Latest Crime & Trial News

Lawyers for American basketball star Brittney Griner on Monday filed an appeal against her nine-year Russian prison sentence for drug possession. More

August 15, 2022

Police identified the driver as 24-year-old Adrian Oswaldo Sura Reyes, who was arraigned early Sunday on two counts of criminal homicide. More

August 15, 2022

The trial is underway for a man accused of fatally shooting a 7-year-old girl who was riding in a car with her family after a day of Christmas shopping in Atlanta. More

August 15, 2022

Jury selection begins Monday at R. Kelly’s federal trial in his hometown of Chicago, where he faces charges that he rigged his 2008 state child pornography trial. More

August 15, 2022

Soon, it will be Cruz's attorneys arguing why he should be spared, hoping to convince at least one juror their mitigating factors outweigh the prosecution's aggravating circumstances — a death sentence must be unanimous. More

August 15, 2022

Singer Michelle Branch has been charged with domestic assault after police say she slapped her husband multiple times in the face. More

August 15, 2022

The family of a Texas soldier who was was sexually harassed and killed at a military base near Killeen in 2020 filed a lawsuit Friday seeking $35 million in damages from the U.S. government. The family of 20-year-old Vanessa Guillen is seeking damages on the basis of sexual harassment, abuse, assault, rape, sodomy and wrongful death. More

August 12, 2022

Former Detective Kelly Goodlett intends to plead guilty to a civil rights charge stemming from the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor. More

August 12, 2022

The FBI recovered documents that were labeled “top secret” from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. A property receipt unsealed by the court shows FBI agents took 11 sets of classified records from the estate during a search on Monday. More

August 12, 2022

The family of country singer Naomi Judd filed a court petition to seal police reports and recordings made during the investigation into her death. More

August 12, 2022

A gunman who died in a shootout after trying to get inside the FBI’s Cincinnati office apparently went on social media and called for federal agents to be killed “on sight” following the search at Donald Trump’s home. More

August 12, 2022

A New York judge ordered Friday that the Trump Organization and its longtime finance chief, Allen Weisselberg, stand trial on tax fraud charges. More

August 12, 2022

A federal judge was to decide as soon as Friday whether to grant the Department of Justice's request to unseal the warrant that authorized the FBI to search former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate. Attorney General Merrick Garland declared there was “substantial public interest in this matter." More

August 12, 2022

A judge overseeing the second trial of two men accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer took steps Friday to keep a lid on a defense lawyer's concerns about whether a juror will be fair. More

August 12, 2022

Salman Rushdie’s book “The Satanic Verses” has been banned in Iran since 1988, as many Muslims consider it to be blasphemous. More

August 12, 2022

“The driver was asleep behind the wheel with the driver’s door open leaning back in the seat,” the report said, “with bloodshot, watery eyes and had one shoe on and one shoe off.” More

August 12, 2022

Police said the bodies of Kassandra Sweeney and her two sons, ages 4 and 23 months, were found in their home on August 3, 2022. More

August 12, 2022

According to an arrest report, Courtney Clenney acknowledged killing Christian Obumseli but said she acted in self defense. More

August 12, 2022

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