Latest Crime & Trial News

Matthew Queen, accused of torturing and killing a man in the Bakersfield 3 case, is on trial in Bakersfield, California. More

March 23, 2022

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Scripps News Nashville) — The second day of testimony is underway for RaDonda Vaught, a former Vanderbilt University Medical Center nurse on trial for the death of a patient in her care.   She is accused of killing Charlene Murphey, who received the wrong medication and became unable to breathe in 2017. Murphy […] More

March 23, 2022

U.S. Embassy official has visited with WNBA star Brittney Griner who remains detained near Moscow. More

March 23, 2022

Pamela Smart was denied a sentence reduction hearing more than 30 years after the trial that inspired books and a Nicole Kidman movie. More

March 23, 2022

Ty Garbin, who pleaded guilty to planning a kidnapping of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, told jurors he and allies wanted to attack before 2020 election to prevent Biden from winning. More

March 23, 2022

Arkansas police arrest 22-year-old Brandon Deandra Knight on first-degree battery and aggravated assault charges in a car show shooting that killed one person and wounded 26. More

March 23, 2022

Lawyers for two men on South Carolina's death row have asked the state's Supreme Court to hold off on setting execution dates while they challenge a new law allowing executions by firing squad. More

March 23, 2022

Former Trump adviser Paul Manafort was removed from a plane at Miami International Airport before it took off for Dubai because he carried a revoked passport. More

March 23, 2022

Jurors deliberated for less than an hour Tuesday before convicting 37-year-old Kimberly Maurer. More

March 23, 2022

A 50-year-old fingerprint and information from a new witness identified just within the past few years has led to the arrest of a suspect in a 1971 killing in Massachusetts,. More

March 23, 2022

A woman who says she was forced to prostitute herself to pay an ex-convict $2.5 million and gain relief from his claims that she’d poisoned him was testifying at his trial Tuesday when he became so ill that he was taken to a hospital. More

March 23, 2022

Justyn Pennell is accused of intentionally killing a pedestrian with his vehicle in 2020. More

March 22, 2022

Leticia Smith, suspected of killing husband Antoine Smith at their Southern California home in 2015, was arrested in Mexico. More

March 22, 2022

Iowa teens Jeremy Goodale and Willard Miller used a baseball bat to kill high school Spanish teacher Nohema Graber; one described in social media posts how they followed her, attacked her and hid the body. More

March 22, 2022

Mississippi school district begins hearing for assistant principal Toby Price who was fired after reading a book called "I Need a New Butt" to second grade students at Gary Road Elementary School in the Jackson suburb of Byram. More

March 22, 2022

Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes loomed over opening day of a trial that will determine whether jilted lover and former business partner Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani was also her partner in crime. More

March 22, 2022

Trial over copyright of Ed Sheeran hit song "Shape of You" concludes in London; judge says he'll take some time before ruling. More

March 22, 2022

Former child star Amanda Bynes released from court conservatorship that put life and financial decisions in parents' control for nearly nine years. More

March 22, 2022

26-year-old Long Island woman Lauren Pazienza arrested for manslaughter in the death of 87-year-old Broadway singing coach Barbara Maier Gustern, who was shoved to the ground on a New York City street. More

March 22, 2022

4 teens face murder charges in connection with a carjacking that left a 73-year-old woman dying on a New Orleans street, her arm severed after she was dragged by her own car. More

March 22, 2022

Wisconsin dad Jerrel Perez wants Kenosha police Officer Shawn Guetschow charges. The cop appears to have pressed his knee into Perez's 12-year-old daughter's neck. More

March 22, 2022

19-year-old Felipe Vazquez found guilty of first-degree murder in 2020 shooting death of Lincoln, Nebraska police investigator Luis "Mario" Herrera. More

March 22, 2022

"They took a man who was so full of life, and so much fun," said Glenda Bonds, Patrick Burdine's mother. More

March 22, 2022

A bouncer at a Boston bar charged with fatally stabbing a Marine Corps veteran celebrating the St. Patrick's Day weekend has been held without bail. More

March 22, 2022

Judge grants prosecutor's request that Ethan Crumbley, Michigan teen charged in fatal school shooting, not be named during the separate trial of his parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley. More

March 22, 2022

According to the lawsuit, the police routinely offer people who are being questioned about a crime a beverage, a cigarette or chewing gum and then collect DNA from the items. More

March 22, 2022

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