Latest Crime & Trial News

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

While delivering pizza, Ashley Biggs was murdered. What happened to Ashley Biggs, and who ordered that last pizza? Tamron Hall finds out. More

April 7, 2022

Former Trump advisers Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino were held in contempt of Congress on Wednesday for their monthlong refusal to comply with subpoenas rendered by the House committee's investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. More

April 6, 2022

Lawrence Ray, 62, was convicted at a trial where weeks of testimony chronicled his psychologically manipulative relationship with young people he met in fall 2010 at Sarah Lawrence College, a small New York liberal arts school. Ray moved into his daughter's dorm after finishing a prison stint for a securities fraud conviction. More

April 6, 2022

The third day of deliberations ended Wednesday without a verdict in a trial that centers on a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. More

April 6, 2022

A group of bipartisan Texas lawmakers planned on Wednesday to visit death row inmate Melissa Lucio, whose execution they are trying to stop amid doubts about whether she fatally beat her 2-year-old daughter. More

April 6, 2022

Former Louisiana sheriff Rodney J. "Jack" Strain was sentenced to 10 years in prison for a federal bribery conviction, to be served at the same as his four life sentences for earlier convictions for raping boys. More

April 6, 2022

Florida teen Noah Galle under arrest after speeding at 151 mph, rear-ending a vehicle, killing all six people inside. More

April 6, 2022

Federal judge acquitted New Mexico man Matthew Martin of misdemeanor charges that he illegally entered the U.S. Capitol and engaged in disorderly conduct during the Jan. 6 riot. More

April 6, 2022

Alex Jones was being questioned Wednesday by lawyers for families of Sandy Hook victims in Connecticut, where a judge had ordered the Infowars host to face mounting fines until he appeared for a deposition. More

April 6, 2022

Minnesota prosecutors declined to file charges Wednesday against a Minneapolis police SWAT team officer who fatally shot Amir Locke while executing an early morning no-knock search warrant in a downtown apartment in February. More

April 6, 2022

The father said Hitchcock's mother lived in Russia and that he was worried about Hitchcock's mental state of mind as she watched the war between Russia and Ukraine. More

April 6, 2022

His lawyers have said the evidence against Tarrio was weak and relies mostly on text messages and social media. More

April 6, 2022