Latest Crime & Trial News

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

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