Latest Crime & Trial News

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

The motion picture academy banned Will Smith from attending the Oscars or any other academy event for 10 years following his slap of Chris Rock at the Academy Awards. More

April 8, 2022

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is again trying to avoid execution. More

April 8, 2022

Former Florida prep school administrator Mark Riddell, who was paid to take college entrance exams for wealthy students seeking admission to elite universities, faces sentencing in Boston federal court. More

April 8, 2022

South Carolina has scheduled its first execution after corrections officials finished updating the death chamber to prepare for executions by firing squad. More

April 8, 2022

Two doctors have found that a homeless drifter is competent to stand trial in the killing of a Palm Beach Gardens teenager last year. More

April 8, 2022

A jury on acquitted two men of all charges in a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer but couldn't reach verdicts against the two alleged leaders. More

April 8, 2022

A man accused of shooting at a candidate for mayor of Louisville was hit with new federal charges Thursday, the U.S. Justice Department said in a news release. More

April 8, 2022

Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged two men they say were posing as federal agents, giving free apartments and other gifts to U.S. Secret Service agents, including one who worked on the first lady’s security detail. More

April 8, 2022

Alex Ewing, the convicted 'Hammer Killer,' was found guilty in another 1984 killing Thursday. More

April 8, 2022

Johnny Depp is suing Amber Heard for defamation. He claims his ex-wife damaged his reputation when she wrote about domestic abuse in a Washington Post op-ed. More

April 8, 2022

Wisconsin judge orders competency evaluation at the request of Natalia Hitchcock's attorneys. Hitchcock is the mother charged with killing her 8-year-old son and attempting to kill her 11-year-old son. More

April 7, 2022

Jacob Fracker, former Virginia police officer who pleaded guilty to storming the U.S. Capitol with another off-duty officer, testified that he had hoped the mob could overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election . More

April 7, 2022

Dozens of people say they were abused at either Circle of Hope or Agape Boarding School -- allegations that helped prompt a Missouri law aimed at reining in religious boarding schools that for decades went without state oversight. More

April 7, 2022

Jovan Vavic, former University of Southern California water polo coach facing bribery and fraud charges was just doing what he could to raise money for his dominant, championship-winning program as athletic officials at the elite Los Angeles school had demanded, defense lawyers argued as the latest trial in the sprawling college bribery scandal wrapped up in Boston federal court. More

April 7, 2022

A plea offer and a counter offer were recently discussed for the stepmother of missing New Hampshire girl Harmony Montgomery. More

April 7, 2022

Jacob Greer, 28, was arrested Monday in Spanaway, Washington, U.S. Marshals for the Southern District of Iowa said in a news release. More

April 7, 2022

A federal judge on Thursday rejected Girl Scouts' claims that the Boy Scouts created marketplace confusion and damaged their recruitment efforts by using words like “scouts” and “scouting” in recruitment drives. More

April 7, 2022

The affidavit said Clark believed that if the candidate was named chief, it would “negatively impact" her position as superintendent and she wanted the candidate to get “knocked down a peg.” More

April 7, 2022

Cory Bigsby has been charged with seven counts of felony child neglect, stemming from incidents from before Codi Bigsby was reported missing. More

April 7, 2022

A murder-suicide investigation is underway after a 9-year-old boy and his father were found dead Monday morning. More

April 7, 2022

The rapper, whose real name is Nathaniel Glover, had gone on trial last month for the death of John Jolly. More

April 7, 2022

A Portland State University student turned himself in to law enforcement after a woman was shot and killed near the school. More

April 7, 2022

The Senate confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, securing her place as the first Black female justice. More

April 7, 2022

A Turkish court ruled Thursday to suspend the trial in absentia of 26 Saudis accused in the gruesome killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi and for the case to be transferred to Saudi Arabia. More

April 7, 2022