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Sherri Papini, California woman charged with faking her 2016 kidnapping, accepted a plea bargain with prosecutors and acknowledged she made up the story. More

April 12, 2022

NOVI, Mich. (Scripps News Detroit) — Police in Novi, Michigan have arrested a woman who they say came from California to Detroit to meet a 15-year-old boy. 33-year-old Stephanie Sin has been charged with one count of child sexually abusive activity and another count of using a computer to commit a crime. Sin reportedly rented […] More

April 12, 2022

Colorado man Shane Hammond convicted of kidnapping a 12-year-old girl who was walking home from school. More

April 12, 2022

Alex Ewing sentenced to life in prison after a Colorado jury found him guilty for the decades-old murder of a woman in the Denver “Hammer Killer” spree. More

April 12, 2022

The South Dakota House on impeached state Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg over a 2020 car crash in which he killed a pedestrian but initially said he might have struck a deer or another large animal. More

April 12, 2022

A trial over libel allegations by Johnny Depp against his ex-wife, Amber Heard, will likely turn into a six-week, mudslinging soap opera, Heard's lawyers warned a Virginia jury Tuesday. More

April 12, 2022

Facing charges including bribery, fraud, conspiracy and falsification of records, New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin was expected to make an initial appearance Tuesday in Manhattan federal court. More

April 12, 2022

Officials said the gunfire wounded at least five people, and at least 11 in all were injured in some way in the attack at the 36th Street station in the borough's Sunset Park neighborhood. More

April 12, 2022

A Maryland woman faces a murder charge after Alabama sheriff’s deputies found a woman dead at a home. More

April 12, 2022

Keith Carnes, who was released on Monday, had spent nearly two decades in prison for the 2003 murder of Larry White. More

April 12, 2022

She is scheduled to be formally arraigned in court next week and both Lori and Chad Daybell are set to stand trial together early next year. More

April 12, 2022

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors revealed Monday evening that they offered plea deals to three former Minneapolis police officers charged with aiding and abetting the murder of George Floyd, but said at a hearing that the defendants rejected them. Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill held the hearing mostly to consider whether […] More

April 11, 2022

KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — A physical therapist from Connecticut suffocated his 4-year-old daughter by rolling on top of her and also killed his two sons and wife, a prosecutor told a Florida jury on Monday. Anthony Todt told detectives he and his wife, Megan, had an agreement to kill their family so they could “pass […] More

April 11, 2022

A panel of 7 jurors and 4 alternates was selected to hear the $50 million dollar defamation case that actor Johnny Depp is bringing against his ex-wife Amber Heard, who is countersuing with her own defamation claim seeking $100 million in damages. More

April 11, 2022

A jury was selected Monday to hear a long-anticipated libel lawsuit Johnny Depp filed against his ex-wife, actress Amber Heard, whom he accuses of falsely portraying him as a domestic abuser. More

April 11, 2022

Miya Ponsetto, California woman who wrongly accused Black teen of taking her phone at a New York City hotel, reached plea deal that spares her from prison. More

April 11, 2022

Howard County, Maryland police arrested Richard Morgan who they say offered two 14-year-old girls money for sex. More

April 11, 2022

Detectives with the Palm Beach County Sheriff's detectives are investigating a former camp counselor on more than 30 child pornography charges. Isaac Gabriel Yunes was a counselor with YMCA of South Palm Beach County from 2017 to 2019. More

April 11, 2022

Maryland man Vincent Anthony Fisher II charged with arson that killed girlfriend's 27-year-old daughter and 1-year-old granddaughter. More

April 11, 2022

Closing arguments in the trial of Ohio doctor, Dr. William Husel, charged in multiple hospital deaths began with the prosecution. More

April 11, 2022

The student fled the classroom after the attack, police said. Another employee found the injured teacher and called 911. More

April 11, 2022

The episode drew national attention when a news crew captured video of Martin Gugino being shoved by officers Robert McCabe and Aaron Torgalski in downtown Buffalo. More

April 11, 2022

A man has been sentenced to 375 years in jail in the 2016 slayings of three people, including two children. More

April 11, 2022

When officers arrived at the scene around 8 p.m., they discovered the bodies of the owner of Lock Stock & Barrel Shooting Range, along with his wife and grandson. More

April 11, 2022

Kevin Spacey asked a judge to throw out actor Anthony Rapp's sex abuse lawsuit, saying allegations that he abused the teen at a 1980s party are false. More

April 8, 2022

Theodore Edgecomb was sentenced after a jury found him guilty in the death of Jason Cleereman, an immigration attorney. More

April 8, 2022

Georgia grand jury indicted Marcellus McCluster, already serving a life sentence for murder in an unrelated case, in the 1982 slaying of Army soldier Rene Dawn Blackmore. More

April 8, 2022

Nevada judge rules that Troy Driver, accused of kidnapping and killing 18-year-old Naomi Irion, will remain in jail without bail. More

April 8, 2022

South Carolina inmate Richard Moore, set to die by firing squad or electric chair, wants his execution halted until judges determine whether either method constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. More

April 8, 2022

North Carolina man and Proud Boys member Charles Donohoe pleaded guilty to conspiring to stop Congress from formally certifying Joe Biden's 2020 election victory. More

April 8, 2022