Latest Crime & Trial News

The family of a student who died from alcohol poisoning while pledging a fraternity sued Bowling Green State University. More

June 23, 2022

Transgender people born in North Carolina may now correct the sex designation on their birth certificate without undergoing surgery after a consent judgment issued by a federal court. More

June 23, 2022

The second of two Wisconsin women who were sent to a state mental health facility after a 2014 stabbing attack on a sixth-grade classmate that they claimed was to appease the horror character Slender Man is petitioning for her release. More

June 23, 2022

A Connecticut woman who says she's descended from slaves portrayed in widely-published, historical photos owned by Harvard can sue the Ivy League university for emotional distress. More

June 23, 2022

“I’m here begging for you guys to do something,” said Jazmin Cazares, whose young sister Jacklyn was one of 19 children shot to death in the 80 minutes the gunman spent inside Robb Elementary School on May 24. More

June 23, 2022

A California judge has approved a request by Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s adult daughter to change her name and gender on her birth certificate. More

June 23, 2022

A man serving two life terms for killing a Wisconsin couple in a slaying that went unsolved for decades has died in prison, state corrections officials confirmed. More

June 23, 2022

A judge gave final approval Thursday to a settlement topping $1 billion for victims of the collapse of a Florida beachfront condominium building that killed 98 people, one of the deadliest building failures in U.S. history. More

June 23, 2022

Ramona Krotine was beaten and shot  Was her husband's suspicious behavior a sign of something far more sinister? Tamron Hall explores. More

June 23, 2022

The trial for Ethan Crumbley, the suspect charged in the Oxford High School shooting, has been moved to January 2023. More

June 23, 2022

A husband and wife were rescued from a kidnapping suspect Friday morning while they were hiking in Colorado. More

June 23, 2022

A former coach at a competitive cheerleading organization has been charged with sexually assaulting a student over a two-year period. More

June 23, 2022

Prosecutors said she should serve between 30 years and 55 years in prison, reflecting the federal sentencing guidelines. More

June 23, 2022

Daria Jalali, one of the Colorado ex-cops charged in connection with the violent arrest of an elderly woman with dementia, pleaded guilty to one count of failure to intervene on a police officer’s use of force. More

June 22, 2022

A man who drove his car through crowds of people in Times Square in 2017, killing a young tourist and maiming helpless pedestrians, was cleared of responsibility because of mental illness. More

June 22, 2022

A white school teacher in Rochester accused of telling his class of mostly Black students to pick seeds out of cotton during a history lesson said in a lawsuit that allegations against him are false. More

June 22, 2022

The Uvalde school district’s police chief was put on leave Wednesday following allegations that he erred in his response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 19 students and two teachers dead. More

June 22, 2022

The final phase of jury selection in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz has begun. A final 83 candidates remain from about 1,800. More

June 22, 2022

Long Island, New York authorities linked Diane Cusick’s 1968 death to so-called “Torso Killer” Richard Cottingham, who was already convicted in 11 other killings. More

June 22, 2022

Nicholas John Roske, who was arrested near Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's home in Maryland, pleaded not guilty to trying to kill Kavanaugh. More

June 22, 2022

Federal prosecutors asked a judge on to sentence a former Minneapolis officer to 25 years for violating the rights of George Floyd, saying Derek Chauvin's actions were cold-blooded and needless as he knelt on the Black man's neck while Floyd repeatedly said he couldn't breathe. More

June 22, 2022

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An attorney for the man on trial for killing rapper Nipsey Hussle pressed the woman who says she served as the unwitting getaway driver over errors in the testimony she gave for the prosecution. More

June 22, 2022

The tentative settlement also includes changes in police policies and training involving traffic stops like the one that resulted in Wright's death, according to a statement Tuesday night from attorneys representing Wright's family. More

June 22, 2022

Theodore Wafer, the man convicted of shooting and killing Renisha McBride on his front porch in 2013, was re-sentenced to 15-30 years in prison on Wednesday. More

June 22, 2022

Justin Ross Harris, 41, was convicted in November 2016 on eight counts including malice murder in the death of his 22-month-old son, Cooper. More

June 22, 2022

A Milwaukee man is facing charges for a murder in Indiana in 1991 after prosecutors say he stabbed the victim multiple times in his apartment. More

June 22, 2022

A lawsuit filed by the parents of Gabby Petito against the parents of her suspected killer, Brian Laundrie, will head to court for the first time Wednesday. More

June 22, 2022

Three people are dead after an apparent double murder-suicide at a Phoenix residence. More

June 22, 2022

Jurors at a civil trial found that Bill Cosby sexually abused a 16-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in 1975. More

June 22, 2022

Wandrea “Shaye” Moss testified Tuesday to lawmakers about how her life was upended when former President Donald Trump and his allies falsely accused her and her mother of pulling fraudulent ballots from a suitcase in Georgia. More

June 21, 2022