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“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

A wealthy dentist accused of fatally shooting his wife in the heart with a shotgun at the end of an African safari was found guilty of murder and mail fraud on Monday. More

August 2, 2022

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Family members from three of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz’s 17 victims gave heartrending testimony Monday about how their 2018 deaths at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have affected their lives, detailing lost loves, lost moments and even fading memories.    The sister of student […] More

August 1, 2022

Corrections officer Alan Jay Hershberger has died after being attacked by inmate Gregory Thompson at the Davis Correctional Facility Oklahoma. More

August 1, 2022

West Virginia cities and counties reached a $400 million tentative settlement with three major U.S. drug distributors: AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson. More

August 1, 2022

52-year-old Minnesota man Nicolae Miu is charged with killing a teenager and stabbing four other people in a dispute that allegedly began with a lost cellphone during a weekend tubing excursion on a western Wisconsin river. Investigators said Miu attacked the group after people accused him of approaching children in the water. Miu told investigators he had acted in self-defense. More

August 1, 2022

Yaser Said, who was convicted of killing 18-year-old Amina Said and 17-year-old Sarah Said on New Year’s Day in 2008. More

August 1, 2022

An Iowa-based youth basketball league agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by former players whose coach, Greg Stephen, secretly recorded them undressing or obtained nude photos of them and is now serving a lengthy prison sentence for sexual exploitation of minors. More

August 1, 2022

Fabian Gonzales was convicted in the 2016 death of Albuquerque girl Victoria Martens, who was strangled, dismembered and set on fire in the bathtub of her mother’s apartment on her 10th birthday. The jury deliberated less than four hours before returning with guilty verdicts on all charges: reckless child abuse resulting in death, tampering with evidence and conspiracy to tamper with evidence. More

August 1, 2022

A retired British geologist jailed in Iraq for antiquities smuggling has been freed and left the country. Jim Fitton, 66, was sentenced in June to 15 years in an Iraqi prison. A Baghdad appeals court overturned the conviction and last week ordered his release. More

August 1, 2022

The parents of a Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim live with a complex form of post-traumatic stress disorder and a constant fear that followers of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones will kill them. More

August 1, 2022

Newly elected President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said the Philippines has no plan to rejoin the International Criminal Court. Former President Rodrigo Duterte withdrew the Philippines from The Hague-based court in 2019 in a move rights activists said was an attempt to evade accountability and prevent an international probe into thousands of killings in his campaign against illegal drugs. More

August 1, 2022

The WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist is to return to court on Tuesday, a month after the beginning of the trial in which she could face 10 years in prison if convicted. More

August 1, 2022

Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson was suspended without pay for six games Monday for violating the NFL's personal conduct policy following accusations of sexual misconduct made against him by two dozen women in Texas. More

August 1, 2022

A former chiropractor convicted of killing four people in a small North Dakota town and sentenced to life behind bars has died in prison. More

August 1, 2022

Thirty-seven years later, authorities are still trying to identify the remains of some of their victims. More

August 1, 2022

A Maryland woman was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the murder of her newborn baby. More

August 1, 2022

A university instructor in Georgia has been charged with killing an 18-year-old student who was fatally shot while sitting in a car. More

August 1, 2022