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Ethan Crumbley, accused of murdering four classmates in a shooting at Oxford High School, pleaded not guilty. More

January 12, 2022

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — After decades of dealing with the boyhood trauma of being molested by a priest, Jim Bartko sued the Roman Catholic church two years ago. But the lawsuit was dismissed when he died four days after speaking publicly about it. A new law has now revived his […] More

January 12, 2022

Kansas man arrested in 2019 robbery, kidnapping and shooting deaths of two men whose bodies were found hours apart in an Oklahoma ditch and a Kansas trailer. Kansas Bureau of Investigation said Ralph Thomas Salas Jr. was booked into the Seward County Jail. More

January 12, 2022

A judge agreed to delay a state court trial for three former Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd's death, though he didn't immediately set a date. More

January 12, 2022

Eric Lira, 41, of El Paso, is the first person to be charged under a new U.S. anti-doping law governing international sports competitions. More

January 12, 2022

A man who lived at the house was arrested on an obstruction charge after the remains were found, but no charges were filed in the death itself. More

January 12, 2022

A suspect in the 2012 slayings of a British-Iraqi family vacationing in the French Alps and a cyclist has been detained, a French prosecutor said Wednesday. More

January 12, 2022

A judge gave the green light Wednesday to a lawsuit against Prince Andrew by an American woman who says he sexually abused her when she was 17. More

January 12, 2022

The trial of Chandler Halderson, accused of killing and dismembering his parents, has been postponed because he tested positive for COVID-19. More

January 12, 2022

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Scripps News Nashville) — The 1988 murder and rape convictions of both Joyce Watkins and the late Charlie Dunn have been vacated almost 34 years later, according to a court order issued by Judge Angelita Blackshear Dalton. >>>READ COURT ORDER DOCUMENTS<<< A court date is scheduled for Wednesday, January 12 at 9 a.m., […] More

January 12, 2022

Fayetteville police said Monday that a preliminary investigation determined Jason Walker “ran into traffic and jumped on a moving vehicle." More

January 12, 2022

A Tennessee man wanted in the fatal shooting of rapper Young Dolph in his hometown of Memphis was captured Tuesday in Indiana. More

January 12, 2022

A man charged with killing 18 older women in the Dallas area over a two-year span is set to be retried in April after the first jury to hear a murder case against him deadlocked. The retrial of Billy Chemirmir, 49, in the death of 81-year-old Lu Thi Harris is scheduled to begin on April 25. More

January 11, 2022

An attempt by Baton Rouge officials to have an attorney found in contempt of court for releasing video of a controversial arrest was a "bad faith" effort to retaliate against the attorney for exercising his free speech rights, a federal court judge has ruled. More

January 11, 2022

The parents of a five-time champion on the game show "Jeopardy!" are accusing a Las Vegas-area hospital where he underwent abdominal surgery of causing his death in February 2021. Brayden Smith, who died at 24, was one of the last "Jeopardy!" contestants to appear with host Alex Trebek before Trebek died in November 2020 after battling pancreatic cancer. More

January 11, 2022

Several current and former inmates of color at a maximum security prison in Massachusetts have filed a federal lawsuit alleging they were subjected to violent beatings by guards in retaliation for a previous assault on a corrections officer by prisoners. More

January 11, 2022

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld an Oklahoma appellate court decision that the high court's landmark McGirt ruling on criminal jurisdiction in Indian Country does not apply retroactively to state convictions that are finalized. More

January 11, 2022

Angelo Colon-Ortiz has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge in the death of Vanessa Marcotte, 27, in the town of Princeton, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) west of Boston. More

January 11, 2022

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A jury has been selected in Kenosha County Circuit Court to hear the case against a man charged with killing three people and wounding three others in a shooting at a crowded bar. Twenty-five-year-old Rakayo Vinson is facing three counts of first-degree intentional homicide and three counts of attempted first-degree intentional […] More

January 11, 2022

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal of a woman who left home in Alabama to join the Islamic State terror group, but then decided she wanted to return to the United States. The justices declined without comment on Monday to consider the appeal of Hoda Muthana, who was born in New Jersey in October 1994 to a diplomat from Yemen and grew up in Alabama near Birmingham. More

January 11, 2022

Another former inmate at a federal prison in New Jersey has admitted his role in a scheme to use drones to smuggle drugs and other contraband to inmates into the facility. Johansel Moronta, 29, of Linden, pleaded guilty Monday to possessing and obtaining contraband while in prison and violating his federal parole. More

January 11, 2022

A Fitchburg man has pleaded not guilty to 14 charges, including multiple counts of child rape and assault and battery on a child under age 14, according to authorities. Stephen R. Goodsell, 32, was held on $5,000 bail at his arraignment Monday in Worcester Superior Court More

January 11, 2022

A 29-year-old Springfield man has been sentenced to life in prison in the 2019 death of a 7-month-old baby. Marc Carrier (Greene County Jail)The Springfield News-Leader reports that child's mother and prosecutors asked for the life term before 31-year-old Marc Carrier was sentenced Friday. More

January 11, 2022

Judge set bail at $1 million for a man who reportedly believed he was demonically possessed and admitted to killing a Marysville resident, saying "voices" told him to do it. Anthony Boggess was booked into the Snohomish County Jail in Everett for investigation of second-degree murder and first-degree attempted arson in the death of former roommate, James Thrower More

January 11, 2022

Tou Thao, J. Kueng and Thomas Lane face a Jan. 20 trial for allegations that they deprived Floyd of his rights while acting under government authority. More

January 11, 2022

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections does not currently have execution protocols in place for any method other than lethal injection. More

January 11, 2022

The U.S. government will agree to drop pending perjury charges against British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell if her sex trafficking case goes to sentencing later this year, prosecutors said. More

January 11, 2022

Last week, Kayla Montgomery was charged on suspicion of obtaining $1,500 in food stamps from December 2019 to June 2021 for Harmony Montgomery. More

January 11, 2022

A mother of three in Florida is recovering from a gunshot wound, struck by a stray bullet fired by someone using her neighbor’s property for target practice, according to investigators. More

January 11, 2022

Avila said she was not aware that she was pregnant until Jan. 6 when she sought medical attention for abdominal pain. More

January 11, 2022