Latest Crime & Trial News

Monday marks 13 weeks since Codi Bigsby’s father reported the four-year-old boy missing in Hampton, Va. More

May 3, 2022

South Carolina judge denies bond for former "American Idol" contestant Caleb Kennedy, accused of killing a man by barreling into him with his pickup truck after using a marijuana vaping device. More

May 3, 2022

Former President Donald Trump's businesses and inaugural committee have reached a deal to pay Washington, D.C., $750,000 to resolve a lawsuit that alleged the committee overpaid for events at his hotel and enriched the former president's family in the process. More

May 3, 2022

Actress Amy Locane, who appeared in the 1990s prime-time soap opera "Melrose Place" has lost a bid to have her sentence in a 2010 fatal auto crash reduced. More

May 3, 2022

A judge on Tuesday let Johnny Depp move forward with his libel suit against his ex-wife, Amber Heard, after the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star rested his case. More

May 3, 2022

Griner was detained at an airport in February after Russian authorities said a search of her bag revealed vape cartridges containing oil derived from cannabis. More

May 3, 2022

“I would say there is a very good chance as the water level drops that we are going to find additional human remains," said LVMPD Lt. Ray Spencer. More

May 3, 2022

Trooper Brian North, who is free on bail, said nothing during or after the brief appearance in Milford Superior Court and did not enter a plea. More

May 3, 2022

George Huguely V is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence in the killing of Yeardley Love. More

May 3, 2022

Last month, Portuguese prosecutors formally accused the latest suspect in the investigation. More

May 3, 2022

A draft opinion suggests the U.S. Supreme Court could be poised to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide, according to a Politico report. More

May 2, 2022

A lawyer for a Black NFL coach who sued the league alleging racist hiring practices told a judge Monday that arbitration is the wrong way to resolve the lawsuit in part because NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell would be the arbitrator and that would be "unconscionable." More

May 2, 2022

Jury selection in the death penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz was delayed Monday by at least a week because his lead attorney is apparently ill. More

May 2, 2022

A jury gave a sweeping win to the Kardashian family in former reality TV star Blac Chyna's lawsuit against them. More

May 2, 2022

Johnny Depp's agent testified Monday that his ex-wife's 2018 op-ed piece in The Washington Post describing herself as a victim of domestic abuse was "catastrophic" to his career and coincided with the loss of a $23 million deal for a "Pirates of the Caribbean" sequel. More

May 2, 2022

A special grand jury was selected Monday for the investigation into whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in Georgia. More

May 2, 2022

A federal judge has denied a request to vacate, set aside or correct the sentence for Tara Lee, the Michigan mom who was sentenced in an adoption fraud scheme. More

May 2, 2022

It's a name and face most of Milwaukee still remembers, 7-year-old Alexis Patterson. This week marks 20 years since she's gone missing. More

May 2, 2022

The District Attorney announced first- and third-degree murder charges against former Officer Edsaul Mendoza in the shooting of Thomas “T.J.” Siderio on March 1. More

May 2, 2022

A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that Boston violated the free speech rights of a conservative activist when it refused his request to fly a Christian flag on a flagpole outside City Hall. More

May 2, 2022

Kathy Boudin had expressed remorse for the robbery, in which a guard and two police officers were killed north of New York City. More

May 2, 2022

The killing of 6-year-old JonBenét Ramsey captured worldwide attention after her body was found on Dec. 26, 1996 in her Boulder home. More

May 2, 2022

The inmate and assistant director of corrections left the Lauderdale County Detention Center on Friday morning to go to a nearby courthouse, the sheriff's office said. More

May 2, 2022

“I pushed a bloke. He went over the edge,” Scott White said in recorded police interview in 2020 that was played in court. More

May 2, 2022

A Tucson couple was sentenced for their parts in a 2019 murder. Blane Barksdale was sentenced to 22 years in prison. Susan Barksdale was sentenced to 5 years in prison. More

April 30, 2022

The experiences of panicked concertgoers who couldn't breathe and had no clear path to escape a massive crowd surge at last year's deadly Astroworld music festival in Houston are featured in the documentary "Concert Crush: The Travis Scott Festival Tragedy" More

April 29, 2022

Former Pennsylvania attorney general Kathleen Kane, who served jail time for leaking grand jury material and lying about it, was taken into custody on an alleged probation violation, more than a month after she was charged with drunken driving. More

April 29, 2022

Former Idaho lawmaker Aaron von Ehlinger was convicted of raping a 19-year-old legislative intern. More

April 29, 2022

A judge concluded there was enough evidence to convict Ghislaine Maxwell of sex trafficking girls for financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse, but gave Maxwell a legal victory by concluding that three conspiracy counts charged the same crime and she can only be sentenced for one. More

April 29, 2022

A judge on Friday threw out part of the case against Kim Kardashian in former reality TV star Blac Chyna's lawsuit while the jury deliberates on the elements that remain. More

April 29, 2022