The jury deliberating the fate of Michael Avenatti on criminal charges that he ripped off his star client, Stormy Daniels, told a judge on Thursday that it is deadlocked on the first of two counts. More
February 3, 2022
A federal court on Thursday overturned a man's kidnapping conviction stemming from his assaulting his girlfriend for seven minutes, ruling that the time he restrained the victim while beating her was too brief to be charged separately. More
February 3, 2022
A 21-year-old man who was acting erratically opened fire inside a Greyhound bus in Northern California, killing a 43-year-old woman and wounding four others before he was arrested, naked, inside a Walmart after getting into a fight. More
February 3, 2022
A lawyer for ex-Las Vegas Raiders player Henry Ruggs told a judge he has received body-worn camera video from police who arrived after a high-speed crash that killed a woman. More
February 3, 2022
Audio recordings of a Maine man speaking to police were played Wednesday for jurors hearing murder and rape charges against him in connection with the death of a 20-year-old student in Alaska in 1993. More
February 3, 2022
A Indiana teen was sentenced to 100 years in prison Tuesday after he was convicted of killing his siblings at age 13. More
February 3, 2022
Karen Read is accused of striking her Boston police officer boyfriend with her car, leaving the scene and then returning hours later. More
February 3, 2022
Tiger King Joe Exotic calls Vinnie Politan from prison to give an update on his health, appeal status and discusses his nemesis, Carol Baskin. More
February 3, 2022
A major Florida player in a medical device scheme was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison, a significant sentence in the world of health care fraud in Florida. During the federal hearing held over Zoom on Wednesday morning, Patsy Joseph Truglia, 54, of Broward County offered remorse, telling the federal judge he was "truly and deeply sorry and selfish" when he committed his crimes. More
February 2, 2022
April will mark four years since Joe Clyde Daniels went missing from his Dickson County home. While his father, Joseph Daniels, has been convicted of his son's murder, the little boy's body has never been found. Now, lawmakers from Dickson County are working to make sure that works against Joseph Daniels, if he ever becomes eligible for parole. More
February 2, 2022
Brandon Isabelle was charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his girlfriend and their two-day-old infant. More
February 2, 2022
AKRON, Ohio (Scripps News Cleveland) — A family learned from a DNA test their daughter was fathered by a stranger after an apparent mix-up of sperm samples at Summa’s Akron City Hospital over 30 years ago, according to a law firm representing the family in a lawsuit. In 1991, Jeanine and Mike Harvey sought fertility […] More
February 2, 2022
A former student at a private college in Virginia was arraigned Wednesday on murder charges, a day after authorities say he returned to his alma mater and fatally shot two campus officers. Police identified the gunman in Tuesday's shooting at Bridgewater College as Alexander Wyatt Campbell, 27. More
February 2, 2022
A Georgia minister on Wednesday pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a girl under the care of his church while doing missionary work in Uganda. Court records show 44-year-old Eric Tuininga of Milledgeville pleaded guilty in federal court in Macon to illicit sexual conduct. More
February 2, 2022
WASHINGTON (AP) — The son of a New York City judge who referred to himself as a “caveman” eager to protest Donald Trump’s presidential election loss pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges he stormed the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. Aaron Mostofsky was seen inside the Capitol wearing a fur costume and a […] More
February 2, 2022
Four men have been charged in the overdose death of actor Michael K. Williams, a federal prosecutor said Wednesday. More
February 2, 2022
The penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz will be delayed until April after prosecutors told the judge Wednesday that they needed more time to interview the mental health experts who are expected to testify on his behalf. More
February 2, 2022
Travis Reinking had written Oprah Winfrey asking for help determining whether Taylor Swift was communicating with him through the Internet. More
February 2, 2022
The federal trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd’s rights was abruptly suspended Wednesday after one of the defendants tested positive for COVID-19. More
February 2, 2022
A prosecutor told jurors Wednesday in a trial's closing arguments that California lawyer Michael Avenatti told repeated lies to porn actor Stormy Daniels in 2018 to hide his theft of her book proceeds. More
February 2, 2022
The murder case against Barry Morphew will move to Fremont County after the court decided he could not receive a fair trial in Chaffee County. More
February 2, 2022
A gunman shot and killed two campus officers at a private college Tuesday, prompting a protracted campus lockdown and search before the suspect was apprehended, state police and school officials said. More
February 1, 2022
Fired Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores sued the NFL and three teams on Tuesday over alleged racist hiring practices for coaches and general managers, saying the league remains "rife with racism" even as it publicly condemns it. More
February 1, 2022
One student was killed and another critically injured in a shooting Tuesday afternoon near the front entrance to a suburban Minneapolis school, police said. Police Chief Jay Henthorne said the students were shot outside South Education Center in Richfield, a suburb just south of Minneapolis. More
February 1, 2022
Relatives of Robert Durst's first wife, who disappeared in 1982, have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against his second wife. More
February 1, 2022
A former lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was arrested Tuesday after police say he emailed an 800-page document and posted videos threatening violence against the school had previously sent messages saying he would "hunt" and kill a professor, court documents show. More
February 1, 2022
CINCINNATI (Scripps News Cincinnati) — Two Columbus men were convicted on charges related to a murder-for-hire plot in Colerain Township in July 2017. James Echols, 26, was found guilty of 22 charges – including aggravated murder and murder – while Michael Sanon, 24, was found guilty on one charge of attempted murder. Autum Garrett, 22, […] More
February 1, 2022
New York man who killed a 4-year-old boy with a rock in 1993 when he was 13 years old has been released from prison after being granted parole last October, authorities said Tuesday. Eric M. Smith, 42, was released from the Woodbourne Correctional Facility on Tuesday after serving 28 years for the murder of Derrick Robie. More
February 1, 2022
Testimony drew to a close Tuesday in the dueling defamation lawsuits brought by former U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore and the woman who accused him of sexual misconduct when she was a teen. More
February 1, 2022
Kayla Shaw was waiting at Waffle House for her order when a plate glass window shattered inward as shooting started. More
February 1, 2022
