A jury in Alaska found a man guilty on Thursday of the killing and rape of a woman at a university that went unsolved for more than two decades. The killing of 20-year-old Sophie Sergie at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1993 flummoxed investigators for years. They linked Steven Downs of Auburn, Maine, to the crime using DNA evidence, and he was arrested in 2019. More
February 10, 2022
DNA and a 20-year-old genealogy expert helped state police identify the man who abducted, raped and murdered a young girl in a case that rattled a Pennsylvania coal town nearly six decades ago. State police exhumed the long-dead assailant's body last month and said his DNA precisely matched DNA left on the jacket of the victim, 9-year-old Marise Ann Chiverella, who was snatched on the morning of March 18, 1964, as she walked to school in Hazleton, about 80 miles (129 kilometers) north of Philadelphia. Her body was found that afternoon in a nearby waste coal pit. More
February 10, 2022
A Maryland man has pleaded guilty in federal court to kidnapping a woman he trafficked for sex. In October of 2018, Joshua Lankford, 33, allegedly recruited a young woman to prostitute. Lanford apparently knew she was addicted to heroin and withheld drugs from her if she didn't make enough money for him . More
February 10, 2022
Court documents reveal two students have been charged in connection to a shooting that occurred Tuesday in the parking lot of Catonsville High School in Baltimore County. Police say it all started when two students left school and headed out to the parking lot to get in their car. They noticed a white Volvo parked behind their vehicle with two people inside. More
February 10, 2022
A man wanted for shooting and killing a woman in a suburban Denver church and wounding two other churchgoers last week has died after he was shot by police officers investigating other crimes, authorities said. More
February 10, 2022
Los Angeles prosecutors on Tuesday decided not to charge Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer for allegedly beating and sexually abusing a San Diego woman he met through social media. More
February 10, 2022
Three former Minneapolis police officers on trial for violating George Floyd's civil rights should have intervened to stop fellow Officer Derek Chauvin when he had his knee on the Black man's neck, the head of the Minneapolis Police Department's homicide unit testified Thursday. More
February 10, 2022
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told a jury Thursday she felt like she was at the mercy of a "Goliath" when she first learned a 2017 New York Times editorial suggested her campaign rhetoric helped incite a mass shooting. More
February 10, 2022
A grand jury has indicted a Texas man on a first-degree murder charge in the fatal shooting of a driver who had pulled into his driveway. More
February 10, 2022
FIRST administrator Austin Polonitza says the goal of this site is to provide a place for current forensic analysts around the state to keep their skills sharp. More
February 10, 2022
Court TV’s Ted Rowlands joins host Vinnie Politan to preview FL v. Curtis Reeves, the case of the Movie Popcorn Murder Trial. More
February 10, 2022
Gregory and Brandon case were arrested last week, days after D'Monterrio Gibson accused them of chasing him and shooting at him. More
February 10, 2022
Bob Saget's death last month stemmed from an accidental blow to the head, his family said in a statement Wednesday. More
February 10, 2022
"Cheer" star Jerry Harris is expected to plead guilty Thursday in a federal child pornography case alleging he solicited sex from minors at cheerleading competitions, court records in Chicago show. More
February 9, 2022
A former casino executive who was one of just two parents to go to trial in the sprawling college admissions bribery scandal was sentenced Wednesday to serve one year and one day in federal prison, the stiffest sentence so far handed down in the case, federal prosecutors said. More
February 9, 2022
A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit four sisters of Josh Duggar filed over the release of records from a police investigation that concluded the former reality television star fondled them. More
February 9, 2022
A Maryland man who was draped in a Confederate flag when he stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, pleaded guilty Wednesday to joining the attack as a mob disrupted Congress from certifying Joe Biden's election as president. More
February 9, 2022
A toxicologist testified Wednesday at the federal trial of three former officers charged with violating George Floyd's civil rights that it wasn't drug use, heart disease nor an agitated state known as "excited delirium" that caused Floyd's death after officers pinned him to the pavement in May 2020. More
February 9, 2022
Jury selection is moving swiftly in the trial of a former Kentucky police officer involved in the botched drug raid that left Breonna Taylor dead. More
February 9, 2022
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin took the witness stand on Wednesday in her defamation lawsuit against The New York Times, giving the jury a folksy overview of her family life in Alaska and ascent in Republican politics. More
February 9, 2022
CHICAGO (AP) — A former Chicago police officer convicted of battery for attacking a bartender in 2007 during a drunken rage captured on video cannot collect his pension, a state court of appeals has ruled. The ruling issued Monday overturns a Cook County judge’s 2019 finding that Anthony Abbate was entitled to his pension because […] More
February 9, 2022
Police believe they found the remains of 19-year-old aspiring model, Kara Nichols, nearly 10 years after she went missing. More
February 9, 2022
Authorities arrested Kelly Turner in 2019 following a lengthy investigation into the death of her daughter, Olivia Gant. More
February 9, 2022
U.S. Marshals announced that after more than a year and a half, they have arrested the man who allegedly shot and killed Na'Kia Crawford. Adarus Black was arrested on Tuesday in Atlanta, Georgia. The 19-year-old was wanted for the murder of Crawford. More
February 9, 2022
On Wednesday, Baltimore Police confirmed that they arrested 31-year-old Demetrick Lewis for the murder of his cousin, 33-year-old Shanlette Lewis. Prior to Demetrick Lewis' arrest, Shanlette Lewis' death had been ruled a homicide when she died following an assault. More
February 9, 2022
REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — A former member of the USA Climbing team has been arrested on investigation of three counts of third-degree child rape, officials said. Alexander Fritz, 28, of Seattle was booked into Snohomish County Jail last week where he remains on $500,000 bail, Redmond police said Tuesday in a statement. Fritz worked with […] More
February 9, 2022
The judge overseeing the federal trial of three former officers charged with violating George Floyd's civil rights dismissed a juror Wednesday because his son is ill. More
February 9, 2022
A New Hampshire man who coached men's basketball at Colby-Sawyer College has been accused of sexually assaulting a girl under age 16 "over a period of time" in 2019 and making multiple child sex abuse photos and videos involving her and other minors, police in Concord said Wednesday. A police affidavit alleges Joshua Pincoske, 47, "has engaged in a pattern of criminal sexual acts from at least 2015 through 2020 with at least four separate juvenile victims." More
February 9, 2022
A country music singer who was a finalist on TV's “American Idol” has been charged with driving under the influence resulting in death,. More
February 9, 2022
Cory Bigsby is charged with seven counts of felony child neglect, unrelated to the case of his missing son, Codi Bigsby. More
February 9, 2022
