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
A New Mexico man was convicted Tuesday and raping and killing a 79-year-old woman in Southern California more than four decades ago. More
February 24, 2022
The woman described being held captive by her boyfriend of 11 months — at times being bound and tied so she could not move, the report states More
February 24, 2022
Curtis Reeves has never denied he shot and killed Chad Oulson after a fight about cell phone usage in a movie theater. Was it self-defense? More
February 24, 2022
Brett Hankison, one of three police officers involved in the March 2020 raid that led to the shooting death of Breonna Taylor, was acquitted. More
February 23, 2022
The husband of a cinematographer shot and killed on the set of the film "Rust" says it's "absurd" that Alex Baldwin believes he's not to blame for the shooting and he was "so angry" when Baldwin didn't accept responsibility. More
February 23, 2022
A Manhattan judge said Wednesday that lawyers for Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin are seeking a new trial on her defamation claims against The New York Times, along with his removal from the case. More
February 23, 2022
U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed that ruling to limit state jurisdiction for crimes committed on tribal reservations by or against tribal citizens is not retroactive. The ruling rejected appeals by seven Oklahoma death row inmates and came more than a month after the court rejected a similar claim by another death row inmate. The court also again rejected a request that Oklahoma overturn the McGirt decision. More
February 23, 2022
A Black man who was arrested when he was 15 and held for three weeks for a crime he did not commit reached a $900,000 settlement with the Kansas City Police Department. The settlement announced by attorneys for both sides Tuesday comes in a civil rights lawsuit filed by the family of Tyree Bell over his June 8, 2016, arrest. More
February 23, 2022
The white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery as he ran on a residential street remained free for more than two months, with police and prosecutors appearing to accept their story that the young Black man was a fleeing criminal who turned and attacked before being fatally shot. More
February 23, 2022
Karl Jordan Jr., charged in the slaying of Jam Master Jay once filmed a rap video in front of a mural commemorating the beloved Run-DMC member, prosecutors say in court papers opposing the defendant's release on bail. More
February 23, 2022
Twelve people began deliberations Wednesday in the federal trial of three former Minneapolis officers who are charged with violating George Floyd's civil rights during the May 2020 killing of the 46-year-old Black man. All of the eight women and four men on the jury appear to be white. More
February 23, 2022
A Topeka West High School student who prompted protests at the school has been charged with 11 criminal counts involving five alleged victims. More
February 23, 2022
Man accused of participating in the killing of a 4-year-old Missouri girl in a religious act pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. Ethan Mast, 36, admitted his role in the death of Jessica Mast. More
February 23, 2022
