Sidebars serve an important purpose in trials, but are they being used in Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard as an actual tool for counsel, rather than a legitimate desire for a conversation? Judge Ashley Willcott weighs in. More
May 5, 2022
Isaiah Lee, who tackled comedian Dave Chappelle during a performance at the Hollywood Bowl, will not be charged with any felonies. More
May 5, 2022
Attorney General Merrick Garland said an escaped murder suspect and jail officer who aided him are "regarded as extremely dangerous" and U.S. Marshals has taken over leading the search for Casey White, who was awaiting trial on a capital murder case, and Vicky White, a jail official, since they left the Lauderdale County Detention Center. More
May 5, 2022
No charges will be filed in a shooting at the North Carolina home of rapper DaBaby. More
May 5, 2022
A federal judge has dismissed a defamation lawsuit over online harassment filed against actor Alec Baldwin by the family of a Marine who was killed in Afghanistan, saying the Wyoming court did not have jurisdiction over the case. More
May 5, 2022
Greg McMichael, one of the men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery, spoke with his former boss, Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney Jackie Johnson, several times by phone in the days and weeks following the 2020 killing. More
May 5, 2022
New York City will pay $10.5 million dollars to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by Shawn Williams, who spent 24 years in prison on a murder conviction that was overturned after a witness who placed him at the crime scene recanted. More
May 5, 2022
Heard was back on the witness stand to defend herself against her ex-husband's libel allegations. More
May 5, 2022
Russell Laffitte now faces 21 charges of fraud, conspiracy and computer crimes, state police announced Wednesday. More
May 5, 2022
A judge has ruled that an Arizona prisoner convicted in the 1978 killing of a university student is mentally fit to be put to death next week. More
May 5, 2022
After weeks of testimony and nearly 30 witnesses, including Johnny Depp himself, Depp's legal team rested his case-in-chief. More
May 5, 2022
The husband of a Black woman who died hours after childbirth in 2016 sued Cedars-Sinai Medical hospital on Wednesday, saying she bled to death because of a culture of racism at the renowned Los Angeles medical center. More
May 4, 2022
A nationwide manhunt is ongoing for Casey White, who was awaiting trial on a capital murder case, and Vicky White, the assistant director of corrections for the jail in Lauderdale County. More
May 4, 2022
Four teens charged with murder in the dragging death of an elderly New Orleans woman whose arm was severed during a carjacking pleaded not guilty. More
May 4, 2022
The Satanic Temple is requesting to fly a flag over Boston City Hall after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week that the city violated the free speech rights of a conservative activist seeking to fly a Christian flag outside the downtown building. More
May 4, 2022
An independent state agency that represents children says the needs of missing girl Harmony Montgomery, who authorities began looking for two years after she was last seen were not prioritized by the state of Massachusetts. More
May 4, 2022
Rapper Kidd Creole, who was a founding member of Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, was sentenced to 16 years in prison for stabbing a homeless man to death on a New York City street. More
May 4, 2022
DENVER (KOAA) – A Colorado woman who was the girlfriend of a man who pleaded guilty to being inside the U.S. Capitol building during the Jan. 6 insurrection was arrested Tuesday on charges of her own tied to the same events. Jennifer Horvath faces federal charges of knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building […] More
May 4, 2022
Virginia Beach father and son -- 22-year-old Mickey Koji Saiheir Walker and 45-year-old Mickey Walker II -- were sentenced for their roles in a 2020 murder over the theft of half an ounce of marijuana. More
May 4, 2022
The judge overseeing the federal civil rights cases of four former Minneapolis police officers in the killing of George Floyd said Wednesday that he has accepted the terms of Derek Chauvin's plea agreement and will sentence him to 20 to 25 years in prison. More
May 4, 2022
Comedian Dave Chappelle was tackled during a performance at the Hollywood Bowl. Isaiah Lee was later arrested. More
May 4, 2022
Amber Heard told jurors how difficult it has been for her to relive her troubled marriage to Johnny Depp as part of a libel lawsuit he filed against her. More
May 4, 2022
Eric Lindquist, whose parents and brother were murdered, told the judge he planned to advocate for stronger criminal justice policies. More
May 4, 2022
Three alleged gang members were charged with murder Tuesday in the slayings of three women fatally shot in a gunbattle that rocked California’s capital city a month ago. More
May 4, 2022
An escaped Alabama inmate had a “special relationship” with the jail official authorities believe assisted in his escape, a sheriff's office said Tuesday. More
May 4, 2022
A New York appellate court judge on rejected Donald Trump's bid to halt his $10,000-a-day fine, keeping the former president's meter running for now as he fights a lower-court decision penalizing him for failing to turn over documents in a state civil investigation. More
May 3, 2022
A man was convicted Tuesday in the fatal stabbing of an 11-year-old Houston boy as the child walked home from school in 2016.Jurors deliberated for about three hours before finding 33-year-old Andre Timothy Jackson, guilty of murder in the death of Josue Flores. More
May 3, 2022
Bustaman Kartabrata, charged with shooting and killing three members of his family in 2019 in Denver was convicted on three counts of first-degree murder. More
May 3, 2022
Prosecutors in the case against Lori Vallow Daybell are reportedly seeking the death penalty. More
May 3, 2022
DENVER (Scripps News Denver) — A man accused of murder in connection with his mother’s death in a Castle Rock house fire was arrested in Florida early Tuesday morning. Police arrested Matthew Buchanan, 32, at a gas station in Plantation Key in Monroe County, Florida around 3 a.m. Monday, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s […] More
May 3, 2022
