Police have “terrorized” Black residents in a small Mississippi town by subjecting them to false arrests, excessive force and intimidation, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday by a civil rights organization. The organization, JULIAN, is seeking a temporary restraining order against the Lexington police department to demand protection for the town's largely Black population. More
August 16, 2022
A judge ordered Trump legal adviser Jenna Ellis to travel to Georgia to testify before a special grand jury looking into whether Trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in Georgia. More
August 16, 2022
Pakistani doctor and former Mayo Clinic research coordinator Muhammad Masood pleaded guilty to a terrorism charge. He was arrested for telling paid FBI informants he pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State group and wanted to carry out lone wolf attacks in the U.S. More
August 16, 2022
Attorneys for the family of a Georgia woman killed by gunfire last year as sheriff's deputies executed a search warrant at her cousin's home are calling for the Justice Department to investigate, arguing the deadly raid echoes the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor in Kentucky. More
August 16, 2022
The Utah Republican Party passed a resolution encouraging the banning of surgeries and hormone therapy for transitioning transgender minors. More
August 16, 2022
A Wendy's employee is facing second-degree murder charges after allegedly punching a customer in Arizona. More
August 16, 2022
A 14-year-old boy accused of stabbing a man in the chest during an argument at a party in June has been charged as an adult. More
August 16, 2022
A federal appeals court upheld Arkansas' use of the sedative midazolam in its lethal injections. A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court judge's ruling upholding the state's execution process. U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker in 2020 ruled that the state's use of midazolam in injections is constitutional and dismissed claims that less painful methods of execution are available. More
August 16, 2022
Defense attorneys grilled an FBI informant Tuesday in the trial of two men accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan’s governor, questioning his motivation to get inside a band of anti-government extremists and the key steps he took to gather evidence. More
August 16, 2022
By MAE ANDERSON Associated Press The seemingly senseless stabbing of a young girl by two of her school friends in the Waukesha, Wisconsin, woods in 2014 made international headlines when it became known that the two perpetrators were under the sway of Slenderman, a fictional Internet demon that they had become convinced was real. But […] More
August 16, 2022
Data broker LexisNexis Risk Solutions allegedly violated Illinois law by collecting and combining extensive personal information and selling it to third parties including federal immigration authorities, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday by immigration advocates. More
August 16, 2022
The case centers on a Section 8 tenant with five children who says she was forced to sign a sex contract in order to lease a home Allan Rothstein was managing. More
August 16, 2022
A woman is facing murder charges after being accused of smuggling drugs that ultimately killed a man at a Tennessee Department of Correction facility. More
August 16, 2022
R. Kelly's musical accomplishments have been accompanied by a long history of allegations that he sexually abused women and children. Now the R&B singer faces a trial in his hometown of Chicago on charges accusing him of rigging his 2008 child pornography trial and of enticing minors for sex. More
August 16, 2022
After a string of arrests and erratic behavior that spanned Hawaii to Vermont, “Flash” actor Ezra Miller said they have begun treatment for “complex mental health issues.” More
August 16, 2022
16-year-old Kiely Rodni was last seen Aug. 6 attending a party near the Prosser Family Campground in Truckee, California. More
August 16, 2022
Metro Police said they believe dozens of people witnessed the shooting. In order for the case to move forward, they need those people to come forward and share information on what they saw. More
August 16, 2022
A Florida mother found guilty of starving her 18-month-old son to death will not be getting a new trial. More
August 16, 2022
Donald Trump’s longtime finance chief is expected to plead guilty as soon as Thursday in a tax evasion case that is the only criminal prosecution to arise from a long-running investigation into the former president’s company. Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg was scheduled to be tried in October on allegations he took more than $1.7 million in off-the-books compensation from the company, including rent, car payments and school tuition. More
August 15, 2022
Rapper A$AP Rocky was charged with two felonies for pulling a gun on a former friend and firing in Hollywood. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office charged the 33-year-old New York native, whose legal name is Rakim Athelaston Mayers, with two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm. More
August 15, 2022
The fatal film-set shooting of a cinematographer by actor Alec Baldwin last year was an accident, according to a determination made by New Mexico's Office of the Medical Investigator following the completion of an autopsy and a review of law enforcement reports. More
August 15, 2022
A federal bankruptcy judge on Monday cleared the way for a defamation lawsuit in Connecticut to proceed against Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. More
August 15, 2022
The arraignment hearing for three former Aurora police officers and two former Aurora paramedics charged in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain was pushed back to Nov. 4 Friday. More
August 15, 2022
Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng are charged with aiding and abetting both second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in Floyd’s death. More
August 15, 2022
Lawyers for American basketball star Brittney Griner on Monday filed an appeal against her nine-year Russian prison sentence for drug possession. More
August 15, 2022
Police identified the driver as 24-year-old Adrian Oswaldo Sura Reyes, who was arraigned early Sunday on two counts of criminal homicide. More
August 15, 2022
The trial is underway for a man accused of fatally shooting a 7-year-old girl who was riding in a car with her family after a day of Christmas shopping in Atlanta. More
August 15, 2022
Jury selection begins Monday at R. Kelly’s federal trial in his hometown of Chicago, where he faces charges that he rigged his 2008 state child pornography trial. More
August 15, 2022
Soon, it will be Cruz's attorneys arguing why he should be spared, hoping to convince at least one juror their mitigating factors outweigh the prosecution's aggravating circumstances — a death sentence must be unanimous. More
August 15, 2022
Singer Michelle Branch has been charged with domestic assault after police say she slapped her husband multiple times in the face. More
August 15, 2022
