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A North Carolina man has been charged in the shooting death of his ex-wife 12 years ago, authorities announced Thursday. More

March 7, 2022

Julia Enright lured the Westminster man to the treehouse with the intent to kill him as a “gift” for her boyfriend, prosecutors said. More

March 7, 2022

A former nursing assistant is accused of sexually assaulting multiple elderly residents at an assisted living facility in Ohio. More

March 7, 2022

A Florida woman's body was found inside the septic tank of her home, and her handyman has been arrested. More

March 7, 2022

Advocates have been pushing for Brendan Dassey to be freed but ran out of options in the courts after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal. More

March 7, 2022

Sherri Papini, arrested on charges she faked her own kidnapping, mail fraud and lying to a federal agent was ordered detained as a danger and flight risk. More

March 4, 2022

Duke Edward Wilson, Idaho man who hit a police officer with a pipe as part of the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced to more than four years in federal prison. More

March 4, 2022

Rocky Hardie, a key government witness at the trial of Guy Wesley Reffitt, said he didn't believe Reffitt would act on his talk of dragging lawmakers out of the Capitol. More

March 4, 2022

Montana man sentenced to 100 years in prison for his role in the beating death of his 12-year-old grandson. James Sasser Jr. pleaded guilty earlier to deliberate homicide, child endangerment and tampering with a witness. More

March 4, 2022

The acquittal of an ex-Louisville police officer tied to the botched drug raid that ended with Breonna Taylor's death is stirring the frustrations of her family and protesters who marched for months in her name. More

March 4, 2022

Jury clears Amtrak engineer Brandon Bostian of all charges stemming from a derailment that left eight people dead and hundreds injured. More

March 4, 2022

Trezell West and Jacqueline West, adoptive parents of two California boys who reported missing in 2020, pleaded not guilty to killing them. More

March 4, 2022

The Supreme Court has reinstated the death sentence for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. More

March 4, 2022

Former reality TV star Geoffrey Paschel was denied a motion seeking a new trial at a sentencing hearing on Friday More

March 4, 2022

For decades, unlicensed foster parents like family members couldn't intervene in court cases or terminate the parent-child relationship when a child is in danger. More

March 4, 2022

A 30-year-old man pleaded guilty Thursday to the murder of philanthropist Jacqueline Avant, the wife of legendary music executive Clarence Avant. More

March 4, 2022

William "Marcus" Wilson, charged with murder and aggravated assault in the death of a teenage girl, was denied immunity from prosecution. More

March 4, 2022

Police said the mother claimed responsibility for the attack but didn't give a reason why it happened. More

March 4, 2022

Sherri Papini was found on Thanksgiving Day in 2016 after weeks of searching with bindings on her body and injuries including a swollen nose and a “brand” on her right shoulder. More

March 4, 2022

Jackson Reffitt secretly recorded his father, Guy Wesley Reffitt, describing his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol riot. More

March 3, 2022

70-year-old serial stowaway Marilyn Hartman sentenced to more than three years in prison for trespassing at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport in 2019. More

March 3, 2022

Pilot who appeared drunk removed from cockpit of JetBlue flight as it was about to take off from Buffalo. Tests confirmed pilot had a blood alcohol level of 0.17 percent. Federal rules set 0.04 limit for flying. More

March 3, 2022

Brianna Williams, a Florida woman whose 5-year-old daughter was found dead in Alabama, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. More

March 3, 2022

Baltimore County Police detectives are still working to solve a murder from 26-years ago. Wednesday marked the anniversary of when 23-year-old Jody LeCornu was found shot to death inside her vehicle in Towson, Maryland. More

March 3, 2022

Orrin and Orson Wests’ biological family learned more about events leading up to their deaths. The family said it’s been a difficult time for them learning that the West boys were dead for three months before being reported missing. More

March 3, 2022

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma reached a nationwide settlement over its role in the opioid crisis, with the Sackler family members who own the company boosting their cash contribution to as much as $6 billion. More

March 3, 2022

Juan Vargas has been arrested in the killing of three cousins from Mexico whose bodies were found in a vacant lot in Phoenix. More

March 3, 2022

19-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a shooting that wounded two men at an Indianapolis Jewish community center during an apparent dispute over a basketball game. More

March 3, 2022

The panel of eight men and four women delivered its verdict about three hours after it took Brett Hankison's case. More

March 3, 2022

A 28-year-old homeless man has been charged with hate crimes after a string of unprovoked attacks on women of Asian descent in New York City, police said. More

March 3, 2022