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Jackson Reffitt secretly recorded his father, Guy Wesley Reffitt, describing his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol riot. More

March 3, 2022

70-year-old serial stowaway Marilyn Hartman sentenced to more than three years in prison for trespassing at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport in 2019. More

March 3, 2022

Pilot who appeared drunk removed from cockpit of JetBlue flight as it was about to take off from Buffalo. Tests confirmed pilot had a blood alcohol level of 0.17 percent. Federal rules set 0.04 limit for flying. More

March 3, 2022

Brianna Williams, a Florida woman whose 5-year-old daughter was found dead in Alabama, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. More

March 3, 2022

Baltimore County Police detectives are still working to solve a murder from 26-years ago. Wednesday marked the anniversary of when 23-year-old Jody LeCornu was found shot to death inside her vehicle in Towson, Maryland. More

March 3, 2022

Orrin and Orson Wests’ biological family learned more about events leading up to their deaths. The family said it’s been a difficult time for them learning that the West boys were dead for three months before being reported missing. More

March 3, 2022

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma reached a nationwide settlement over its role in the opioid crisis, with the Sackler family members who own the company boosting their cash contribution to as much as $6 billion. More

March 3, 2022

Juan Vargas has been arrested in the killing of three cousins from Mexico whose bodies were found in a vacant lot in Phoenix. More

March 3, 2022

19-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a shooting that wounded two men at an Indianapolis Jewish community center during an apparent dispute over a basketball game. More

March 3, 2022

The panel of eight men and four women delivered its verdict about three hours after it took Brett Hankison's case. More

March 3, 2022

A 28-year-old homeless man has been charged with hate crimes after a string of unprovoked attacks on women of Asian descent in New York City, police said. More

March 3, 2022

After missing for more than a year, Orrin and Orson West, who were first reported missing in December 2020 from California City, are believed to be dead. More

March 3, 2022

Rocker Marilyn Manson sued his former fiancee, “Westworld" actor Evan Rachel Wood, on Wednesday over her allegations that he sexually and physically abused her during their relationship. More

March 3, 2022

Former two-time UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez was charged Wednesday with attempted murder and multiple gun assault charges. More

March 3, 2022

Not Guilty – those were the words Curtis Reeves heard just hours after the jury was charged with determining his fate. More

March 3, 2022

A Texas militia member who is the first person to be tried for the assault on the U.S. Capitol "lit the match that started the fire" when a mob charged at police officers guarding the building, a prosecutor said Wednesday during the trial's opening statements. More

March 2, 2022

68-year-old Detroit woman charged in connection with a non-fatal shooting involving two of her young grandsons. Itterlee McNeil's eight-year-old grandson shot his five-year-old brother. More

March 2, 2022

Kim Kardashian became a single woman on Wednesday, nearly eight years after her marriage to Ye. Kardashian appeared via videoconference and was put under oath in a Los Angeles courtroom. More

March 2, 2022

Former Colorado police officer shown on body camera video roughly arresting Karen Garner, a 73-year-old woman with dementia and later seen joking about it, pleaded guilty to assault in a plea deal opposed by the woman's family. Austin Hopp faces up to eight years in prison when he's sentenced in May. More

March 2, 2022

Attorneys for convicted Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide how to handle disagreements over mental illness-related evidence between capital defendants and their attorneys, an issue that has played a role throughout his case over the 2015 racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation. More

March 2, 2022

El Shafee Elsheikh is charged with playing a key role in American Kayla Mueller's abduction, ransom and death, along with three other Americans: journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and aid worker Peter Kassig. More

March 2, 2022

A mother of three children who were killed by their father at a Sacramento church had sought a restraining order out of fear for their safety, court documents indicate. David Mora, 39, also fatally shot a male chaperone who was supervising a visit with his daughters Monday afternoon before taking his own life at The Church in Sacramento. More

March 2, 2022

Former detective Brett Hankison testified in his own defense about his actions during the police raid that left Breonna Taylor dead. More

March 2, 2022

A Ghislaine Maxwell trial juror whose post-verdict revelation that he had suffered child sex abuse has jeopardized Maxwell's conviction may receive immunity to testify before the judge mulling whether the verdict will stand. More

March 2, 2022

American authorities have returned nine looted artifacts to Jordan that were seized from a U.S. billionaire collector as part of a landmark deal announced in December. More

March 2, 2022

A North Carolina man has been sentenced to up to 31 years in prison for killing his wife in front of their kids after pleading guilty to second-degree murder. More

March 2, 2022

The adoptive parents of two missing toddlers have been charged with their murders, according to authorities. More

March 2, 2022

Taylor Schabusiness has been charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse, and third-degree sexual assault. More

March 2, 2022

Former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. More

March 2, 2022

A judge ruled three men charged in plot to kidnap Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer before the 2020 election were not entrapped by the FBI. More

March 1, 2022