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A $50 million lawsuit was filed against a utility company over an explosion that killed two people and damaged several homes in Flint Michigan. More

December 6, 2021

David Neal Cox - who was executed in Mississippi last month for killing his estranged wife - admitted to another killing and his confession could resolve a 2007 cold case. More

December 6, 2021

Justice Department told relatives of Emmett Till it is ending latest investigation into 1955 lynching of the Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted tortured and killed in Mississippi. More

December 6, 2021

A British woman testified Monday that Ghislaine Maxwell pressured her into giving Jeffrey Epstein sexual massages when she was still a teenager assuring her she would have "fun" with him. More

December 6, 2021

Jussie Smollett took the witness stand Monday at his trial where he is facing charges accusing him of staging a racist anti-gay attack on himself and lying to Chicago police about it. More

December 6, 2021

Testimony began with the defense calling a security guard who was working in the area where the alleged attack occurred in January 2019. More

December 6, 2021

Ghislaine Maxwell and her family have repeatedly complained about the conditions under which she has been held for the past 17 months. More

December 6, 2021

The wife of Benjamin Renick, a prominent snake breeder who was beloved by the reptile community, is on trial for his murder. More

December 6, 2021

Opening statements loom this week for a former Minnesota police officer who said she drew her handgun by mistake when she fatally shot Daunte Wright. More

December 6, 2021

A third party will investigate events at Oxford High School that occurred before a school shooting that left four students dead and six other students and a teacher wounded. More

December 6, 2021

The first week of the sex-abuse trial of Ghislaine Maxwell saw the first of her four main accusers taking the witness stand. More

December 4, 2021

The parents of a teen accused of killing four students in a shooting at a Michigan high school were caught early Saturday. More

December 4, 2021

By TOM HAYS NEW YORK (AP) — A green, folding massage table used by financier Jeffrey Epstein was brought into a Manhattan courtroom and set up in front of a jury on Friday to bolster allegations he teamed up with British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell to sexually exploit underage victims.    The theatrical flourish in […] More

December 3, 2021

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana prison inmate serving a 100-year sentence for killing his wife in 1983 has confessed to strangling, sexually assaulting and dismembering a 19-year-old Helena woman 15 years earlier, authorities said Friday. Courtney Brooke Atlas, 79, confessed to killing Pamela Ann Dorrington, who disappeared in […] More

December 3, 2021

By SEAN MURPHY The Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt denied clemency on Friday for a death row inmate sentenced to die for the 1985 shooting death of a Putnam City schoolteacher. The Republican governor’s decision clears the way for Bigler Stouffer II, 79, to receive a lethal injection at 10 […] More

December 3, 2021

Experts have found a man charged with killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket earlier this year is mentally incompetent to stand trial for now. More

December 3, 2021

The Oakland County Sheriff's Office says they are actively searching for the fugitive parents of the suspected 15-year-old shooter in the Oxford High School tragedy. More

December 3, 2021

Federal appeals judges ask whether president's every remark is part of the job - can former President Trump can be held liable in defamation case concerning his response to rape allegation. More

December 3, 2021

A look at the jurors who will hear testimony in the manslaughter trial of former suburban Minneapolis police officer Kim Potter - charged in the April shooting death of Daunte Wright. More

December 3, 2021

Jurors at sex-abuse trial of Ghislaine Maxwell expected to see law enforcement video of interior of Florida estate where prosecutors say she and Jeffrey Epstein exploited underage victims. More

December 3, 2021

A mostly white jury was seated in the manslaughter trial for Kim Potter, who is charged with shooting and killing Daunte Wright. More

December 3, 2021

School officials told James and Jennifer Crumbley to get their 15-year-old into counseling before the shooting. More

December 3, 2021

Police said there didn't appear to be a motive other than an "innocent child victim having a chance encounter with a very violent criminal." More

December 3, 2021

A Florida man who served as the music minister at a church is accused of fatally shooting his wife and two adult children, officials said. More

December 3, 2021

Nathan Sutherland has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, with lifetime probation, in connection to the 2018 Hacienda rape case. More

December 3, 2021

By COREY WILLIAMS and ED WHITE Associated Press OXFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A prosecutor on Thursday repeated her criticism of the parents of a boy who is accused of killing four students at a Michigan school, saying their actions went “far beyond negligence” and that a charging decision would come by Friday.    […] More

December 2, 2021

Jury for trial of suburban Minneapolis police officer charged in Daunte Wright's shooting death neared completion Thursday with two alternates needed ahead of opening statements next week. More

December 2, 2021

Former housekeeper testified that two women who accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexually abusing them as teens were repeated visitors to his Palm Beach mansion. More

December 2, 2021

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