Latest Crime & Trial News

“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

“I felt like I wanted to run, run down the block and scream,” Vanessa Bryant said, her tears turning to sobs and her voice quickening. More

August 22, 2022

Melisa McNeill, Cruz's lead public defender, is expected to give her opening statement Monday, having deferred its presentation from the start of the trial a month ago. More

August 22, 2022

Actor Gary Busey has been charged with sexual offenses following alleged actions at the Monster Mania Convention in the Philadelphia suburb of Cherry Hill. More

August 22, 2022

South Korean police say they believe a possible relative of two children whose bodies were found in suitcases in New Zealand last week is likely in South Korea. More

August 22, 2022

An unhappy customer at a Maryland Papa John's attacked a store employee, who in turn stabbed him with a pizza spear in self-defense. More

August 19, 2022

A Baltimore man has pleaded guilty to sex trafficking at least three women, one of whom he forced to get his nicknames tattooed on her body. Ryan Odell Oliver -- who went by "Dre," "Fame" and "Foreign" -- advertised the victims online for commercial sex dates and gave them daily quotas for the dates; he then kept the money they made. More

August 19, 2022

British national El Shafee Elsheikh was sentenced to life in prison Friday for his role in an Islamic State scheme that took roughly two dozen Westerners hostage. More

August 19, 2022

Transgender kids in Utah will be not be subjected to sports participation limits at the start of the upcoming school year after a judge delayed the implementation of a statewide ban passed earlier this year. More

August 19, 2022

Daquan Reed, who opened fire after being robbed outside an Atlanta mall, has been convicted of murder in the fatal shooting of 7-year-old Kennedy Maxie, who was riding in a car with her family while Christmas shopping. More

August 19, 2022

R. Kelly’s legal team will get its chance to question the government’s star witness on Friday after she testified at his federal trial in Chicago that the R&B singer sexually abused her hundreds of times before she turned 18. More

August 19, 2022

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police described a hectic and dangerous miles long police pursuit in a press briefing this week. More

August 19, 2022

Lawyers for two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer called investigators to the witness stand Friday to try to raise questions about their tactics in 2020 and highlight scornful attitudes. The defense rested its case on the ninth day of trial. Closing arguments were scheduled for Monday in federal court in Grand Rapids, Michigan .Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. declined to testify. More

August 19, 2022

Prosecutors say disbarred South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh, who's charged with killing his wife and son, stole nearly $420,000 from his law firm. Murdaugh faces nine additional charges — four counts of obtaining property under false pretenses, three counts of money laundering and two counts of computer crimes — in indictments. More

August 19, 2022

The mother and her 16-year-old son chased after Lloyd Beard and detained him until law enforcement arrived. More

August 19, 2022

A Florida high school teacher was arrested after a teen missing since Aug. 12 was found concealed in her home. More

August 19, 2022

A Pennsylvania man is facing multiple charges after police say he allegedly tried to buy stolen human remains from an Arkansas woman for possible resale on Facebook. More

August 19, 2022