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Chad and Lori Vallow Daybell on charges they murdered her children J.J. Vallow and Tylee Ryan. More

December 2, 2021

A second brother testified that Jussie Smollett plotted a racist anti-gay attack on himself and paid them to carry it out. More

December 2, 2021

A man accused of putting razor blades and screws in pizza dough at supermarkets in Maine and New Hampshire was sentenced Thursday to four years and nine months in federal prison. More

December 2, 2021

Federal prosecutors said Thursday that a North Carolina woman deserves a prison sentence for bringing her 14-year-old child into the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot. More

December 2, 2021

NEW YORK (AP) — The assistant director who handed Alec Baldwin a prop gun that went off on a New Mexico film set, killing a cinematographer, backs up the actor’s assertion that he did not pull the trigger. Lisa Torraco, a lawyer for assistant director David Halls, told ABC News that her client has always […] More

December 2, 2021

Jussie Smollett’s legal team worked to dent the credibility of a star state witness who testified the actor recruited him and his brother. More

December 2, 2021

Nearly 90 criminal charges have been filed against a former Baltimore homicide prosecutor, More

December 2, 2021

The Kenosha Police Department has released bodycam footage of an incident that led news organization MSNBC to be banned from the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. More

December 2, 2021

The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison after pleading guilty to helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar criminal empire. More

December 2, 2021

At the time of the crash, Darrell Brooks, Jr. was out on $1,000 bail in a case in which he is accused of intentionally striking a woman with his car. More

December 2, 2021

We discuss the dramatic verdicts of The Kyle Rittenhouse trial and The Killing of Ahmaud Arbery murder trial. More

December 2, 2021

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 4-1 on Wednesday to reject clemency for a man convicted and sentenced to die for his role in a quadruple slaying in Oklahoma City in 2005. More

December 1, 2021

The aspiring actor testified that Jussie Smollett recruited him and his brother to stage a homophobic, racist attack in Chicago. More

December 1, 2021

15-year-old Ethan Crumbley charged Wednesday with murder terrorism and other counts for a shooting that killed four fellow students and injured others at Michigan's Oxford High School. More

December 1, 2021

Ghislaine Maxwell defense attorneys sought to undermine key accuser's allegation British socialite helped Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse the woman for years starting when she was 14. More

December 1, 2021

Jussie Smollett appeared troubled when he was told that a surveillance camera did not record the alleged assault. More

December 1, 2021

Kim Potter, 49, is charged with first- and second-degree manslaughter in the April 11 shooting of Duante Wright. More

December 1, 2021

Ralph Williams was arrested Monday in Jacksonville and charged with the death of Carla Lowe, whose beaten body was found Nov. 13, 1983. More

December 1, 2021

A jury was seated in the case Tuesday, which is being tried in Fayetteville in northwest Arkansas. More

December 1, 2021

A serial Florida bank robber once dubbed the “I-4 bandit” was arrested Tuesday for a new holdup just months after his release from prison, police said. More

December 1, 2021

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — One-time entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes, under questioning by prosecutors, struggled Tuesday to recall key events that led to her facing criminal fraud charges for allegedly fleecing investors and customers of her failed blood-testing startup Theranos. Her cross-examination began the day after she shared painfully vivid memories […] More

November 30, 2021

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities pursued new leads Tuesday on possible sources of live ammunition involved in actor Alec Baldwin's fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the New Mexico set of a western movie, as they searched the premises of an Albuquerque-based firearms and ammunition supplier. More

November 30, 2021

Deputies rushed to the school around lunch time as more than 100 calls flooded 911 dispatchers with reports of a shooter. They arrested the student in a hallway within minutes of their arrival. More

November 30, 2021

Two brothers arrested for an alleged attack on Jussie Smollett recounted for Chicago police how the ex-“Empire” actor orchestrated the hoax. More

November 30, 2021

Lawrence Paul Visoski Jr., the trial’s first witness, acknowledged that he never encountered sexual activity aboard two jets he piloted for roughly 1,000 trips between 1991 and 2019. More

November 30, 2021

Four jurors were seated in a process that may take as much as a week or more. Opening statements are Dec. 8. More

November 30, 2021

Attorneys asked potential jurors in Kim Potter's manslaughter trial about their attitudes on policing and the Black Lives Matter movement. More

November 30, 2021

Kim Potter, a former police officer in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, is charged with manslaughter in the April 11 shooting death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, a Black motorist. Here are some key moments in the case: More

November 30, 2021

NEW YORK (AP) — A longtime pilot for the late financier Jeffrey Epstein resumed his testimony at Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking trial Tuesday, saying that the British socialite charged with helping the financier find teenage girls to sexually abuse was “Number 2” in the hierarchy of Epstein’s operations. Lawrence Paul Visoski Jr. is the first witness in […] More

November 30, 2021

The TV journalist offered to reach out to "sources," including other reporters, to find out whether more women were going to come forward and relayed what he was hearing to his brother's advisers, according to the materials made public Monday. More

November 30, 2021