Latest Crime & Trial News

Andrew Wilhoite is accused of killing his cancer-stricken wife and dumping her body in a creek. He is currently being held without bond. More

May 6, 2022

Former Loveland, Colorado police officer Austin Hopp was sentenced to prison after taking a plea deal in connection to a violent arrest of a 75-year-old woman with dementia. More

May 5, 2022

A man opened an emergency exit of a United Airlines jet, walked onto a wing as the plane taxied at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport and jumped onto the tarmac. More

May 5, 2022

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas man pleaded not guilty Thursday to killing his girlfriend’s 4-year-old son and hiding the body in a freezer, where police found it in February after the boy’s sister gave notes to her teacher saying that her mother was being held captive at the man’s home. A prosecutor told […] More

May 5, 2022

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