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High school student Damari Batten arrested after fatal shooting of another teen who died in a shooting after a basketball game at Menchville High School. Newport News Police said during the game, there was video footage showing gestures back and forth inside between people. Police said one person went to a vehicle then an altercation happened beside that vehicle and that person was shot. The victim has been identified as 17-year-old Justice Dunham. More

December 15, 2021

Florida man arrested on charges related to storming the U.S. Capitol during Jan. 6 insurrection and attacking a police officer. Mason Joel Courson was arrested and charged with federal offenses including assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers and inflicting bodily injury, civil disorder, and entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon. More

December 15, 2021

Kim Potter's use of deadly force against Daunte Wright was not appropriate, a use-of-force expert testified Wednesday at the former suburban Minneapolis police officer's manslaughter trial, undercutting a defense argument that she would have been justified in shooting Wright even if she didn't mean to. More

December 15, 2021

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The Broward County, Florida, school district will pay more than $26 million to the families of 17 people killed and some of those injured in the 2018 Valentine’s Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Board members approved the two legal settlements on Tuesday. A total of $25 million […] More

December 15, 2021

Prosecutors nearing the end of their case have drawn on testimony from Potter’s former colleagues to portray an officer whose intended use of a Taser would have violated department policy despite her extensive training. More

December 15, 2021

A man accused of shooting and critically wounding a Phoenix police officer was on probation when the offense occurred, according to a prosecutor. More

December 15, 2021

Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin has pleaded guilty to federal charges of violating George Floyd’s civil rights. More

December 15, 2021

Ghislaine Maxwell has denied allegations from multiple women that she helped the millionaire Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls. More

December 15, 2021

The woman who died in a fiery crash that authorities blame on ex-Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III driving drunk at racetrack speeds burned to death, the county coroner in Las Vegas said Tuesday. More

December 14, 2021

A woman who has been charged with the murder of her 2-year-old son has plead guilty in court Tuesday. Julia Tomlin is being charged with second degree murder in the case of 2-year-old Noah Tomlin's death. Tomlin pleaded guilty on Tuesday to Second Degree Murder, Felony Child Neglect, and Concealing a Dead Body. More

December 14, 2021

A grand jury in Texas has returned a capital murder indictment against a man authorities have said confessed to killing five people, including three whose dismembered bodies were found in a burning dumpster earlier this year. Jason Thornburg, 41, was indicted Monday on a charge of capital murder in the deaths of David Lueras, 42, Lauren Phillips, 34, and Maricruz Mathis, 33. More

December 14, 2021

Skeletal remains found nearly 40 years ago have been identified as those of a guitarist who once played with the R&B group The O'Jays and also co-wrote a few of their songs, investigators said. Authorities used DNA and genealogical research to identify the remains of Frank "Frankie" Little Jr., which were found in a garbage bag in a wooded area behind a business in Twinsburg in 1982. More

December 14, 2021

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