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Jury questioning has been delayed for the trial of a former Kentucky police officer involved in a botched raid that killed Breonna Taylor. More

February 1, 2022

By AMY FORLITI, STEVE KARNOWSKI and TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The chief medical examiner who deemed George Floyd’s death a homicide testified Tuesday that nobody pressured him to include anything in his autopsy report, as defense attorneys at the trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating Floyd’s […] More

February 1, 2022

Breivik is serving Norway’s maximum 21-year sentence for setting off a bomb in Oslo’s government district and carrying out a shooting massacre at a summer camp for left-wing youth activists. More

February 1, 2022

The three fugitives are facing multiple charges, including conspiracy to commit kidnapping involving children. More

February 1, 2022

The goal is to turn the section at San Quentin State Prison into a "positive, healing environment.” California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday More

February 1, 2022

Questioning of potential jurors begins Tuesday for the trial of Brett Hankison, involved in a botched raid that killed Breonna Taylor. More

February 1, 2022

By AMY FORLITI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The former suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she confused her handgun for her Taser when she killed Daunte Wright should face a sentence above the state’s guidelines because she abused her authority as a police officer and endangered others when she fired her weapon, […] More

January 31, 2022

Travis Reinking said he believed the restaurant patrons and employees were government agents he had been commanded by God to kill. More

January 31, 2022

Two police detectives in Connecticut's largest city have been suspended amid investigations into allegations of insensitivity in their handling of separate cases in which Black women were found dead in their apartments. More

January 31, 2022

Former U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore, testifying in a defamation case brought by a woman who said he sexually touched her decades ago when she was 14, maintained Monday that he never met his accuser. More

January 31, 2022

A Maryland man and a Kansas man have been charged with making separate threats to kill President Joe Biden, authorities said Monday.Ryan Matthew Conlon, 37, of Halethorpe, Maryland; and Scott Ryan Merryman, 37, of Independence, Kansas; were both arrested last week. More

January 31, 2022

An upstate New York district attorney said Monday he will not bring criminal charges against Andrew Cuomo, becoming the latest prosecutor declining to pursue a criminal case over sexual misconduct allegations against the former governor. More

January 31, 2022

Michael Avenatti wavered Monday when asked whether he plans to take the witness stand in his own defense at a fraud trial in which he's accused of stealing $300,000 in book proceeds from porn actor Stormy Daniels. More

January 31, 2022

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A federal judge rejected a plea agreement Monday that would have averted a hate crimes trial for the man convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery.    Arbery’s parents denounced the proposed deal for Travis McMichael, with mother Wanda Cooper-Jones and father Marcus Arbery emotionally asking the […] More

January 31, 2022

(Scripps News Detroit) — Michigan State Police are under fire as one of their finest is taking the department to court for claiming to be terminated after exposing the alleged wrongdoings of his superiors. 32-year-old Mark Andrews was relieved of all his duties as a Michigan State Trooper after he says he reported fellow officers […] More

January 31, 2022

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ highest court wrestled Monday with whether a man invoked his right to remain silent before making statements that were key to him being convicted of capital murder in the fatal shootings of three adults and a toddler. Kyle Trevor Flack is asking the state Supreme […] More

January 31, 2022

The former head of training for the Minneapolis Police Department returned to the witness stand Monday at the federal trial of three former police officers charged with violating George Floyd's civil rights. More

January 31, 2022

Court documents filed late Sunday by prosecutors for the U.S. Justice Department say plea agreements were reached with Travis and Greg McMichael. More

January 31, 2022

A Chicago man convicted of a 2003 murder has been granted a new trial, years after his twin brother stepped forward and confessed to the crime. More

January 31, 2022

“This poor little girl, I killed her involuntarily,” he said, apologizing to the parents, according to investigators. More

January 31, 2022

Opening statements are set to begin Monday for Travis Reinking, the accused gunman in the 2018 mass shooting at a Tennessee Waffle House. More

January 31, 2022

Michael Avenatti sought Friday at his fraud trial to portray his former client Stormy Daniels as someone who might be delusional as he questioned the porn actor about her belief that her house was once haunted by ghosts. More

January 28, 2022

Florida man has pleaded guilty to using his twin brother's stolen identity to obtain tens of thousands of dollars in military veterans benefits. Wayne Bowen, 64, of Jacksonville, pleaded guilty Wednesday to aggravated identity theft in Jacksonville federal court, according to court records. He faces a mandatory two years in federal prison. He must also pay $63,773 in restitution as part of his plea agreement. More

January 28, 2022

A man who died in 1981 was identified as the suspect in four cold case homicides in the Denver area, authorities announced Friday morning. The women who were killed were Madeleine Furey-Livaudais, 33, Dolores Barajas, 53, Gwendolyn Harris, 27, and Antoinette Parks, 17, More

January 28, 2022

By AMY FORLITI, STEVE KARNOWSKI and TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd’s civil rights did not follow the department’s use-of-force policy or training when Floyd was killed, the department’s training division commander at the time testified Friday.    Inspector Katie Blackwell […] More

January 28, 2022

Four years ago, Nicole Sherrell Jackson says she answered the worst call a mother could get. On November 17, 2017, her son, 21-year-old Terry Sherrell, was shot and killed outside of his grandmother’s home. More

January 28, 2022

Florida man used Xbox messenger and the Discord gaming chat service to lure an underage boy into engaging in sexual activity over livestreaming equipment. Patrick Shane Penczak was arrested this week and charged with seven counts of crimes against children, including lewd and lascivious battery and using a computer to lure and seduce a child. More

January 28, 2022

A Denver man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for a string of road rage highway shootings that spanned across Littleton and Adams County back in August 2019. Theodore Hrdlicka, 51, plead guilty to three counts of attempted first-degree murder extreme indifference in November 2021. More

January 28, 2022

3 people have been indicted on arson charges in the burning of the Wendy's restaurant where a police officer fatally shot Rayshard Brooks. More

January 28, 2022

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge on Friday approved an agreement by lawyers to destroy the assault-style rifle that Kyle Rittenhouse used to shoot three people during a 2020 street protest.    Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger said the state crime lab would destroy the gun, probably in […] More

January 28, 2022