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
Michael Avenatti said Tuesday that he will not testify at his trial on charges that he cheated porn actor Stormy Daniels out of nearly $300,000 in book proceeds. More
February 1, 2022
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
