By MICHAEL TARM, KATHLEEN FOODY and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) — The gunman who attacked an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago fired more than 70 rounds with an AR-15-style gun that killed at least seven people, then evaded initial capture by dressing as a woman and blending into the fleeing […] More
July 5, 2022
Brittney Griner made an appeal to President Joe Biden in a letter passed on to the White House through her representatives, saying she feared she may never return home and asking that he not “forget about me and the other American Detainees.” More
July 5, 2022
RICHMOND, Va. — Amber Heard’s lawyers have asked a judge to throw out the $10.35 million verdict against her in the defamation case filed by ex-husband Johnny Depp. More
July 5, 2022
HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) — A shooter fired on an Independence Day parade from a rooftop in suburban Chicago, spraying the crowd with gunshots initially mistaken for fireworks. More
July 5, 2022
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals set execution dates for six death row inmates: James Coddington, Richard Glossip, Benjamin Cole, Richard Fairchild, John Hanson and Scott Eizember. More
July 1, 2022
South African former track star Oscar Pistorius has met with the father of Reeva Steenkamp, the woman he shot to death in 2013, as part of his parole process. More
July 1, 2022
A Florida judge has refused to delay the sentencing trial of Nikolas Cruz in the 2018 shooting at a high school in which 17 people were killed. More
July 1, 2022
Former Georgetown University tennis coach Gordon Ernst, who once coached former President Barack Obama's family, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for pocketing more than $3 million in bribes in exchange for helping wealthy parents cheat their kids' way into the school. More
July 1, 2022
A local government in Kansas has agreed to pay $12.5 million to a man and his mother after he spent 23 years in prison for a double murder he did not commit. More
July 1, 2022
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has appealed the British's government decision to order his extradition to the U.S. More
July 1, 2022
Charlotte Hornets forward Miles Bridges was arrested in California on the eve of NBA free agency after a warrant was issued, according to the LAPD. More
July 1, 2022
Brittney Griner was arrested in February at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport. Police said she was carrying vape canisters with cannabis oil. More
July 1, 2022
R. Kelly could be in his 80s before the singer is free again, based on a 30-year prison term imposed this week by a New York federal judge. More
July 1, 2022
Sean Pickett told investigators he was "possessed" when he murdered Susan Pickett and a pit bull named Chico in May 2021. More
July 1, 2022
A judge on set Aug. 9 for a second trial for two men charged with plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. More
June 30, 2022
Georgia's highest court threw out a murder conviction for once-prominent Atlanta attorney Claud “Tex” McIver, who fatally shot his wife as they rode in an SUV, saying the jury should have had the option of a misdemeanor involuntary manslaughter charge. More
June 30, 2022
“This man was different,” Deputy District Attorney John McKinney told jurors, seeking to humanize Hussle after two weeks of testimony that dwelled on the technical details surrounding the 2019 shooting. “He wanted to change the neighborhood. He kept the same friends. And the neighborhood loved him. They called him Neighborhood Nip.” More
June 30, 2022
The 51-year-old Jackson is the court’s 116th justice and she took the place Thursday of the justice she once worked for. Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement took effect at noon. More
June 30, 2022
The woman accused of murdering professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson has been captured in Costa Rica, according to authorities. More
June 30, 2022
A judge has denied a motion to dismiss a civil lawsuit stemming from the death of Gabby Petito at the hands of her fiancé, Brian Laundrie. More
June 30, 2022
Cristiano Ronaldo is asking a U.S. judge to order a woman’s lawyer to pay the international soccer star more than $626,000. More
June 30, 2022
A 20-year-old woman was fatally shot Wednesday night while she pushed her infant daughter in a stroller on the Upper East Side, police said. More
June 30, 2022
Both sides rested their cases Wednesday in the trial of a man charged with the killing of rapper Nipsey Hussle after a day's delay because of an assault on the defendant by fellow jail inmates. More
June 30, 2022
Shirley Carter was found shot to death on her kitchen floor. Police looked at family. Tamron Hall ask the question, what if they're wrong? More
June 30, 2022
Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide in Trump’s White House, delivered explosive new testimony about Trump’s actions before and during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. More
June 29, 2022
A team searching a Mississippi courthouse basement for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till found the unserved warrant charging a white woman, Carolyn Bryant Donham, in his 1955 kidnapping, and relatives of the victim want authorities to arrest her. More
June 29, 2022
William Reece, who was already sentenced to death for a cold-case killing in Oklahoma, pleaded guilty to murder in the deaths of three girls whose disappearances in Texas also went unsolved for decades. More
June 29, 2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson will be sworn as the Supreme Court's 116th justice just as the man she is replacing, Justice Stephen Breyer, retires. More
June 29, 2022
Cain Velasquez is suing the man he claims molested his 4-year-old son. Velasquez is accused of trying to kill the man. More
June 29, 2022
Ronald Gasser, who killed former NFL player Joe McKnight in a New Orleans area road rage incident, cannot be retried for murder after his conviction on a lesser charge was overturned. More
June 29, 2022
