A woman who helped her father cover up his wife's 2018 murder with a tale of a knife-wielding panhandler has been sentenced to five years in prison. Valeria Smith was sentenced Monday, two years after pleading guilty to acting as an accessory after the slaying of Jacquelyn Smith. More
December 14, 2021
A father and son charged with sparking a devastating Northern California wildfire that destroyed about 1,000 homes near Lake Tahoe earlier this year are out of jail after a judge vastly reduced their bail, largely rejecting prosecutors' arguments that the duo posed a flight risk. More
December 14, 2021
O.J. Simpson is a free man. The 74-year-old former football hero and actor, acquitted California murder defendant and convicted Las Vegas armed robber was granted good behavior credits and discharged from parole effective Dec. 1, a day after a hearing before the Nevada Board of Parole. More
December 14, 2021
Bobby Bostic - who was effectively sentenced to life in a Missouri prison for a robbery he committed as a teenager in St. Louis - has been granted parole years after the judge who sentenced him had a change of heart. More
December 14, 2021
The trial of a Harvard University professor charged with hiding his ties to a Chinese-run recruitment program is the latest bellwether in the U.S. Justice Department's controversial effort to crackdown on economic espionage by China. Jury selection started Tuesday in Boston federal court in the trial of Charles Lieber, the former chair of Harvard's department of chemistry and chemical biology. More
December 14, 2021
A man convicted of the random slaying of a stranger while he was under the influence of drugs in Pennsylvania last year has been sentenced to decades in prison. Stephen Jones, 28, of Brecknock Township was sentenced Tuesday to 35 to 80 years after pleading guilty in Lancaster County to third-degree murder, robbery and a weapons violation, LNP newspaper reported. More
December 14, 2021
Joseph Centanni, a landlord accused of demanding sex from his low-income tenants under threat of eviction or in exchange for helping them receive rent assistance, will pay more than $4 million to settle a federal lawsuit. More
December 14, 2021
The only Black juror on Jussie Smollett's jury said he couldn't get past what he did not do after attackers looped a noose around his neck. More
December 14, 2021
A Connecticut man was convicted Tuesday in one of the state's most vicious crimes in recent memory. More
December 14, 2021
The trial of a Minnesota police officer charged in the shooting death of Daunte Wright opened its second week of testimony on Monday with an assistant medical examiner. More
December 14, 2021
They are each charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter. Prosecutors say they gifted their son the gun he used to kill four classmates. More
December 14, 2021
A judge in coastal Georgia has set a sentencing date early next year for the three men convicted of murder in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. More
December 14, 2021
The family of Frederick Rice wants answers as to how and why a murder trial that began last week was dismissed just days after it began due to a violation that rose to the level of a "Brady" violation. More
December 13, 2021
The semi-truck driver convicted on several charges in connection with the April 2019 crash on Interstate 70 that killed four people was sentenced in a Jefferson County courtroom Monday. Rogel Aguilera-Mederos was sentenced to 110 years in prison. More
December 13, 2021
At ex-cop Kim Potter's manslaughter trial for fatally shooting Black motorist Daunte Wright, she says she meant to use her Taser but grabbed her handgun instead. Experts agree that such incidents are rare and probably happen fewer than once per year throughout the U.S. More
December 13, 2021
Family members of a slain woman and her daughter sat through a gruesome crime scene video that played in a Tennessee courtroom Monday — images of two blood-soaked bodies lying stabbed to death in awkward positions on the floor of their apartment, a knife resting next to the little girl's foot. More
December 13, 2021
Attorneys in the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy case have reached a tentative settlement under which one of the organization's largest insurers would contribute $800 million into a fund for victims of child sexual abuse. More
December 13, 2021
A judge rejected an attempt Monday by Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz's attorneys to bar the parents and other relatives of his 17 victims from testifying before the jury about the trauma the murders have brought to their lives. More
December 13, 2021
A Michigan judge declined Monday to move the 15-year-old charged with killing four students at Oxford High School out of an adult jail, but she agreed that the jail needs to ensure the boy can't hear or see grown-up inmates. More
December 13, 2021
A former Dartmouth College student was indicted by a grand jury for allegedly shooting out most of the lights on a menorah at the college with a BB gun last year. More
December 13, 2021
Federal bankruptcy court confirms $380 million settlement between USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and the hundreds of victims of Larry Nassar. More
December 13, 2021
Minneapolis ex-cop Derek Chauvin appears to be on the verge of pleading guilty to violating George Floyd 's civil rights according to notice sent by the court's electronic filing system. More
December 13, 2021
Alex Murdaugh blamed some problems on a 20-year opiate addiction before judge set bond at $7 million - must go on house arrest with electronic monitoring and counseling and drug testing. More
December 13, 2021
Federal judge refused to throw out key charge against 2 men accused of storming U.S. Capitol to obstruct Electoral College vote certification proceedings. More
December 13, 2021
Teenager Jeremiahs Josiah-Alberto Sanchez - accused of shooting three people inside a Pennsylvania mall in October - waived a hearing and entered a plea of not guilty. More
December 13, 2021
Authorities have uncovered the remains of a Mississippi woman following a tip from an inmate who revealed the location of her body prior to his execution on other crimes last month. More
December 13, 2021
He is charged as an adult in the murders of his four classmates, as well as the shooting of seven other people at the school on Nov. 30. More
December 13, 2021
A jury that heard the murder case against a former Pasco police officer in the 1986 killing of Ruby Doss failed to reach a verdict. More
December 13, 2021
A Chicago police officer has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a woman who was the mother of their child during what a prosecutor said was an argument. More
December 13, 2021
Father and son charged with starting massive California wildfire that destroyed homes and forced tens of thousands of people to flee Lake Tahoe communities pleaded not guilty in court. More
December 10, 2021
