MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee woman convicted of stabbing her four children to death was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday. Criminal Court Judge James Lammey Jr. found Shanynthia Gardner, 34, guilty last month of the 2016 slayings of the children, ages 4, 3, 2 and 5 months. Another child, who was 7 at […] More
February 8, 2022
A convicted rapist who hid in Florida for more than 40 years after skipping out on his Connecticut prison sentence has been sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for assuming a stolen identity. Douglas Bennett, 77, was sentenced Friday in Tampa federal court. He pleaded guilty in September to passport fraud and aggravated identity theft and possessing firearms as a convicted felon, according to court records. Bennett also was ordered to pay a $200,000 fine. More
February 8, 2022
By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara is accused of punching and badly injuring a man in an attack also involving at least three men who were with Kamara last weekend at a Las Vegas Strip nightclub, according to a police arrest report. The alleged victim […] More
February 8, 2022
Jury selection resumed Tuesday with the first questioning of potential jurors for the trial of former police officer Brett Hankison. More
February 8, 2022
Maryland's highest court heard arguments Tuesday on whether Washington, D.C., sniper Lee Boyd Malvo's six life sentences without possibility of parole should be reconsidered because of a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court decision barring mandatory life sentences for juveniles. More
February 8, 2022
Several families whose loved ones died or were injured while trying to escape a smoked-filled Bronx apartment building sued the owners Tuesday, alleging safety violations that led to the wrongful deaths of 17 people, including eight children. More
February 8, 2022
Authorities arrested Amir Locke's 17-year-old cousin in connection with the homicide investigation that led police to the Minneapolis apartment where a SWAT team officer fatally shot Locke while conducting a search warrant, police said Tuesday. More
February 8, 2022
Several potential jurors in the hate crimes trial of three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery said in court Tuesday that they believe problems with racism in America are exaggerated and questioned whether there should be special charges or punishments for crimes motivated by race. More
February 8, 2022
Aaron Christopher Kelly, 39, was arrested on the freeway between the town of Sprague and Spokane, a, Richland police said in a Facebook posting. More
February 8, 2022
She left work and subsequently texted Smith to say, “Andy, he’s going to kill himself. He must be the shooter.” More
February 8, 2022
A juror in Scott Peterson's two-decade-old murder trial will be granted immunity before testifying at a hearing that could determine whether a new trial is granted, authorities said. More
February 8, 2022
The U.S. Air Force must pay more than $230 million in damages to survivors and victims' families of a 2017 Texas church massacre for failing to flag a conviction that might have kept the gunman from legally buying the weapon used in the shooting, a federal judge ruled Monday. More
February 7, 2022
A contentious court hearing is set for Tuesday morning in the criminal case of the parents of the accused Oxford high school shooter. More
February 7, 2022
A man from Allen County will spend 42.5 years in prison after he and his girlfriend got a minor addicted to narcotics and then trafficked her from 2018 to 2020, according to a release from Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost. More
February 7, 2022
U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins said Monday that, if instructed by Attorney General Merrick Garland, she would attempt to reinstate the death penalty against convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. More
February 7, 2022
ALLEGAN, Mich. (AP) — A man serving life sentences in Virginia for raping and killing a woman in 1980 was sentenced Monday to an additional 35 to 50 years in prison in Michigan for the 1989 killing of his 14-year-old daughter. Dennis Bowman pleaded no contest to second-degree murder in December for the killing of […] More
February 7, 2022
A caravan of vehicles drove through Minneapolis demanding justice in the death of Amir Locke, the 22-year old Black man who was fatally shot by Minneapolis police as officers served a no-knock search warrant. More
February 7, 2022
A man charged in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has agreed to plead guilty, according to documents filed Monday, giving prosecutors another insider who could be a key witness at a March trial. More
February 7, 2022
A judge on Monday delayed for three months a hearing on former suburban Chicago police officer Drew Peterson's request to toss out his murder conviction in the killing of his third wife after his attorney said he needed more time. More
February 7, 2022
George Floyd died because his breathing was restricted as he was restrained while handcuffed and facedown, a lung expert testified Monday at the federal trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating Floyd's civil rights. More
February 7, 2022
The first 50 jury pool members were to report for questioning Monday to determine if they're able to serve as fair and impartial jurors. More
February 7, 2022
Prosecutors filed two murder charges Friday against a 25-year-old real estate agent accused in the deaths of two homeless men in Miami last year. More
February 7, 2022
Two Georgia men have been sentenced to federal prison after they were arrested as part of an investigation into a multi-state dog fighting and cocaine trafficking ring. More
February 7, 2022
Convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison, the men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery will now stand trial on federal hate crime charges. More
February 7, 2022
A man who shot and killed four people at a Waffle House in 2018 received a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. More
February 5, 2022
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
