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
CHICAGO (AP) — A former Chicago police officer convicted of battery for attacking a bartender in 2007 during a drunken rage captured on video cannot collect his pension, a state court of appeals has ruled. The ruling issued Monday overturns a Cook County judge’s 2019 finding that Anthony Abbate was entitled to his pension because […] More
February 9, 2022
Police believe they found the remains of 19-year-old aspiring model, Kara Nichols, nearly 10 years after she went missing. More
February 9, 2022
Authorities arrested Kelly Turner in 2019 following a lengthy investigation into the death of her daughter, Olivia Gant. More
February 9, 2022
U.S. Marshals announced that after more than a year and a half, they have arrested the man who allegedly shot and killed Na'Kia Crawford. Adarus Black was arrested on Tuesday in Atlanta, Georgia. The 19-year-old was wanted for the murder of Crawford. More
February 9, 2022
On Wednesday, Baltimore Police confirmed that they arrested 31-year-old Demetrick Lewis for the murder of his cousin, 33-year-old Shanlette Lewis. Prior to Demetrick Lewis' arrest, Shanlette Lewis' death had been ruled a homicide when she died following an assault. More
February 9, 2022
REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — A former member of the USA Climbing team has been arrested on investigation of three counts of third-degree child rape, officials said. Alexander Fritz, 28, of Seattle was booked into Snohomish County Jail last week where he remains on $500,000 bail, Redmond police said Tuesday in a statement. Fritz worked with […] More
February 9, 2022
The judge overseeing the federal trial of three former officers charged with violating George Floyd's civil rights dismissed a juror Wednesday because his son is ill. More
February 9, 2022
A New Hampshire man who coached men's basketball at Colby-Sawyer College has been accused of sexually assaulting a girl under age 16 "over a period of time" in 2019 and making multiple child sex abuse photos and videos involving her and other minors, police in Concord said Wednesday. A police affidavit alleges Joshua Pincoske, 47, "has engaged in a pattern of criminal sexual acts from at least 2015 through 2020 with at least four separate juvenile victims." More
February 9, 2022
A country music singer who was a finalist on TV's “American Idol” has been charged with driving under the influence resulting in death,. More
February 9, 2022
Cory Bigsby is charged with seven counts of felony child neglect, unrelated to the case of his missing son, Codi Bigsby. More
February 9, 2022
A Missouri man who has insisted for more than 20 years that he was wrongly convicted as a teenager of killing his mother has been granted parole. More
February 9, 2022
A medical examiner ruled the 18-year-old's cause of death as "acute heroin poisoning." More
February 9, 2022
Federal law enforcement officials said the recovered sum was linked to the hack of Bitfinex, a virtual currency exchange whose systems were breached by hackers nearly six years ago. More
February 9, 2022
Three Harvard University graduate students said in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday that the Ivy League school for years ignored complaints about sexual harassment by a renowned professor and allowed him to intimidate students by threatening to hinder their careers. More
February 8, 2022
A 9-year-old Alabama girl was charged with assault after allegedly using a broomstick to beat her younger brother, who later died, records show. More
February 8, 2022
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee woman convicted of stabbing her four children to death was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday. Criminal Court Judge James Lammey Jr. found Shanynthia Gardner, 34, guilty last month of the 2016 slayings of the children, ages 4, 3, 2 and 5 months. Another child, who was 7 at […] More
February 8, 2022
A convicted rapist who hid in Florida for more than 40 years after skipping out on his Connecticut prison sentence has been sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for assuming a stolen identity. Douglas Bennett, 77, was sentenced Friday in Tampa federal court. He pleaded guilty in September to passport fraud and aggravated identity theft and possessing firearms as a convicted felon, according to court records. Bennett also was ordered to pay a $200,000 fine. More
February 8, 2022
By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara is accused of punching and badly injuring a man in an attack also involving at least three men who were with Kamara last weekend at a Las Vegas Strip nightclub, according to a police arrest report. The alleged victim […] More
February 8, 2022
Jury selection resumed Tuesday with the first questioning of potential jurors for the trial of former police officer Brett Hankison. More
February 8, 2022
Maryland's highest court heard arguments Tuesday on whether Washington, D.C., sniper Lee Boyd Malvo's six life sentences without possibility of parole should be reconsidered because of a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court decision barring mandatory life sentences for juveniles. More
February 8, 2022
Several families whose loved ones died or were injured while trying to escape a smoked-filled Bronx apartment building sued the owners Tuesday, alleging safety violations that led to the wrongful deaths of 17 people, including eight children. More
February 8, 2022
Authorities arrested Amir Locke's 17-year-old cousin in connection with the homicide investigation that led police to the Minneapolis apartment where a SWAT team officer fatally shot Locke while conducting a search warrant, police said Tuesday. More
February 8, 2022
Several potential jurors in the hate crimes trial of three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery said in court Tuesday that they believe problems with racism in America are exaggerated and questioned whether there should be special charges or punishments for crimes motivated by race. More
February 8, 2022
Aaron Christopher Kelly, 39, was arrested on the freeway between the town of Sprague and Spokane, a, Richland police said in a Facebook posting. More
February 8, 2022
She left work and subsequently texted Smith to say, “Andy, he’s going to kill himself. He must be the shooter.” More
February 8, 2022
A juror in Scott Peterson's two-decade-old murder trial will be granted immunity before testifying at a hearing that could determine whether a new trial is granted, authorities said. More
February 8, 2022
The U.S. Air Force must pay more than $230 million in damages to survivors and victims' families of a 2017 Texas church massacre for failing to flag a conviction that might have kept the gunman from legally buying the weapon used in the shooting, a federal judge ruled Monday. More
February 7, 2022
