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Lauren Smith-Fields, 23, was found dead after a man she had met recently online called police on Dec. 12 to say he awoke to find Smith-Fields unresponsive. More

January 25, 2022

ST. PAUL, Minn. (Court TV) — Three former Minneapolis police officers have been found guilty on federal charges in relation to the May 2020 death of George Floyd. J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas K. Lane and Tou Thao, who were with Derek Chauvin when he killed George Floyd, were convicted of violating Floyd’s civil rights. DAY 21 […] More

January 25, 2022

Students are walking the halls of Oxford High School today nearly two months after a student opened fire inside the building. More

January 24, 2022

A 2-year-old boy was injured during a shooting in Akron’s Kenmore neighborhood Friday afternoon, the Akron Police Department confirmed Monday. More

January 24, 2022

Wyoming's first Black sheriff last year fired a high-ranking white deputy who is accused of tormenting a Black subordinate for years with racist name-calling that led him to quit, a new federal lawsuit reveals. More

January 24, 2022

The former South Carolina police officer who apologized after attacking a Black man seemingly without provocation during an arrest last year now wants a jury to acquit him of a misdemeanor charge stemming from the incident. A jury heard opening statements and witness testimony Monday on whether Jonathan Moreno, a former Rock Hill police investigator, committed third-degree assault and battery against Travis Price at a June 2021 traffic stop. More

January 24, 2022

A woman accused of fatally shooting her husband in front of their two children inside the family's truck nearly two years ago is set to go to trial in March. The second-degree murder trial of Kathleen Jourdan, 33, is set to begin March 3 and is expected to be held over five days. More

January 24, 2022

The Detroit-area high school where four students were fatally shot reopened Monday for the first time since the November attack, with the school's principal declaring "we are reclaiming our high school back." More

January 24, 2022

Investigators have narrowed the window of the disappearance of a New Hampshire girl missing since late 2019 at age 5 to a 13-day period. More

January 24, 2022

When Graham McCormick's family asked Rand Hooper to speak at his funeral, Graham's father Burke McCormick said, "We never dreamed he was somehow involved in Graham's death." More

January 24, 2022

The gunman who killed 17 at a Florida high school four years ago had no expectation of privacy when he posted disturbing photographs to a public Instagram account before his rampage and prosecutors can use them in his upcoming penalty trial, a judge ruled at a hearing Monday. More

January 24, 2022

Antoinette Parks was found stabbed to death on Jan. 24, 1981. Investigators told her family she had been stabbed 23 times. More

January 24, 2022

New information is being released about the kidnapping and murder of an Phoenix woman. More

January 24, 2022

Authorities are now searching for suspects after six people were found dead in a home on Milwaukee's north side on Sunday. More

January 24, 2022

The court said it will take up lawsuits claiming that Harvard University, a private institution, and the University of North Carolina, a state school, discriminate against Asian American applicants. More

January 24, 2022

Lynlee Renick was sentenced after a jury convicted her of killing her snake-breeder husband with the help of her ex-boyfriend. More

January 24, 2022

Avenatti has insisted he is innocent of wire fraud and aggravated identify theft charges and his lawyers say he is likely to testify during the trial in Manhattan federal court. More

January 24, 2022

J. Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao are broadly charged with depriving Floyd of his civil rights while acting under government authority. More

January 24, 2022

The decision is the latest step in Assange’s long battle to avoid trial on a series of charges related to WikiLeaks’ publication of classified documents more than a decade ago. More

January 24, 2022

The boyfriend of slain cross-country traveler Gabby Petito admitted killing her in a notebook discovered near his body in a Florida swamp, the FBI announced Friday.It was the first time authorities squarely pinned the blame for Petito's death on Brian Laundrie, though he was the prime suspect all along. More

January 21, 2022

A tentative trial date has been set for two men charged in the assault of a police officer who died after defending the U.S. Capitol in January 2021.A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Thursday scheduled a June 6 jury trial for George Tanios of Morgantown, West Virginia, and Julian Khater of State College, Pennsylvania. More

January 21, 2022

A federal judge closed his courtroom to the public Friday to hear attorneys debate whether "racially insensitive" text messages should be allowed as evidence in the hate crimes trial of three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery. More

January 21, 2022

A closed hearing in the federal trial of three former Minneapolis police officers in George Floyd's killing was canceled Friday after prosecutors and the media objected, the second time in just days that access to the proceedings became an issue. More

January 21, 2022

Former Iowa high school teacher Justin David Rapier has been charged with sexual exploitation by a school employee after police say he sexually abused an underage girl who was a student at the school. More

January 21, 2022

A mother whose infant son was found dead in her Cleveland home last week with suspected fentanyl in his system has been charged with felony child endangerment. More

January 21, 2022

The man arrested for investigation of the attempted murder of his 5-year-old son along the Cherry Creek Trail last week confessed to trying to kill his son and was driven by mental health issues, a Denver court heard Thursday at his first appearance. Michael Ninomiya, 42, was arrested Wednesday for investigation of attempted first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder – position of trust, attempted child abuse causing death, and child abuse causing serious bodily injury. More

January 21, 2022

Former reality TV star Josh Duggar has asked a federal judge for a new trial or an acquittal, a little over a month after he was convicted of receiving and possessing child pornography. More

January 21, 2022

The 23 new charges issued by the state grand jury covered new victims, but similar schemes, prosecutors said. More

January 21, 2022

Steve Shand was charged Thursday with human smuggling after seven Indian nationals were found in the U.S. and the discovery of the bodies. More

January 21, 2022

Under long-standing federal court rules, the proceedings are not being livestreamed or broadcast to the public. More

January 21, 2022