Latest Crime & Trial News

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

GBI medical examiner Dr. Edmund Donoghue testified that Ahmaud Arbery was hit by two of the three shotgun blasts fired at him. More

November 16, 2021

Vanessa Bryant's lawyers argued that the effort to get her therapy records was a further invasion of her privacy. More

November 16, 2021

As a jury was deliberating over his fate, a Georgia district attorney on Monday pleaded guilty to several charges stemming from improper acts while in office and agreed to resign. More

November 16, 2021

Six teenagers were wounded Monday in a drive-by shooting in a park near a suburban Denver high school but all were expected to survive police said. More

November 15, 2021

Attorneys in Rittenhouse trial sparred for last time during closing arguments - prosecutors painting Rittenhouse as inexperienced instigator and defense insisting he fired in self-defense. More

November 15, 2021

Rittenhouse's attorney countered shooting started after young man was ambushed by a "crazy person" that night and became afraid his gun was going to be wrested away and used to kill him. More

November 15, 2021

Rittenhouse provoked bloodshed on streets of Kenosha by bringing a semi-automatic to a protest and menacing others - when the shooting stopped he walked off like a "hero in a Western." More

November 15, 2021