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On Wednesday, surveillance video showed a pickup truck belonging to Beecher ram its way through the Bloomberg ranch's security gate. More

February 5, 2022

A Topeka man has been charged with killing another man who had testified against him in a robbery and burglary case. More

February 5, 2022

Travis Reinking was sentenced to life in prison without parole for a deadly 2018 Waffle House shooting just miles outside Nashville, Tenn. More

February 5, 2022

Travis Reinking was found guilty on four counts of first-degree murder Friday by a jury that rejected his insanity defense. More

February 4, 2022

Federal prosecutors have charged a 21-year-old Baltimore man with setting a home on fire with his ex-girlfriend and two other people still inside. More

February 4, 2022

Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby appeared in court on Friday to be arraigned on federal perjury charges .She pleaded not guilty to all four counts and will face a jury trial. More

February 4, 2022

A lawyer for Bill Cosby asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to reject a bid by prosecutors to revive his criminal sex assault case. More

February 4, 2022

Michael Avenatti was convicted Friday of charges he cheated the porn actor Stormy Daniels out of nearly $300,000 she was supposed to get for writing a book about an alleged tryst with former president Donald Trump. More

February 4, 2022

The Minneapolis mayor imposed a moratorium on no-knock warrants Friday, two days after a SWAT team entered a downtown apartment and killed Amir Locke, a Black man who his parents said was "executed" after he was startled from a deep sleep and reached for a legal firearm to protect himself. More

February 4, 2022

As Drew Peterson's appeals against his murder conviction repeatedly failed, it seemed the former suburban Chicago police sergeant might fade from the news. But a decade after a jury convicted him in the slaying of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, Peterson has been given something from the judge who sentenced him to 38 years in prison: Another day in court. More

February 4, 2022

The note began: “We have one juror who is refusing to look at evidence and is acting on a feeling.” More

February 4, 2022

Travis McMichael reversed his plan to plead guilty in the federal case days after a U.S. District Court judge rejected terms of a plea deal between defense attorneys and prosecutors that was met with passionate objections by Arbery’s parents. More

February 4, 2022

Mayor Jacob Frey said the video “raises about as many questions as it does answers” and said the city was pursuing answers “as quickly as possible and in transparent fashion” through investigations including one by the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. More

February 4, 2022

A panel of Idaho lawmakers is recommending the Legislature ask Congress to fix a legal loophole that has some calling a portion of Yellowstone National Park the “Zone of Death." More

February 4, 2022

The man who initiated the deadly chase that ended in the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery won't plead guilty to a federal hate crime in the 2020 killing of the unarmed Black man, according to a legal filing late Thursday. More

February 3, 2022

A federal judge in Baltimore on Thursday dismissed a wrongful death lawsuit against Uber Technologies Inc. filed by the family of a rideshare driver who was killed by a passenger in 2019. More

February 3, 2022

Travis Reinking posted videos to YouTube before the killing where he spoke about unknown people who he believed were breaking into his home. More

February 3, 2022

No criminal charges will be filed following an investigation into the death of a six-year-old girl who died at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. The heartbroken family of Wongel Estifanos, who fell 110 feet and died on a ride in September of 2021, said the "criminal system failed our daughter." More

February 3, 2022

A federal judge on Thursday ordered a former lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles, to be held without bail in Denver after he allegedly threatened violence against the prominent school in online videos and an 800-page document sent via email earlier this week. Matthew Harris, 31, was taken into custody Tuesday in Colorado and charged with the threat. More

February 3, 2022

A breakthrough in the multi-year investigation into the case of a missing Baltimore woman. On Thursday morning, the Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office announced the arrest of Michael Robertson in connection to the disappearance of Akia Eggleston. It was May 3, 2017 when Eggleston was last seen or heard from. More

February 3, 2022

The jury deliberating the fate of Michael Avenatti on criminal charges that he ripped off his star client, Stormy Daniels, told a judge on Thursday that it is deadlocked on the first of two counts. More

February 3, 2022

A federal court on Thursday overturned a man's kidnapping conviction stemming from his assaulting his girlfriend for seven minutes, ruling that the time he restrained the victim while beating her was too brief to be charged separately. More

February 3, 2022

A 21-year-old man who was acting erratically opened fire inside a Greyhound bus in Northern California, killing a 43-year-old woman and wounding four others before he was arrested, naked, inside a Walmart after getting into a fight. More

February 3, 2022

A lawyer for ex-Las Vegas Raiders player Henry Ruggs told a judge he has received body-worn camera video from police who arrived after a high-speed crash that killed a woman. More

February 3, 2022

Audio recordings of a Maine man speaking to police were played Wednesday for jurors hearing murder and rape charges against him in connection with the death of a 20-year-old student in Alaska in 1993. More

February 3, 2022

A Indiana teen was sentenced to 100 years in prison Tuesday after he was convicted of killing his siblings at age 13. More

February 3, 2022

Karen Read is accused of striking her Boston police officer boyfriend with her car, leaving the scene and then returning hours later. More

February 3, 2022

Tiger King Joe Exotic calls Vinnie Politan from prison to give an update on his health, appeal status and discusses his nemesis, Carol Baskin. More

February 3, 2022

A major Florida player in a medical device scheme was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison, a significant sentence in the world of health care fraud in Florida. During the federal hearing held over Zoom on Wednesday morning, Patsy Joseph Truglia, 54, of Broward County offered remorse, telling the federal judge he was "truly and deeply sorry and selfish" when he committed his crimes. More

February 2, 2022

April will mark four years since Joe Clyde Daniels went missing from his Dickson County home. While his father, Joseph Daniels, has been convicted of his son's murder, the little boy's body has never been found. Now, lawmakers from Dickson County are working to make sure that works against Joseph Daniels, if he ever becomes eligible for parole. More

February 2, 2022