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Brooke Skylar Richardson, who was convicted of abusing her baby’s corpse, is requesting the judge seal the fifth-degree felony conviction. More

August 18, 2022

Police said they received more than 200 tips and one from the Muslim community led them to the Syed family. Syed knew the victims, authorities have said. More

August 18, 2022

The children were between 5 and 10 years old, had been dead for a number of years, and the suitcases had been in storage for at least three or four years, police said. More

August 18, 2022

Attorneys for disbarred South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh say prosecutors are taking too long to share their evidence alleging the disbarred attorney killed his wife and son, unfairly making it tougher to defend him at his upcoming trial. More

August 17, 2022

Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation and homeowners of the houses built by the program, in an area of New Orleans among the hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina, have reached a $20.5 million settlement. More

August 17, 2022

Two former fraternity members were sentenced to six weeks in jail on after being convicted of hazing-related misdemeanor counts in the death of a Bowling Green State University student. More

August 17, 2022

The last of three men convicted of hijacking a school bus full of California children for an attempted $5 million ransom in 1976 is being released. Gov. Gavin Newsom asked the board to reconsider its decision to parole Frederick Woods, 70. More

August 17, 2022

Hadi Matar, the man charged with stabbing Salman Rushdie on a lecture stage in New York State, said he was surprised to learn the author survived the attack. More

August 17, 2022

Rudy Giuliani faced hours of questioning Wednesday before a special grand jury in Atlanta as a target of an investigation into attempts by former President Donald Trump and others to overturn his 2020 election defeat in Georgia. More

August 17, 2022

The federal government is suing SkyWest Airlines on behalf of a former employee who says co-workers sexually harassed her, including asking her for sex and making explicit comments about rape in her presence. More

August 17, 2022

A federal judge in Cleveland awarded $650 million in damages Wednesday to two Ohio counties that sued CVS, Walgreens and Walmart over the way the national pharmacy chains distributed opioids to their communities. More

August 17, 2022

Antonio LaMotta, Virginia man facing trial on charges he drove a Hummer packed with guns to Philadelphia to interfere with the 2020 presidential election, has been arrested in a separate case that alleges his involvement in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. More

August 17, 2022

Former Indiana state senator Brent Waltz was sentenced to 10 months in prison for his role in a scheme that illegally funneled money from a casino company to his unsuccessful 2016 congressional campaign. More

August 17, 2022

Two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 were “very eager” to move forward with the plan and expressed no reluctance, a key witness testified. More

August 17, 2022

An attorney for R. Kelly implored jurors at the singer's trial-fixing and child pornography case Wednesday not to accept what she said is the prosecution’s portrayal of her client as “a monster.” More

August 17, 2022

A man who got into the grounds of Windsor Castle armed with a crossbow told police he wanted to “kill the queen,” prosecutors said during a court hearing Wednesday. More

August 17, 2022

Former Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane, who was sentenced to 2 1/2 years for violating George Floyd’s civil rights, will do his time at a low-security federal prison camp in Colorado. More

August 17, 2022

Kelly is accused of enticing minors for sex, of producing child pornography and of fixing his 2008 state child pornography trial at which he was acquitted. More

August 17, 2022

A trial date has been set for the case against Cecily Aguilar, who is accused in connection to the death of soldier Vanessa Guillen. More

August 17, 2022

Lori Vallow Daybell was in court Tuesday for the first time since April 19, 2022, when she was arraigned on felony charges connected to the murders of her children, Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow. More

August 16, 2022

A judge sided with former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in his dispute with a now-defunct state ethics commission that ordered him to give up $5 million he was paid to write a book about his leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic. More

August 16, 2022

Police have “terrorized” Black residents in a small Mississippi town by subjecting them to false arrests, excessive force and intimidation, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday by a civil rights organization. The organization, JULIAN, is seeking a temporary restraining order against the Lexington police department to demand protection for the town's largely Black population. More

August 16, 2022

A judge ordered Trump legal adviser Jenna Ellis to travel to Georgia to testify before a special grand jury looking into whether Trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in Georgia. More

August 16, 2022

Pakistani doctor and former Mayo Clinic research coordinator Muhammad Masood pleaded guilty to a terrorism charge. He was arrested for telling paid FBI informants he pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State group and wanted to carry out lone wolf attacks in the U.S. More

August 16, 2022

Attorneys for the family of a Georgia woman killed by gunfire last year as sheriff's deputies executed a search warrant at her cousin's home are calling for the Justice Department to investigate, arguing the deadly raid echoes the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor in Kentucky. More

August 16, 2022

The Utah Republican Party passed a resolution encouraging the banning of surgeries and hormone therapy for transitioning transgender minors. More

August 16, 2022

A Wendy's employee is facing second-degree murder charges after allegedly punching a customer in Arizona. More

August 16, 2022

A 14-year-old boy accused of stabbing a man in the chest during an argument at a party in June has been charged as an adult. More

August 16, 2022

A federal appeals court upheld Arkansas' use of the sedative midazolam in its lethal injections. A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court judge's ruling upholding the state's execution process. U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker in 2020 ruled that the state's use of midazolam in injections is constitutional and dismissed claims that less painful methods of execution are available. More

August 16, 2022

Defense attorneys grilled an FBI informant Tuesday in the trial of two men accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan’s governor, questioning his motivation to get inside a band of anti-government extremists and the key steps he took to gather evidence. More

August 16, 2022