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The Green Vault is one of the world’s oldest museums. It was established in 1723 and contains the treasury of Augustus the Strong of Saxony. More

December 29, 2021

The hearing transcript has been sealed, leaving the topics that were discussed a mystery. More

December 29, 2021

Lyndon James McLeod, 47, was also killed Monday night after he shot a police officer who confronted him in a busy shopping district in the Denver suburb of Lakewood. More

December 29, 2021

New Jersey's Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out the 2016 conviction of a Florida woman for killing her 5-year-old son 25 years earlier. More

December 29, 2021

A U.S. Air Force airman who was convicted of killing a Mennonite woman after kidnapping her in New Mexico and taking her to Arizona will be sentenced next month. More

December 29, 2021

Authorities have not released a motive. Both teens attended the victim's Spanish class at Fairfield High School, where she had taught since 2012. More

December 29, 2021

By STEFANIE DAZIO, CHRISTOPHER WEBER and MORGAN LEE Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 14-year-old was shopping for Christmas clothes last week with her mother when the pair heard screams and hid in a dressing room, where the girl was fatally shot by Los Angeles police after an officer fired a rifle at a […] More

December 28, 2021

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo won't face criminal charges stemming from allegations from two women — including a state trooper — that he planted unwanted kisses on their cheeks, a suburban prosecutor said Tuesday. It's the latest in a series of decisions about whether a raft of sexual assault and harassment claims against Cuomo will end up in criminal court. More

December 28, 2021

The judge presiding over the sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell cited an “astronomical spike” in the number of coronavirus cases in New York City as she explained Tuesday why she was urging jurors to work longer hours. More

December 28, 2021

The 24-year-old suspect, Daniel Elena Lopez, died at the scene. Also killed was Valentina Orellana-Peralta, 14, who was hiding with her mother inside a dressing room. More

December 28, 2021

A gunman killed four people and injured three others, including a police officer, in a shooting spree that spanned across Denver and ended in Lakewood. More

December 28, 2021

It was one of the most heinous crimes in North Dakota history, defense attorney Bruce Quick acknowledged in his opening statement. More

December 28, 2021

DALLAS (AP) — The wife of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was arrested Christmas Eve on a domestic violence charge that the right-wing provocateur said stems from a “medication imbalance.” Sheriff’s deputies took Erika Wulff Jones into custody and booked her into an Austin jail around 8:45 p.m. Friday. Jail records show the 43-year-old faces misdemeanor […] More

December 27, 2021

A truck driver sentenced to 110 years for an explosive crash that killed four people in suburban Denver moved a step closer Monday to potentially having his prison term reduced. More

December 27, 2021

The jury deliberating the fate of Ghislaine Maxwell at her sex trafficking trial requested a white board and different colored sticky notes Monday as it signaled that it had plenty of work to do after a long holiday weekend. More

December 27, 2021

Prosecutors believe the shooting happened after an argument on the road, during which they say Edgecomb punched Cleereman in his car. More

December 27, 2021

The arrest is tied to the 2019 death of Bee Love Slater, whose body was found burned beyond recognition in her vehicle in Clewiston. More

December 27, 2021

Defendants spoke directly to jurors in a series of recent high-profile trials, defying conventional wisdom that the risks of taking the stand usually outweigh the benefits. More

December 27, 2021

Ghislaine Maxwell reached her 60th birthday behind bars Saturday as she awaited the outcome of her sex trafficking trial. More

December 27, 2021

Defense attorneys want to dismiss the indictment against five men accused of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. More

December 27, 2021

Four years after Kim Bryant was abducted, a nearly identical crime was committed against Clark High School graduate Diana Hanson. More

December 27, 2021

The jury weighing fraud charges against former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes will start their second week of deliberations Monday. More

December 27, 2021

A Missouri woman has been charged with killing her boyfriend with a sword on Christmas Eve. More

December 27, 2021

The most serious charge against Kim Potter — first-degree manslaughter — carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison. More

December 27, 2021

A television producer has pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges in connection with paying a Nevada woman to bring her 9-year-old daughter to Vermont to engage in illegal sexual activity at a Ludlow ski house. More

December 22, 2021

The parents of a teenager charged with killing four students at a Michigan high school didn't anticipate that he would commit violence and are "devastated" like others in the community, a lawyer said Wednesday in requesting that they be granted a lower bond. More

December 22, 2021

The Pinal County Sheriff's Office is investigating the sexual assault of a child. On Nov. 14, deputies were contacted by a Queen Creek urgent care clinic after a 6-year-old child reportedly tested positive for a sexually transmitted diseased, according to PCSO. Jacob Sullivan (Pinal County Sheriff's Office)Through further investigation, the child disclosed to authorities that her father's roommate had sexually assaulted her. On Dec. 20, a warrant was issued for 26-year-old Jacob Sullivan. More

December 22, 2021

State prosecutors lost their bid to reinstate charges against the former president of Michigan State University who was accused of lying to investigators in 2018 when they tried to learn what she knew years earlier about sexual assault complaints involving Larry Nassar. More

December 22, 2021

A state appeals court on Wednesday rejected the appeal of an Oklahoma death row inmate who was sentenced to die for killing a 16-year-old girl in 2012. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals denied Miles Bench's motion for an evidentiary hearing and to stay proceedings in his death penalty appeal. More

December 22, 2021

Relatives, lawmakers and other supporters of a trucker sentenced to 110 years in prison after an explosive brake-failure crash that left four people dead rallied in Denver on Wednesday to plead for clemency. Supporters of Rogel Aguilera-Mederos say the sentence is deeply unjust and truck drivers around the country have taken up his cause, using hashtags like #NoTrucksToColorado and #NoTrucksColorado. More

December 22, 2021