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Ghislaine Maxwell has formally requested a new trial, less than a month after her conviction on sex trafficking charges. More

January 20, 2022

Bill Cosby's 2008 sexual assault conviction was overturned and his immediate release ordered. What does this mean for sexual assault victims? More

January 20, 2022

The hearing to settle lingering issues in the aftermath of Spears’ conservatorship quickly descended into a series of angry accusations between attorneys for Spears and her father. More

January 20, 2022

Investigators said they doubted Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg's insistence that he initially thought he hit an animal on Sept. 12, 2020. More

January 20, 2022

Steven Downs was a freshman at University of Alaska at Fairbanks at the time of Sophie Sergie's death in 1993. More

January 20, 2022

The force said it was continuing to support U.S. authorities with their investigation into Saturday's hostage incident. More

January 20, 2022

Prosecutor Hulda Karlsdottir said in her closing argument that Anders Behring Breivik “has not shown any genuine remorse in court" and his behavior there is part of a “PR stunt.” More

January 20, 2022

Theodore Edgecomb is on trial for the 2020 shooting death of 54-year-old immigration attorney Jason Cleereman.  More

January 20, 2022

A hearing on a motion seeking to dismiss former Chicago-area police sergeant Drew Peterson's 2012 conviction for killing his third wife has been postponed until next month. More

January 19, 2022

An Air Force airman will spend the rest of his life in prison for kidnapping a Mennonite woman from northwestern New Mexico, fatally shooting her and leaving her body in the freezing cold in a forest clearing hundreds of miles away. More

January 19, 2022

The widow and two sisters of a U.S. Marine killed in Afghanistan are suing Alec Baldwin, alleging the actor exposed them to a flood of social media hatred by claiming on Instagram that one sister was an "insurrectionist" for attending former President Donald Trump's Washington, D.C., rally on Jan. 6 last year. More

January 19, 2022

Police say a Milwaukee man charged Wednesday in the shooting death of his 8-year-old daughter told investigators he wanted to teach his children about gun safety before inadvertently firing the weapon. Michael Huddleston, 47, is charged with first-degree reckless homicide in the Saturday killing of 8-year-old Tiana Huddleston. More

January 19, 2022

Jury selection begins Thursday in the federal case against J. Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao, who also face a state trial later this year on counts of aiding and abetting both murder and manslaughter in Floyd's death. More

January 19, 2022

NEW YORK (AP) — The man accused of pushing a woman to her death in a New York City subway station was arraigned on a murder charge Wednesday and ordered held without bail. Martial Simon, 61, was charged with second-degree murder in the death of Michelle Alyssa Go, who was shoved in front of a […] More

January 19, 2022

A state court trial for three former Minneapolis police officers charged in the death of George Floyd has been rescheduled for June 13, after both the defense and prosecutors requested a postponement. More

January 19, 2022

Justin Miller pleaded guilty in December after Mercedes Lain's remains were found in August in Starke County, Indiana. More

January 19, 2022

Psychiatrist Randi Rosenqvist said Wednesday that Breivik, 42, “has not changed (the) risk for future acts of violence compared to the way he was" when she first assessed him in 2012. More

January 19, 2022

Federal prosecutors and defense lawyers are expected to submit legal briefs this month on the impact of Gary Lee Sampson’s Dec. 21 death on his pending appeal and underlying convictions. More

January 19, 2022

Her disappearance was considered suspicious by the FCSO and authorities believed her to be dead before she was found. More

January 19, 2022

A Kentucky man who has now been convicted twice in connection with a shooting death was sentenced Tuesday to 39-and-a-half years in prison. More

January 19, 2022

The defendant entered Germany in 2015, and German authorities permitted him to practice medicine after recertifying his Syrian medical credentials. More

January 19, 2022

Terrified patrons hiding from a gunman still stalking victims reported the shooting in whispers to dispatchers, while others sobbed over the trauma of an event still unfolding. More

January 19, 2022

The court filing said state authorities haven’t yet decided whether to bring a civil lawsuit in connection with the allegations,. More

January 19, 2022

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu harshly criticized a Massachusetts court on Tuesday for placing Harmony Montgomery, missing since 2019 at age 5, with her father and stepmother before the state could complete a study of their home. More

January 18, 2022

Three teens were charged Tuesday in the shooting of an-duty Milwaukee police detective who intervened during an armed robbery after one of the suspects was unsuccessful in an attempted carjacking. More

January 18, 2022

Ex-boyfriend Frank Deleon Jr. arrested and charged with murder in killing of 16-year-old girl Diamond Alvarez who was shot 22 times as she walked her dog in Houston. More

January 18, 2022

Lawyers for a man convicted of murder for fatally shooting his wife as they rode in an SUV in Atlanta say he did not have a fair trial and are asking Georgia's highest court to overturn his conviction.Claud "Tex" McIver, 79, is serving a life sentence after being convicted of felony murder and other charges in the 2016 shooting of his wife, 64-year-old Diane McIver. More

January 18, 2022

St. Louis County man sentenced 14 years in prison after he admitted stabbing a co-worker to death in September 2019. Alipasha Ibragimov was sentenced after he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of Steven Tyrell Hill. More

January 18, 2022

A Kansas City man released from prison after serving more than 40 years for a wrongful conviction is suing the company that provides medical care for Missouri prison inmates. .Kevin Strickland alleges in his lawsuit that medical care provided by Corizon LLC officials left him dependent on a wheelchair and able to stand for only brief periods. More

January 18, 2022

A judge refused to lower the $7 million bail for prominent South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh, who is charged with stealing millions of dollars from vulnerable clients. More

January 18, 2022