A hand surgeon testified Monday that Johnny Depp could not have lost the tip of his middle finger the way he told jurors it happened in his civil lawsuit against ex-wife Amber Heard. More
May 23, 2022
A guide who helped Donald Trump Jr. bag a black bear on a hunting trip in Utah has been charged with illegally baiting the animal. More
May 23, 2022
FROM THE BENCH By: Judge Ashley Willcott FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA (Court TV) — The world is captivated by the dual defamation trial of Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard amid allegations of substance abuse and domestic violence. The Hollywood A-lister trial has been riddled with objections and sidebars, while the jury is left twiddling their thumbs, waiting […] More
May 23, 2022
Nearly six months after the deadly shooting at Oxford High School, the parents of one of the students who was killed has broken their silence and filed a new federal lawsuit. More
May 23, 2022
BALTIMORE COUNTY (Scripps News Baltimore) — Baltimore County Detectives are still working to solve the 2009 homicide of Daniel Ho Coverston. These detectives are interested in hearing from people who frequently visited the area near the Alameda Shopping Center where a payphone was located. They think the person who made the call from that […] More
May 23, 2022
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Jury selection in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz hit a new stumbling block when a potential juror wore a T-shirt potentially prejudicial to his case. More
May 23, 2022
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City has agreed to pay $7 million to a man who spent 23 years behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit. Comptroller Brad Lander announced the settlement Monday with Grant Williams. He was exonerated last July in the 1996 shooting of Shdell Lewis outside a Staten Island public housing complex. Williams’ lawyer, Irving Cohen, says the settlement will help his client try to get back on his feet. He had unsuccessfully appealed his conviction for years before Staten Island District Attorney Michael McMahon’s office agreed to review it and eventually joined him in asking a court to dismiss his conviction. During the DA's review, Williams was paroled in 2019. More
May 23, 2022
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s former top law enforcement officer, who served jail time for leaking secret investigative files and lying about it, appeared in court Monday as she faced the prospect of more time behind bars after she was arrested for drunken driving in March. Kathleen Kane, the first woman and first Democrat to […] More
May 23, 2022
The seven-month investigation was conducted by Guidepost Solutions, an independent firm contracted by the Executive Committee after delegates to last year’s national meeting pressed for a probe by outsiders. More
May 23, 2022
The Department of Justice says Dr. Stephanie Russell was attempting to contact someone for hire to murder her ex-husband. More
May 23, 2022
Depp blames Heard's 2018 op-ed for spinning his career into free fall. But Heard's lawyers claim that only Depp can be responsible for his star dimming in the Hollywood firmament. More
May 23, 2022
A Ukrainian court sentenced a 21-year-old Russian soldier to life in prison Monday for killing a Ukrainian civilian. More
May 23, 2022
PLANO, Texas (AP) — The actor who played Red Power Ranger in the “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” films and television series has been charged with wire fraud conspiracy relating to the federal Paycheck Protection Program, officials said. Jason Lawrence Geiger, 47, of McKinney, Texas, is one of 19 defendants named in a federal indictment, the […] More
May 20, 2022
South Carolina judge granted bond to former "American Idol" contestant Caleb Kennedy, accused of barreling into a man with his pickup truck and killing him. More
May 20, 2022
A 67-year-old South Carolina woman and her daughter face charges of assault after a dispute over bullying at a middle school. Mamie Smith and her daughter, Whitley Smith, 37, were charged with third-degree assault by mob and disturbing schools. More
May 20, 2022
Former President Donald Trump has paid the $110,000 in fines he racked up after being held in contempt of court for being slow to respond to a civil subpoena issued by New York's attorney general. More
May 20, 2022
Kansas prosecutor wants to try four 14-year-olds as adults in the shooting death of a 19-year-old Missouri man Marco Cardino. They are among six teenagers charged in juvenile court with first-degree murder. More
May 20, 2022
Attorneys for the U.S. government have indicated that they will not oppose a plan to lift all remaining restrictions next month on John Hinckley Jr., the man who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981. More
May 20, 2022
Convicted California lawyer Michael Avenatti wants leniency at sentencing for defrauding former client Stormy Daniels of hundreds of thousands of dollars. More
May 20, 2022
Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and a conservative political activist, was more involved than previously known in efforts to overturn Biden's victory and keep Trump in office. More
May 20, 2022
A report by Business Insider said SpaceX paid the woman $250,000 in severance in 2018 in exchange for her agreeing not to file a lawsuit over her claim. More
May 20, 2022
A jury on Friday found a man accused of killing a popular high school teacher who vanished from her rural Georgia hometown in 2005 not guilty of murder. More
May 20, 2022
The parents of accused Oxford school shooter Ethan Crumbley want their son's 22-page journal excluded as evidence because they believe it would improperly sway a jury against the parents. More
May 20, 2022
Ryan Duke faces an automatic sentence of life in prison if he's convicted of murder in the death of Tara Grinstead. More
May 20, 2022
A capital murder suspect who authorities say went on the lam for 10 days with the help of an Alabama jail official was ordered to provide a DNA sample to prosecutors. More
May 20, 2022
Thomas Schultz told the police dispatcher, "We are in an impossible situation with no way out. Please send someone to secure the residence." More
May 20, 2022
Isaiah Lee, the man charged in an on-stage attack of comedian Dave Chappelle, has pleaded not guilty to the attempted murder of a roommate in a stabbing that occurred at a Los Angeles transitional living facility. More
May 19, 2022
Former Virginia Tech football linebacker Isimemen David Etute, accused of fatally beating a man he met on an online dating site and had initially believed to be a woman, pleaded not guilty to a second-degree murder charge. More
May 19, 2022
Happy, by species, is an Asian elephant. But can she also be considered a person? That question was before New York's highest court in a case over whether a basic human right can be extended to an animal. More
May 19, 2022
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (Scripps News West Michigan) — Investigators with Homeland Security arrested a registered sex offender from South Carolina Tuesday, after they say he traveled to Michigan to sexually assault a teenage girl he had been communicating with online and over the phone with for years. Christopher James Masterson, who is currently 35 […] More
May 19, 2022
