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A Delaware lawmaker who came under fire last year for using a racist and sexist slur to refer to sex workers was arrested on shoplifting charges Tuesday, just days after announcing that he was resigning for health reasons. Newark police said a warrant was issued Tuesday for Rep. Gerald Brady's arrest on two counts of shoplifting, and that Brady, 65, turned himself in a few hours later. He was released on his own recognizance. More

January 25, 2022

Atlanta police on Tuesday arrested a 22-year-old man in the shooting death of a 6-month-old baby a day earlier. Grayson Fleming-Gray was shot just after 2:30 p.m. Monday while riding in a vehicle, police said. Mayor Andre Dickens announced the arrest during a news conference Tuesday afternoon, praising police for their quick work in making an arrest. More

January 25, 2022

Closing arguments are scheduled Wednesday in the double murder trial of a man charged in the shooting deaths of his wife and mother-in law in a home near Philadelphia in which two small children were also present. More

January 25, 2022

A federal appeals court rejected a request from two Oklahoma death row inmates to temporarily halt their upcoming lethal injections. More

January 25, 2022

A Houston man accused of stabbing a police dog and wanted for questioning in the death of his father, whose body was found hidden in his home's garage, was arrested Tuesday after evading capture for several hours, according to authorities. More

January 25, 2022

By AMY FORLITI, STEVE KARNOWSKI and TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Prosecutors at the federal trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd’s civil rights played videos Tuesday that showed the Black man gasping for air as bystanders warned that fellow Officer Derek Chauvin was killing him. […] More

January 25, 2022

A man once convicted of double murder but let out of jail early is in trouble with the law again. Brett Whittaker was granted one of then-Governor Matt Bevin's controversial end-of-term pardons. The former governor called Whittaker a "new man" who had transformed in prison. More

January 25, 2022

Police arrested a 37-year-old woman on murder and arson charges in connection with a Monday morning fire that killed a 5-year-old boy at at an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado. More

January 25, 2022

A Missouri man who was convicted last year of killing his wife and burying her body will face another trial this year on charges that he abused the couple's young daughter. Joseph Elledge has pleaded not guilty to three felonies involving his daughter, who was 1-year-old when her mother was killed. More

January 25, 2022

Missouri man who pleaded guilty to stuffing his wife's body in a freezer has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. Larry Dinwiddie was sentenced after he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Cynthia Dinwiddie. More

January 25, 2022

In opening statements Monday, Avenatti attorney Andrew Dalack said Avenatti had an agreement with Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, to share proceeds of any book deal. More

January 25, 2022

The TikTok star accused of murdering his wife and another man was back in court Monday. More

January 25, 2022

Police said Travis Reinking, 32, was naked save for a green jacket when he opened fire inside the restaurant. More

January 25, 2022

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

January 25, 2022

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