Latest Crime & Trial News

31-year-old Colorado woman arrested for sexual assault of 13-year-old boy is pregnant. More

July 11, 2022

A Cuyahoga County judge ruled Cleveland man Charles Jackson was wrongfully imprisoned after he spent over 27 years in prison before his murder conviction was dismissed in 2019. More

July 11, 2022

Beverly McCallum, accused in the 2002 fatal bludgeoning of her husband in Michigan, was ordered held on $10 million bond following her return to the U.S. from Italy. More

July 11, 2022

Texas woman Brandy Bottone contests HOV lane violation by telling cop her unborn daughter counts as a person. More

July 11, 2022

Robert John Lanoue, 70, was charged in the 1982 killing of 5-year-old Anne Pham, who disappeared while walking to kindergarten. More

July 11, 2022

A judge has consolidated hundreds of lawsuits alleging physical and sexual abuse at New Hampshire’s youth detention center, more than two years after the first case was filed. More

July 11, 2022

Rolman Balcarcel Ac, 38, and Julio Alvarado-Dubon, 52, both from Guatemala, were charged in connection with what police have said was a thwarted Fourth of July mass shooting in Richmond, Virginia. More

July 11, 2022

Jennifer Shah, of “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” fame, pleaded to a fraud conspiracy charge that could result in a prison sentence of over 11 years. More

July 11, 2022

Federal judge declined to delay trial of Steve Bannon, adviser to Donald Trump facing contempt charges for refusing to cooperate with House committee investigating Jan. 6 insurrection. More

July 11, 2022

An Ohio man is facing dozens of charges related to allegations he provided funeral services without a license. More

July 11, 2022

A Florida woman is under arrest after police said she stuffed her dead mother's body into a freezer because she wanted to continue receiving her mom's disability benefits. More

July 11, 2022

Officials said former Henrico Police officer Richard Crowder allegedly killed his wife Diane Crowder and stepdaughter Carrie Szaksz on July 2. More

July 11, 2022

“Newly discovered facts” show Juror No. 15 in the six-week trial was not the individual summoned in April to serve in the case, Amber Heard's attorney wrote. More

July 11, 2022

The consortium's Uber Files revealed the extraordinary lengths that the company undertook to establish itself in nearly 30 countries. More

July 11, 2022

The shocking abuse in the Turpin home went unnoticed in Perris, California until then-17-year-old Jordan Turpin escaped in January 2018 and called police. More

July 8, 2022

Elon Musk announced that he will abandon his $44 billion offer to buy Twitter after the company failed to provide enough information about the number of fake accounts. Twitter fired back, saying it would sue the Tesla CEO to uphold the deal. More

July 8, 2022

Romeo Xavier Langhorne has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for attempting to support the Islamic State terrorist group by posting a video online for making explosives. More

July 8, 2022

A California panel denied parole for Charles Manson follower Bruce Davis, 79. More

July 8, 2022

The assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shocked a world that has come to associate Japan with relatively low crime and strict gun control. More

July 8, 2022

The family of a Black man in Connecticut, paralyzed when a police van without seatbelts braked suddenly, asked federal authorities to file civil rights charges against the officers involved. More

July 8, 2022

Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane await sentencing for their convictions on federal civil rights charges. More

July 8, 2022

The mayor of Uvalde disputed a report that alleges missed chances to quickly end the massacre at a Texas elementary school. More

July 8, 2022

Prince Harry won the first stage of a libel suit against the publisher of Britain’s Mail on Sunday newspaper. More

July 8, 2022

Wilford Jenkins was initially charged with murder but took a plea deal Thursday. More

July 8, 2022

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The suspect in the killing of professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson in Texas tried to change her appearance and used several aliases as she moved around Costa Rica in an attempt to establish herself as a yoga teacher before she was tracked down by U.S. and local authorities, […] More

July 7, 2022

Attorneys for Payton Gendron, a white man charged with killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket, were unable to secure a year's delay in state prosecution. More

July 7, 2022

Joshua Schulte, who chose to defend himself at a New York City retrial, said in closing arguments that the CIA and FBI made him a scapegoat for an embarrassing public release of a trove of CIA secrets by WikiLeaks in 2017. More

July 7, 2022

An appeals court rejected a $95 million defamation lawsuit against Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen filed by former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, who said he was tricked into a television appearance that lampooned sexual misconduct accusations against him. More

July 7, 2022

Legal experts, though, said it's incredibly difficult to prove criminal charges against a shooter's parent or guardian. More

July 7, 2022

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday sentenced Derek Chauvin to 21 years in prison for violating George Floyd’s civil rights, telling the former Minneapolis police officer that what he did was “simply wrong” and “offensive.” More

July 7, 2022