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Three months after a jury convicted Empire actor Jussie Smollett of faking a hate crime, he returned to court for sentencing from the judge. More

March 17, 2022

Four men are standing trial in Michigan on charges they plotted to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. More

March 17, 2022

A court near Moscow has extended the detention of WNBA star Brittney Griner until May 19, according to the Russian state news agency Tass. More

March 17, 2022

About five weeks before the shooting, an FBI tip line received a call saying Nikolas Cruz had bought guns and planned to "slip into a school and start shooting the place up.” More

March 17, 2022

Krystal Daniels, the mother of Joe Clyde Daniels, accepted a plea deal the morning her trial was set to begin. More

March 17, 2022

A Tennessee high school teacher and football coach has been accused of having a sexual relationship with a student. More

March 17, 2022

A judge denied Chandler Halderson's request not to be present when his sentence for killing and dismembering his parents is handed down. More

March 17, 2022

Jussie Smollett's attorneys say they're planning to appeal nearly everything that went on in court over the last few months. More

March 16, 2022

A Georgia woman has been sentenced to 200 years in prison plus 200 years of probation in a horrific child abuse case involving her nine children. More

March 16, 2022

New documents filed in the Doomsday Couple case reveal Chad Daybell wants prosecutors disqualified from his case, but he doesn't want the public to see the details. More

March 16, 2022

An indictment made public Wednesday accuses Cory Fleming of working with Murdaugh to defraud the sons of Gloria Satterfield. More

March 16, 2022

By SARA BURNETT and DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — No charges will be filed against the Chicago police officers who chased and fatally shot 13-year-old Adam Toledo and 22-year-old Anthony Alvarez within days of each other last year, prompting sharp criticism of how the department handles foot pursuits, a prosecutor announced Tuesday. Cook County State’s Attorney Kim […] More

March 16, 2022

The trial was suspended because the virus had struck a key participant in the case. More

March 16, 2022

The U.S. Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments for April 27 in an appeal by the state of Oklahoma in what is known as the McGirt ruling. More

March 16, 2022

Police have released the identity of “Little Miss Nobody,” a young girl who remained nameless for more than six decades after her killing. More

March 16, 2022

A leader in the far-right Proud Boys extremist group will remain jailed until his trial on charges that he remotely led a plot to stop Congress’ certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential victory. More

March 16, 2022

A judge signed an order Monday mandating that Baltimore police send evidence in the case against Adnan Syed within 15 days to a California crime lab, news outlets reported. More

March 16, 2022

Judge Spalding wrote that based on the speech, demeanor, and appearance of Stanziano, he suspected she was under the influence of illegal substances. More

March 16, 2022

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The gunshot-filled 911 call came into a Tennessee police department just after midnight on July 19, 2010, from the cell phone of retired NBA player Lorenzen Wright. Wright was lured to a road next to a field by his ex-wife and another man charged with killing […] More

March 15, 2022

Chandler Halderson, convicted of killing and dismembering his parents, has asked a judge to him skip his sentencing hearing in Dane County. More

March 15, 2022

Jussie Smollett began a 150-day jail sentence for staging a hate crime against himself in protective custody. More

March 15, 2022

A federal magistrate is recommending that U.S. District Judge Jennifer Dorsey transfer to a Nevada judge the newspaper’s open-records request for documents that Dorsey has deemed confidential under a hush-money agreement the woman signed more than a decade ago. More

March 15, 2022

Police chased and tackled a man who turned out to be holding a baby in his arms, who suffered a skull fracture, authorities said. More

March 15, 2022

A member of a fishing boat pleaded guilty to killing a fellow crew member and attacking others with a knife and hammer while at sea in 2018. More

March 15, 2022

Police early Tuesday arrested a man at a Philadelphia bus terminal who is wanted in the stabbing of two employees inside the Museum of Modern Art in New York. More

March 15, 2022

Opening statements were set for Tuesday in the trial of a man charged with killing former NBA player Lorenzen Wright. More

March 15, 2022

The Kentucky man accused of murdering attorney Jordan Morgan is also being charged with an unrelated crime in Kenton County. More

March 15, 2022

By SYLVIA HUI and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s top court on Monday refused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange permission to appeal against a decision to extradite him to the U.S. to face spying charges. The court said it refused because the case “didn’t raise an arguable point of law.” Assange, 50, has […] More

March 14, 2022

An Orange County judge permanently blocked police from releasing pictures and body camera video related to the investigation of Bob Saget’s death. More

March 14, 2022

The missing woman — 25-year-old Susan Lund — was connected to a decades-old cold case out of Illinois. More

March 14, 2022