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
A psychologist who treated Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz when he was 8 years old testified Wednesday that Cruz was a “peculiar child” who had many behavioral and developmental issues but his widowed mother seemed overwhelmed and wasn’t consistent in her discipline or in getting him treatment. More
August 24, 2022
52-year-old Eyvette Hunter is accused of “unlawfully causing the death of James Morris by intentional medical maltreatment," according to the indictment. More
August 24, 2022
By TERRY SPENCER and FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz as a toddler was intellectually and physically behind other children, which caused him to isolate himself and hit and bite to get what he wanted, a daycare administrator and former neighbor testified Tuesday at his penalty trial for mass […] More
August 23, 2022
A former merchandizing agent for R. Kelly testified Tuesday that the singer offered him $1 million to find a VHS tape featuring Kelly as prosecutors sought to persuade jurors that Kelly was desperate to recover the missing recording. More
August 23, 2022
A bystander's video of 27-year-old Randal Worcester’s arrest on Sunday in the small town of Mulberry sparked outrage after it was posted online. All three officers were later suspended, and state and federal authorities have opened criminal investigations into their actions. More
August 23, 2022
Two Atlanta police officers who clashed with Rayshard Brooks acted reasonably during the 2020 encounter, a specially appointed prosecutor said Tuesday. More
August 23, 2022
The husband of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pleaded guilty to misdemeanor driving under the influence charges related to a crash in California's wine country and was sentenced to five days in jail and three years of probation. More
August 23, 2022
defense lawyers said the secrecy rules as Alex Murdaugh awaits a murder trial in the shooting deaths of his wife and younger son are hypocritical because prosecutors are leaking evidence to media outlets, including a video the leaker said was taken not long before the killings. More
August 23, 2022
Tennessee's disgraced former House Speaker Glen Casada and his top aide were arrested Tuesday on federal charges including bribery, kickbacks and conspiracy to commit money laundering. More
August 23, 2022
The National Archives recovered 100 documents bearing classified markings, totaling more than 700 pages, from an initial batch of 15 boxes retrieved from Mar-a-Lago earlier this year. More
August 23, 2022
A former Louisville police detective who helped write the warrant that led to the raid at Breonna Taylor's apartment has pleaded guilty. More
August 23, 2022
A jury convicted two men of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. The jury also found Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. guilty of conspiring to obtain a weapon of mass destruction, namely a bomb to blow up a bridge and stymie police if the kidnapping could be pulled off at Whitmer’s vacation home. More
August 23, 2022
“We do not believe these were random acts of violence," interim police chief Darrin Schierbaum told a news conference. More
August 23, 2022
A judge on Monday declared a mistrial in a case against a man charged with blowing up his ex-girlfriend's Southern California spa business, killing her and seriously injuring two others with a box rigged with explosives. More
August 23, 2022
The body was found when the teen's submerged car was located, but officials offered no theory of how it ended up in the water. More
August 23, 2022
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump asked a federal judge Monday to halt the FBI's review of documents recovered from his Florida estate earlier this month until a neutral special master can be appointed to inspect the records. More
August 22, 2022
A South Dakota ethics board on Monday said it found sufficient information that Gov. Kristi Noem may have “engaged in misconduct” when she intervened in her daughter’s application for a real estate appraiser license, and it referred a separate complaint over her state airplane use to the state's attorney general for investigation. More
August 22, 2022
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has subpoenaed his friend and former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey as part of an effort to back out of his $44 billion agreement to acquire the company Dorsey helped found. More
August 22, 2022
A federal judge rejected a request by Ben & Jerry’s to block a plan by its corporate parent to allow its products to be sold in east Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank against the wishes of the Vermont ice cream maker's independent board of directors. More
August 22, 2022
A man charged in the prison killing of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger will remain behind bars while he awaits trial. Sean McKinnon, 36, was on federal supervised release when he was arrested in Florida on charges including conspiracy to commit first degree murder. More
August 22, 2022
Tallon Westlake, son of former Alaska lawmaker Dean Westlake, faces charges of manslaughter and evidence tampering in the death of his father More
August 22, 2022
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — Rapper Fetty Wap pleaded guilty Monday to a conspiracy drug charge that carries a mandatory five-year prison sentence. The plea in Central Islip on Long Island came before U.S. Magistrate Judge Steven Locke, who had revoked his bond and sent him to jail two weeks ago. No sentencing date was […] More
August 22, 2022
A federal appeals court on Sunday agreed to temporarily put on hold a lower court’s order requiring that U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham testify before a special grand jury that’s investigating possible illegal efforts to overturn then-President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia. More
August 22, 2022
A Florida man accused of kidnapping his estranged wife is representing himself as he seeks to convince a jury he's innocent. More
August 22, 2022
Two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan's governor wanted to grab Gretchen Whitmer and hang her, prosecutors said during a stark closing argument Monday as the government tried for a second time to get convictions in an alleged plot to trigger a revolution in 2020. More
August 22, 2022
The specialty search and recovery team said they believe they found missing teen Kiely Rodni, but law enforcement has not confirmed if it is Rodni. More
August 22, 2022
