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The judge who presided over Sarah Palin's libel case against The New York Times denied her request for a new trial. More

May 31, 2022

Gregory Ulrich is being tried on charges of murder, attempted murder and other counts in the Feb. 9, 2021, shooting at a Minnesota medical clinic. More

May 31, 2022

A divided Supreme Court has blocked a Texas law, championed by conservatives, that aimed to keep social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter from censoring users based on their viewpoints. More

May 31, 2022

A jury finished a second day of deliberations Tuesday without reaching a verdict in the defamation claims of Johnny Depp and ex-wife Amber Heard. More

May 31, 2022

Two Minnesotans filed federal civil rights lawsuits Tuesday against the city of Minneapolis and Derek Chauvin, alleging they were traumatized when the former police officer used his "signature move" of kneeling on their necks — the same way that he killed George Floyd. More

May 31, 2022

A civil jury in Virginia is deliberating defamation claims by Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard. But what is the case really about? And what will the jury need to decide? More

May 31, 2022

Bill Cosby will again be the defendant in a sexual assault proceeding, this time a civil case in California. Judy Huth alleges that in 1975 when she was 16, Cosby sexually assaulted her at the Playboy Mansion. More

May 31, 2022

The judge presiding over a case involving a violent altercation in a Wisconsin high school postponed the trial after defense attorneys argued that public sentiment related to the school shootings in Texas could taint the jury pool. More

May 31, 2022

Michael Lewis, the suspect in the 1984 shooting death of Brian Watson in Boston that authorities linked to mobster James "Whitey" Bulger, pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder. More

May 31, 2022

A suburban Denver judge on Tuesday dismissed charges against Broncos wide receiver Jerry Jeudy stemming from a dispute with his girlfriend that landed him in jail. More

May 31, 2022

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A jury has resumed deliberations after a sensational six-week trial to resolve defamation claims by Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard over their volatile and unhappy marriage. More

May 31, 2022

Documents filed May 18 show that state prosecutors declared their intent to seek the death penalty against 34-year-old Keoki Hilo Demich. More

May 31, 2022

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Scripps News Tallahassee) — A decision has been reached in the retrial of Katherine Magbanua. A jury in a Leon County courtroom found Magbanua guilty of first-degree murder, guilty of conspiracy to commit murder and guilty of solicitation to commit murder Friday night. Magbanua was charged with first degree murder, conspiracy to commit […] More

May 31, 2022

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — When the jury in Johnny Depp's libel suit against ex-wife Amber Heard resumes deliberations after the Memorial Day weekend, its focus will be on issues much removed from the public debate that has engulfed the proceedings. More

May 30, 2022

A jury acquitted former Virginia Tech football player Isimemen Etute, who had been accused of fatally beating a man he says he initially believed from a Tinder match to be a woman. More

May 27, 2022

An autopsy for a young boy found dead in a suitcase in southern Indiana showed he died from an electrolyte imbalance. More

May 27, 2022

A federal judge dismissed Trump's lawsuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James, allowing her civil investigation into his business practices to continue. More

May 27, 2022

A public defender for the 28-year-old man charged with killing his mother at sea in a plot to inherit millions of dollars said Friday the defense believes Nathan Carman is competent. More

May 27, 2022

Judge rules that delaying Lori Vallow Daybell's trial to January 2023 will not violate her right to a speedy trial. Vallow and husband Chad Daybell are charged with murder, conspiracy and grand theft in connection with the deaths of 7-year-old Joshua "JJ" Vallow and 17-year-old Tylee Ryan. They pleaded not guilty and could face the death penalty if convicted. More

May 27, 2022

Nearly 20 officers stood for about 45 minutes in the hallway outside the adjoining Texas classrooms where the gunman killed students and teachers this week before U.S. Border Patrol agents unlocked the door to confront and kill him. More

May 27, 2022

What happened in those 90 minutes, in a working-class neighborhood near the edge of the town of Uvalde, has fueled mounting public anger and scrutiny over law enforcement's response to Tuesday's rampage. More

May 27, 2022

After AP published the body camera footage last year, the governor broke his silence and called the troopers’ actions criminal. More

May 27, 2022

Each side will have two hours to summarize their case in a trial that has stretched on for six weeks. More

May 27, 2022

A California parole panel recommended the release of Patricia Krenwinkel for the first time Thursday. More

May 27, 2022

“The defendant had all the motive to kill Jonathan, because for him, Jonathan was a man who had just started seeing his wife,” prosecutor Benjamin Agati said during closing arguments. More

May 27, 2022

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — A former Virginia Tech football player took the stand in his own defense at his murder trial Thursday, testifying that he felt “violated” when he discovered that a Tinder match he believed was a woman was actually a man. Isimemen Etute, 19, is charged with second-degree murder in the 2021 fatal […] More

May 26, 2022

CLARKSTON, Mich. (Scripps News Detroit) — Two teens face the possibility of life in prison for the murders of two Highland Township, Michigan teens. Jesse Wright and Steven Morrow, both 18 years old, have been charged. The murders happened Saturday morning at a mobile home community in White Lake Township. Investigators say Cameron Duckworth, 19, […] More

May 26, 2022

Two people were taken into custody and a paintball gun was found by police after Northfield High School in Denver was placed on lockdown for about an hour Thursday morning after a report of a student with a gun. More

May 26, 2022

SALT LAKE CITY (Scripps News Salt Lake City) — After nearly half a century, the Salt Lake City Police Department were able to finally solve a cold case murder. The department announced Thursday it had closed the homicide case involving the death of 39-year-old James Bednarik in 1974. Police said the suspect, 75-year-old George B. […] More

May 26, 2022

As the Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard defamation trial winds down, during their rebuttal case, the defense recalls Johnny Depp to the stand. More

May 26, 2022