(Scripps News Detroit) — Michigan State Police are under fire as one of their finest is taking the department to court for claiming to be terminated after exposing the alleged wrongdoings of his superiors. 32-year-old Mark Andrews was relieved of all his duties as a Michigan State Trooper after he says he reported fellow officers […] More
January 31, 2022
By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ highest court wrestled Monday with whether a man invoked his right to remain silent before making statements that were key to him being convicted of capital murder in the fatal shootings of three adults and a toddler. Kyle Trevor Flack is asking the state Supreme […] More
January 31, 2022
The former head of training for the Minneapolis Police Department returned to the witness stand Monday at the federal trial of three former police officers charged with violating George Floyd's civil rights. More
January 31, 2022
Court documents filed late Sunday by prosecutors for the U.S. Justice Department say plea agreements were reached with Travis and Greg McMichael. More
January 31, 2022
A Chicago man convicted of a 2003 murder has been granted a new trial, years after his twin brother stepped forward and confessed to the crime. More
January 31, 2022
“This poor little girl, I killed her involuntarily,” he said, apologizing to the parents, according to investigators. More
January 31, 2022
Opening statements are set to begin Monday for Travis Reinking, the accused gunman in the 2018 mass shooting at a Tennessee Waffle House. More
January 31, 2022
Michael Avenatti sought Friday at his fraud trial to portray his former client Stormy Daniels as someone who might be delusional as he questioned the porn actor about her belief that her house was once haunted by ghosts. More
January 28, 2022
Florida man has pleaded guilty to using his twin brother's stolen identity to obtain tens of thousands of dollars in military veterans benefits. Wayne Bowen, 64, of Jacksonville, pleaded guilty Wednesday to aggravated identity theft in Jacksonville federal court, according to court records. He faces a mandatory two years in federal prison. He must also pay $63,773 in restitution as part of his plea agreement. More
January 28, 2022
A man who died in 1981 was identified as the suspect in four cold case homicides in the Denver area, authorities announced Friday morning. The women who were killed were Madeleine Furey-Livaudais, 33, Dolores Barajas, 53, Gwendolyn Harris, 27, and Antoinette Parks, 17, More
January 28, 2022
By AMY FORLITI, STEVE KARNOWSKI and TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd’s civil rights did not follow the department’s use-of-force policy or training when Floyd was killed, the department’s training division commander at the time testified Friday. Inspector Katie Blackwell […] More
January 28, 2022
Four years ago, Nicole Sherrell Jackson says she answered the worst call a mother could get. On November 17, 2017, her son, 21-year-old Terry Sherrell, was shot and killed outside of his grandmother’s home. More
January 28, 2022
Florida man used Xbox messenger and the Discord gaming chat service to lure an underage boy into engaging in sexual activity over livestreaming equipment. Patrick Shane Penczak was arrested this week and charged with seven counts of crimes against children, including lewd and lascivious battery and using a computer to lure and seduce a child. More
January 28, 2022
A Denver man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for a string of road rage highway shootings that spanned across Littleton and Adams County back in August 2019. Theodore Hrdlicka, 51, plead guilty to three counts of attempted first-degree murder extreme indifference in November 2021. More
January 28, 2022
3 people have been indicted on arson charges in the burning of the Wendy's restaurant where a police officer fatally shot Rayshard Brooks. More
January 28, 2022
By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge on Friday approved an agreement by lawyers to destroy the assault-style rifle that Kyle Rittenhouse used to shoot three people during a 2020 street protest. Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger said the state crime lab would destroy the gun, probably in […] More
January 28, 2022
The former zookeeper was sentenced in January 2020 to 22 years in prison after he was convicted of trying to hire two different men to kill animal welfare activist Carole Baskin. More
January 28, 2022
The former Louisville officer facing trial, Brett Hankison, was not charged in Taylor’s shooting death and faces lower-level charges. More
January 28, 2022
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer's retirement gives President Joe Biden a chance to make his first nomination to the high court. It's also a chance for Biden to fulfill a campaign promise to nominate the first Black woman to be a justice. More
January 27, 2022
Thursday marks two years since 11-year-old Gannon Stauch was reported missing by his stepmother, Letecia Stauch. Now, she is accused of his murder, along with a number of other charges. More
January 27, 2022
GOLDEN, Colo. (Scripps News Denver) – A man was sentenced to an indeterminate 24 years-to-life in prison for sexual assault on a child, a spokesperson with the Colorado First Judicial District Attorney’s Office said Thursday. Ronn Gregory Wyman, 63, a repeat sex offender with an extensive record dating back to 1987, was sentenced Wednesday in […] More
January 27, 2022
Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for the brutal slayings of two hotel workers during a robbery in 2001. Donald Grant, 46, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester and was declared dead at 10:16 a.m. More
January 27, 2022
A Philadelphia man freed after 37 years in prison in a case tainted by perjured testimony accused the city of "outrageous police misconduct" in a lawsuit filed Thursday, the same day his 1984 murder case was dismissed. More
January 27, 2022
Stormy Daniels took her star turn on the witness stand Thursday at California lawyer Michael Avenatti's trial, telling a jury Avenatti "stole from me and lied to me." More
January 27, 2022
By AMY FORLITI, STEVE KARNOWSKI and TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Three officers on trial for allegedly violating George Floyd’s civil rights were trained to use the least amount force necessary and had a duty to intervene against inappropriate force, the commander of the Minneapolis police training division at the time […] More
January 27, 2022
Jussie Smollett, who was convicted last month for lying to police, will return to court for sentencing on March 10, a judge said Thursday. More
January 27, 2022
Justice Stephen Breyer is making it official, telling President Joe Biden in a letter that he will step down from the court later this year. More
January 27, 2022
ATLANTA (Court TV) — Felony terroristic threat charges have been dismissed against disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly’s ex-manager in Georgia. James Mason, 56, allegedly called Kelly’s ex-girlfriend Jocelyn Savage’s father in 2018 and threatened him. More
January 27, 2022
Kendrick Johnson's parents have long insisted that someone killed him, and that school officials and law enforcement covered up the crime. More
January 27, 2022
Attorneys say a teenager charged with killing four students at Michigan high school will pursue an insanity defense. More
January 27, 2022
