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
Jurors heard 911 recording of a man's threats and a woman's pleas for her life then convicted the man of attempted manslaughter and endangering her children during a domestic abuse incident. More
December 10, 2021
FRESNO, Calif. (Scripps News Bakersfield) — An Air Force police officer at Edwards Air Force Base was indicted on five counts in an unemployment insurance fraud case totaling more than $250,000 during the ongoing pandemic, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of California. Trevon Miller, 28, is charged on suspicion of mail fraud […] More
December 10, 2021
By LARRY NEUMEISTER and TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors completed presenting their case against Ghislaine Maxwell on Friday, after a key accuser at the British socialite’s sex-abuse trial testified that Maxwell and her companion, Jeffrey Epstein, forced themselves on her when she was just 16. Annie Farmer told jurors […] More
December 10, 2021
Lawyers for ex-cop on trial for killing Daunte Wright argue she made a mistake by drawing gun instead of Taser but they're also arguing she would have been justified in shooting him anyway. More
December 10, 2021
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A suspected serial rapist has been charged with attacks on six women in Southern California, including one who was left in a ditch with a broken leg, authorities said Friday. Jose Manuel Martinez Garcia, 37, is charged with attempted murder, rape and other counts in a string of attacks from September […] More
December 10, 2021
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorney General Herbert Slatery announced Friday he wouldn’t appeal the resentencing of a Tennessee death row inmate to life in prison after initially resisting the move just two years prior. Last month, Judge Monte Watkins vacated the conviction of Abu-Ali Abdur’Rahman (ah-BOO’-ah-LEE’) (AHB’-dur-RAK’-mahn) after finding his […] More
December 10, 2021
A jury's guilty verdict that Jussie Smollett faked a racist and homophobic attack isn't the end of court for the former 'Empire' actor. More
December 10, 2021
Baltimore County judge sentenced 21-year-old Malik Mungo to 50 years in prison for killing popular bartender Sebastian Dvorak in Baltimore city in 2017. More
December 10, 2021
Police sergeant at the scene when Daunte Wright was shot testified he was holding Wright's right arm with both hands in an attempt to handcuff him in the moments before he was shot. More
December 10, 2021
Accuser at sex-abuse trial of Ghislaine Maxwell testified Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein forced themselves on her during 1996 visit to financier's sprawling New Mexico ranch when she was 16. More
December 10, 2021
Attorneys in upcoming federal hate crimes trial of the three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery want jury pool to come from an expansive area of Georgia that covers 43 counties. More
December 10, 2021
Here are five takeaways from the trial to help you catch up as both sides prepare for closing arguments next week, after which the case will be in the hands of the jury. More
December 10, 2021
“When my client joined the DEA he was schooled in how to be corrupt, he was schooled in how to break the law," his attorney said in court. More
December 10, 2021
A British appellate court opened the door Friday for Julian Assange to be extradited to the United States. More
December 10, 2021
