Frederick County, Maryland deputies arrested a man Sunday for the abduction of two children. Christopher Wade Schultz, 40, is being charged with two counts of abduction for children under 12, two counts of kidnapping for children under 16, two counts of false imprisonment, one count of home invasion, 3rd-degree burglary, trespassing on posted property, and 2nd-degree assault. More
February 28, 2022
Maryland man will serve the rest of his life in prison for murdering his wife and lying about how it happened. Keith Smith falsely told police he, his daughter and wife, Jacquelyn, were heading home from celebrating a birthday in Baltimore, when a panhandler robbed and stabbed her to death. More
February 28, 2022
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department launched one of the largest and most complex criminal investigations in its history after a mob of Donald Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol over a year ago. Now it’s time for a jury to hear some of the government’s evidence about the unparalleled […] More
February 28, 2022
Prosecutors in the Vatican's fraud and extortion trial dismissed defense objections as a "tempest in a teapot" as they defended their investigation and insisted they turned over all evidence needed for the trial to open. More
February 28, 2022
A rape survivor is suing the city of Albuquerque over its backlog of untested rape kits, alleging a nearly decade-long delay allowed her rapist to freely attack other women. More
February 28, 2022
As bailiffs rushed him out of the room, Terry Powell looked to the victim's family, grinned and blew kisses. More
February 28, 2022
The court took on the case even though there is no current EPA plan in place to deal with carbon output from power plants, a development that has alarmed environmental groups. More
February 28, 2022
The high court isn't being asked to decide whether Chrystul Kizer is guilty, only if she can argue at trial that the law protects her from criminal liability. More
February 28, 2022
Marano and Dykes were free on $500,000 bonds when they removed their GPS trackers on Christmas Day within moments of each other and at the same location, according to court documents. More
February 28, 2022
The body of a woman reported missing earlier this month has been found under the home of a man who had been released from jail on bond after being accused of threatening her, authorities said Saturday. More
February 28, 2022
In 2016, Denham shot his grandfather, grandmother, sister, three-month-old nephew and family dog in the heads in and then burned the bodies. More
February 28, 2022
Three former Minneapolis police officers convicted of violating George Floyd's civil rights face federal sentences that one expert says could range from less than five years in prison to as much as the 25 years prosecutors are seeking for their former colleague Derek Chauvin. More
February 25, 2022
Richelle Nice, juror at the heart of convicted murderer Scott Peterson's retrial bid, swore she had no animosity toward him until she heard evidence he killed his pregnant wife. More
February 25, 2022
By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press A jury in Florida has acquitted a retired police SWAT commander of murder and assault charges for fatally shooting a fellow moviegoer during an argument over cellphone use. Deliberations in the trial began Friday and the jury returned its verdict late that night. Defense attorneys contended that retired […] More
February 25, 2022
Jurors in the trial for the only person criminally charged in the deadly 2020 raid that resulted in the death of Breonna Taylor visited the scene of the shooting in Louisville. More
February 25, 2022
Investigators in Iowa used genealogical data to link the 1982 fatal stabbing of a woman to an Illinois trucker who was found shot to death in a shallow grave months later. More
February 25, 2022
A third federal lawsuit has been filed against Oxford Community Schools and other defendants following the deadly shooting last year on Nov. 30. More
February 25, 2022
One teen is now facing charges in connection to a triple murder at a home in Detroit that left a 5-year-old boy dead, according to the Wayne County, Michigan prosecutor's office. Malcolm Ray Hardy, 16, is reportedly being charged with three counts of felony murder, three counts of first-degree premeditated murder, two counts of armed robbery and eight counts of felony firearm. More
February 25, 2022
A Florida man who grabbed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's podium and posed for photographs with it during the U.S. Capitol riot was sentenced on Friday to more than two months in prison. More
February 25, 2022
“I shot Mr. Oulson because I thought he was gonna seriously injure me or potentially kill me,” defendant Curtis Reeves testified. More
February 25, 2022
Six weeks after the shooting, Zimmerman was charged with second-degree murder; he would be acquitted the next year. But the ferment unleashed by Trayvon Martin’s death did not stop. More
February 25, 2022
President Joe Biden on Friday will reportedly nominate federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. More
February 25, 2022
Corby Powell was just 22 when he died. He was shot and killed in the early hours of October 1, 2016 in Petersburg, Virginia More
February 24, 2022
A 16-year-old has surrendered to Baltimore police after allegedly gunning down a DoorDash driver in a robbery gone wrong. Cheryl McCormack and her fiancé were attempting to make a food delivery when their car ran out of gas. More
February 24, 2022
Los Angeles police release crime video in an effort to identify a suspect in the fatal shooting of 16-year-old Hector Flores. More
February 24, 2022
Scott Peterson's chance for a new trial in the murders of his pregnant wife and unborn son hinges on whether a California juror who helped send him to prison was biased because she was a domestic violence victim. More
February 24, 2022
In interviews with news outlets, the juror described a moment during the deliberations when he told fellow jurors that, like some of the victims of Epstein, he had been sexually abused as a child. More
February 24, 2022
Brett Hankison fired 10 shots in the raid. None hit Taylor, but prosecutors said they endangered the couple and child who lived next door. More
February 24, 2022
The Crumbleys’ attorneys have insisted the couple didn’t know their son might be planning an attack and didn’t make the gun easy to find in their home. More
February 24, 2022
Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane were convicted of depriving George Floyd of his right to medical care as the Black man was pinned under Officer Derek Chauvin's knee for 9 1/2 minutes while handcuffed, facedown on the street May 25, 2020. More
February 24, 2022
