A New York man who spent nearly 40 years trying to clear his name after a jury tainted by antisemitism wrongfully convicted him of arson has finally been vindicated. More
April 5, 2022
“There is no evidence of any connection between the stolen firearms and the disappearance of Harmony Montgomery," Attorney General John Formella said in a news release. More
April 5, 2022
He had been accused of raping girls between 11 and 14 years old from 2016 to 2021. At least nine babies reportedly were born as a result of the rapes. More
April 5, 2022
A pretrial hearing has been postponed until next month for a rural Nevada man accused of kidnapping and killing Naomi Irion. More
April 5, 2022
Jurors asked for a definition of “weapon” Monday but otherwise gave no indication of the progress of their work. More
April 5, 2022
Judge dismissed criminal charges against Jesper Joergensen, Danish man accused of starting Colorado wildfire that destroyed about 140 homes in 2018, after he was repeatedly found unable to stand trial. More
April 4, 2022
Former McDonald's workers who alleged rampant sexual harassment at their Michigan restaurant have reached a $1.5 million settlement agreement with the restaurant's former owner. More
April 4, 2022
Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney announced Monday night they will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's historic elevation to the Supreme Court, giving President Joe Biden's nominee a burst of bipartisan support and all but assuring she'll become the first Black female justice. More
April 4, 2022
Jury selection in the deadliest U.S. mass shooting ever to go to trial began Monday with preliminary screening for the panel that will determine whether Nikolas Cruz will be put to death for murdering 17 students and staff members at a Parkland, Florida, high school. More
April 4, 2022
Theresa Bentaas, South Dakota woman who entered Alford plea in 1981 death of her newborn son, was released on parole after serving less than three months in prison. More
April 4, 2022
Darrell Brooks Jr. faces more than 80 charges in connection with the incident in Waukesha in November 2021, including six homicide counts. More
April 4, 2022
David Ware arrived in court Monday morning for the beginning of jury selection in his murder trial. More
April 4, 2022
The body of a missing Florida mother was found in Alabama Saturday evening and her ex-boyfriend is in custody. More
April 4, 2022
A New Jersey man who conspired with his then-girlfriend to cook up a feel-good story about a helpful homeless man and then used the lie to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations online was sentenced in federal court Friday to more than two years in prison. More
April 4, 2022
Three members of a Southern California family pleaded not guilty Friday to abusing their nine foster children, including two girls from the Turpin family who were rescued from nightmarish conditions three years ago. More
April 4, 2022
Chelsea Crossland is accused of killing her 5-year-old son and sexually abusing a young girl for years. More
April 4, 2022
The jury picked a leader late Friday afternoon, following hours of closing arguments from lawyers, then said it would start discussing the case after the weekend. More
April 4, 2022
Troy Driver booked on charges of murder with use of a deadly weapon, robbery, burglary and destruction of evidence. He's been held on $750,000 bail at the Lyon County Jail since March 25 after his arrest on a charge of kidnapping Naomi Irion. More
April 1, 2022
Former U.S. women's national team star goalkeeper Hope Solo was arrested after she was found passed out behind the wheel of a vehicle in North Carolina with her 2-year-old twins inside, police said. More
April 1, 2022
U.S. judge refused to throw out Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking conviction Friday, despite a juror's failure to disclose before the trial began that he'd been a victim of childhood sexual abuse. More
April 1, 2022
Will Smith resigned Friday from the motion picture academy following his Oscars night slap of Chris Rock and said he would accept any further punishment the organization imposed. More
April 1, 2022
Former Connecticut man Danueal Drayton was jailed without bail after being extradited from California to face charges in the strangulation death of a woman he met on a dating app. More
April 1, 2022
A Berlin court has sentenced a 93-year-old German woman to 12 months in prison for denying that Jews were systematically murdered during the Holocaust. More
April 1, 2022
Lonnie Leroy Coffman, Alabama man who parked a pickup truck filled with weapons and Molotov cocktail components near the U.S. Capitol on the Jan. 6 riot sentenced to nearly four years in prison. More
April 1, 2022
Ohio appeals court upholds $25 million judgment for business that successfully claimed it was libeled by Oberlin College in the aftermath of a shoplifting incident. More
April 1, 2022
Federal jury's $14 million award to Denver protesters hit with pepper balls and bag filled with lead during 2020 demonstrations over police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis could resonate nationwide as courts weigh similar lawsuits. More
April 1, 2022
A prosecutor urged jurors Friday to convict four men in a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. More
April 1, 2022
Romance author Nancy Crampton-Brophy is accused of killing her husband in 2018. More
April 1, 2022
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Scripps News Lexington) — A bill aimed at harshening the penalty for swatting is one step closer to being a law in Kentucky. All it needs now is the governor’s signature. It’s on his desk now according to the bill’s sponsor, State Representative Phillip Pratt, R-Georgetown. Swatting is when someone maliciously falsely reports […] More
April 1, 2022
Lawyers representing Dr. William Husel wrapped up their case Thursday one day after calling only a single witness. More
April 1, 2022
