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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

By: Erin Miller NORFOLK, Va. (WTKR) – For 22 years, Alondo Adam’s family has been left without answers. They don’t know who killed him, in his Norfolk home or why, but now his case has been re-opened.   “Whoa. Londo was funny. lovable. He loved his family,” said Shannon Bishop Burrus, Alondo’s older sister, as she […] More

May 26, 2022

NEW YORK (AP) — A man accused of randomly murdering a fellow passenger on a New York City subway train has made his first court appearance. More

May 26, 2022

Amber Heard told jurors Thursday that a harassment campaign waged against her by ex-husband Johnny Depp has left her humiliated and scared for her life from multiple death threats, and said she just wants “Johnny to leave me alone.” More

May 26, 2022

British prosecutors said Thursday they have charged actor Kevin Spacey with four counts of sexual assault against three men. More

May 26, 2022

Twitter will pay a $150 million penalty and put in new safeguards to settle federal regulators' allegations that the social platform failed to protect the privacy of users' data over a six-year span. More

May 25, 2022

A trial began Wednesday for former Virginia Tech football player Isimemen Etute, accused in the fatal beating of a Tinder match he originally believed was a woman. More

May 25, 2022

A jury in Portland convicted a self-published romance novelist Nancy Crampton Brophy -- who once wrote an essay titled "How to Murder Your Husband" — of fatally shooting her husband, chef Daniel Brophy. More

May 25, 2022

A news conference about the shooting at a Texas elementary school broke into shouting Wednesday as Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke blamed Republican Gov. Greg Abbott for inaction ahead of the latest in a long string of mass shootings in the state. More

May 25, 2022

Former reality TV star Josh Duggar was sentenced Wednesday to about 12 1/2 years in prison after he was convicted of receiving and possessing child pornography. More

May 25, 2022

By ACACIA CORONADO and JIM VERTUNO Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The gunman who massacred 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Texas had warned in online messages minutes before the attack that he had shot his grandmother and was going to shoot up a school, the governor said Wednesday. Salvador […] More

May 25, 2022

Two women were arrested after about 500,000 fentanyl pills were found in an SUV pulled over for speeding in Arizona. More

May 25, 2022

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The search continues for a Texas woman suspected in the fatal shooting of professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson in Austin. Authorities issued a murder warrant last week for 34-year-old Kaitlin Marie Armstrong. More

May 25, 2022

The prosecutors claimed that the woman acted on the basis of an excessive need for recognition. More

May 25, 2022

Johnny Depp called his ex-wife's accusations of sexual and physical abuse "insane" Wednesday as he returned to the witness stand in his libel suit against Amber Heard. More

May 25, 2022

Shihab told a confidential informant that he assisted in the killing of American soldiers during the Iraq War, and said he and others “wished to kill former president Bush because they felt that he was responsible for killing many Iraqis and breaking apart the entire country of Iraq,” the complaint said. More

May 25, 2022