ALLEGAN, Mich. (AP) — A man serving life sentences in Virginia for raping and killing a woman in 1980 was sentenced Monday to an additional 35 to 50 years in prison in Michigan for the 1989 killing of his 14-year-old daughter. Dennis Bowman pleaded no contest to second-degree murder in December for the killing of […] More
February 7, 2022
A caravan of vehicles drove through Minneapolis demanding justice in the death of Amir Locke, the 22-year old Black man who was fatally shot by Minneapolis police as officers served a no-knock search warrant. More
February 7, 2022
A man charged in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has agreed to plead guilty, according to documents filed Monday, giving prosecutors another insider who could be a key witness at a March trial. More
February 7, 2022
A judge on Monday delayed for three months a hearing on former suburban Chicago police officer Drew Peterson's request to toss out his murder conviction in the killing of his third wife after his attorney said he needed more time. More
February 7, 2022
George Floyd died because his breathing was restricted as he was restrained while handcuffed and facedown, a lung expert testified Monday at the federal trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating Floyd's civil rights. More
February 7, 2022
The first 50 jury pool members were to report for questioning Monday to determine if they're able to serve as fair and impartial jurors. More
February 7, 2022
Prosecutors filed two murder charges Friday against a 25-year-old real estate agent accused in the deaths of two homeless men in Miami last year. More
February 7, 2022
Two Georgia men have been sentenced to federal prison after they were arrested as part of an investigation into a multi-state dog fighting and cocaine trafficking ring. More
February 7, 2022
Convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison, the men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery will now stand trial on federal hate crime charges. More
February 7, 2022
A man who shot and killed four people at a Waffle House in 2018 received a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. More
February 5, 2022
On Wednesday, surveillance video showed a pickup truck belonging to Beecher ram its way through the Bloomberg ranch's security gate. More
February 5, 2022
A Topeka man has been charged with killing another man who had testified against him in a robbery and burglary case. More
February 5, 2022
Travis Reinking was sentenced to life in prison without parole for a deadly 2018 Waffle House shooting just miles outside Nashville, Tenn. More
February 5, 2022
Travis Reinking was found guilty on four counts of first-degree murder Friday by a jury that rejected his insanity defense. More
February 4, 2022
Federal prosecutors have charged a 21-year-old Baltimore man with setting a home on fire with his ex-girlfriend and two other people still inside. More
February 4, 2022
Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby appeared in court on Friday to be arraigned on federal perjury charges .She pleaded not guilty to all four counts and will face a jury trial. More
February 4, 2022
A lawyer for Bill Cosby asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to reject a bid by prosecutors to revive his criminal sex assault case. More
February 4, 2022
Michael Avenatti was convicted Friday of charges he cheated the porn actor Stormy Daniels out of nearly $300,000 she was supposed to get for writing a book about an alleged tryst with former president Donald Trump. More
February 4, 2022
The Minneapolis mayor imposed a moratorium on no-knock warrants Friday, two days after a SWAT team entered a downtown apartment and killed Amir Locke, a Black man who his parents said was "executed" after he was startled from a deep sleep and reached for a legal firearm to protect himself. More
February 4, 2022
As Drew Peterson's appeals against his murder conviction repeatedly failed, it seemed the former suburban Chicago police sergeant might fade from the news. But a decade after a jury convicted him in the slaying of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, Peterson has been given something from the judge who sentenced him to 38 years in prison: Another day in court. More
February 4, 2022
The note began: “We have one juror who is refusing to look at evidence and is acting on a feeling.” More
February 4, 2022
Travis McMichael reversed his plan to plead guilty in the federal case days after a U.S. District Court judge rejected terms of a plea deal between defense attorneys and prosecutors that was met with passionate objections by Arbery’s parents. More
February 4, 2022
Mayor Jacob Frey said the video “raises about as many questions as it does answers” and said the city was pursuing answers “as quickly as possible and in transparent fashion” through investigations including one by the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. More
February 4, 2022
A panel of Idaho lawmakers is recommending the Legislature ask Congress to fix a legal loophole that has some calling a portion of Yellowstone National Park the “Zone of Death." More
February 4, 2022
The man who initiated the deadly chase that ended in the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery won't plead guilty to a federal hate crime in the 2020 killing of the unarmed Black man, according to a legal filing late Thursday. More
February 3, 2022
A federal judge in Baltimore on Thursday dismissed a wrongful death lawsuit against Uber Technologies Inc. filed by the family of a rideshare driver who was killed by a passenger in 2019. More
February 3, 2022
Travis Reinking posted videos to YouTube before the killing where he spoke about unknown people who he believed were breaking into his home. More
February 3, 2022
No criminal charges will be filed following an investigation into the death of a six-year-old girl who died at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. The heartbroken family of Wongel Estifanos, who fell 110 feet and died on a ride in September of 2021, said the "criminal system failed our daughter." More
February 3, 2022
A federal judge on Thursday ordered a former lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles, to be held without bail in Denver after he allegedly threatened violence against the prominent school in online videos and an 800-page document sent via email earlier this week. Matthew Harris, 31, was taken into custody Tuesday in Colorado and charged with the threat. More
February 3, 2022
A breakthrough in the multi-year investigation into the case of a missing Baltimore woman. On Thursday morning, the Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office announced the arrest of Michael Robertson in connection to the disappearance of Akia Eggleston. It was May 3, 2017 when Eggleston was last seen or heard from. More
February 3, 2022
