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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

The reduction of a 110-year prison sentence to 10 years by Colorado's governor for a trucker convicted of killing four people in a fiery interstate crash is hurting prosecutors' efforts to negotiate sentences in other cases, according to two district attorneys. More

January 26, 2022

BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man who was left a quadriplegic when his Uber vehicle crashed last year is seeking $63 million in damages in a negligence lawsuit he has filed against the ride-hailing platform. William Good, 31, of Somerville, alleges in the lawsuit that Uber “failed to appropriately screen, hire and supervise their driver, […] More

January 26, 2022