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
Naasón Joaquín García, the leader of Mexican megachurch La Luz del Mundo, who had been facing child rape and other charges, admitted just days before trial that he sexually abused three girls, California state prosecutors said. More
June 3, 2022
An employee who survived a racist mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket sought a court order to question the 18-year-old gunman's parents under oath in anticipation of filing a lawsuit against them. More
June 3, 2022
Georgia officials have arrested Quartavius Mender, an 18-year-old who they say threatened online to kill a sheriff and his wife over the arrest of rappers Young Thug, Gunna and others. More
June 3, 2022
A man from Canada and a man from the United Kingdom have been indicted in Georgia on charges they sent fentanyl to two U.S. Navy petty officers who died from overdoses. Thomas Michael Federuik of Vancouver, British Columbia and Paul Anthony Nicholls of Surrey, England are charged with conspiracy to import and distribute drugs and money laundering conspiracy. More
June 3, 2022
The state agency investigating the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde has determined that the commander facing criticism for the slow police response was not carrying a radio as the massacre unfolded. More
June 3, 2022
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana man accused of abusing his 12-year-old son and starving the child to death has pleaded guilty to murder. Luis Eduardo Posso Jr., 35, entered the plea Wednesday under an agreement with prosecutors that calls for the dismissal of other charges, including neglect of a dependent resulting in death and […] More
June 3, 2022
Former Trump White House official Peter Navarro was indicted Friday on contempt charges after defying a subpoena from the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. More
June 3, 2022
Some advocates and legal experts fear Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard will have a real-world chilling effect on women coming forward with abuse claims. More
June 3, 2022
Military veteran Jacob Blair Scott, who once faked his own death to try to avoid criminal charges, has been convicted of sexually assaulting a girl and impregnating her when he was 40 and she was 14. More
June 3, 2022
Parents of victims and survivors of the mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde will appear before a House committee next week in an effort to bring home the devastation of America's gun violence epidemic. More
June 3, 2022
A man who fatally shot two women before killing himself in the parking lot of an Iowa church had been romantically involved with one of the women and faced a court hearing next week on a charge of harassing her, investigators said Friday. More
June 3, 2022
