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
Paris police are investigating Jean-Luc Brunel’s death at the historic La Sante prison in Paris, the prosecutor’s office said. More
February 21, 2022
The mother of a 4-year-old girl who was reported missing has been charged with murder after the child's body was found, Kentucky State Police said. More
February 21, 2022
Tasha Haefs was taken into custody and two bloody knives were recovered at the scene. More
February 21, 2022
A grand jury has indicted Matthew Lanz in the alleged killings of his new neighbors, a firefighter and his wife, and with cruelty to the slain couple's toddler. More
February 21, 2022
Police identified the couple as 87-year-old Sondra Wiener of Boynton Beach and her 90-year-old husband, Marvin. More
February 21, 2022
Three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery on a residential street acted out of "pent-up racial anger" and should be convicted of hate crimes, a federal prosecutor told a jury Monday. Defense attorneys argued that the Black man was fatally shot in self-defense and had acted suspiciously during prior trips to the neighborhood. More
February 21, 2022
A man accused of killing three people whose dismembered bodies were found in a burning dumpster in Texas in September was indicted Friday in the killing of his roommate, who was found dead in another fire months earlier. More
February 18, 2022
By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The judge who sentenced white former Officer Kim Potter on Friday to two years in prison for killing Black motorist Daunte Wright cited the difficult job that police face — and Potter’s remorse — as justification for giving her a light sentence. Hennepin County District […] More
February 18, 2022
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — There’s no evidence that Cedar Point amusement park in Ohio acted illegally or had reason to believe one of its rides, the world’s second-tallest roller coaster, was unsafe before an object flew off it last year and struck a woman in the head, the state concluded in an investigation released Friday. […] More
February 18, 2022
A former Louisiana teacher who pleaded guilty to tainting cupcakes with her ex-husband's bodily fluids and feeding them to school children was sentenced Friday to 41 years in prison. More
February 18, 2022
Defense attorneys called a single witness: a neighbor who suggested that a man they reported to police in 2019 was likely white. More
February 18, 2022
A man accused of driving his son to and from a Dallas-area gas station convenience store where the 14-year-old is accused of fatally shooting three teens and wounding a fourth has been indicted on a capital murder charge. A Dallas County grand jury on Thursday indicted Richard Acosta Jr., 33, on a charge of capital murder of multiple people. He remained jailed Friday on $3 million bond. More
February 18, 2022
The former suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she confused her handgun for her Taser when she fatally shot Daunte Wright was sentenced Friday to two years in prison. More
February 18, 2022
A former college basketball star charged with killing his son was granted bond Wednesday morning. More
February 18, 2022
Austin Police Association President Ken Cassidy confirmed 19 officers are facing charges but did not have details. More
February 18, 2022
Melissa Blair is charged with 18 counts of aggravated statutory rape, four counts of human trafficking by patronizing prostitution and one count of solicitation of a minor. More
February 18, 2022
The trial included testimony from five major league players who said they received oxycodone pills from Kay at various times from 2017-19. More
February 18, 2022
William Husel is accused of ordering excessive painkillers for patients in the Columbus-area Mount Carmel Health System. More
February 18, 2022
Deputies with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man for the murder of his ex-girlfriend. Wayne Lotz, was booked into the Jefferson County Jail on charges of first-degree murder, tampering with evidence and tampering with a deceased human body. More
February 17, 2022
A sheriff's office in South Florida has named a deceased deputy as the only probable suspect in the sexual assault and murder of an 11-year-old girl in 1983. Now, cold-case detectives believe he could be responsible for other sexual assault cases across the state. Lora Ann Huizar, 11, was abducted, sexually assaulted, and murdered by former St. Lucie County Sheriff Deputy James Howard Harrison. More
February 17, 2022
The Vatican's big fraud and extortion trial resumes Friday after exposing some unseemly realities of how the Holy See operates, with a new spy story taking center stage that is more befitting of a 007 thriller than the inner workings of a papacy. More
February 17, 2022
The Rev. Al Sharpton told the hundreds gathered Thursday for the funeral for Amir Locke that the 22-year-old Black man who was shot by Minneapolis police as they served a no-knock search warrant had done nothing wrong. More
February 17, 2022
By STEVE KARNOWSKI and TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s killing testified Thursday that he didn’t act on another officer’s suggestion to roll Floyd on his side after he stopped breathing, didn’t ask Officer Derek Chauvin to check for a neck pulse and […] More
February 17, 2022
The facility is expected to house up to 124 people who are under provisional arrest and to have 117 places for individuals held in pre-trial detention. More
February 17, 2022
