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The widow and son of the man who wrote the 1983 article that inspired the original “Top Gun” are suing Paramount Pictures over its sequel, “Top Gun: Maverick.” More

June 7, 2022

Advanced DNA technology helped detectives link the cases of six women to a man accused of being the “pillowcase rapist” for a string of rapes back in the 1980s. More

June 7, 2022

"It's been four years. Nobody has said anything," Sharie Harris said about the 2018 murder of her son Tahjmere Hopkins. "I don't understand how nobody saw nothing." More

June 7, 2022

Two Valley law enforcement agencies are investigating how three Tempe police officers responded to a man who was drowning less than 50 yards away from them. More

June 7, 2022

An American woman is set to plead guilty Tuesday to leading an all-female battalion of Islamic State militants in Syria, court records show. More

June 7, 2022

“Tiger King” star Bhagavan “Doc” Antle has been charged with laundering more than half a million dollars. More

June 7, 2022

A Dutch court examined evidence Tuesday including video footage and telephone text messages that prosecutors say link two suspects to the fatal shooting of crime reporter Peter R. de Vries. More

June 7, 2022

Court records show a suspect was charged last week after 6 people were found dead in a Milwaukee home on January 23. More

June 7, 2022

The trial for 16-year-old teen Willard Miller, accused of killing his high school Spanish teacher, will be held in Council Bluffs in western Iowa. More

June 6, 2022

A sex-assault civil lawsuit against actor Kevin Spacey can proceed in federal court in New York City. Actor Anthony Rapp alleges Spacey acted to gratify sexual desire during an encounter at a Manhattan party in 1986 when Rapp was 14. More

June 6, 2022

A federal appeals court upheld an eight-year prison sentence for environmental activist Jessica Reznicek, who tried to sabotage the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. More

June 6, 2022

A North Carolina sheriff's office announced a $3 million settlement in a lawsuit filed by the family of Andrew Brown Jr., an unarmed Black man who was shot and killed in his car by sheriff's deputies. More

June 6, 2022

2-year-old Florida boy fatally shot his father, Reggie Mabry, in an accident after finding a gun. The boy's mother, Marie Ayala, faces criminal charges. More

June 6, 2022

The "Donkey Kong defense" came into play Monday at a civil trial over sexual assault allegations against Bill Cosby, as his attorney pressed a key witness over previous statements that she had played the arcade game during a visit with Cosby to the Playboy Mansion in 1975, six years before its release. More

June 6, 2022

The public defenders representing Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz tried to withdraw from his death penalty trial Monday after the judge ordered them to move forward with jury selection even though one member of their five-member team is sick with COVID-19. More

June 6, 2022

Brian Easterling, chief of a volunteer fire department in Florida, is accused of fatally shooting a business owner because the victim owed him money. More

June 6, 2022

DENVER (Scripps News Denver) — A man was sentenced to 20 years in prison in connection to the 1998 murder of a woman found on Navajo tribal grounds, the Denver District Attorney’s Office announced Friday. On June 30, 1998, 47-year-old Bonny Baker was reported missing. Her boyfriend, Crespin Nene-Perez, killed her and left her body […] More

June 6, 2022

Danielle Redlick is accused of fatally stabbing her husband and former stepfather, Michael Redlick, who was once an NBA executive. More

June 6, 2022

61-year-old Susan Baffour was arrested in Denver on first-degree murder charges in connection with the death of an 8-year-old boy. More

June 6, 2022

Idaho State University football coach Davonte was arrested in connection to a murder in Arizona. More

June 6, 2022

A judge declared a second mistrial Monday for a man charged in the 2015 killing of a pastor’s wife after jurors learned details about the Indianapolis case's long history in the court system. More

June 6, 2022

Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng had been due to go on trial next Monday on charges of aiding and abetting second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the May 2020 death of Floyd. More

June 6, 2022

Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her family's home in Salt Lake City on June 5, 2002. She was sexually abused for nine months until her rescue in Sandy in March 2003. More

June 6, 2022

Authorities believe while Lopez roamed free, he killed a man and his four grandsons, then stole an AR-15-style rifle and a pistol from their ranch near Centerville, as well as the truck he drove to Atascosa County. More

June 6, 2022

A North Carolina man has been sentenced to death for the 2019 murder of his teenage daughter, according to the local prosecutor's office. More

June 6, 2022

No matter the cause, Alkonis' car veered into parked cars and pedestrians in a parking lot, striking an elderly woman and her son-in-law, both of whom later died. More

June 6, 2022

A Colorado man pleaded not guilty Thursday in federal court in Vermont to kidnapping a man who was later found shot to death in a snowbank in 2018 in what prosecutors allege is a murder-for-hire case stemming from a financial dispute. More

June 6, 2022

“Tiger King” star Doc Antle was arrested by the FBI and expected to appear in court Monday to face federal money laundering charges. More

June 6, 2022

A woman testified that she was 14 when Bill Cosby took her into a trailer on a movie set in 1975, grabbed her so she couldn't move her arms, and kissed her. More

June 3, 2022

A grand jury indicted Ryan Duke on six counts including concealing a death, hindering apprehension of a criminal, concealing facts and evidence tampering in the death of Tara Grinstead. More

June 3, 2022