Latest Crime & Trial News

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

Mario Batali has agreed to settle two Massachusetts lawsuits that accused the celebrity chef of sexual assault. The decision to settle the cases comes more than two months after the former Food Network personality was cleared of a criminal charge stemming from accusations by one of the women, who prosecutors alleged aggressively kissed and groped her while taking a selfie at a downtown Boston bar in 2017. More

August 24, 2022