A judge gave prosecutors a week to submit a copy of the affidavit with proposed redactions for the information it wants to keep secret after the FBI seized classified and top secret information during a search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate. More
August 18, 2022
By MICHAEL TARM Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A woman who has been central to R. Kelly’s legal troubles for more than two decades testified Thursday that the R&B singer sexually abused her “hundreds” of times before she turned 18 and that it was her and Kelly in a videotape that was at the heart […] More
August 18, 2022
FBI agent Tim Bates told jurors about a stop at a bridge near Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's vacation home during a night ride by anti-government extremists to continue planning a kidnapping. More
August 18, 2022
Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson will serve an 11-game unpaid suspension, pay a $5 million fine and undergo professional evaluation and treatment as part of a settlement with the NFL following accusations of sexual misconduct by two dozen women. More
August 18, 2022
Saudi court sentenced doctoral student Salma al-Shehab -- mother of two and researcher at Leeds University in Britain -- to 34 years in prison for spreading “rumors” and retweeting dissidents. More
August 18, 2022
Trump Organization's former Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg, center, leaves court, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022, in New York. Weisselberg pled guilty on Thursday to tax violations in a deal that would require him to testify about business practices at the former president's company. More
August 18, 2022
A grand jury has indicted the man who stabbed Salman Rushdie as the acclaimed author prepared to give a talk in western New York, county prosecutors said Thursday. More
August 18, 2022
A woman detained inside an Oklahoma police car is accused of slipping out of her handcuffs, stealing an assault rifle, and firing at officers. More
August 18, 2022
A handyman accused of killing a Florida woman and then hiding her body in a septic tank has pleaded guilty to murder and will spend the rest of his life in prison. More
August 18, 2022
Brooke Skylar Richardson, who was convicted of abusing her baby’s corpse, is requesting the judge seal the fifth-degree felony conviction. More
August 18, 2022
Police said they received more than 200 tips and one from the Muslim community led them to the Syed family. Syed knew the victims, authorities have said. More
August 18, 2022
The children were between 5 and 10 years old, had been dead for a number of years, and the suitcases had been in storage for at least three or four years, police said. More
August 18, 2022
Attorneys for disbarred South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh say prosecutors are taking too long to share their evidence alleging the disbarred attorney killed his wife and son, unfairly making it tougher to defend him at his upcoming trial. More
August 17, 2022
Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation and homeowners of the houses built by the program, in an area of New Orleans among the hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina, have reached a $20.5 million settlement. More
August 17, 2022
Two former fraternity members were sentenced to six weeks in jail on after being convicted of hazing-related misdemeanor counts in the death of a Bowling Green State University student. More
August 17, 2022
The last of three men convicted of hijacking a school bus full of California children for an attempted $5 million ransom in 1976 is being released. Gov. Gavin Newsom asked the board to reconsider its decision to parole Frederick Woods, 70. More
August 17, 2022
Hadi Matar, the man charged with stabbing Salman Rushdie on a lecture stage in New York State, said he was surprised to learn the author survived the attack. More
August 17, 2022
Rudy Giuliani faced hours of questioning Wednesday before a special grand jury in Atlanta as a target of an investigation into attempts by former President Donald Trump and others to overturn his 2020 election defeat in Georgia. More
August 17, 2022
The federal government is suing SkyWest Airlines on behalf of a former employee who says co-workers sexually harassed her, including asking her for sex and making explicit comments about rape in her presence. More
August 17, 2022
A federal judge in Cleveland awarded $650 million in damages Wednesday to two Ohio counties that sued CVS, Walgreens and Walmart over the way the national pharmacy chains distributed opioids to their communities. More
August 17, 2022
Antonio LaMotta, Virginia man facing trial on charges he drove a Hummer packed with guns to Philadelphia to interfere with the 2020 presidential election, has been arrested in a separate case that alleges his involvement in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. More
August 17, 2022
Former Indiana state senator Brent Waltz was sentenced to 10 months in prison for his role in a scheme that illegally funneled money from a casino company to his unsuccessful 2016 congressional campaign. More
August 17, 2022
Two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 were “very eager” to move forward with the plan and expressed no reluctance, a key witness testified. More
August 17, 2022
An attorney for R. Kelly implored jurors at the singer's trial-fixing and child pornography case Wednesday not to accept what she said is the prosecution’s portrayal of her client as “a monster.” More
August 17, 2022
A man who got into the grounds of Windsor Castle armed with a crossbow told police he wanted to “kill the queen,” prosecutors said during a court hearing Wednesday. More
August 17, 2022
Former Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane, who was sentenced to 2 1/2 years for violating George Floyd’s civil rights, will do his time at a low-security federal prison camp in Colorado. More
August 17, 2022
Kelly is accused of enticing minors for sex, of producing child pornography and of fixing his 2008 state child pornography trial at which he was acquitted. More
August 17, 2022
A trial date has been set for the case against Cecily Aguilar, who is accused in connection to the death of soldier Vanessa Guillen. More
August 17, 2022
Lori Vallow Daybell was in court Tuesday for the first time since April 19, 2022, when she was arraigned on felony charges connected to the murders of her children, Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow. More
August 16, 2022
A judge sided with former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in his dispute with a now-defunct state ethics commission that ordered him to give up $5 million he was paid to write a book about his leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic. More
August 16, 2022
