SALINAS, Calif. (Court TV) – Testimony began Monday, July 18, at the Monterey County courthouse in The Kristin Smart Murder Trial. Three months later — on Tuesday, October 18 — a jury found Paul Flores guilty of first-degree premeditated murder. His father, Ruben Flores, was found not guilty of accessory after the fact. He had […] More
July 15, 2022
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Store associates are handing single carnations to customers as they enter the newly reopening Tops Friendly Market where 10 Black people were slain by a white gunman. Some also received gift cards Friday as the grocery store in Buffalo, New York, opened its doors. The store is part of an ever-growing list of public spaces and retail establishments where gun violence shattered a community’s way of living. Managers at Tops say they were confident that neighborhood residents overwhelmingly wanted and needed their most accessible supermarket to reopen. But some residents question whether opening two months after a tragedy is too soon. More
July 15, 2022
NEW YORK (AP) — A man who was exonerated last year in the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X has filed a $40 million lawsuit against New York City for the two decades he spent in prison for a notorious crime he did not commit. Lawyers for 84-year-old Muhammad Aziz filed the lawsuit Thursday in federal court in Brooklyn over Aziz’s wrongful conviction in the murder of Malcolm X. An additional complaint was filed on behalf of the estate of Khalil Islam, a second man who was wrongly convicted in the assassination. Mayor Eric Adams says city lawyers are reviewing the complaints. More
July 15, 2022
KHIMKI, Russia (AP) — A lawyer for WNBA star Brittney Griner at her drug possession trial has given a Russian court a letter from a U.S. doctor recommending she use cannabis to treat pain. More
July 15, 2022
According to the Knox District Attorney General, on September 29, 2019, Berkebile and Sparks were video chatting when Berkebile convinced her to place a bullet into the cylinder of a .357 revolver during a game of Russian roulette in which he knew exactly where the bullet was located and she did not. More
July 15, 2022
The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 says she neither identified him to the killers nor wanted him murdered. In an unpublished memoir obtained by The Associated Press, Carolyn Bryant Donham says she was unaware of what would happen to the 14-year-old Till, who lived in Chicago and was visiting relatives in Mississippi when he was abducted, killed and tossed in a river. More
July 14, 2022
The lawyer for an Indiana doctor who has found herself at the center of a political firestorm after revealing the story of a 10-year-old girl who traveled from Ohio for an abortion says her client provided proper treatment. More
July 14, 2022
Jabari Edwards, a suspect in the June shooting of a Chicago police officer, has been arrested in Iowa. More
July 14, 2022
Texas state Rep. Joe Moody came to the defense of Ruben Ruiz after the officer was singled out by some users on social media as an example of the bewildering inaction by law enforcement during the May 24 attack. More
July 14, 2022
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was defiant and cited free speech rights during a lawsuit deposition in April when questioned about calling the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax. More
July 14, 2022
A Texas man, not his 13-year-old son, was driving the pickup truck that crossed into the oncoming lane and struck a van carrying New Mexico college golfers, killing nine people, and he had methamphetamine in his system, investigators said. More
July 14, 2022
The mysterious shooting deaths of a prominent South Carolina lawyer's wife and son have spun investigations revealing charges of money laundering, a narcotics ring, a staged attempt on his life and millions of dollars in stolen money. On Thursday, Alex Murdaugh was charged with murder, the latest in a steep fall that has spanned the past 13 months. More
July 14, 2022
A federal judge again denied a request from Steve Bannon to delay his criminal contempt trial, saying he was confident a fair and impartial jury could be seated despite the extensive media coverage of the onetime adviser to Donald Trump. More
July 14, 2022
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh has been charged with murder in connection with the mysterious 2021 deaths of his wife and son. The charges were announced Thursday. Murdaugh’s 52-year-old wife Maggie and 22-year-old son Paul were shot to death outside their home on June 7, 2021. Murdaugh is already jailed and facing dozens of other criminal charges. Until now, the most recent charges came in a June indictment involving an eight-year money laundering and painkiller ring. Earlier charges included accusations that he lied to police, that he tried to arrange his own death and that he stole money from clients. More
July 14, 2022
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The downfall of disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh can be traced through people whose lives crossed his. There was his wife, found dead along with their youngest son in June 2021. That led to a half-dozen investigations into his finances. There is the 19-year-old woman killed in a boating crash. More
July 14, 2022
MOSCOW (AP) — American basketball star Brittney Griner is due back in a Russian court to resume a trial that was jolted last week when she abruptly pleaded guilty to drug possession charges. With the U.S. government under pressure at home to do more to secure her freedom, the guilty plea could be an effort to expedite the court proceedings so any negotiations could move forward. A senior Russian diplomat has said no action could be taken by Moscow until the trial was over. Griner was detained at a Moscow airport in February while returning to play basketball in Russia. Police say they found vape canisters containing cannabis oil in her luggage. She says it was an unintentional mistake. More
July 14, 2022
Tamron Hall dives into the story of what it took to bring the person behind Heather Grossman’s shooting to justice. More
July 14, 2022
Sen. Tiara Mack, a state senator in Rhode Island who was suspended from TikTok after posting a video in which she twerked while doing a handstand in a bikini, says she has no regrets. More
July 13, 2022
An Ohio man has been charged with raping a 10-year-old girl whose case drew national attention following a doctor’s comments that the child had to travel to Indiana for an abortion. More
July 13, 2022
Twitter claims in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Delaware that Musk's “outlandish” and “bad faith” actions have caused the social media platform irreparable harm and sunk its stock price. More
July 13, 2022
A wealthy dentist allegedly killed his wife of 34 years with a shotgun on a remote African safari in 2016 and collected nearly $5 million in insurance proceeds. More
July 13, 2022
Detroit agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle a lawsuit by Desmond Ricks, who claimed police switched bullets to pin a murder on him in 1992. More
July 13, 2022
Marjorie Theleman, an elderly Missouri woman who removed her disabled daughter from a nursing home and stabbed her to death at a hotel, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. More
July 13, 2022
Teresa Ann Bailey Black is charged with felony murder, cruelty to children, aggravated assault and concealing the death of another in the death of her 6-year-old son, William DaShawn Hamilton. More
July 13, 2022
Sentencing for former Florida tax collector Joel Greenberg, whose arrest led to a probe of U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, is set for December. More
July 13, 2022
Amazon has provided Ring doorbell footage to law enforcement 11 times this year without the user’s permission. More
July 13, 2022
R. Kelly has been returned to the federal jail in downtown Chicago ahead of his trial on child pornography and obstruction-of-justice charges. More
July 13, 2022
Seven years after a man was shot and killed in the driveway of his Tennessee home, his killer remains on the run, and his family is still waiting for justice. More
July 13, 2022
By Judge Ashley Willcott TOLEDO, Ohio (Court TV) – When defendant Shawnte Hardin was indicted on 44 counts (37 on October 14, 2021 and seven on December 12, 2021) and pleaded not guilty, a jury trial date was set. Hardin is accused of running a phony funeral home, including abuse of a corpse, providing funeral […] More
July 13, 2022
A man executed more than two decades ago has been identified through DNA testing as the person who killed a Texas girl in 1979, authorities have announced. More
July 13, 2022
