By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court outlawed automatic life sentences Thursday for people who were 18 when they participated in first-degree murder, opening a door to shorter prison terms and opportunities for parole. In a 4-3 opinion, the court said mandatory no-parole sentences at that age violate the Michigan […] More
July 28, 2022
Police arrested Chad Jennings, 32, on murder, child abuse and conspiracy warrants and Katherine Penner, 31, on accessory to murder, child abuse and desecration of a body warrants. More
July 28, 2022
Alvin Cole's parents, Tracy and Albert Cole, are seeking unspecified damages from former Wauwatosa Officer Joseph Mensah, the city's former police chief, Barry Weber, and its insurance company in connection with their son's death. Mensah shot the 17-year-old during a foot chase. More
July 28, 2022
A man who accosted U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin on stage as the Republican campaigned for governor will remain in custody. David Jakubonis, 43, faces a federal count of assaulting a member of Congress with a dangerous weapon. More
July 28, 2022
The California man accused of plotting to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh had an expansive goal to change the makeup of the Supreme Court “for decades to come." More
July 28, 2022
Gerson Fuentes, 27, faces two counts of raping the girl, who turned 10 before having the abortion. He has pleaded not guilty. More
July 28, 2022
Joe Nathan James Jr. is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at an Alabama prison. James was convicted and sentenced to death in the 1994 shooting death of Faith Hall. Hall's daughters said they would rather James serve life in prison. More
July 28, 2022
A family is suing Sesame Street-themed amusement park Sesame Place for $25 million over claims of racial discrimination, alleging costumed characters ignored a 5-year-old Black girl. More
July 28, 2022
Tamron Hall explores the shocking discovery that turned the murder of two medical professionals from unsolved to having a prime suspect. More
July 28, 2022
The video has been held by law enforcement and school officials who have not yet released it citing privacy concerns. More
July 28, 2022
The verdict for an Ohio woman convicted of luring her ex-husband's former partner to their death has been overturned. More
July 28, 2022
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that Washington had offered Russia a deal that would bring home Griner and another jailed American, Paul Whelan. More
July 28, 2022
“I did not kill my wife. I could not murder my wife. I would not murder my wife,” Lawrence “Larry” Rudolph told jurors Wednesday. More
July 28, 2022
Trident Mortgage Co., a division of Berkshire Hathaway's HomeServices of America, deliberately avoided writing mortgages in minority-majority neighborhoods in West Philadelphia like Malcolm X Park; Camden, New Jersey; and in Wilmington, Delaware, the Justice Department and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said in their settlement with Trident. More
July 27, 2022
A U.S. defense contractor and his wife who lived for decades under the identities of two dead Texas children have been charged with identity theft and conspiring against the government. Walter Glenn Primrose and Gwynn Darle Morrison, who allegedly lived for decades under the names Bobby Edward Fort and Julie Lyn Montague, were arrested on the island of Oahu. More
July 27, 2022
Robert E. Crimo III, accused of opening fire on an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago, has been indicted on 21 first-degree murder counts, 48 counts of attempted murder and 48 counts of aggravated battery. More
July 27, 2022
The last rider in a group of Marine motorcycle club members testified that he saw a “ball of flame” and then a truck “plowing through motorcycles like a bowling ball” in a 2019 crash in New Hampshire that killed seven bikers. Michael McEachern testified in the trial of truck driver Volodymyr Zhukovskyy. More
July 27, 2022
A Palm Beach County mother Rafaelle Sousa, who authorities said tossed her newborn baby girl in a dumpster, pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree murder and child abuse, and was sentenced Wednesday to 7 1/2 years in prison. More
July 27, 2022
South Florida man Ryan Hadeed pleaded guilty after mailing $10,000 to a hired assassin in a botched attempt to have his ex-girlfriend's new lover killed. More
July 27, 2022
The U.S. has offered a deal to Russia aimed at bringing home WNBA star Brittney Griner and another jailed American, Paul Whelan. More
July 27, 2022
Baltimore County police obtained an arrest warrant charging James S. Weems Jr., 57, of Randallstown, Maryland, with 13 sex crimes related to the abuse of at least three children at the day care in Owings Mills. More
July 27, 2022
The Virgin Atlantic flight landed in Utah after William Stephen Hayes, 39, became upset mid-flight and had to be restrained by the flight crew. More
July 27, 2022
.Broward County sheriff’s Detective Nick Masters read hundreds of searches and comments Cruz made starting seven months before the Feb. 14, 2018, massacre as prosecutors try to prove he planned it. More
July 27, 2022
KHIMKI, RUSSIA. (Court TV) – WNBA basketball player Brittney Griner plays in Russia during her off-season. When traveling from the United States to the Sheremetyevo International Airport near Moscow, Russia, in February of this year, Griner was arrested for allegedly transporting vape canisters containing cannabis oil in her luggage. More
July 27, 2022
Griner testified Wednesday that she was suffering from pain from injuries sustained during her basketball career. More
July 27, 2022
SALINAS, Calif. (Scripps News San Luis Obispo) – More witnesses were expected to take the stand Tuesday morning in the case against Paul and Ruben Flores, but that didn’t happen. Shortly after Monterey County Superior Court Judge Jennifer O’Keefe took her seat in the courtroom, she announced the trial would be postponed until next Monday. […] More
July 27, 2022
The last two former Minneapolis police officers to be sentenced for violating George Floyd's civil rights are scheduled to learn their penalties Wednesday. More
July 27, 2022
Prosecutors said the harassment campaign stretched from November 2018 to February 2020 after the woman filed a civil lawsuit against Kelly. More
July 27, 2022
“They were the most dangerous. That’s where we put Alex Jones,” Connecticut State Police Detective Daniel Jewiss told the jury on the first day of testimony in a Texas trial to determine how much Jones, who hosts Infowars, owes for defaming the parents of one of the children who died in the deadliest school shooting in American history. More
July 26, 2022
A New York City jury was asked to consider whether neurologist Dr. Ricardo Cruciani used his pain-management practice to sexually prey on patients or if he's a victim of accusers with false stories. More
July 26, 2022
