17-year-old Caleb Kennedy, former "American Idol" contestant accused of barreling into a man with his pickup truck, killing him, will remain in a South Carolina jail while toxicology results are pending. More
March 10, 2022
Prosecutors in the trial of four men charged with plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on played covertly recorded audio for jurors in which one of the men specifically discusses a plan to abduct the Democrat. More
March 10, 2022
Jury found James Dean Cloud guilty of several counts of first-degree murder, kidnapping and carjacking in 2019 Yakama Reservation mass homicide. More
March 10, 2022
DENVER (Scripps News Denver) — A Grand Junction man was sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in federal prison for distributing deadly fentanyl-laced pills, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announced. Christopher Huggett, 30, began selling counterfeit pills that appeared to be oxycodone in 2017, according to the plea agreement. The pills contained […] More
March 10, 2022
Colorado man Alexander Albayero sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing a man outside an Aurora nightclub. More
March 10, 2022
A prosecutor cast an ex-convict Thursday as a mobster-like figure who coerced his daughter’s college friends to join his “family” as he accumulated power, sex and money, forcing one woman into a sex work enterprise so lucrative that she gave him $1 million in a single year. More
March 10, 2022
In December of 2020, Trezell and Jacqueline West reported to authorities that their adoptive toddler sons Orson and Orinn had gone missing. More
March 10, 2022
Movie director Ryan Coogler was briefly handcuffed by Atlanta police after a bank employee mistook him for a robber when he passed her a note while trying to withdraw a large amount of cash from his account. More
March 10, 2022
A suburban Minneapolis woman has been sentenced to nearly nine years in prison in the death of her 8-year-old son who was locked in a garage overnight during the winter. More
March 10, 2022
Opening statements were underway Thursday in Boston federal court in the case against Jovan Vavic, the only coach of the many implicated to challenge his charges in court. More
March 10, 2022
Authorities described the clinics as “pill mills” and said they were frequented by people suffering from addictions and drug dealers seeking high-dosage prescription drugs. More
March 10, 2022
A jury on Wednesday convicted a man of raping and stabbing to death a woman in her Sacramento-area apartment, 40 years after her death. More
March 10, 2022
By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer A March 30 hearing has been set on a proposed $83 million lawsuit settlement for people who lost property and belongings in the collapse of a Florida beachfront condominium building that killed 98 people. Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Michael Hanzman said Wednesday that he would consider any objections to […] More
March 9, 2022
By Katie McLaughlin Tara Grinsted’s alleged killer is finally headed to trial 16 years after her murder. Justice for the former beauty pageant contestant and popular high school history teacher may never have come had it not been for Payne Lindsey. Lindsey is the creator and host of “Up and Vanished,” a podcast credited with […] More
March 9, 2022
Sherri Papini, California woman arrested for allegedly faking her own kidnapping and lying to federal agents, was released from jail after family posted $120,000 bond. She also must undergo psychiatric treatment and surrender her passport. More
March 9, 2022
A Florida woman who was found dead in her septic tank may have been alive when she was placed there, Martin County's sheriff said Tuesday. More
March 9, 2022
Four men face trial: Fox, Brandon Caserta, Barry Croft Jr. and Daniel Harris. Prosecutors say the men came up with the plan to snatch the Democratic governor because they were angry about pandemic restrictions she imposed. More
March 9, 2022
IRWIN COUNTY, Ga. (Court TV) — The man who confessed to killing Tara Grinstead in 2005 is now pleading not guilty as he prepares for trial five years after his indictment. Ryan Alexander Duke, 36, is charged with malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, burglary, and concealing a death in connection with Grinstead’s death. […] More
March 8, 2022
Federal judge in Texas overstepped his authority when he blocked President Joe Biden's requirement that all federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19. More
March 8, 2022
Six teenagers are each charged with first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder in a shooting on the grounds of East High School near downtown Des Moines Iowa. More
March 8, 2022
Lawyers for Prince Andrew and American woman Virginia Giuffre, who accused him of sexually abusing her when she was 17, formally asked a judge to dismiss her lawsuit. More
March 8, 2022
Roberto Silva Jr. pleaded guilty to killing two workers and wounding two others at a Nebraska Sonic Drive-in restaurant. More
March 8, 2022
Florida Dunkin' employee Corey Pujols -- accused of fatally punching customer Vonelle Cook, who used a racial slur -- pleaded guilty to felony battery and sentenced to two years house arrest. More
March 8, 2022
A Texas man was convicted on Tuesday of storming the U.S. Capitol with a holstered handgun, a milestone victory for federal prosecutors in the first trial among hundreds of cases arising from last year’s riot. More
March 8, 2022
Former officer James Burns argued the grand jury proceedings that led to his indictment in 2018 should have been held under rules in effect when the shooting happened. More
March 8, 2022
They're accused of taking critical steps over several months, including secret messaging, gun drills in the woods and a night drive to northern Michigan to scout her second home and figure out how to blow up a bridge. More
March 8, 2022
Maxwell's lawyers say the verdict should be thrown out over the juror's apparent failure to disclose before the trial began that he’d been a victim of childhood sexual abuse. More
March 8, 2022
Jeannine Jaramillo faces two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Santa Fe police Officer Robert Duran and Frank Lovato. More
March 8, 2022
Congress gave final approval to legislation that for the first time would make lynching a federal hate crime in the U.S., sending the bill to President Joe Biden to sign into law. More
March 7, 2022
Las Vegas police officer Caleb Rogers. arrested for attempting to rob a casino on The Strip, is charged in federal court in connection with two other casino robberies. More
March 7, 2022
