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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

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (Court TV) — Thea Brooks has long used fashion as an outlet for self-expression, designing T-shirts for special occasions and doing her own alterations to store-bought clothing. When her nephew, Ahmaud Arbery, was gunned down in February 2020, Brooks poured her grief into creating wearable tributes to her beloved “Quez.”    “Posters […] More

January 6, 2022

A 19-year-old Fairbury man was sentenced Thursday to 70 to 80 years in prison for beating a 2-year-old boy to death in February and shooting a man a year earlier. Jake Gonzalez was convicted in October of child abuse resulting in the death of Hollen Siedschlag and threatening the boy's mother. More

January 6, 2022

A man has been arrested in connection to the 2019 sexual assault of a 16-year-old. In Nov. 2019, a 16-year-old student told a Fort Collins Police Services school resource officer that she was the victim of a sexual assault in September 2019. According to the sheriff's office, the victim said she met a man named Andrew Koprowski via Snapchat. More

January 6, 2022

DENVER (Scripps News Colorado Springs) – The judge who presided over the trial and original sentence for Rogel Aguilera-Mederos in the deadly I-70 truck driving crash criticized Gov. Jared Polis in an order Tuesday for commuting the truck driver’s sentence from 110 years to 10. Jefferson County District Court Judge Bruce Jones wrote in the […] More

January 6, 2022

Juvenile court records indicate the parents of a 5-month-old who died in December have a lengthy history with Hamilton County Job and Family Services. Shakayla Sams and Donte Farrier, both 19, are charged with the abuse of their 2-year-old and the death of their 5-month-old, Casey Sams. More

January 6, 2022

A Batavia, N.Y. man has been charged with manslaughter and for endangering the welfare of a child after his wife died while they were overdosing on drugs. Makeen Ithna-Asheri was charged with manslaughter in the 2nd degree and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child after his wife, Anda Ithna-Asheri died following an overdose in front of their children. More

January 6, 2022

Three former Minneapolis police officers charged with federal civil rights violations in George Floyd's death will go on trial Jan. 20. More

January 6, 2022

A judge has found that a man charged with sexually attacking and fatally stabbing two young women in separate killings nearly 30 years ago near a canal system in metro Phoenix is mentally fit to stand trial. In a ruling Tuesday, Superior Court Judge Suzanne Cohen agreed with two court-appointed mental health experts that Bryan Patrick Miller is psychologically competent to be tried on charges in the deaths of 22-year-old Angela Brosso in November 1992 and 17-year-old Melanie Bernas in September 1993. More

January 6, 2022

Two former investment executives from Japan have pleaded guilty in Las Vegas to wire fraud in what prosecutors have called a $1.5 billion international Ponzi scheme with 10,000 victims in the U.S. and abroad .Junzo Suzuki and his son, Paul Suzuki, entered their pleas Wednesday in U.S. District Court in a plea deal that has each man facing five years in federal prison and three years of supervised release, according to court records. More

January 6, 2022

The misdemeanor complaint was filed by the local sheriff in October, accusing Cuomo of groping an aide in the executive mansion in December 2020, eight months before he resigned. More

January 6, 2022

Lawyers for Los Angeles County have failed to persuade a federal judge to end Vanessa Bryant's lawsuit over gruesome photos of the helicopter crash that killed her husband, Kobe Bryant, her daughter Gianna and seven others. More

January 6, 2022

A juror at the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell who told reporters he was sexually abused as a child has retained a lawyer, the trial judge said Thursday. More

January 6, 2022

In an interview with police on New Year's Eve, Kayla Montgomery said she last saw Harmony in November or December 2019. More

January 6, 2022

The collapse of Champlain Towers, located in Surfside, Florida, was one of the worst building disasters in U.S. history. More

January 6, 2022

In addition to the stimulus payment, convicted Boston Marathon bomber DzhokharTsarnaev has received money from dozens of sources during his incarceration. More

January 6, 2022

The three men convicted of felony murder and other violent crimes for the 2020 death of Ahmaud Arbery will return to court Friday for a hearing to determine their punishment. More

January 6, 2022

Gregory “Brent” Dennis, 59, is expected to be sentenced to three to 10 years in prison for his voluntary manslaughter conviction in the death of Susan Winters. More

January 6, 2022

An attorney for a man who came within days of being executed in Virginia for a murder he didn't commit has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against a state agency that's withholding records the attorney believes will show authorities could have gotten the right suspect. Attorney Robert Hall, who has represented Earl Washington Jr. since 1985, filed the lawsuit Tuesday against the Virginia Department of Forensic Science, The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. More

January 5, 2022

The father of Harmony Montgomery has been arrested on several charges, including one accusing him of failing to have her in his custody. More

January 5, 2022

IUKA, Miss. (AP) — A former social worker with the Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services has received eight years in prison for sex crimes involving two teenage boys under her care. Lauren Rose Cavness, 27, of Tishomingo, appeared Wednesday before Tishomingo County Circuit Judge Kelly Mims, the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reported. He sentenced […] More

January 5, 2022

An Illinois child welfare worker was stabbed to death during a home visit in a town south of Springfield. Diedre Silas, investigator for the state Department of Children and Family Services, was conducting a welfare check on children living in the home in Thayer when she was stabbed. Benjamin H. Reed. Reed is charged with first degree murder and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon in the stabbing death. More

January 5, 2022

A judge on Wednesday denied bail to the second of two people charged with killing one police officer and wounding another at a northern Illinois hotel last week. Darius Sullivan, 25, and Xandria Harris, 26, are charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder in the Dec. 29 attack that killed 49-year-old Bradley police Sgt. Marlene Rittmanic and wounded her partner, Officer Tyler Bailey, who remains in critical condition. More

January 5, 2022

Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted last week of conspiring to recruit and groom teenage girls to be abused by Jeffrey Epstein, intends to request a new trial after revelations by one of the jurors in her case that he was a victim of sexual abuse, her defense lawyers said Wednesday. More

January 5, 2022

The Duchess of Sussex will receive a nominal 1-pound ($1.35) payment for invasion of privacy plus undisclosed damages for copyright infringement, under an agreement that ends her long-running dispute with Britain's Mail on Sunday over the tabloid's publication of a letter she wrote to her father. More

January 5, 2022

As Ghislaine Maxwell strode into the courtroom for the first day of her sex-trafficking trial, no photographer was allowed to catch it. Courtroom artist Elizabeth Williams, however, was at the ready and before the hour was up, the curtain-raising scene was transmitted to news outlets around the world. More

January 5, 2022

A Rock County man has pleaded guilty to killing his 97-year-old grandmother, and a judge has ruled he was not legally responsible for the crime because of his mental illness. More

January 5, 2022

Gov. John Bel Edwards scheduled the pardon ceremony for a spot near where Plessy was arrested in 1892 for breaking a Louisiana law requiring Black people to ride in cars that the law described as “equal but separate” from those for white customers. More

January 5, 2022