A second 15-year-old boy has been charged with murder in the carjacking and shooting of a United Methodist Church leader in Memphis. The teenager was charged with first-degree murder, carjacking and other offenses related to the killing of the Rev. Autura Eason-Williams. More
July 26, 2022
A federal judge has ordered Indianapolis Public Schools to allow a 10-year-old transgender girl to rejoin her school’s all-girls softball team while a lawsuit continues against a state law that bans transgender females from competing in girls school sports. More
July 26, 2022
Federal prosecutors say Vermont man Nathan Carman, charged with killing his mother at sea in 2016 in a plot to inherit millions, should remain behind bars pending trial because he poses a flight risk and danger to others. More
July 26, 2022
Mark Ponder, a 56-year-old resident of Washington, D.C., said he "got caught up” in the chaos that erupted on Jan. 6, 2021, and “didn't mean for any of this to happen.” More
July 26, 2022
Hundreds of alumni have alleged the late Dr. Richard Strauss abused them throughout his two decades at the school, and that Ohio State officials knew of complaints but failed to stop him. More
July 26, 2022
The parents of Valentina Orellana Peralta, a 14-year-old girl killed by Los Angeles police in a clothing store, have filed a lawsuit against the department and the officer whose rifle round pierced a dressing room wall. More
July 26, 2022
Terryln Hall was 6 years old when her mother was fatally shot by a former boyfriend. Nearly 30 years later, Hall, her sister and uncle oppose Alabama’s plan to execute killer Joe Nathan James Jr. More
July 26, 2022
A judge in Atlanta has rejected an appeal by a group of voters and affirmed the Georgia secretary of state's decision that U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is eligible to run for reelection. More
July 26, 2022
Three Virginia men are accused of targeting Navy Sailors through Tinder by posing as women. Mark Aspili, Samari Smith and Shawn Stacy are accused of bank fraud and conspiracy to commit bank fraud. More
July 26, 2022
The trial for a commercial truck driver charged with causing the deaths in 2019 of seven members of a Marine motorcycle club will open Tuesday. Jurors visited the crash scene Monday and traced Volodymyr Zhukovskyy's route from an auto dealership in Gorham along U.S. Route 2 to the crash site in Randolph. More
July 26, 2022
Former U.S. women’s national team star goalkeeper Hope Solo pleaded guilty Monday to driving while impaired, almost four months after she was found passed out behind the wheel of a vehicle in North Carolina with her 2-year-old twins inside. More
July 26, 2022
Prosecutors said Friday that they plan to retry a well-connected Atlanta man whose murder conviction in the shooting death of his business executive wife was recently overturned. More
July 26, 2022
District Attorney Fani Willis can still ask other witnesses about Sen. Burt Jones, the judge said, but will not be able to bring charges against him. More
July 26, 2022
Breckenridge authorities and U.S. Marshals are working to apprehend a suspect wanted in connection with the fatal strangulation of his roommate in 2019. More
July 26, 2022
Initial testimony Tuesday is expected to include Daniel Jewiss, who was the Connecticut State Police lead investigator of Sandy Hook, and Daria Karpova, a producer at Infowars. More
July 26, 2022
A 76-year-old man suspected of a 2021 rape has been arrested in the killings of two women that had been unsolved for decades, authorities said. More
July 26, 2022
The drug trial of American basketball star Brittney Griner in a Russian court focused Tuesday on testimony that cannabis, while illegal in Russia, is regarded in other countries as having legitimate medicinal use. More
July 26, 2022
Four people in Wisconsin with disabilities have filed a lawsuit asking a federal court to ensure that they'll be able to get help turning in their ballots, even though the conservative-controlled state Supreme Court said no one other than the voter can return absentee ballots in person. More
July 25, 2022
Bishop Lamor Miller-Whitehead, who embraces his flashy lifestyle and can often be seen driving around the Big Apple in his Rolls Royce, was delivering a sermon at his Leaders of Tomorrow International Ministries when police say three robbers walked in. They showed guns and demanded property from Miller-Whitehead and his wife, Asia K. DosReis-Whitehead. More
July 25, 2022
LOGAN, Utah (Scripps News Salt Lake City) — Both parents of a deceased Logan, Utah infant have been charged with aggravated murder in the death of the 46-day-old child. Zachary Michael Woirhaye, 38, and Jodi Lee Anderson Woirhaye, 34, were charged after their child was found without a heartbeat and not breathing in a hotel […] More
July 25, 2022
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
