Latest Crime & Trial News

An Alabama man is lying in a Utah hospital bed on life support. The hospital says he is brain dead, while his family says he’s alive. More

July 25, 2022

Jurors in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz got their first view Monday of the AR-15-style rifle he used to murder 17 students and staff members four years ago at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. More

July 25, 2022

A Baltimore man pleaded guilty to creating child pornography by pretending to be a teen girl online, and getting teen boys to send him sexually explicit images. Matthew K. Walsh, 24, targeted more than 40 boys, ages 12 to 17. More

July 25, 2022

Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has been moved to a Florida federal prison to continue serving her 20-year sentence. More

July 25, 2022

A man pleaded not guilty in Ohio to charges of raping a 10-year-old girl who traveled to Indiana for an abortion. The 27-year-old defendant is charged with two felony counts of rape. He could face life without parole. Police say the man confessed to raping the girl on two separate occasions. More

July 25, 2022

Julia Tomlin, who pleaded guilty to murdering her 2-year-old son Noah, was sentenced to 55 years in prison. More

July 25, 2022

A mother charged in the death of her 18-month-old son finds out her punishment later today. Sheila O’Leary was convicted of first-degree murder last month, after her son died from what investigators said was severe malnutrition and dehydration. More

July 25, 2022

The Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office has arrested Maryland chiropractor Blake Kalkstein after he traveled to Texas to sexually assault a child he met through an online video gaming platform. More

July 25, 2022

Steven Lopez, co-defendant of the so-called “Central Park Five,” whose convictions in a notorious 1989 rape were thrown out more than a decade later, is set to have his conviction on a related charge overturned. More

July 25, 2022

A 9-year-old boy who was camping at an Iowa state park with his parents and 6-year-old sister survived a shooting that killed the rest of his family. More

July 25, 2022

A South Florida police sergeant who was recorded grabbing a colleague by the neck when she tried to deescalate a situation involving a suspect is facing four criminal charges. More

July 25, 2022

Jury selection is set for Monday in a trial that will determine for the first time how much Infowars host Alex Jones must pay Sandy Hook Elementary School parents. More

July 25, 2022

Two men convicted of killing a pair of California teenagers who vanished six years ago were sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole. More

July 25, 2022

Barry Morphew has pleaded guilty to forgery for casting his missing wife's 2020 election ballot for then-President Donald Trump. More

July 22, 2022

R. Kelly’s manager Donnell Russell was convicted of making a phone threat that gunfire was about to occur at a crowded Manhattan theater preparing to show a documentary about the singer’s sexual abuse of women and girls. More

July 22, 2022

Authorities have filed charges against three more people in the case of a Pennsylvania 911 operator accused of failing to send an ambulance to the rural home of a woman who died of internal bleeding about a day later. More

July 22, 2022

Investigators have confirmed that remains unearthed in a Florida junk yard 41 years ago match a missing teenager, the victim of a serial killer now imprisoned for life in California. More

July 22, 2022

Daniel J. Palmer III, a West Virginia man charged with trying to kill his sister who recently awakened from a two-year coma and identified him as her attacker, has died less than a week after his arrest. More

July 22, 2022

Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, was convicted on Friday of contempt charges for defying a congressional subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. More

July 22, 2022

Prosecutors on Friday showed jurors photos of the horrific damage the bullets fired by Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz's AR-15 rifle did to some of his 17 victims, causing extensive wounds to their heads, bodies and limbs. More

July 22, 2022

Trump ally Steve Bannon did not testify and did not call any witnesses in his contempt of congress trial on Thursday. More

July 21, 2022

Rhode Island high school basketball coach Aaron Thomas was criminally charged by authorities who say that for years he asked male student-athletes to remove their clothes while alone with him so he could check their body fat. More

July 21, 2022

A grand jury in Ohio has indicted the man accused of raping and impregnating a 10-year-old girl who traveled to Indiana for an abortion. More

July 21, 2022

A federal judge sentenced former Minneapolis police Officer Thomas Lane to 2 1/2 years in prison Thursday for violating George Floyd’s civil rights. More

July 21, 2022

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz walked casually into a sandwich shop minutes after he murdered 14 students and three staff members at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School four years ago, showing no signs of stress or nervousness, video played at his penalty trial Thursday showed.    Cruz […] More

July 21, 2022

The spokesperson for Russia's Foreign Ministry lashed out at the United States characterizing basketball star Brittney Griner's jailing on drug charges as “wrongful detention,” saying it shows disrespect for Russian law. More

July 21, 2022

Amber Heard notified a Virginia court that she will appeal the $10.35 million judgment she was ordered to pay ex-husband Johnny Depp during a high-profile defamation trial. More

July 21, 2022

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A Puerto Rico court has “archived” a restraining order issued against superstar Ricky Martin, meaning the case is closed, according to a judicial spokesperson. The spokesperson told The Associated Press on Thrusday that “the petitioner ceased his claims voluntarily; therefore the case was archived and no further procedures are required.” More

July 21, 2022

Tamron Hall explores the case of Rosemarie Essa, whose death was deemed a natural medical mystery was instead seen as murder. (Episode 147) More

July 21, 2022

Steve Bannon, facing charges for defying a subpoena, argued in court that the deadline to appear in court was flexible. More

July 20, 2022