By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press Scott Peterson’s trial attorney missed an opportunity to grill a California juror about bias who eventually helped send him to death row for murdering his pregnant wife and unborn child, his appellate lawyer conceded Thursday while arguing the former fertilizer salesman deserves a new trial because of juror misconduct. […] More
August 11, 2022
Donald Trump has hired prominent Atlanta criminal defense attorney Drew Findling, known for defending famous rappers, to represent him in matters related to the special grand jury investigating whether the former president illegally tried to interfere with the 2020 election in Georgia. More
August 11, 2022
A San Diego woman who alleges Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer sexually abused her has filed a countersuit to his defamation claim, alleging the baseball star beat her and left her bruised. More
August 11, 2022
The Rev. Al Sharpton demanded a full accounting of how Georgia woman Brianna Grier fell from a moving patrol car after her arrest, saying at her funeral that he would seek a Justice Department review if the family didn't get answers. More
August 11, 2022
A judge scheduled a hearing for Monday on the “status of plea negotiations” for the two remaining officers awaiting trial on state charges in the killing of George Floyd, with the hearing coming after the judge's window for accepting any deal appears to have closed. More
August 11, 2022
The Justice Department has asked a court to unseal the warrant the FBI received before searching the Florida estate of former President Donald Trump, Attorney General Merrick Garland said. More
August 11, 2022
A Virginia man has been sentenced to nearly 12 years in prison on federal bank robbery charges in a case that tested the constitutionality of broad search warrants that use Google location history to identify people who were near the scene of a crime. Okello Chatrie, 27, was sentenced in the 2019 robbery of the Call Federal Credit Union in Midlothian. More
August 11, 2022
Daniel Navarro, a 27-year-old Mexican American from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, was convicted of first-degree intentional homicide as a hate crime in the 2020 crash that killed Phillip Thiessen, who was white. More
August 11, 2022
Investigators now believe a 5-year-old New Hampshire girl who disappeared in 2019 was murdered. The search for Harmony Montgomery has become a homicide investigation. More
August 11, 2022
Attempted negotiations failed, and police tried unsuccessfully to use unspecified “less lethal tactics," but the suspect was shot when he raised a gun toward officers, authorities said. More
August 11, 2022
A cleaning service employee who was working at a General Motors plant in Michigan was killed Thursday during an altercation with a co-worker. More
August 11, 2022
Robert Repella, a former pharmaceutical executive, agreed to pay then-Georgetown tennis coach Gordon Ernst at least $120,000 to have his daughter designated as a tennis recruit. More
August 11, 2022
Denver Police Dept. Sgt. Timothy Hyatt was arrested in Colorado for investigation of internet luring of a child after he allegedly made “explicit advances” on a person online who he thought was a 14-year-old girl. More
August 11, 2022
Daniel Boerner, 37, was sentenced to 16 years to life in prison after he was convicted of two counts of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust; two counts of sexual assault on a child; one county of sexual assault on a child—pattern of abuse; and one count of aggravated incest. More
August 11, 2022
An employee and former coach at a Colorado soccer club has been arrested on 17 counts of of sexual exploitation of children. The Internet Crimes Against Children unit identified the suspect as Howard "Bud" Harper, 63. More
August 11, 2022
The family of Yolanda Bindics is holding out hope that her killer will be caught and brought to justice, now 18 years after she was last seen alive. More
August 11, 2022
The severely decomposed remains of Emily Noble, 52, were discovered hanging from a tree in Sept. 2020, nearly four months after she was last seen alive. More
August 11, 2022
Vanessa Bryant's attorney Luis Li played jurors security video of an off-duty sheriff's deputy drinking at a bar showing the photos to the bartender, who shakes his head in dismay. More
August 11, 2022
Law enforcement in Hawaii on Wednesday arrested social media model Courtney Clenney on a charge of second-degree murder with a deadly weapon. More
August 11, 2022
A double shooting left John Sutton blinded and his wife Susan, dead. Tamron Hall explores the story of who was behind the shootings. More
August 11, 2022
Atlanta rapper Young Thug, who’s accused of conspiracy to violate Georgia’s RICO Act and participation in a criminal street gang, is facing six new felony charges along with four others linked to the case. More
August 10, 2022
A federal judge ruled that Walgreens can be held responsible for contributing to San Francisco's opioid crisis for over-dispensing highly addictive drugs without proper oversight and failing to identify and report suspicious orders. More
August 10, 2022
Prosecutors in Atlanta said they need a special grand jury to hear from U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham because he may be able to provide insight into the extent of any coordinated efforts to influence the results of the 2020 general election in Georgia. More
August 10, 2022
A U.S. Army lieutenant who was pepper-sprayed, struck and handcuffed during a traffic stop in Virginia can present his claims of false imprisonment and assault and battery to a jury, a federal judge has ruled. More
August 10, 2022
A federal lawsuit says USA Fencing, the national governing body for the sport, failed to protect a Tennessee teenager from sexual abuse over a two-year period. More
August 10, 2022
The nearly $50 million defamation verdict against Alex Jones for his years of lies about the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre is far from a final reckoning. More
August 10, 2022
Two anti-government extremists, Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr., sought to spark a “second American revolution” by kidnapping Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a prosecutor told jurors, as the government tried for a second time to get convictions in an alleged plot to shock the country into chaos before the 2020 election. More
August 10, 2022
Morgan Geyser, one of two Wisconsin women who were sent to a state mental health facility after a 2014 stabbing attack on a sixth-grade classmate that they claimed was to appease the horror character Slender Man has withdrawn her petition for release. More
August 10, 2022
Sesame Place has announced the implementation of diversity and inclusion training for its employees following a $25 million class-action lawsuit alleging multiple incidents of discrimination after outcry sparked from a video of a costumed character snubbing two 6-year-old Black girls went viral online. More
August 10, 2022
A former Boston high school dean already in prison for shooting a student he recruited to deal drugs has pleaded guilty to a federal gang-related charge. Shaun Harrison, 63, who was known by students at The English High School as “Rev,” pleaded guilty to a counts of racketeering conspiracy. More
August 10, 2022
