Latest Crime & Trial News

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

In Maryland, Deputy First Class Glenn Hilliard was shot and killed while trying to arrest fugitive Austin Davidson. More

June 13, 2022

Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, an Iraqi man who has been held at Guantanamo for more than 15 years, pleaded guilty to war crimes charges for his role in al-Qaida attacks against U.S. and allied forces along with civilians in Afghanistan. More

June 13, 2022

As pressure mounts for more information on the Uvalde school shooting, some are concerned Texas officials will use a legal loophole to block records from being released, even to the victims' families, once the case is closed. More

June 13, 2022

State Department officials met with representatives of Brittney Griner's WNBA team about the Phoenix Mercury star's detention in Russia and the Biden administration's efforts to secure her release. More

June 13, 2022

Romance novelist Nancy Crampton Brophy sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years for murdering her husband in Portland. More

June 13, 2022

Amber Heard says she doesn't blame the jury that awarded Johnny Depp more than $10 million after a contentious six-week libel trial in her first post-verdict interview. More

June 13, 2022

U.S. District Judge Jennifer Dorsey in Las Vegas kicked the case out of court on Friday to punish the woman’s attorney, Leslie Mark Stovall, for “bad-faith conduct." More

June 13, 2022

The girl’s autopsy says she died of anemia connected to an infection from lice infestation and that malnutrition contributed to her death. More

June 13, 2022

The 31 Patriot Front members were arrested with riot gear after a tipster reported seeing people loading up into a U-Haul like “a little army” at a hotel parking lot in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, police said. More

June 13, 2022

More details have been released about a workplace shooting in Maryland that left three employees dead and three others, including a State trooper and the gunman, injured. More

June 10, 2022

A Newport News, Virginia police officer has been arrested for the sexual exploitation of children. More

June 10, 2022

Lawyers for ex-Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs are asking a judge to throw out evidence that prosecutors say shows Ruggs had a blood-alcohol level twice legal limit while speeding at 156 mph (251 kph) on a city street before a fiery crash that killed a woman. More

June 10, 2022

Former Alabama candidate for U.S. Senate Roy Moore seeks to revive $95 million defamation lawsuit against comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. More

June 10, 2022

Malaysia has agreed to abolish the mandatory death penalty and allow judges to set alternative punishments for a range of offenses. More

June 10, 2022

Heather Mycoskie -- accused of intentionally providing wrong information in the search for a missing man in Grand Teton National Park -- has been banned from the park and ordered to pay restitution. More

June 10, 2022

A federal judge dismissed the bankruptcy protection case of Infowars and two other companies controlled by Alex Jones, the result of an agreement between lawyers for the conspiracy theorist and parents of some of the children slain in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. More

June 10, 2022

An Alabama man was convicted of criminal littering and ordered to pay about $300 for repeatedly placing boxes full of flowers on the grave of his fiancée. More

June 10, 2022