By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. (AP) — Lawyers for nine people hurt during the 2017 “Unite The Right” rally in Charlottesville told a jury Thursday that white nationalists “planned, executed and then celebrated” racially motivated violence that killed one counterprotester and injured dozens more. Their arguments in U.S. District Court in […] More
November 18, 2021
By RUSS BYNUM and JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The man who killed Ahmaud Arbery testified Thursday that Arbery did not speak, show a weapon or threaten him in any way before he raised his shotgun and pointed it at the 25-year-old Black man. Under cross-examination by the prosecution on his second […] More
November 18, 2021
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt stopped the execution of death row inmate Julius Jones on Thursday, commuting his death sentence. More
November 18, 2021
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has rejected a request by Steven Avery to review his conviction, a case that became the focus of a popular Netflix series “Making a Murderer.” More
November 18, 2021
Julius Jones, 41, who has maintained his innocence for more than two decades, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Thursday. More
November 18, 2021
Rapper Young Dolph was shot and killed Wednesday inside a beloved local cookie shop in his hometown of Memphis. More
November 18, 2021
According to court documents, the girl's older biological sister told a detective she saw Isabella in a dog cage, with duct tape on her nose and mouth and not breathing. More
November 18, 2021
Kyle Rittenhouse trial verdict watch Kenosha, Wisconsin and Defense Attorney Kevin Gough creates controversy in Brunswick, Georgia. More
November 18, 2021
Lawsuit alleges Alec Baldwin recklessly fired gun when it wasn't called for in script when he shot and killed Halyna Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza on New Mexico set of "Rust." More
November 17, 2021
By MICHAEL TARM, SCOTT BAUER and AMY FORLITI Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Kyle Rittenhouse’s attorneys asked the judge to declare a mistrial even as the jury in the murder case was deliberating Wednesday, saying the defense received an inferior copy of a potentially crucial video from prosecutors. Judge Bruce Schroeder did […] More
November 17, 2021
Travis McMichael - man who fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery - testified Arbery attacked him and grabbed his shotgun after he and his father pursued the Black man in their Georgia neighborhood. More
November 17, 2021
Administrators overreached when permanently expelled 17-year-old high school student for sending Snapchats after school hours referring to another student as a potential school shooter. More
November 17, 2021
A man who pleaded guilty to killing his estranged wife and sexually assaulting her young daughter as her mother lay dying was put to death Wednesday evening. More
November 17, 2021
Race was going to be at forefront of trial of 3 white men charged with killing Arbery but lawyer's rejected call to kick out Black pastors including Jesse Jackson intensified frustrations. More
November 17, 2021
Henry Ruggs is under home confinement with electronic monitoring and four-times-a-day alcohol checks. More
November 17, 2021
A Michigan man accused of spiking his wife's cereal with heroin was convicted of murder and other crimes Wednesday. More
November 17, 2021
Two men convicted in the assassination of Malcolm X are set to be cleared after more than half a century. More
November 17, 2021
Judge Bruce Schroeder called some coverage of the Kyle Rittenhouse case “frightening.” More
November 17, 2021
Jacob Chansley, the spear-carrying Jan. 6 rioter whose horned fur hat, bare chest and face paint made him one of the more recognizable figures in the assault on the Capitol, was sentenced Wednesday to 41 months in prison. More
November 17, 2021
Defense lawyers were expected to build on arguments that their clients were lawfully trying to stop burglaries in their neighborhood as they began presenting their case Wednesday in the murder trial of three white men for the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. More
November 17, 2021
About two hours into deliberations on the second day, jurors asked to view video presented at the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. More
November 17, 2021
Testimony during the trial indicated Steven Vogel told witnesses he killed the man out of jealousy over a “love triangle” involving his girlfriend. More
November 17, 2021
Rittenhouse jury deliberated full day Tuesday without reaching verdict whether he was instigator in night of bloodshed in Kenosha or concerned citizen trying to help who came under attack. More
November 16, 2021
An insurance company is suing the mother of two boys killed by her estranged husband over a $4 million life insurance payout which claims she may not have been legally entitled to receive. More
November 16, 2021
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — An organizer of the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville appeared to instruct supporters to mislead law enforcement about the potential size of the 2017 protest, according to communications presented in court Monday. Jason Kessler is one of two dozen defendants who are testifying in a federal civil trial to […] More
November 16, 2021
By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — One of the 18 older women a man is charged with killing in the Dallas area over a two-year span ran a restaurant in Vietnam before leaving on a helicopter as Saigon fell and was a generous person who loved giving people $2 bills, her son-in-law testified […] More
November 16, 2021
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press NEW ALBANY, Miss. (AP) — If all goes as scheduled, 23-year-old Lindsey Kirk will be at a Mississippi prison this week to watch the execution of the stepfather who terrorized her family, sexually assaulted her when she was a child and killed her mother. David Neal Cox is scheduled […] More
November 16, 2021
By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Prosecutors rested their case Tuesday in the trial of three white men charged with chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery after the jury saw graphic photos of the shotgun wounds that punched a gaping hole in his chest and unleashed bleeding that stained his white T-shirt entirely […] More
November 16, 2021
NEW YORK (AP) — Prospective jurors got their first glimpse of Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite charged with helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse girls and women, when a judge began questioning them individually Tuesday. Wearing a black suit, Maxwell hugged her lawyers when she entered the courtroom and briefly sketched a courtroom artist who was drawing her. […] More
November 16, 2021
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Kyle Rittenhouse played a direct role Tuesday in deciding, albeit randomly, who will be the final 12 jurors that will decide his innocence or guilt in the murder trial over his killing of two protesters and injuring a third last summer. At the direction of Circuit Judge Bruce Schroder, Rittenhouse’s attorney placed […] More
November 16, 2021
