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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has not said whether he will posthumously pardon Floyd this year for a 2004 drug arrest in Houston. More

December 21, 2021

The jury deliberating at Ghislaine Maxwell's trial finished its first full day of deliberations Tuesday without reaching a verdict, having asked to review the testimony of three of four women who said they were teens when the British socialite aided financier Jeffrey Epstein in sexually abusing them. More

December 21, 2021

A Buffalo man has pleaded guilty to charges for fatally shooting a victim inside his apartment in June 2021.The Erie County District Attorney's Office announced 23-year-old Franklin Andrews pleaded guilty in Erie County Court to one count of manslaughter in the second degree and one count of criminal possession of a firearm. More

December 20, 2021

BALTIMORE (Scripps News Baltimore) — A former child protective officer has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for the receipt and possession of child pornography. According to testimony presented at his trial, 40-year-old Jean Buteau Remarque, who previously held positions at the International Bureau of Children’s Rights in Montreal, Canada, and as […] More

December 20, 2021

The man accused of kidnapping, raping and holding a Snow College student against her will for several days in his basement had a warrants out for his arrest issued in 2018. More

December 20, 2021

SALT LAKE CITY (Scripps News Salt Lake City) — A federal grand jury has indicted former Olympic speedskater and Utah resident Allison Baver on nine counts that accuse her of lying to obtain $10 million from the Paycheck Protection Program. The indictment was filed Wednesday in federal court in Salt Lake City. A docket shows […] More

December 20, 2021

A man who joined a mob in one of the most violent attacks on police during the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Monday to nearly four years in prison. Devlyn Thompson, 28, wrote an apology letter to the officer whom he assaulted during a melee in a tunnel where police battled with dozens of rioters for more than two hours. He also expressed remorse for his actions in a letter to U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, who sentenced him to three years and 10 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. More

December 20, 2021

The parents of a missing Snow College student who was found alive Saturday night expressed their gratitude for everyone who helped bring their daughter home. More

December 20, 2021

Retail giant Walmart illegally dumps more than 1 million batteries, aerosol cans of insect killer and other products, toxic cleaning supplies, electronic waste, latex paints and other hazardous waste into California landfills each year, state prosecutors alleged Monday in a lawsuit that the company labeled "unjustified." More

December 20, 2021

Kim Potter, a former police officer in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, is charged with manslaughter in the April 11 shooting death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, a Black motorist. Here are some key moments in the case: More

December 20, 2021

A 58-foot-long (18-meter) pedestrian bridge stolen from an Ohio city last month has been found and a man is facing charges, police said. Akron police said investigators acting on tips and other information Friday afternoon found the missing span partially disassembled on property in Sharon Township in neighboring Medina County. A man has been arrested and charged with felony theft, police said. More

December 20, 2021

The initial case against 'Empire' actor Jussie Smollett represented a 'major failure of operations,' according to the special prosecutor. More

December 20, 2021

A white suburban Minneapolis police officer charged with manslaughter in the death of Daunte Wright, a Black man, said she meant to use her Taser to try to stop him from fleeing during an attempted arrest but accidentally grabbed her gun instead. More

December 20, 2021

The federal judge presiding over the upcoming hate crimes trial of three white men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery said Monday she plans to summon a jury pool of roughly 1,000 people scattered across an expansive area that covers 43 Georgia counties. More

December 20, 2021

Former President Donald Trump sued New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday, seeking to end her civil investigation into his business practices. More

December 20, 2021

The prosecutor told jurors that Maxwell was a "posh, smiling age-appropriate woman” who provided cover for Epstein's “creepy” behavior. More

December 20, 2021

Rogel Aguilera-Mederos, 26, was sentenced to a prison term twice as long as some Colorado murderers after his convictions triggered provisions in state law that forced District Court Judge Bruce Jones to lay down a minimum 110-year sentence. More

December 20, 2021

The case for and against Ghislaine Maxwell has been made, and as soon as Monday, her fate will rest squarely in the jury's hands. More

December 20, 2021

The jurors now responsible for assessing 11 charges of fraud and conspiracy against former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes are scheduled to begin their first full day of deliberations on Monday. More

December 20, 2021

The suburban Minneapolis police officer who says she meant to use her Taser instead of her gun when she shot and killed Black motorist Daunte Wright made a "blunder of epic proportions" and did not have "a license to kill," a prosecutor told jurors on Monday shortly before they began deliberating in her manslaughter trial. More

December 20, 2021

Rock icon Rod Stewart and his son have pleaded guilty to battery in an assault case stemming from a New Year's Eve 2019 altercation with a security guard at an exclusive Florida hotel. Court records released Friday show that the singer and his son Sean Stewart entered guilty pleas to misdemeanor charges of simple battery. More

December 17, 2021

Ghislaine Maxwell's defense called another of Jeffrey Epstein's one-time paramours to the stand Friday: a former Miss Sweden, New York City doctor and tabloid fixture who told the jury that she trusted the financier with her young daughters and denied taking part in a group sexual encounter with a key accuser. More

December 17, 2021

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Police in Virginia say the discovery of four bodies at two different locations in the state are the work of a serial killer who used a shopping cart to transport his victims’ bodies after meeting them on dating sites. At a press conference Friday, Fairfax County […] More

December 17, 2021

A Capitol rioter who attacked police officers working to hold back the angry pro-Trump mob on Jan. 6 was sentenced Friday to more than five years behind bars, the most so far for anyone sentenced in the insurrection. Robert Palmer, 54, of Largo, Florida, wept as he told U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan that he recently watched a video of his actions that day and could not believe what he was seeing. More

December 17, 2021

According to court documents, CNN producer John Griffin allegedly used messaging services to contact her and other parents of young girls. More

December 17, 2021

Actor Chris Noth has been accused of sexually assaulting two women in separate encounters that took place in 2004 and 2015, according to a report Thursday. More

December 17, 2021

The lawsuit claims that workers were threatened with termination if they left in the hours before the tornado hit. More

December 17, 2021

The jury that will decide whether former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes turned her blood-testing startup into a massive scam finally got the case late Friday after a three-month-long trial that captivated Silicon Valley. More

December 17, 2021

Former suburban Minneapolis police officer Kim Potter took the stand Friday at her manslaughter trial in the shooting death of Black motorist Daunte Wright. More

December 17, 2021

The 10 people killed at the Astroworld music festival in Houston all died from compression asphyxia during a massive crowd surge in which attendees were packed so tightly that many could not breathe or move their arms, officials announced Thursday. More

December 16, 2021