FRANKFORT, Ky. (Scripps News Lexington) — A bill aimed at harshening the penalty for swatting is one step closer to being a law in Kentucky. All it needs now is the governor’s signature. It’s on his desk now according to the bill’s sponsor, State Representative Phillip Pratt, R-Georgetown. Swatting is when someone maliciously falsely reports […] More
April 1, 2022
Lawyers representing Dr. William Husel wrapped up their case Thursday one day after calling only a single witness. More
April 1, 2022
They claim their children hacked their email to obtain the evidence, and the couple's attorney is now fighting to have that information thrown out. More
April 1, 2022
Darrell Brooks wrote that he needs to find a way out before something happens to him and guards “sweep it under the rug.” More
April 1, 2022
A Texas woman who said her 3-year-old son was killed in a road-rage shooting has been arrested on a child endangerment charge, police said Thursday. More
April 1, 2022
Heather Ann Thompson, University of Michigan professor and author of Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971," about the revolt at the Attica Correctional Facility in 1971, sued New York state prison authorities, saying they've unconstitutionally banned her book behind bars. More
March 31, 2022
Former New Hampshire hermit David Lidstone, 82, who went back to live on wooded property he was ordered to leave, realizes his time there is drawing to a close but appears willing to keep fighting against his removal. More
March 31, 2022
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — A student was shot and taken to the hospital Thursday at a South Carolina middle school after being shot by another student, authorities said. The teenage shooter was taken into custody near Tanglewood Middle School not long after the shooting that happened in the front part of the school, Greenville County […] More
March 31, 2022
Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones agreed to appear at a deposition in Connecticut to answer questions in a lawsuit by relatives of some Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims, a day after a judge ordered fines for defying orders to attend a deposition despite his claim of illness. More
March 31, 2022
Gay rights advocates sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday to block a new law that forbids classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade. More
March 31, 2022
Defense attorneys rested their case after one of four men charged with plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer repeatedly said "absolutely not" when asked if he had agreed to abduct her before the 2020 election. More
March 31, 2022
Former nurse RaDonda Vaught was convicted of two counts in the death of a patient who was accidentally given the wrong medication. More
March 31, 2022
Misty Morse was found strangled, bound and dead. Tamron Hall explores the groundbreaking science used to bring her killer to justice. More
March 31, 2022
A murder case against a 96-year-old man has been dismissed after the man allegedly shot and killed an assisted living facility employee. More
March 31, 2022
The suspect, who was not formally identified in accordance with Greek law, was arrested a day after being detained for questioning. More
March 31, 2022
The family of Brian Laundrie filed a motion to dismiss a pending lawsuit filed by the family of his former fiancé, Gabby Petito. More
March 31, 2022
A judge on Wednesday ordered the Kristin Smart murder trial moved out of San Luis Obispo County in central California. More
March 31, 2022
Attorneys for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz and his prosecutors argued over whether jurors who will decide whether he is sentenced to death should be allowed to tour the building where he murdered 17 people. More
March 30, 2022
Authorities discovered the remains of 18-year-old kidnapped Nevada woman Naomi Irion. 41-year-old Troy Driver was charged earlier with first-degree kidnapping. More
March 30, 2022
Florida man Steve Shand will stand trial in Minnesota on human smuggling charges following his arrest after authorities across the Canadian border found four migrants who had frozen to death during a blizzard. More
March 30, 2022
A man accused of leading a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was "antigovernment" and believed officials were out to "line their own pockets," his longtime companion testified Wednesday before prosecutors rested their case. More
March 30, 2022
The CVS drug store company and pharmaceutical companies will pay Florida a combined $860 million as part of the settlement of an opioid epidemic case. More
March 30, 2022
After serving over half his life behind bars, a Seattle man now has a chance to get out after high court rulings. More
March 30, 2022
Nearly three years after Greene’s May 10, 2019, death with still no one criminally charged, Hollingsworth’s internal affairs interview in September 2020 stands as a defiant, haunting voice from the grave. More
March 30, 2022
Despite being stabbed and suffering a severe injury, Deputy Colangelo chased after Leigha Day while applying pressure to his wound, the sheriff's office said. More
March 30, 2022
Van Houten, 72, 'currently poses an unreasonable danger to society if released from prison at this time,' Newsom said in his parole review. More
March 30, 2022
Will Smith’s slap seen ’round the world at the Oscars was clearly a crime, legal experts say, but the chances of prosecution are slim. More
March 30, 2022
Dr. William Husel is accused of ordering excessive painkillers for 14 patients in the Columbus-area Mount Carmel Health System. More
March 30, 2022
Infowars host Alex Jones offered to pay $120,000 per plaintiff to resolve a lawsuit by relatives of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims who said he defamed them by asserting the massacre never happened. The offer was quickly rejected. More
March 29, 2022
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — An actor known for playing “The Flash” in “Justice League” films was arrested after an incident at a Hawaii karaoke bar, where police say Ezra Miller yelled obscenities, grabbed a mic from a singing woman and lunged at a man playing darts. Miller took issue late […] More
March 29, 2022
