Latest Crime & Trial News

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

They claim their children hacked their email to obtain the evidence, and the couple's attorney is now fighting to have that information thrown out. More

April 1, 2022

Darrell Brooks wrote that he needs to find a way out before something happens to him and guards “sweep it under the rug.” More

April 1, 2022

A Texas woman who said her 3-year-old son was killed in a road-rage shooting has been arrested on a child endangerment charge, police said Thursday. More

April 1, 2022

Heather Ann Thompson, University of Michigan professor and author of Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971," about the revolt at the Attica Correctional Facility in 1971, sued New York state prison authorities, saying they've unconstitutionally banned her book behind bars. More

March 31, 2022

Former New Hampshire hermit David Lidstone, 82, who went back to live on wooded property he was ordered to leave, realizes his time there is drawing to a close but appears willing to keep fighting against his removal. More

March 31, 2022

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — A student was shot and taken to the hospital Thursday at a South Carolina middle school after being shot by another student, authorities said. The teenage shooter was taken into custody near Tanglewood Middle School not long after the shooting that happened in the front part of the school, Greenville County […] More

March 31, 2022

Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones agreed to appear at a deposition in Connecticut to answer questions in a lawsuit by relatives of some Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims, a day after a judge ordered fines for defying orders to attend a deposition despite his claim of illness. More

March 31, 2022

Gay rights advocates sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday to block a new law that forbids classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade. More

March 31, 2022

Defense attorneys rested their case after one of four men charged with plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer repeatedly said "absolutely not" when asked if he had agreed to abduct her before the 2020 election. More

March 31, 2022

Former nurse RaDonda Vaught was convicted of two counts in the death of a patient who was accidentally given the wrong medication. More

March 31, 2022

Misty Morse was found strangled, bound and dead. Tamron Hall explores the groundbreaking science used to bring her killer to justice. More

March 31, 2022

A murder case against a 96-year-old man has been dismissed after the man allegedly shot and killed an assisted living facility employee. More

March 31, 2022