Latest Crime & Trial News

A teen mother is accused of stabbing her newborn daughter to death, according to the Weld County District Attorney's Office. More

June 16, 2022

A fisherman confessed to killing a British journalist and an Indigenous expert in Brazil’s remote Amazon and took police to a site where human remains were recovered, a federal investigator said. More

June 16, 2022

Kevin Spacey “strenuously denies” allegations of sexual assault, his lawyer said Thursday, as the Oscar-winning actor appeared in a London court to face five charges of offenses against three men. More

June 16, 2022

Florida plumber John Cataneo stepped outside of his duplex when shots rang out and he was soon dead. Tamron Hall explores who was involved. More

June 16, 2022

Officials identified the two police officers -- Corporal Michael Paredes and Officer Joseph Santana -- killed in a shootout while investigating a possible stabbing at a suburban Los Angeles motel. The suspect also died at the scene. More

June 15, 2022

A federal judge convicted a Confederate flag-toting man and his son of charges that they stormed the U.S. Capitol together to obstruct Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory. More

June 15, 2022

Christopher Schurr, Michigan police officer charged with murder after shooting Patrick Lyoya in the back of the head, has been fired. More

June 15, 2022

Allen Davies, who shot at a tow truck driver after his SUV was towed from his home, was sentenced to seven years in prison. More

June 15, 2022

17-year-old Riley Whitelaw's body was discovered after her Walgreens manager became concerned when she had not returned from a break. Whitelaw's coworker, 28-year-old Joshua Johnson, faces a charge of first-degree murder. More

June 15, 2022

Baltimore man sentenced to life in prison for three shootings, including one deadly shooting. Daquan Murphy pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and two attempted murder charges. More

June 15, 2022

Austin Davidson was on probation from a Baltimore robbery when he shot and killed Sheriff's Deputy Glenn Hilliard. More

June 15, 2022

An Indiana man is facing up to six years in prison for encouraging a 19-year-old to kill herself. More

June 15, 2022

LAS VEGAS (Court TV) — The boyfriend of a former Playboy model who recently changed his plea to guilty in the murder of a California child psychiatrist will serve at last 18 years in prison. Today, a judge handed Jon Logan Kennison an 18 to 45 year sentence.    Kelsey Turner, a former Maxim […] More

June 15, 2022

The white gunman who killed 10 Black people in a racist attack at a Buffalo supermarket has been charged with federal hate crimes, according to a criminal complaint filed Wednesday. More

June 15, 2022

Detectives believe the body of a missing Florida woman who is thought to be dead was dumped somewhere in the Intracoastal Waterway by her husband. More

June 15, 2022

A North Carolina charter school violated female students' constitutional rights by requiring them to wear skirts, a federal appeals court ruled More

June 14, 2022

CHINO HILLS, Calif. (AP) — A man accused of torturing, raping and disfiguring a woman who was held captive in his Southern California home for six months pleaded not guilty to 10 charges, prosecutors said Tuesday. Peter McGuire, 59, of Chino Hills entered pleas Monday to charges including kidnapping, mayhem and sodomy by use of […] More

June 14, 2022

Jason E. Karels, a north suburban Chicago man has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the drowning deaths of his three young children. More

June 14, 2022

CONCORD, N.H. (Court TV) — The search for five-year-old Harmony Montgomery, who’s been missing since 2019, led to a frenzy of FBI and local law enforcement back to the New Hampshire home of the child’s father and stepmother, Adam and Kayla Montgomery Tuesday. The couple has been jailed since January, after being formally indicted on […] More

June 14, 2022

More details are coming in about how previously convicted felon Austin Davidson, who is now accused of murdering a Wicomico County, Maryland sheriff's deputy, was allowed back on the streets. More

June 14, 2022

Joshua Schulte -- former CIA software engineer charged with causing the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history -- defended himself, telling jurors he was falsely accused and the victim of a political witch hunt. More

June 14, 2022

Happy the elephant may be intelligent and deserving of compassion, but she cannot be considered a person being illegally confined to the Bronx Zoo, New York’s top court ruled. More

June 14, 2022

Pro wrestler Jeff Hardy is facing driving under the influence and other charges after being arrested in Florida, authorities said. More

June 14, 2022

AKRON, Ohio (Scripps News Cleveland) — Authorities have made three arrests in connection with the death of Ethan Liming, a 17-year-old at Firestone Community Learning Center who was beaten to death near the I PROMISE School in Akron. The arrests come after the Akron Police Department shared more details with the media about what happened […] More

June 14, 2022

Amber Heard says she stands by the testimony she gave during a contentious six-week libel trial against former husband Johnny Depp, saying she has "always told the truth.” More

June 14, 2022

A preliminary hearing was held for Cory Bigsby, the father of 4-year-old Codi Bigsby, who was reported missing by his father. Cory was arrested on child neglect charges unrelated to Codi's disappearance. He was denied bond and the judge set a trial date. More

June 13, 2022

Donald Trump’s closest campaign advisers, top government officials and even his family were systematically dismantling his false claims of 2020 election fraud ahead of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. More

June 13, 2022

14-year-old Tyre Sampson died of blunt force trauma after falling from a 430-foot Florida drop-tower amusement park ride, according to an autopsy. The Orange County Medical Examiner's Office ruled the teen's death an accident. The boy slipped out of his seat about halfway down the Free Fall ride. More

June 13, 2022

Jason Alexander, who was once briefly married to Britney Spears and showed up uninvited at the pop star's wedding to longtime boyfriend Sam Asghari, was charged with felony stalking. More

June 13, 2022

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Native Americans prosecuted in certain tribal courts can also be prosecuted based on the same incident in federal court, which can result in longer sentences. More

June 13, 2022