Latest Crime & Trial News

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

A second teen has been arrested in the homicide investigation that led police to the Minneapolis apartment where a SWAT team officer fatally shot Amir Locke, a Black 22-year-old man, while executing a search warrant. More

February 23, 2022

A former criminal justice major and college cheerleader was convicted in the killings of three Florida women who were working prostitutes more than 15 years ago. More

February 23, 2022

Brett Hankison is charged with three counts of wanton endangerment, a low-level felony punishable by up to five years in prison. More

February 23, 2022

Opening statements are set to begin Wednesday in the trial of Brett Hankison for his involvement in the raid that killed Breonna Taylor. More

February 23, 2022

The bodies of Crystal Turner and Kylen Schulte were found Aug. 18 at a campsite outside Moab. Both had multiple gunshots to their back, sides and chest.  More

February 23, 2022

The three are charged with depriving George Floyd of his right to medical care when Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for 9 1/2 minutes he pleaded for air before going silent. More

February 23, 2022

A jury has been seated in Brett Hankison's trial as he faces charges related to the raid that killed Breonna Taylor. More

February 22, 2022

One-time Texas Rangers slugger Josh Hamilton pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor in a case arising from an altercation with his teenage daughter, officials said. Hamilton, 40, pleaded guilty in Fort Worth, Texas, on Tuesday to unlawful restraint under a plea deal that dismisses a 2020 felony indictment for injury to a child. More

February 22, 2022

U.S. women's national team players who spent years battling for pay equity lauded as historic an agreement by U.S. Soccer to pay $24 million to settle a discrimination dispute with the team, as well as a commitment to equalize pay and bonuses to match the men's team. More

February 22, 2022

The manager of a juvenile detention center says she would have concerns if a 15-year-old charged with killing four fellow students in his Michigan high school were incarcerated at her facility. More

February 22, 2022

Police said a 4-year-old child fired a gun at officers on the order of their father Monday at a Utah McDonald's. More

February 22, 2022

Missouri man convicted of killing his wife, burying her body and lying to authorities about her whereabouts pleaded guilty Tuesday to child abuse charges involving the couple's young daughter. Joseph Elledge had originally pleaded not guilty to child abuse, child endangerment and domestic assault. More

February 22, 2022

The Supreme Court is leaving in place a decision throwing out a lawsuit filed by a woman who accused billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein of sexually abusing her when she was a child. Courtney Wild's lawsuit claimed Florida federal prosecutors failed to consult victims more than a decade ago when reaching a secret plea deal with Epstein, who died in jail in New York in 2019. More

February 22, 2022

Jurors in the federal hate crimes trial of the three white men convicted in Ahmaud Arbery’s slaying announced Tuesday that they had reached a verdict. More

February 22, 2022

A Hawaii man shot and killed the acupuncturist who treated his wife for back pain and fertility issues — and had an affair with her, Honolulu police said. More

February 22, 2022

Lane, J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao are charged with depriving Floyd of his right to medical care as Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd's neck for 9 1/2 minutes. More

February 22, 2022

Brett Hankison is the only officer charged in the case. None have been charged in connection to Breonna Taylor's death. More

February 22, 2022

Almost ten years after it happened, an Arizona man has pleaded guilty in the shooting death of his girlfriend. Ronald Corbin was initially arrested in 2012 on suspicion of manslaughter in connection with the death of Genna Ayup. More

February 21, 2022

PALM SPRINGS, Fla. (Scripps News Tampa) — A Palm Springs, Florida woman was arrested on a charge of first-degree murder after she stabbed her husband more than 140 times and bludgeoned him with a meat cleaver, police said. According to a Palm Springs police report, Ricardo Green, 41, called 911 on the evening of Feb. […] More

February 21, 2022

Court is in session in a southwest Louisiana parish, but the attorneys, judges, and defendants are all teenagers. A New Iberia family pushed for teen court in the city after losing their 17-year-old son to gun violence. The family of Garon Lewis started the Garon Paul Atkinson Lewis Foundation soon after he was shot and killed in 2019. More

February 21, 2022

New Jersey teen involved in a mall fight says police were wrong to treat him differently than the other youth involved in the altercation, who is Black. Video posted online shows an officer tackling and handcuffing the Black 14-year-old at the Bridgewater Commons Mall. A second officer pushes the 15-year-old onto a couch but doesn't restrain him. More

February 21, 2022

Church pastor and former elementary school teacher Reynaldo Crispin from Las Vegas arrested in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on a warrant accusing him of sex crimes involving children. More

February 21, 2022

Thomas Lane said he asked twice if George Floyd should be rolled onto his side, and Officer Derek Chauvin told the officers that Floyd would stay where he was. More

February 21, 2022