Latest Crime & Trial News

Former Olympian Michael Barisone not guilty in the shooting of Lauren Kanarek. Barisone had faced attempted murder and other charges. More

April 14, 2022

A federal lawsuit challenging Idaho's ban on transgender athletes in women's sports will likely move forward after both sides agreed that the woman who sued is again enrolled at Boise State University and competing in school athletics. More

April 14, 2022

An Instagram post during the Olympics by a former member of the U.S. snowboarding team led to allegations that coach Peter Foley had molested team members, coerced them into taking naked pictures, crawled into bed with them and nurtured an atmosphere in which women were treated as sex objects. More

April 14, 2022

Southern California shoe store owner Marqel Cockrell, accused of shooting and wounding a 9-year-old girl when he opened fire at shoplifters, agreed to be returned from Nevada to face charges. More

April 14, 2022

The family of Gabby Petito will get a jury trial in their suit against the parents of Brian Laundrie. More

April 14, 2022

A former personal assistant to Amber Heard said she never saw the actress suffer any physical abuse at the hands of then-husband Johnny Depp — but she said Heard once spit in her face when she asked for a higher salary. Heard descended into screaming fits of blind rage, sent incoherent text messages at 4 a.m. and was often drunk and high on illegal drugs, Kate James testified in a video deposition that was played in court Thursday during the trial for Depp's libel suit against Heard. More

April 14, 2022

Frank James, 62, spoke only to answer “yes” to standard questions during the brief proceeding in a federal court in Brooklyn. More

April 14, 2022

A Colombian man who has been on the lam for nearly three decades since he was convicted in absentia of killing his wife has been located in a Boston suburb, the FBI said Wednesday. More

April 14, 2022

A woman accused of killing and dismembering a Green Bay man will receive a second exam to determine if she's competent to stand trial. More

April 14, 2022

High school football coach Ed Thomas was shot by one of his former players. Tamron Hall dives into the shock felt by a small town in Iowa. More

April 14, 2022

Video footage released by the Grand Rapids Police Department shows an officer shooting Patrick Lyoya in the head. More

April 13, 2022

Frontier Airlines has settled a discrimination lawsuit brought by a group of flight attendants who claimed the carrier discriminated against them during pregnancy and while breastfeeding. More

April 13, 2022

Tatiana Power, Florida woman described as a bookkeeper for international "child modeling" websites that sexually exploited young Eastern European children, has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison. More

April 13, 2022

Former Franciscan friar Paul West was convicted of sexually abusing a grade school student during the 1990s at a Mississippi Catholic school. More

April 13, 2022

25-year-old Katie Foster is charged with first-degree murder after Baltimore County Police say she struck 52-year-old Joseph Dawson with her vehicle before fleeing. More

April 13, 2022

A Baltimore police detective Robert Hankard was convicted of multiple federal crimes for providing a BB gun that he knew would be planted on a suspect. More

April 13, 2022

Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. pleaded guilty to forcibly touching a woman at a New York nightclub in 2018. More

April 13, 2022

Southern California shoe store owner Marqel Cockrell opened fire at shoplifters but mistakenly shot and wounded a 9-year-old girl, fled the state and was arrested in Nevada. More

April 13, 2022

Frank R. James, wanted in Brooklyn subway attack that left 10 people wounded by gunfire, was arrested. More

April 13, 2022

Police in Miami arrested a 41-year-old woman in the deaths of her two children, aged 3 and 5, after officers responded to repeated hang-up 911 calls from her apartment where they found their tied-up bodies. More

April 13, 2022

A longtime friend and next-door neighbor of Johnny Depp testified Wednesday that Depp's ex-wife, Amber Heard, had told him the movie star threw a phone at her and hit her inside the couple's Los Angeles penthouse. More

April 13, 2022

The deaths of three Baltimore City firefighters back in January have now been ruled homicides. More

April 13, 2022

Patrick Lyoya died Monday, April 4 following a traffic stop on the city's southeast side. Lyoya was the driver of the vehicle. More

April 13, 2022

The teacher told police her accused attacker had come into her classroom after school and asked to discuss missing work. More

April 13, 2022

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