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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

The spoils even helped finance Hollywood movies, including the 2013 Leonardo DiCaprio film “The Wolf of Wall Street." More

February 14, 2022

A Colorado mother whose 7-year-old daughter died after authorities said she duped doctors about her daughter’s health, leading to unnecessary surgeries and medications, was sentenced to 16 years in prison. More

February 11, 2022

ANGELES (Court TV) — Hip-hop superstar Snoop Dogg, scheduled to perform at Sunday’s Super Bowl LVI halftime show, is being sued for the alleged sexual assault of a woman in California in 2013. More

February 11, 2022

Lawyers wrapped up their individual questioning of potential jurors in the trial of a former Kentucky police officer involved in the raid that left Breonna Taylor dead. More

February 11, 2022

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The federal judge presiding over the hate crimes trial of three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery said she will seat a jury Monday after a week spent asking potential jurors what they already know about the Black man's death as well as their views on racism in America. More

February 11, 2022

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A woman who was 17 when she came upon Minneapolis police pinning George Floyd to the street testified Friday at a federal trial for three officers that she knew instantly the Black man was "in distress," as he screamed in pain and shouted that he couldn't breathe. More

February 11, 2022

Prosecutors said Thursday that passengers noticed that Kameron C. Stone of Fairfax, Virginia, smelled strongly of alcohol, refused to stay in his seat, and pretended to shoot a gun at passengers during a United Airlines flight from Dulles airport in Virginia to Pensacola, Florida, last April. More

February 11, 2022

Two men charged with fatally shooting rapper Young Dolph in a daytime ambush at a Tennessee cookie shop pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and other felony charges Friday. Lawyers for Justin Johnson and Cornelius Smith entered the pleas in Shelby County Criminal Court in Memphis. More

February 11, 2022

Police rescued an 80-year-old suburban Chicago woman who was held hostage for nearly 21 hours in large part because she couldn't text one of her daughters her daily Wordle score during the ordeal. More

February 11, 2022

By AMY FORLITI and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The chair of the Minnesota agency that sets licensing standards for police officers testified Friday that three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd’s civil rights had to receive training about constitutional rights and on providing first aid. Kelly McCarthy, […] More

February 11, 2022