle Branch has been dismissed. More
August 26, 2022
Derek Chauvin has been moved from a Minnesota state prison where he was often held in solitary confinement to a medium-security federal prison in Arizona. More
August 26, 2022
A Black man wrongfully convicted as a teenager for a New Orleans rape more than 36 years ago was ordered freed Thursday after a judge threw out his conviction. Sullivan Walter, now 53, used a handkerchief to wipe away tears as a state district judge formally vacated his conviction for a home-invasion rape. More
August 25, 2022
Two Florida residents pleaded guilty in a scheme to peddle a diary and other items belonging to President Joe Biden’s daughter to the conservative group Project Veritas for $40,000. More
August 25, 2022
A judge ordered the Justice Department on Thursday to make public a redacted version of the affidavit it relied on when federal agents searched the Florida estate of former President Donald Trump to look for classified documents. More
August 25, 2022
A federal appeals court said Arkansas can't enforce its ban on transgender children receiving gender-affirming medical care. More
August 25, 2022
Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for a 1997 killing, despite a recommendation from the state's Pardon and Parole Board that his life be spared. James Coddington, 50, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester and was pronounced dead at 10:16 a.m. More
August 25, 2022
Four years before Nikolas Cruz murdered 17 people at a Florida high school, therapists at another school wrote a letter to his psychiatrist saying he was fixated on guns and dreamed of killing others and being covered in blood. More
August 25, 2022
A law firm that helped defend Ghislaine Maxwell is suing her, her brother and husband, saying it was never paid for more than $878,000 for its work. More
August 25, 2022
A woman accused of a 2021 homicide in which a man was strangled and drugged has been found guilty of murder and related charges. More
August 25, 2022
New York's highest court has agreed to hear an appeal from Harvey Weinstein over his 2020 rape conviction. More
August 25, 2022
Steven Beard was shot in his sleep. Police found the shooter, but did they find the person ultimately responsible? Tamron Hall discusses. More
August 25, 2022
Defense lawyers at R. Kelly’s child pornography trial in Chicago sought Wednesday to portray a key government witness as a liar and extortionist, contending the man first approached the R&B star in 2001 and demanded that Kelly pay $1 million or he’d go public with video that could put Kelly in serious legal peril. More
August 24, 2022
Kobe Bryant’s widow was awarded $16 million as part of a $31 million jury verdict Wednesday against Los Angeles County for deputies and firefighters sharing grisly photos of the NBA star, his 13-year-old daughter and other victims killed in a 2020 helicopter crash. More
August 24, 2022
Paul Newman's daughters allege their own charity organizations are both supposed to receive $400,000 a year from the Newman’s Own Foundation under a mandate by their father, but the foundation has cut those payments in half in recent years. More
August 24, 2022
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt rejected clemency for a man facing execution for the 1997 hammer killing of a Choctaw man, despite a recommendation from the state’s Pardon and Parole Board that his life be spared. James Coddington was convicted and sentenced to die for the beating death of Albert Hale. Prosecutors say Coddington became enraged when Hale refused to give him money to buy cocaine. More
August 24, 2022
The Uvalde school district fired police chief Pete Arrendondo on Wednesday, making him the first officer to lose his job over the hesitant and fumbled response by law enforcement at Robb Elementary School as a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers in a fourth-grade classroom. More
August 24, 2022
Kaitlin Armstrong's attorneys pressed her right for a speedy trial when she pleaded not guilty plea to murder in July, and jury selection was scheduled to start Oct. 19. But in a hearing with defense lawyers and prosecutors, Judge Brenda Kennedy called that start date “highly unlikely.” More
August 24, 2022
