Latest Crime & Trial News

Jurors began deliberating in the capital murder trial of a man accused of fatally shooting his two teenage daughters in a taxi. More

August 9, 2022

Jury selection started Tuesday in the second trial of two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 over their disgust with restrictions early in the COVID-19 pandemic. More

August 9, 2022

The death of an Arkansas judge whose body was recovered from a lake is being investigated as an accidental drowning, authorities said. More

August 9, 2022

Nicole Linton, suspected of causing a fiery crash that killed five people, including a pregnant woman, was charged Monday with murder. More

August 9, 2022

A federal appeals court on Monday restored the death sentence of a bank robber convicted of killing his best friend, his friend’s fiancée and their three children. More

August 9, 2022

The FBI searched Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate as part of an investigation into whether he took classified records from the White House to his Florida residence. More

August 8, 2022

Bloomington police say Shamar Alon Lark, 21, of Minneapolis, fired three rounds in front of a Nike store following a fight involving a half-dozen people. More

August 8, 2022

Actor Ezra Miller has been charged with felony burglary in Stamford, Vermont, the latest in a string of incidents involving the embattled star of “The Flash.” More

August 8, 2022

Yaser Said told the jury that he ran from his car and left his teen daughters inside because he feared for his life as he testified. More

August 8, 2022

Closing arguments are set for Tuesday in the trial of Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 26, who faces negligent homicide, manslaughter and reckless conduct charges in connection with the June 21, 2019, crash in Randolph, New Hampshire. More

August 8, 2022

Rapper Fetty Wap was jailed Monday after, prosecutors say, he threatened to kill a man during a FaceTime call in 2021. More

August 8, 2022

Court records show a motion to vacate the conviction of Cedric L. Dent, 47, in the shooting death of Anthony Milton was granted by a judge and the district attorney's office agreed not to continue prosecuting the case. The shooting happened outside a New Orleans supermarket. More

August 8, 2022

More than 60 Oklahoma lawmakers, including many Republicans who support the death penalty, urged the state attorney general to join their request for a new evidentiary hearing in the case of death row inmate Richard Glossip. More

August 8, 2022

Rudy Giuliani will not appear as scheduled Tuesday before a special grand jury in Atlanta that’s investigating whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to interfere in the 2020 general election in Georgia. More

August 8, 2022

The family's federal lawsuit accused police of using excessive force on Anton Black after they chased him and tried to restrain him outside his family’s home in rural Greensboro, Maryland, in 2018. Officers handcuffed Black and shackled his legs before he stopped breathing. More

August 8, 2022

Jordan Jago has been arrested in Colorado Springs for the human trafficking of a minor for sexual servitude and several other felony sexual offenses involving a minor. More

August 8, 2022

Join Judge Ashley Willcott and other Scripps employees to fight childhood illiteracy by donating to the "If You Give a Child a Book" campaign. With your support, this year's campaign will help us reach an incredible milestone – distributing our one-millionth book!   More

August 8, 2022

The notice of claim contends police in the tourist town of Moab missed signs that Petito was the victim of domestic violence at the hands of Brian Laundrie on Aug. 12, 2021. The officers ultimately allowed the couple to leave after requiring them to spend a night apart. More

August 8, 2022

The 48-year-old Giggs is accused of assaulting Kate Greville, 36, and causing actual bodily harm at his home in Worsley, greater Manchester in November 2020. More

August 8, 2022

A vegan mother who said she and her family followed a strict diet of only raw fruits and vegetables faced sentencing on Monday in the malnutrition death of her 18-month-old son. More

August 8, 2022

It’s the fourth time since May that remains have been uncovered as Western drought forces the shoreline to retreat at the shrinking Colorado River reservoir behind the Hoover Dam. More

August 8, 2022

The prosecutor seeking to sentence Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz to death let the facts speak for themselves as he presented his case. More

August 8, 2022

The trial of Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. means another public airing of secretly recorded conversations, text messages and chilling social media posts. More

August 8, 2022

The white father and son who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery in a Georgia neighborhood each received a second life prison sentence for committing federal hate crimes. William “Roddie” Bryan, who recorded cellphone video of the slaying, was sentenced to 35 years in prison. More

August 8, 2022

A New Jersey man who made up a story about a homeless veteran helping out his then-girlfriend and used the tale to solicit more than $400,000 in online donations was sentenced to five years in state prison on Friday. More

August 8, 2022

A suspect wanted in Ohio in the shooting deaths of four people, including a teenage girl, has been arrested in Kansas, authorities said. More

August 8, 2022

Authorities said they can’t say yet if the shootings were hate crimes until they have identified a suspect and can determine a motive. More

August 8, 2022

A Texas jury on Friday ordered Infowars’ Alex Jones to pay $49.3 million in total damages to the parents of a first-grader killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, which the conspiracy theorist falsely called a hoax orchestrated by the government in order to tighten U.S. gun laws. More

August 5, 2022

The Kremlin said Friday that it's open to talking about a possible prisoner exchange involving American basketball star Brittney Griner but strongly warned Washington against publicizing the issue. More

August 5, 2022

Travis McMichael, the white man who fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery after chasing the running Black man in Georgia, fears he will be killed by fellow inmates if he's sent to state prison. More

August 5, 2022