Latest Crime & Trial News

A Ring camera captured 5-year-old Thomas Adkins walking up to someone's front door on a rainy night in February. More

March 22, 2022

Newly released video shows the mistress of convicted murderer Chris Watts. More

March 22, 2022

“He circled around the parking lot, maybe to make sure there were no witnesses. He came up behind the car and forced his way into the driver’s side of the car.” More

March 22, 2022

The outcome of Griffin’s trial could have a ripple effect, helping other Capitol riot defendants decide whether to let a judge or a jury decide their case. More

March 22, 2022

Detroit reaches $7.5 million settlement with man who entered prison as a teen and spent eight years there before prosecutor agreed to drop four murder convictions. More

March 21, 2022

Former Google employee sued tech giant for racial discrimination saying it engages in "pattern and practice" of unfair treatment for Black workers. More

March 21, 2022

A jury convicted a Tennessee man in the slaying of former NBA player Lorenzen Wright, whose bullet-riddled body was found in a field nearly 12 years ago in Memphis. More

March 21, 2022

Dan Chappel, leader of plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, asked "when's the lynching?" after state Supreme Court struck down law she repeatedly used to impose restrictions during COVID-19. More

March 21, 2022

School officials in Kenosha, Wisconsin, released surveillance footage that shows an off-duty police officer putting his knee on a 12-year-old girl's neck to restrain her amid a lunchtime fight. More

March 21, 2022

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday opened the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. More

March 21, 2022

Couy Griffin is one of the few riot defendants who isn't accused of entering the Capitol or engaging in any violent or destructive behavior. More

March 21, 2022

South Carolina officials say they won't file charges against a boater who fatally shot a man that he helped rescue from the water. More

March 21, 2022

Matthew Muller, a Harvard-trained attorney and ex-Marine, concocted a plan so elaborate and bizarre that at first police accused the couple of lying. More

March 21, 2022

Dominican authorities have said the target was meant to be Sixto David Fernandez, who was sharing a table with Ortiz when he was shot. More

March 21, 2022

Chandler Halderson was convicted of all charges in the deaths of his parents, whose dismembered remains were found scattered in Wisconsin. More

March 20, 2022

Billy Ray Turner is one of two accused killers in the murder of NBA star Lorenzen Wright. More

March 19, 2022

A defense attorney for a man charged with fatally shooting former NBA player Lorenzen Wright attempted to poke holes Friday in the testimony of a convicted killer who said Wright's ex-wife gave him details about the slaying. More

March 18, 2022

Judge denies Chad Daybell request to sever case from wife, Lori Vallow Daybell. More

March 18, 2022

Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo filed a lawsuit alleging an effort to portray them as racist, homophobic and violent men. More

March 18, 2022

Jurors found Michael Davis, a former sergeant with the Lonoke County sheriff’s office, guilty in the shooting death last year of 17-year-old Hunter Brittain during a traffic stop outside Cabot. More

March 18, 2022

Jury selection in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz is on track to begin April 4,. More

March 18, 2022

Norfolk Police arrested 23-year-old Shaunti Robinson for grand larceny after an investigation spanning more than a year. More

March 18, 2022

A former doctor charged with killing his wife in their Syracuse-area home was found guilty Thursday after his second trial. More

March 18, 2022

A white high-schooler has been charged with a hate crime after being caught on video throwing cotton balls at a Black student and whipping him with his belt, authorities said Wednesday. More

March 18, 2022

A North Dakota woman has been charged with murder in the stabbing death of her roommate more than a decade ago. More

March 18, 2022

On the morning of July 7, 1992, the body of Nona Stamey Cobb was found alongside the northbound lanes of Interstate 77 in Surry County. More

March 18, 2022

Racine County Sheriff Christopher Schmaling said the victim had been "barbarically” brutalized over a long period of time. More

March 18, 2022

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A former Navy sailor and convicted killer testified Thursday that Lorenzen Wright’s ex-wife asked him and another man to kill the former NBA player nearly 12 years ago in Atlanta. Jimmie Martin testified in the trial of Billy Ray Turner, who has pleaded not guilty to […] More

March 17, 2022

Jussie Smollett was ordered released from jail Wednesday by an appeals court that agreed he should be released pending his appeal. More

March 17, 2022

Chandler Halderson was sentenced to life in prison for murdering and dismembering his mother and father in Wisconsin. More

March 17, 2022