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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

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Police finished their search of the last known residence of Harmony Montgomery on Monday as they investigate the disappearance of the New Hampshire girl, who vanished in 2019 at age 5, but was not reported missing until late last year. Police searched the Manchester property once at end of last year, […] More

January 10, 2022

White former Nashville police officer Andrew Delke waived the right to a parole hearing under a plea deal for fatally shooting a Black man from behind who was fleeing on foot while holding a gun. Delke appeared remotely from jail. Last July, Delke pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 2018 death of 25-year-old Daniel Hambrick as part of an agreement with prosecutors and received a three-year sentence. More

January 10, 2022

A man awaiting a state trial in the 2018 death of an Alabama police officer was sentenced to 25 years in prison Monday on federal weapons charges. Marco Perez faces a state capital murder charge in the 2018 death of Mobile police officer Sean Tuder. More

January 10, 2022

A man has been sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison in the strangulation slaying of his girlfriend's mother whose body was found after a 2019 Pennsylvania fire. A Dauphin County judge on Monday sentenced 35-year-old Calvin Purdie Jr. to 20 to 40 years for third-degree murder and a consecutive term of 10 to 20 years for aggravated arson. More

January 10, 2022

Alabama man accused of trying to hire someone on an app to kidnap and rape a Wisconsin woman he met online.. Matthias Jacob Edward Mann was arrested on charges of attempted kidnapping and attempted coercion after a person he believed was willing to assault a woman turned out to be a police officer working undercover. More

January 10, 2022

A Kansas City, Missouri, man pleaded guilty Friday to charges related to his role in a car jacking that led to a high-speed chase and a crash that killed another driver.Derrell M. Wade, 20, pleaded guilty to one count of carjacking and one count of brandishing a firearm during a violent crime. More

January 10, 2022

Two men facing murder charges in connection to a crime spree on New Year’s Eve appeared in court for their bail hearing on Monday. Jesani Carter, 20, and Jordan Ruby, 18, faced a Las Vegas judge for the second time after the two were arrested for several robberies and shootings around town at the end of 2021. More

January 10, 2022

A man arrested on child rape charges last month in Tennessee could have victims in nine other states, a prosecutor said Monday .Ryan Andrew Meyung, 30, was charged in December with child rape, aggravated kidnapping and other related counts, Hamilton County District Attorney Neal Pinkston said in a statement. More

January 10, 2022

A New York man heading to Indianapolis in a tractor-trailer was arrested Sunday during a traffic stop on Interstate 70 after an Indiana State Police trooper found about 115 pounds of cocaine in his truck. More

January 10, 2022

The scene of the crime is still under renovation after extensive damage from the shooting. District leaders say students from Oxford High School and Bridges, the alternative high school in town, will rotate between in-person and virtual schedules. All of the in-person learning will take place at Oxford Middle School until the high school building reopens on January 24. More

January 10, 2022

Harvard University is not required to pay legal defense fees for a professor who was found guilty of hiding his ties to a Chinese-run recruitment program, Massachusetts' highest court ruled Monday. More

January 10, 2022

Convicted killer Robert Durst died in a state prison hospital facility in Stockton, his attorney Chip Lewis said. More

January 10, 2022

Kenosha County Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder accepted Dominick Black's plea during a six-minute hearing. More

January 10, 2022

Security cameras showed a group of men holding down 22-year old Dallas Jordan Barrett during an altercation with security staff at the Whiskey Row bar. More

January 10, 2022

The 53-year-old heir to a legal empire in Hampton County, South Carolina, has been jailed since his arrest in October on a growing number of charges for mostly financial crimes. More

January 10, 2022

Maya's husband, Larry Millete, was arrested and charged with her murder in October. More

January 10, 2022

Authorities in Fairfax have identified two of the victims of the "Shopping Cart Killer." More

January 10, 2022

Two suspects in the death of a Lincoln woman whose remains were found near Pawnee Lake have been charged in her death. Joesef Barraza, 25, was charged with first-degree murder, kidnapping and three counts of first-degree sexual assault in Carly Schaaf's death, Police Chief Teresa Ewins said during a news conference Friday. More

January 7, 2022

A judge sentenced a Missouri man to 28 years in prison for the 2019 killing of his wife, whose body he buried in a state park and whose death he misled the authorities about for more than a year.The sentence Judge Brouck Jacobs gave to 26-year-old Joseph Elledge was the one jurors recommended in November when they convicted Elledge of second-degree murder in the killing of his wife, Mengqi Ji. More

January 7, 2022

Former Oklahoma police officer sentenced 25 years in prison for killing daughter's boyfriend convicted of second-degree murder the fifth time he went on trial in the case. Shannon Kepler sentenced to 300 months in prison followed by three years supervised release. He also ordered Kepler pay restitution to cover cost of headstone for Jeremey Lake. More

January 7, 2022

The sister of a slain federal security officer is suing Facebook, alleging the tech giant played a part in the radicalization of two men who are accused of planning the killing on its platform. David Patrick Underwood was fatally shot and his partner was wounded while guarding a federal building in Oakland on May 29, 2020, when a large demonstration over the police killing of George Floyd was underway nearby. More

January 7, 2022

A Connecticut man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for sex trafficking at the 2020 Super Bowl in South Florida. Edward Walker, 48, of New Haven, Connecticut, was sentenced Thursday in Fort Lauderdale federal court, according to court records. More

January 7, 2022

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Three white men convicted of murder for chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery were sentenced to life in prison Friday, with a judge denying any chance of parole for the father and son who armed themselves and initiated the deadly pursuit of the 25-year-old Black man.  […] More

January 7, 2022

The mother of a 2-year-old girl whose body was found in a Houston bayou in 2020 has pleaded guilty for her role in the child's death, according to court records. Sahara Ervin, 22, pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence, a human corpse, during a court hearing Wednesday as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors. More

January 7, 2022

A North Carolina woman who brought her 14-year-old son into the U.S. Capitol during last year's riot was sentenced Friday to three months imprisonment. More

January 7, 2022

The case against Michigan school shooting suspect Ethan Crumbley will head straight to trial after he waived his right to a preliminary exam. More

January 7, 2022

The Crumbleys are charged with involuntary manslaughter for the Nov. 30 shooting at Oxford High School, which killed four teenagers and injured others. More

January 7, 2022