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The three white men who pursued Ahmaud Arbery are charged with violating his civil rights and targeting him because he was Black. More

February 17, 2022

District Attorney Chesa Boudin said someone at the crime lab told his office the practice was a standard procedure. More

February 17, 2022

J. Alexander Kueng, one of three officers charged in connection with George Floyd's death, said he deferred to Derek Chauvin. More

February 16, 2022

BOSTON (AP) — A former Staples Inc. executive convicted of trying to bribe his three children’s way into elite universities was sentenced to serve 15 months in federal prison on Wednesday, the longest sentence so far handed down in the sprawling college admissions bribery scandal. More

February 16, 2022

The judge presiding over the libel lawsuit brought by former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin against The New York Times said Wednesday that jurors knew before delivering their verdict that he'd already decided to rule against Palin but they said it didn't affect the outcome. More

February 16, 2022

A South Carolina man has been sentenced to life in prison for a killing that went unsolved for more than four decades until a DNA match helped investigators crack the case. Charles Ugvine Coleman pleaded guilty to murder Tuesday in the March 1976 death of Elizabeth Ann Howell Wilson before his trial started at the Fairfield County Courthouse More

February 16, 2022

Minnesota prosecutors have apparently backed away from their pursuit of a longer-than-usual sentence for the suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she confused her handgun for her Taser when she killed Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black motorist. More

February 16, 2022

A Las Vegas man accused of providing a 13-year-old girl with drugs, which police say led to her death, has pleaded guilty in court and now faces seven to 20 years in prison. Marcus Crowley entered a guilty plea on the charges of Voluntary Manslaughter with Use of a Deadly Weapon and Sexually Motivated Coercion on Wednesday. More

February 16, 2022

A Delaware couple has been arrested and charged with leaving their 5-year-old baby girl -- whose birth was never reported -- to die at their home. Police said Angel Toran, 22, and her fiancé Ny'jier Murphy, 24, had a baby at their Magnolia, Delaware home in April 2021, and her birth was never reported. More

February 16, 2022

Detectives said the Ferriters had been physically abusing and forcibly confining the teen to live in the garage structure since at least 2017. More

February 16, 2022

A Colorado man was sentenced to several years in prison after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old who was working for him.Bobby Lee Fox, 73, of Aurora was sentenced Monday to eight years to life in the Colorado Department of Corrections with mandatory five years parole. More

February 16, 2022

Two suspects were sentenced to prison on Tuesday following a four-person crime that ended in the murder of a Colorado man in October 2019. Manuel Garcia, 20, and Autumn Lucero, 23, were sentenced to prison for their roles in the crime, according to the First Judicial District Attorney's Office. More

February 16, 2022

The family of comedian Bob Saget wants a Florida judge to prohibit the release of any photos, video or other records related to the investigation into his death, saying that doing so would cause them irreparable pain. More

February 16, 2022

Two of the three white men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery repeatedly used racial slurs in text messages and social media posts, an FBI intelligence analyst testified. More

February 16, 2022

In his order, the judge wrote that Zimmerman had failed to show “any fraudulent representation” and said any further arguments in the case would be futile. More

February 16, 2022

An Ohio woman accused of stabbing her 5-year-old daughter to death is being held on a $2 million bond. More

February 16, 2022

The arrest of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández and the images that followed were a stunning reversal for a man who for years seemed impervious to growing allegations of corruption. More

February 16, 2022

A missing six-year-old girl has been found alive inside a makeshift room under the stairs of her non-custodial parents in upstate New York. More

February 16, 2022

MINNEAPOLIS (Court TV) — The former suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she confused her gun for her Taser when she killed Daunte Wright will be sentenced Friday on two counts of manslaughter.   >>>WATCH MN v. KIM POTTER (2021) ON DEMAND<<< Prosecutors say the appropriate sentence for Kim Potter is seven years, a presumptive […] More

February 15, 2022

Curtis Reeves was accused of fatally shooting a man in movie theater during a dispute over cell phone use and popcorn. More

February 15, 2022

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin lost her libel lawsuit against The New York Times on Tuesday when a jury rejected her claim that the newspaper maliciously damaged her reputation by erroneously linking her campaign rhetoric to a mass shooting. More

February 15, 2022

A judge has set an April sentencing date for former reality TV star Josh Duggar, who was convicted last year of federal child pornography charges. More

February 15, 2022

The funeral for Amir Locke, the 22-year-old Black man who was shot by Minneapolis police executing a search warrant, will be held Thursday in the church that hosted Daunte Wright's funeral last April. More

February 15, 2022

A former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd's killing testified Tuesday that he was relying on his fellow officers to care for Floyd's medical needs while he controlled onlookers as police tried to arrest the Black man. More

February 15, 2022

The “reckless conduct and cost-cutting measures” of Baldwin and the film's producers “led to the death of Halyna Hutchins,” attorney Brian Panish said. More

February 15, 2022

Virginia Giuffre sued Prince Andrew in August. The American accused the British royal of sexually abusing her when she was 17 while she traveled with financier Jeffrey Epstein. More

February 15, 2022

SHAWNEE, Kan. (AP) — The father of an infant killed in a house fire in suburban Kansas City, Kansas, has been charged with first-degree murder and other crimes in the case. The fire was reported around 1 a.m. Sunday in Shawnee, and firefighters battling the flames found the body of the infant inside home. The […] More

February 15, 2022

Prosecutors were to begin calling witnesses Tuesday in the federal hate crimes trial of three white men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery. On the trial's first day in the port city of Brunswick on Monday, prosecutors told the jury they have evidence that each of the defendants had a history of making racist comments. To win convictions on the hate crime charges, they must prove to the jury that Arbery was chased and fatally shot because he was Black. More

February 15, 2022

The families of nine victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School have agreed to a $73 million settlement of a lawsuit against the maker of the rifle used to kill 20 first graders and six educators in 2012. More

February 15, 2022

The disappearance of Savannah Spurlock launched a firestorm of public interest, but after the man accused pleaded guilty to murder and other charges in 2020, there were still many questions unanswered. More

February 15, 2022