HANSON, Mass. (AP) — A Rhode Island man was arrested and charged with child rape over the weekend after police received a tip about a video posted on social media, police said. Jared Soltys, 23, of Providence, is scheduled to be arraigned Monday on charges of statutory child rape and procuring liquor for someone under […] More
April 25, 2022
New York judge found former President Donald Trump in contempt of court and set in motion $10,000 daily fines Monday for failing to adequately respond to a subpoena issued by the state's attorney general as part of a civil investigation into his business dealings. More
April 25, 2022
“The next move, if I don't walk away ... it's going to be a bloodbath, like it was on the island,” Depp says on the recording. More
April 25, 2022
The judge overseeing jury selection for a man who murdered 17 people at a Florida high school declared that the process will start over Monday. More
April 25, 2022
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal from Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed, who claims untested crime-scene evidence will help clear him. More
April 25, 2022
Nearly half of the jurors who sentenced a Texas woman to die for the 2007 death of one of her 14 children have called for her upcoming execution to be halted and for her to get a new trial. More
April 25, 2022
Billy Chemirmir, 49, faces life in prison without parole if he's convicted of capital murder in the smothering of 81-year-old Lu Thi Harris. More
April 25, 2022
The man who was convicted of killing University of Virginia lacrosse player Yeardley Love is headed back to court for a civil trial filed by her mother. More
April 25, 2022
Nevada Assembly candidate LaJuana Clark, 47, was arrested for robbing a bank in Las Vegas, according to an arrest report from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. More
April 22, 2022
Las Vegas elementary special ed teacher Alfred Carcena arrested for lewdness with child. More
April 22, 2022
Rev. Al Sharpton demanded authorities publicly identify Michigan officer who killed Patrick Lyoya, a Black man and Congo native who was fatally shot in the back of the head. More
April 22, 2022
SEATTLE (AP) — The parents of a man killed by Auburn police have filed a federal wrongful death and civil rights lawsuit alleging an officer shot Enosa Strickland Jr. in the back of the head while he was lying in a parking lot. The lawsuit also contends officer Kenneth Lyman has an extensive history of […] More
April 22, 2022
By DAVE COLLINS HARTFORD, Conn. A Connecticut woman who stormed the U.S. Capitol during the January 2021 insurrection was sentenced Friday to five weekends in jail, 60 days of home confinement and a $2,500 fine, while her daughter will serve 90 days of home confinement. Jean Lavin, 57, and her daughter, Carla Krzywicki, 20, appeared […] More
April 22, 2022
Lawsuit says Catholic Diocese of Knoxville mishandled a report about allegations that a priest, Father Antony D. Punnackal, sexually abused a parishioner. More
April 22, 2022
Albert Wilson, a 26-year-old Wichita man who spent two years in prison before a rape case against him was dismissed, is suing the state of Kansas for wrongful conviction and imprisonment. More
April 22, 2022
Stymied in their calls for a renewed investigation into the murder of Emmett Till, relatives and activists want authorities to launch a kidnapping prosecution against Carolyn Bryant Donham, who set off the lynching by accusing the Chicago teen of improper advances in 1955. More
April 22, 2022
A 4-year-old girl is dead after her grandmother, Roxanne Record, allegedly forced her to drink a bottle of whiskey while her mother, Kadjah Record, watched, Baton Rouge Police said. They were each charged with first-degree murder. More
April 22, 2022
“We are firmly of the belief it had nothing to do whatsoever with our victim,” said Sheriff Bouchard. More
April 22, 2022
A Florida man and woman have each been sentenced to life in prison for killing a woman who was set to testify against them in a drug case. More
April 22, 2022
Prosecutors in southern Portugal are formally accusing a suspect in the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. More
April 22, 2022
Kris Jenner testified she was happy when she heard her son Rob Kardashian was engaged to Blac Chyna despite stories of violence and volatility about her. More
April 21, 2022
The NFL is telling a judge there are multiple reasons why a lawsuit brought against it by three Black coaches who allege racist hiring practices should fail. The league said it will either ask that the claims of coach Brian Flores and two other coaches be forced into arbitration or be dismissed without a trial because they lack legal merit. More
April 21, 2022
The Supreme Court said Thursday that a federal appeals court was wrong when it ordered Michigan to retry or release a convicted murderer because his rights were violated when he was shackled at trial. More
April 21, 2022
An Indiana youth is facing rape charges for allegedly assaulting a classmate during a school active shooter drill. The 17-year-old Hammond Morton High School student was charged as an adult with rape, criminal confinement and sexual battery. More
April 21, 2022
Authorities were investigating Thursday after former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson was recorded on video punching a fellow passenger on board a plane at San Francisco International Airport. More
April 21, 2022
William Ushler, director of upper school admissions at Delaware prep school Tower Hill, is charged with five counts of dealing in child pornography. More
April 21, 2022
More than two years after the Boy Scouts of America sought bankruptcy protection to stave off a flood of lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse by Scout leaders and volunteers, a Delaware judge is weighing whether to confirm the BSA's reorganization plan. More
April 21, 2022
Police have arrested a third suspect accused of participating in an Easter weekend shootout at a South Carolina mall that wounded nine people. More
April 21, 2022
Attorneys for actor Amber Heard resumed their cross-examination of her ex-husband Johnny Depp in a Virginia courtroom on Thursday, taking aim at his alcohol and drug use as well as texts he sent to a friend about wanting to kill and defile his then-wife. More
April 21, 2022
A suspect was arrested Thursday in the brutal stabbing death of a 51-year-old woman whose bloodied body was found in a duffel bag in Queens after the two had a dispute, police said. More
April 21, 2022
