Latest Crime & Trial News

Russian prosecutors asked a court outside Moscow to sentence American basketball star Brittney Griner to 9 1/2 years in prison. More

August 4, 2022

Eyewitnesses who saw Kristin Smart at a party the night she disappeared took the stand Wednesday in the trials of Paul Flores and Ruben Flores. More

August 4, 2022

Federal officials said he posed as a teenager online to entice young victims across the country to send him explicit images. More

August 4, 2022

“They said, ‘You absolutely can do nothing,’” Bishop John Herrod said in a recorded interview with law enforcement. More

August 4, 2022

The sisters were found dead June 7 in separate bedrooms of the apartment in the southwest suburb of Canterbury. More

August 4, 2022

James Howard Jackson, 19, was arrested Wednesday nearly five months after he was released from jail while awaiting trial “due to a clerical error." More

August 4, 2022

Jurors in the trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz are expected to walk through the still blood-spattered rooms of Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Thursday. More

August 4, 2022

The man accused of killing seven people and wounding dozens more in a shooting at an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago pleaded not guilty on Wednesday. More

August 3, 2022

 Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones testified Wednesday that he now understands it was irresponsible of him to declare the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre a hoax and that he now believes it was “100% real." More

August 3, 2022

The husband of U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi pleaded not guilty Wednesday to misdemeanor driving under the influence charges related to a May car crash in Northern California wine country. More

August 3, 2022

A 12-year-old girl held captive in a rural Alabama residence escaped and was discovered walking along a road, prompting an investigation that led police to discover two decomposing bodies at the home where she had been kept, authorities said Tuesday. More

August 3, 2022

The white man who initiated the neighborhood chase that resulted in the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery is asking a federal judge to show leniency when he's sentenced next week for a federal hate crime conviction. More

August 3, 2022

The child died in October 2021, prosecutors said. His parents have since been arrested, along with a third female suspect. More

August 3, 2022

The parents led a day of charged testimony Tuesday that included the judge scolding the bombastic Jones for not being truthful with some of what he said under oath. More

August 3, 2022

U.S. District Court Judge Geoffrey Crawford denied Nathan Carman's request to be released and ordered him held without bail. More

August 3, 2022

Author Stephen King's displeasure about the proposed merger led him to voluntarily testify for the government. More

August 3, 2022

Yaser Said is accused of murdering his daughters, 18-year-old Amina Said and 17-year-old Sarah Said. He evaded arrest for 12 years. More

August 3, 2022

“My first-born daughter, daddy's girl was taken from me!” yelled Dr. Alhadeff, the father of victim 14-year-old Alyssa Alhadeff. More

August 3, 2022

YUCCA VALLEY, Calif. (Court TV) — Three days before filing an appeal to the $10.35 million judgment she was ordered to pay her ex-husband, Johnny Depp, Amber Heard’s California desert estate quietly sold, according to public property records. The three-bedroom, three-bathroom Yucca Valley home, featured in many of Heard’s Instagram posts, sits on just under 6 […] More

August 2, 2022

The woman who was in Daunte Wright’s vehicle when he was fatally shot by police in a Minneapolis suburb is suing the city and the former officer who killed him. The lawsuit says passenger Alayna Albrecht-Payton, 21, was physically injured when Wright's vehicle crashed into another SUV after Kim Potter shot him. More

August 2, 2022

Three people have been arrested and one is wanted in connection with the death of a woman whose body was found near the Realization Point trailhead in Boulder County, Colorado on July 24. More

August 2, 2022

A woman was arrested and faces multiple charges after she allegedly stole her two biological children, whom she does not have custody of, from their grandmother's home in Morgan County, Colorado and then crashed her car on an interstate. More

August 2, 2022

On Feb. 24, 2020, Kaman Morgan shot his ex-girlfriend Brie Ann Biondolillo five times through her windshield while she was picking up their 3-month-old son at Morgan’s home. Their son was also in the car at the time. Morgan then shot Biondolillo a sixth time in the head after she fell out of the car. More

August 2, 2022

According to police reports, James Weems, 57, was shot by his wife, 50-year-old Shanteari Weems, after at least three children said he molested them at her child daycare facility - Lil' Kidz Kastle Daycare Center. More

August 2, 2022

The ongoing trial in Austin, which is where Alex Jones’ far-right Infowars website and its parent company are based, stems from a 2018 lawsuit brought by Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, whose 6-year-old son was killed in the 2012 attack along with 19 other first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School. More

August 2, 2022

Ten years after a man was found shot to death inside a Nashville apartment, his killer remains on the run. More

August 2, 2022

The 24-year-old officer was shot in the head after stopping Boards' car. Investigators found 36 rifle bullet casings and damage to the patrol car's hood, windshield and driver’s door. More

August 2, 2022

American basketball star Brittney Griner was back in court on Tuesday for her trial for cannabis possession. Closing statements are scheduled for Thursday. More

August 2, 2022

The 51-year-old hip-hop legend is being held without bond on 10 charges, according to the sheriff's office inmate lookup. More

August 2, 2022

“The more the publishers consolidate, the harder it is for indie publishers to survive," Stephen King tweeted last year. More

August 2, 2022