Several current and former inmates of color at a maximum security prison in Massachusetts have filed a federal lawsuit alleging they were subjected to violent beatings by guards in retaliation for a previous assault on a corrections officer by prisoners. More
January 11, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld an Oklahoma appellate court decision that the high court's landmark McGirt ruling on criminal jurisdiction in Indian Country does not apply retroactively to state convictions that are finalized. More
January 11, 2022
Angelo Colon-Ortiz has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge in the death of Vanessa Marcotte, 27, in the town of Princeton, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) west of Boston. More
January 11, 2022
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A jury has been selected in Kenosha County Circuit Court to hear the case against a man charged with killing three people and wounding three others in a shooting at a crowded bar. Twenty-five-year-old Rakayo Vinson is facing three counts of first-degree intentional homicide and three counts of attempted first-degree intentional […] More
January 11, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal of a woman who left home in Alabama to join the Islamic State terror group, but then decided she wanted to return to the United States. The justices declined without comment on Monday to consider the appeal of Hoda Muthana, who was born in New Jersey in October 1994 to a diplomat from Yemen and grew up in Alabama near Birmingham. More
January 11, 2022
Another former inmate at a federal prison in New Jersey has admitted his role in a scheme to use drones to smuggle drugs and other contraband to inmates into the facility. Johansel Moronta, 29, of Linden, pleaded guilty Monday to possessing and obtaining contraband while in prison and violating his federal parole. More
January 11, 2022
A Fitchburg man has pleaded not guilty to 14 charges, including multiple counts of child rape and assault and battery on a child under age 14, according to authorities. Stephen R. Goodsell, 32, was held on $5,000 bail at his arraignment Monday in Worcester Superior Court More
January 11, 2022
A 29-year-old Springfield man has been sentenced to life in prison in the 2019 death of a 7-month-old baby. Marc Carrier (Greene County Jail)The Springfield News-Leader reports that child's mother and prosecutors asked for the life term before 31-year-old Marc Carrier was sentenced Friday. More
January 11, 2022
Judge set bail at $1 million for a man who reportedly believed he was demonically possessed and admitted to killing a Marysville resident, saying "voices" told him to do it. Anthony Boggess was booked into the Snohomish County Jail in Everett for investigation of second-degree murder and first-degree attempted arson in the death of former roommate, James Thrower More
January 11, 2022
Tou Thao, J. Kueng and Thomas Lane face a Jan. 20 trial for allegations that they deprived Floyd of his rights while acting under government authority. More
January 11, 2022
The Oklahoma Department of Corrections does not currently have execution protocols in place for any method other than lethal injection. More
January 11, 2022
The U.S. government will agree to drop pending perjury charges against British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell if her sex trafficking case goes to sentencing later this year, prosecutors said. More
January 11, 2022
Last week, Kayla Montgomery was charged on suspicion of obtaining $1,500 in food stamps from December 2019 to June 2021 for Harmony Montgomery. More
January 11, 2022
A mother of three in Florida is recovering from a gunshot wound, struck by a stray bullet fired by someone using her neighbor’s property for target practice, according to investigators. More
January 11, 2022
Avila said she was not aware that she was pregnant until Jan. 6 when she sought medical attention for abdominal pain. More
January 11, 2022
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Police finished their search of the last known residence of Harmony Montgomery on Monday as they investigate the disappearance of the New Hampshire girl, who vanished in 2019 at age 5, but was not reported missing until late last year. Police searched the Manchester property once at end of last year, […] More
January 10, 2022
White former Nashville police officer Andrew Delke waived the right to a parole hearing under a plea deal for fatally shooting a Black man from behind who was fleeing on foot while holding a gun. Delke appeared remotely from jail. Last July, Delke pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 2018 death of 25-year-old Daniel Hambrick as part of an agreement with prosecutors and received a three-year sentence. More
January 10, 2022
A man awaiting a state trial in the 2018 death of an Alabama police officer was sentenced to 25 years in prison Monday on federal weapons charges. Marco Perez faces a state capital murder charge in the 2018 death of Mobile police officer Sean Tuder. More
January 10, 2022
A man has been sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison in the strangulation slaying of his girlfriend's mother whose body was found after a 2019 Pennsylvania fire. A Dauphin County judge on Monday sentenced 35-year-old Calvin Purdie Jr. to 20 to 40 years for third-degree murder and a consecutive term of 10 to 20 years for aggravated arson. More
January 10, 2022
Alabama man accused of trying to hire someone on an app to kidnap and rape a Wisconsin woman he met online.. Matthias Jacob Edward Mann was arrested on charges of attempted kidnapping and attempted coercion after a person he believed was willing to assault a woman turned out to be a police officer working undercover. More
January 10, 2022
A Kansas City, Missouri, man pleaded guilty Friday to charges related to his role in a car jacking that led to a high-speed chase and a crash that killed another driver.Derrell M. Wade, 20, pleaded guilty to one count of carjacking and one count of brandishing a firearm during a violent crime. More
January 10, 2022
Two men facing murder charges in connection to a crime spree on New Year’s Eve appeared in court for their bail hearing on Monday. Jesani Carter, 20, and Jordan Ruby, 18, faced a Las Vegas judge for the second time after the two were arrested for several robberies and shootings around town at the end of 2021. More
January 10, 2022
A man arrested on child rape charges last month in Tennessee could have victims in nine other states, a prosecutor said Monday .Ryan Andrew Meyung, 30, was charged in December with child rape, aggravated kidnapping and other related counts, Hamilton County District Attorney Neal Pinkston said in a statement. More
January 10, 2022
A New York man heading to Indianapolis in a tractor-trailer was arrested Sunday during a traffic stop on Interstate 70 after an Indiana State Police trooper found about 115 pounds of cocaine in his truck. More
January 10, 2022
The scene of the crime is still under renovation after extensive damage from the shooting. District leaders say students from Oxford High School and Bridges, the alternative high school in town, will rotate between in-person and virtual schedules. All of the in-person learning will take place at Oxford Middle School until the high school building reopens on January 24. More
January 10, 2022
Harvard University is not required to pay legal defense fees for a professor who was found guilty of hiding his ties to a Chinese-run recruitment program, Massachusetts' highest court ruled Monday. More
January 10, 2022
Convicted killer Robert Durst died in a state prison hospital facility in Stockton, his attorney Chip Lewis said. More
January 10, 2022
Kenosha County Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder accepted Dominick Black's plea during a six-minute hearing. More
January 10, 2022
Security cameras showed a group of men holding down 22-year old Dallas Jordan Barrett during an altercation with security staff at the Whiskey Row bar. More
January 10, 2022
The 53-year-old heir to a legal empire in Hampton County, South Carolina, has been jailed since his arrest in October on a growing number of charges for mostly financial crimes. More
January 10, 2022
