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Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer sued the woman who accused him of sexual assault in federal court Monday. More

April 26, 2022

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kylie Jenner testified Monday that she expressed concerns to her brother Rob Kardashian about his new girlfriend and soon-to-be reality TV co-star Blac Chyna, because she had heard Chyna had a tendency to abuse drugs and alcohol and become violent and had gotten a possible […] More

April 25, 2022

Law enforcement officials released video evidence in the ongoing investigation of a fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western movie "Rust" More

April 25, 2022

Alexander Jerich, convicted of burning tire marks across a gay pride streetscape in Florida while participating in a rally for Trump, must write a 25-page essay on the 2016 shooting that killed 49 people at Pulse nightclub in Orlando. More

April 25, 2022

The parents of 14-year-oold Tyre Sampson, who fell to his death from a 430-foot drop-tower ride in Florida sued its owner, manufacturer and landlord, claiming they were negligent and failed to provide a safe amusement ride. More

April 25, 2022

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Actor Johnny Depp concluded a grueling four days on the witness stand Monday, telling jurors in a calm voice that he filed his libel lawsuit against his ex-wife because it was his best chance to reclaim his reputation, just hours after they heard audio clips of […] More

April 25, 2022

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan police chief reversed course Monday and publicly identified the officer who fatally shot Patrick Lyoya in the back of the head during an April 4 traffic stop. The Grand Rapids officer is Christopher Schurr, Chief Eric Winstrom said. Lyoya, 26, a Black man and native of Congo, was […] More

April 25, 2022

Massachusetts business executive John Wilson, who was sentenced to 15 months in prison in the college admissions cheating scandal, appealed his conviction. More

April 25, 2022

A Texas appeals court delayed the execution of Melissa Lucio amid growing doubts about whether she fatally beat her 2-year-old daughter. More

April 25, 2022

28-year-old Ricardo Rivera was convicted of second-degree murder and related charges in the shooting death of a teen who died trying to protect three young children during an armed robbery in Pennsylvania. More

April 25, 2022

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