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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

“When we greeted him, he pulled out a gun, aimed directly at me and began shooting,” Craig Greenberg said at a news conference several hours after the attack. More

February 15, 2022

A Navy nuclear engineer pleaded guilty Monday to passing information about American nuclear-powered warships to someone he thought was a representative of a foreign government but who was actually an undercover FBI agent. More

February 15, 2022

The report, conducted by a Florida medical examiner, determined that Brian Laundrie shot himself in the head with a handgun. More

February 15, 2022

Investigators believe Letecia Stauch killed her stepson on January 27, 2020, before driving his body to the Florida panhandle. More

February 15, 2022

The amendment would require a court to consider the defendant's potential risk to public safety when setting bail. More

February 15, 2022

Former President Juan Orlando Hernández left office Jan. 27, the same day he was sworn in as Honduras’ representative to the Central American Parliament. More

February 15, 2022

Four years after 17 students and others were gunned down at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, families and gun control advocates pressed President Joe Biden on Monday to do more to address gun violence. More

February 14, 2022

A federal judge on Monday agreed to delay once again the sentencing of a former Florida tax collector, whose arrest led to a probe of U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, so that he can continue cooperating with federal prosecutors. More

February 14, 2022

A New Jersey man has admitted stealing two microphones from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's lectern during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Robert Lee Petrosh, of Mays Landing in southern New Jersey, pleaded guilty to one count of theft of government property of less than $1,000. More

February 14, 2022

Nevada's first execution in nearly 16 years is on hold again after the state's lawyers told a federal judge on Monday they couldn't possibly satisfy the legal requirements necessary to put Zane Michael Floyd to death before April. More

February 14, 2022

Federal prosecutors rested their case Monday against three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd's civil rights, after a contentious day of trial that included testimony a use-of-force expert and from the teenager who recorded widely seen video of Floyd's killing. More

February 14, 2022

The three white men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery had histories of making racist comments or using slurs in text messages that stunned their friends and colleagues, a federal prosecutor told jurors Monday as the trio stood trial on hate crime charges in the 25-year-old Black man's death. More

February 14, 2022

A judge said Monday he'll dismiss a libel lawsuit that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin filed against The New York Times, claiming the newspaper damaged her reputation with an editorial falsely linking her campaign rhetoric to a mass shooting. More

February 14, 2022

A judge has sealed the criminal case file of a wealthy Connecticut woman who secretly recorded three people, including a child, in a manner involving sexual desire — a move called unusual by open government advocates and defense lawyers. More

February 14, 2022

A plane flying from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., was diverted to Kansas City after an unruly passenger reportedly tried to open a door on the aircraft. More

February 14, 2022

A convicted killer who fatally shot a man nearly 40 years ago has been removed from Ohio's death row under a new law that prohibits the execution of people who had severe mental illness at the time of their crime. More

February 14, 2022

An Ohio father can fight the adoption of the children whose mother he killed, after a divided state Supreme Court said there was a good reason he hadn't been in touch with them since the slaying: He was following a judge's order not to contact them. More

February 14, 2022

Police in Albuquerque arrested a man suspected of stabbing 11 people as he rode a bicycle around the city over the weekend,. More

February 14, 2022

Christina Yuna Lee was stabbed to death inside her lower Manhattan apartment by a man who followed her from the street into her building, authorities said. More

February 14, 2022

A jury was seated Monday for the federal hate crimes trial of three white men who were convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery. More

February 14, 2022

25-year-old De'rell Brown was shot and killed in his Indianapolis east side apartment complex parking lot in January 2021. His mother, Denise Bonds, is still searching for answers and fighting for justice. More

February 14, 2022

By Katie McLaughlin DADE CITY, Fla. (Court TV) – After eight years of delays capped by four long days of jury selection, testimony is finally set to begin Monday, February 14 in the trial of Curtis Reeves, the retired Florida police captain accused of shooting and killing a man in a movie theater during a […] More

February 14, 2022

The boy never received medical care, wasn’t enrolled in school and was rarely seen even by his siblings, who lived in the same house with the couple, authorities have said. More

February 14, 2022

Rebecca Hogue was found guilty of first-degree murder through enabling child abuse after authorities said her former partner killed her son. More

February 14, 2022