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
The former zookeeper was sentenced in January 2020 to 22 years in prison after he was convicted of trying to hire two different men to kill animal welfare activist Carole Baskin. More
January 28, 2022
The former Louisville officer facing trial, Brett Hankison, was not charged in Taylor’s shooting death and faces lower-level charges. More
January 28, 2022
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer's retirement gives President Joe Biden a chance to make his first nomination to the high court. It's also a chance for Biden to fulfill a campaign promise to nominate the first Black woman to be a justice. More
January 27, 2022
Thursday marks two years since 11-year-old Gannon Stauch was reported missing by his stepmother, Letecia Stauch. Now, she is accused of his murder, along with a number of other charges. More
January 27, 2022
GOLDEN, Colo. (Scripps News Denver) – A man was sentenced to an indeterminate 24 years-to-life in prison for sexual assault on a child, a spokesperson with the Colorado First Judicial District Attorney’s Office said Thursday. Ronn Gregory Wyman, 63, a repeat sex offender with an extensive record dating back to 1987, was sentenced Wednesday in […] More
January 27, 2022
Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for the brutal slayings of two hotel workers during a robbery in 2001. Donald Grant, 46, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester and was declared dead at 10:16 a.m. More
January 27, 2022
A Philadelphia man freed after 37 years in prison in a case tainted by perjured testimony accused the city of "outrageous police misconduct" in a lawsuit filed Thursday, the same day his 1984 murder case was dismissed. More
January 27, 2022
Stormy Daniels took her star turn on the witness stand Thursday at California lawyer Michael Avenatti's trial, telling a jury Avenatti "stole from me and lied to me." More
January 27, 2022
By AMY FORLITI, STEVE KARNOWSKI and TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Three officers on trial for allegedly violating George Floyd’s civil rights were trained to use the least amount force necessary and had a duty to intervene against inappropriate force, the commander of the Minneapolis police training division at the time […] More
January 27, 2022
Jussie Smollett, who was convicted last month for lying to police, will return to court for sentencing on March 10, a judge said Thursday. More
January 27, 2022
Justice Stephen Breyer is making it official, telling President Joe Biden in a letter that he will step down from the court later this year. More
January 27, 2022
ATLANTA (Court TV) — Felony terroristic threat charges have been dismissed against disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly’s ex-manager in Georgia. James Mason, 56, allegedly called Kelly’s ex-girlfriend Jocelyn Savage’s father in 2018 and threatened him. More
January 27, 2022
Kendrick Johnson's parents have long insisted that someone killed him, and that school officials and law enforcement covered up the crime. More
January 27, 2022
Attorneys say a teenager charged with killing four students at Michigan high school will pursue an insanity defense. More
January 27, 2022
Police have arrested two people in connection to the 2017 murder of a Maryland mother of two. More
January 27, 2022
A teenage boy and man have been charged with first-degree murder in last weekend’s death of an 8-year-old Chicago girl. More
January 27, 2022
A Wisconsin man, Theodore Edgecomb, is charged with killing Jason Cleereman after a road rage confrontation while riding his bicycle home. More
January 27, 2022
Prison officials want to use a never-before-tried combination of three or four drugs to execute Zane Michael Floyd by lethal injection. More
January 27, 2022
Lacey and Daniel Rawlings and four children were able to get out and were rescued. The other three children were swept away. More
January 27, 2022
Kueng, Lane and Thao are accused of depriving Floyd of his civil rights while acting under government authority in the killing that triggered worldwide protests and a reexamination of racism and policing. More
January 27, 2022
A Louisiana woman accused of throwing two of her children into a lake has been indicted on charges of murder and attempted murder. More
January 26, 2022
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday blocked the state from executing an inmate convicted of killing a driver who gave him a ride, upholding a lower court ruling that he can’t be put to death unless the state uses an untested, new method. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit […] More
January 26, 2022
The issue of whether George Floyd was suffering from the disputed condition of "excited delirium" the day he was killed resurfaced Wednesday at the federal trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged with depriving him of his civil rights. More
January 26, 2022
Prince Andrew's lawyers asked a U.S. court again Wednesday to throw out a lawsuit accusing him of sexual abuse, citing multiple legal defenses. Among them: The lawyers said that if any sexual activity did occur between the prince and Virginia Giuffre, it was consensual. More
January 26, 2022
A man who identified himself as a believer in the QAnon conspiracy theory was sentenced on Wednesday to three years and eight months in prison for assaulting police officers at the Capitol during last year's riot. Nicholas Languerand called himself a patriot, but the judge who sentenced him said the rioters who invaded the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, don't deserve that description. More
January 26, 2022
Michael Avenatti jumped at the chance to represent porn star Stormy Daniels in 2018, saying he'd do it for a dollar, another California attorney testified Wednesday at Avenatti's criminal trial. More
January 26, 2022
