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A final report aims to provide an accounting of the most violent attack on the Capitol since the British set fire in 1814, and ensure it never happens again. More

June 8, 2022

The Supreme Court said Wednesday that an armed man who made threats against Justice Brett Kavanaugh was arrested near the justice's house in Maryland. More

June 8, 2022

British prosecutors said Wednesday they have authorized police to charge ex-film producer Harvey Weinstein with two counts of indecent assault against a woman in London in 1996. More

June 8, 2022

"It is time for the FBI to be held accountable,” said Maggie Nichols, a national champion gymnast at Oklahoma in 2017-19. More

June 8, 2022

An Arizona prisoner convicted in the 1984 killing of an 8-year-old girl is scheduled to be executed Wednesday. More

June 8, 2022

The man convicted of first degree intentional homicide for beating his 12-year-old grandson to death was sentenced to life in prison on Monday. More

June 8, 2022

A mother found dead earlier this year in a vehicle with her twins, killed her children before taking her own life, according to police. More

June 8, 2022

Todd and Julie Chrisley, stars of the reality television show "Chrisley Knows Best," were found guilty Tuesday in Atlanta on federal charges including bank fraud and tax evasion. More

June 7, 2022

Cory Bigsby was denied bond Tuesday after being denied three times previously. He is the father of four-year-old Virginia boy Codi Bigsby, who was reported missing by his father back in January. More

June 7, 2022

Douglas Uhde, accused of fatally shooting a retired Wisconsin judge and who had a list that included prominent national political figures, died in a hospital. More

June 7, 2022

Garnell Whitfield Jr., son of Ruth Whitfield, an 86-year-old woman killed when a gunman opened fire in a racist attack on Black shoppers in Buffalo, New York, challenged Congress to act against the nation's epidemic of gun violence. More

June 7, 2022

18-year-old Kyvell Stark was arrested on suspicion of two counts of manslaughter and driving under the influence related to a Memorial Day weekend crash in Lincoln, Nebraska that killed two women and injured 20 bystanders. More

June 7, 2022

Florida police officers Brandon Hardaway, William Johns and Evan Reynolds were charged with manslaughter in the death of Calvin Wilks Jr., a man who was subdued with a stun gun. More

June 7, 2022

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