Latest Crime & Trial News

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

The parents of a teenager wounded during a mass shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan are suing the shop that sold the handgun used to kill four students and injure six other people. More

June 29, 2022

PONTIAC, Mich. (Scripps News Detroit) — “He was just such a light to everyone,” Stephanie Croney said about her 25-year-old nephew Daniel Brotemarkle who was shot and killed Monday afternoon. “He just knew how to make everybody smile and he knew how to make light of everything,” said Croney.. Brotemarkle was fatally shot outside his […] More

June 29, 2022

Baltimore man Danjuan McBride was sentenced to life in prison for killing Tavonte Briggs during a dice game. More

June 29, 2022

Prosecutors say Alex Murdaugh's crimes include a money laundering and painkiller ring. More

June 29, 2022

Chesterfield Police Lt. Col. Christopher Hensley called the situation a "horrible tragedy on so many levels." More

June 29, 2022

Pamela Martinez was working as a food delivery driver, had just dropped off her last delivery, and took a photograph of a man sitting in his van alongside her vehicle. More

June 29, 2022