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The 110-pound pig is “family,” Flatt says, an emotional support animal who helped him through a divorce and the death of his mother. More

February 11, 2022

Attorneys for D'Monterrio Gibson are calling for a federal hate crimes probe of the attempted shooting of the driver in Mississippi. More

February 11, 2022

Chadwick strangled his wife on Oct. 10, 2012, at their Newport Beach ocean-view home during an argument over a possible divorce and financial issues, prosecutors said. More

February 11, 2022

Harris pleaded guilty to one count of traveling with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct and one count of receiving child pornography, a U.S. attorney's office spokesman said. More

February 11, 2022

Van Houten is serving a life sentence for helping Manson and other cult members kill Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary, in August 1969. More

February 11, 2022

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO (Scripps News Colorado Springs) — An affidavit reveals new details about the events that led up to the disappearance of Kara Nichols. According to the affidavit, Paul Nichols reported his daughter missing to Deputy Ayyad with the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office on Oct. 14, 2012. He went on to state that […] More

February 10, 2022

DENVER (Scripps News Denver) – A former paraeducator at Quist Middle School in Thornton has been charged with sexual assault on a child after allegedly sexually assaulting a student at the school, according to prosecutors. Cathia Covarrubias Ruiz, 24, faces counts of sexual assault on a child, sexual assault on a child – pattern of […] More

February 10, 2022

A federal inmate pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Thursday, admitting that he was one of three people to attack and kill the leader of a child pornography ring who was in custody in Michigan. The government will recommend that Adam Wright, formerly of Springfield, Illinois, not get more than 27 years in prison, according to his plea agreement. More

February 10, 2022

Authorities searching the apartment where Amir Locke was killed said a no-knock warrant was necessary to protect the public. More

February 10, 2022

A Boston man described by federal authorities as a "serial sex trafficker" who exploited multiple victims including minors over a 15-year period was sentenced Thursday to more than 11 years in prison. Bruce "Arki" Brown, 43, targeted vulnerable and transient women and manipulated them through psychological techniques to maintain control, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney's office in Boston. More

February 10, 2022

A jury in Alaska found a man guilty on Thursday of the killing and rape of a woman at a university that went unsolved for more than two decades. The killing of 20-year-old Sophie Sergie at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1993 flummoxed investigators for years. They linked Steven Downs of Auburn, Maine, to the crime using DNA evidence, and he was arrested in 2019. More

February 10, 2022

DNA and a 20-year-old genealogy expert helped state police identify the man who abducted, raped and murdered a young girl in a case that rattled a Pennsylvania coal town nearly six decades ago. State police exhumed the long-dead assailant's body last month and said his DNA precisely matched DNA left on the jacket of the victim, 9-year-old Marise Ann Chiverella, who was snatched on the morning of March 18, 1964, as she walked to school in Hazleton, about 80 miles (129 kilometers) north of Philadelphia. Her body was found that afternoon in a nearby waste coal pit. More

February 10, 2022

A Maryland man has pleaded guilty in federal court to kidnapping a woman he trafficked for sex. In October of 2018, Joshua Lankford, 33, allegedly recruited a young woman to prostitute. Lanford apparently knew she was addicted to heroin and withheld drugs from her if she didn't make enough money for him . More

February 10, 2022

Court documents reveal two students have been charged in connection to a shooting that occurred Tuesday in the parking lot of Catonsville High School in Baltimore County. Police say it all started when two students left school and headed out to the parking lot to get in their car. They noticed a white Volvo parked behind their vehicle with two people inside. More

February 10, 2022

A man wanted for shooting and killing a woman in a suburban Denver church and wounding two other churchgoers last week has died after he was shot by police officers investigating other crimes, authorities said. More

February 10, 2022

Los Angeles prosecutors on Tuesday decided not to charge Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer for allegedly beating and sexually abusing a San Diego woman he met through social media. More

February 10, 2022

Three former Minneapolis police officers on trial for violating George Floyd's civil rights should have intervened to stop fellow Officer Derek Chauvin when he had his knee on the Black man's neck, the head of the Minneapolis Police Department's homicide unit testified Thursday. More

February 10, 2022

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told a jury Thursday she felt like she was at the mercy of a "Goliath" when she first learned a 2017 New York Times editorial suggested her campaign rhetoric helped incite a mass shooting. More

February 10, 2022

A grand jury has indicted a Texas man on a first-degree murder charge in the fatal shooting of a driver who had pulled into his driveway. More

February 10, 2022

FIRST administrator Austin Polonitza says the goal of this site is to provide a place for current forensic analysts around the state to keep their skills sharp. More

February 10, 2022

Court TV’s Ted Rowlands joins host Vinnie Politan to preview FL v. Curtis Reeves, the case of the Movie Popcorn Murder Trial. More

February 10, 2022

Gregory and Brandon case were arrested last week, days after D'Monterrio Gibson accused them of chasing him and shooting at him. More

February 10, 2022

Bob Saget's death last month stemmed from an accidental blow to the head, his family said in a statement Wednesday. More

February 10, 2022

"Cheer" star Jerry Harris is expected to plead guilty Thursday in a federal child pornography case alleging he solicited sex from minors at cheerleading competitions, court records in Chicago show. More

February 9, 2022

A former casino executive who was one of just two parents to go to trial in the sprawling college admissions bribery scandal was sentenced Wednesday to serve one year and one day in federal prison, the stiffest sentence so far handed down in the case, federal prosecutors said. More

February 9, 2022

A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit four sisters of Josh Duggar filed over the release of records from a police investigation that concluded the former reality television star fondled them. More

February 9, 2022

A Maryland man who was draped in a Confederate flag when he stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, pleaded guilty Wednesday to joining the attack as a mob disrupted Congress from certifying Joe Biden's election as president. More

February 9, 2022

A toxicologist testified Wednesday at the federal trial of three former officers charged with violating George Floyd's civil rights that it wasn't drug use, heart disease nor an agitated state known as "excited delirium" that caused Floyd's death after officers pinned him to the pavement in May 2020. More

February 9, 2022

Jury selection is moving swiftly in the trial of a former Kentucky police officer involved in the botched drug raid that left Breonna Taylor dead. More

February 9, 2022

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin took the witness stand on Wednesday in her defamation lawsuit against The New York Times, giving the jury a folksy overview of her family life in Alaska and ascent in Republican politics. More

February 9, 2022