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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

A New York man pleaded guilty Wednesday to storming the U.S. Capitol with fellow members of the far-right Proud Boys, a milestone in the Justice Department's prosecution of extremists who joined the Jan. 6 insurrection. Matthew Greene is the first Proud Boys member to publicly plead guilty to conspiring with other members to stop Congress from certifying the Electoral College vote. He will also cooperate with authorities under the terms of his plea agreement. More

December 22, 2021

Court officials are edging closer to dividing up pop superstar Prince 's estate. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported Wednesday that November tax filings show the Internal Revenue Service and Comerica Bank & Trust, the estate administrator, have reached an agreement in November on the total value of Prince's assets. More

December 22, 2021

Three people have been sentenced to decades in prison in the shooting death of a pizza delivery driver ambushed on an eastern Pennsylvania college campus four years ago. More

December 22, 2021

ATLANTA (Court TV) — 2021 was a big year for celebrities on trial, from R&B artist R-Kelly to ex-‘Empire’ actor Jussie Smollett. These high-profile cases ran the gamut as far as charges, but they all had similar verdicts.   R. KELLY SEX TRAFFICKING TRIAL In September of 2021, a jury found Grammy award-winning singer R. […] More

December 22, 2021

Ghislaine Maxwell will spend Christmas — and her 60th birthday — in jail without a resolution to her sex trafficking trial as a jury ended an abbreviated first week of deliberations Wednesday without reaching a verdict. More

December 22, 2021

The jury deliberating at Kim Potter's manslaughter trial in the shooting death of Daunte Wright asked a judge whether the officer's handgun could be freed from an evidence box so they could hold it. More

December 22, 2021

Former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter is on trial for the shooting death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright. More

December 22, 2021

A Harvard University professor charged with hiding his ties to a Chinese-run recruitment program was found guilty on all counts Tuesday. Charles Lieber, 62, the former chair of Harvard's department of chemistry and chemical biology, had pleaded not guilty to two counts of filing false tax returns, two counts of making false statements, and two counts of failing to file reports for a foreign bank account in China. More

December 21, 2021

An Arkansas man was arrested and charged with capital murder Tuesday in the death of his 5-month-old son. Hot Springs police said Cody Webb, 35, was booked into Garland County jail and is being held without bond. More

December 21, 2021

An Iowa man charged earlier for his participation in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was arraigned Tuesday on a new federal indictment that includes a felony count that could carry up to 20 years in prison. Leo Christopher Kelly, 36, of Cedar Rapids, who has been free on pretrial release, appeared via video for his arraignment. His attorney, Kira West, entered a not guilty plea on his behalf. More

December 21, 2021

By ANNA LIZ NICHOLS Associated Press / Report for America LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Court of Appeals on Tuesday overturned the conviction of a former Michigan State University gymnastics coach who was accused of lying to investigators about her knowledge of sexual abuse complaints against Larry Nassar in the 1990s. In a 2-1 […] More

December 21, 2021

A California man has been sentenced to three years in prison for threatening harm in text messages sent during the attack on the U.S. Capitol to a New York-based family member of a journalist, prosecutors said. Robert Lemke, 36, was sentenced Monday in Manhattan federal court, according to Damian Williams, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. More

December 21, 2021

An online petition has gathered millions of signatures calling for leniency for a 26-year-old truck driver who was sentenced to 110 years in prison for vehicular homicide in an explosive accident at the base of a Colorado mountain highway that killed four people in 2019. More

December 21, 2021

Twenty-five years after JonBenet Ramsey was killed, police say they are looking at "genetic DNA testing" to see if it can be used to help solve the case. The 6-year-old was found dead in the basement of her family's Boulder home on Dec. 26, 1996, bludgeoned and strangled, several hours after her mother called 911 to say her daughter was missing and a ransom note had been left behind. Her death was ruled a homicide, but nobody was ever charged in the case. More

December 21, 2021

Police in northern Illinois are investigating the apparent shooting deaths of a man and his two young sons as a triple homicide and are searching for the man's missing vehicle. Officers found the bodies of Andrew Hintt, 31, and his two sons, 5 and 7. More

December 21, 2021

A month after his acquittal on murder charges, Kyle Rittenhouse was given a standing ovation at a conservative group's conference in Phoenix where panelists discussed the 2020 deadly shootings in Kenosha, Wisconsin. More

December 21, 2021

Jurors weighing the case of the suburban Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed Black motorist Daunte Wright asked the judge after a full day of deliberations Tuesday what they should do if they can't reach a verdict. More

December 21, 2021

A longtime Iowa business owner convicted of using his diner in sex trafficking and drug crimes has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison. More

December 21, 2021

The high-profile trial of former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes boils down to a single question: Did she cover up defects in her startup's blood-testing technology to rip off investors while potentially endangering the lives of unwitting patients? More

December 21, 2021

A woman was sentenced to 31 years in prison Monday for her role in the murder of 3-year-old Olivia Jansen. More

December 21, 2021

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