Latest Crime & Trial News

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

(Video by Newsy) WASHINGTON (AP) — Academy Award–winning actor Matthew McConaughey made an appearance at the White House Tuesday to call on Congress to “reach a higher ground” and pass gun control legislation in honor of the children and teachers killed in last month’s shooting rampage at an elementary school in his hometown of Uvalde, Texas. […] More

June 10, 2022

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas school police chief criticized for his actions during one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history says in his first extensive published comments that he didn't consider himself the incident commander as the massacre unfolded. More

June 10, 2022

Dekalb County Sheriff-elect Derwin Brown in front of his home days before he was to be sworn into office. Tamron Hall takes a look. More

June 10, 2022

The mystery behind who brutally killed the girl's parents more than 40 years ago remains unsolved and has Texas authorities seeking the public's help. More

June 10, 2022

The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol laid the blame firmly on Donald Trump Thursday night. More

June 9, 2022

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say Britney Spears’ former husband crashed her wedding site in southern California. Ventura County Sheriff’s Capt. Cameron Henderson said officers responded to a trespassing call after 2 p.m. Thursday. He says the pop singer’s first husband, Jason Alexander, was detained at the site of the ceremony. Henderson says Alexander was arrested after officers noticed he had a warrant for his arrest in another county. Alexander went on his Instagram live when he approached the event security. In what appeared to be a mostly empty but decorated room, he told them Spears invited him. Alexander was briefly married to Spears for 55 hours in 2014. She was his childhood friend. More

June 9, 2022

A judge accepted a plea agreement calling for a suspended sentence for a retired northern Indiana teacher accused of grabbing a 15-year-old student and slapping him across the face. More

June 9, 2022

The case against the Jupiter parents accused of locking their adopted son in an 8-foot by 8-foot box has been continued until Monday. Timothy and Tracey Ferriter are charged with false imprisonment and aggravated child abuse. More

June 9, 2022

A man opened fire at a manufacturing business in rural western Maryland on Thursday, killing three people before the suspect and a state trooper were wounded in a shootout. More

June 9, 2022

A Los Angeles shelter meant to be a safe space for children as they awaited placement in foster homes was for decades a den for sexual predators among the staff — and some residents — who preyed on children as young as 5, according to a lawsuit filed by dozens of former residents. More

June 9, 2022

Breonna Taylor neighbors Napper and Cody Etherton are asking a judge to move their lawsuit out of Louisville. More

June 9, 2022

A man who tried to enter an Alabama elementary school where a summer program was being held was shot to death by police. More

June 9, 2022

Garrian King has been arrested on a weapons charge in a mass shooting over the weekend in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where three people died and 14 were injured. More

June 9, 2022