Latest Crime & Trial News

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

Rittenhouse's attorneys seized on a subsection of the Wisconsin law that they argued limited it to short-barreled shotguns or rifles. Rittenhouse's AR-15-style rifle was not short-barreled. More

November 15, 2021

A mother searches for answers almost two decades after her daughter and daughter's boyfriend were found shot to death in the back of a pick-up truck they took camping about an hour north of Phoenix. More

November 15, 2021

Infowars host conspiracy theorist Alex Jones liable for damages in lawsuits brought by parents of children killed in Sandy Hook shooting over Jones' claims that the massacre was a hoax. More

November 15, 2021

Judge denied mistrial requests - 3 white men charged with murdering Ahmaud Arbery after defense attorneys claimed jurors tainted by weeping from gallery as parents sat with Jesse Jackson. More

November 15, 2021

The trial began Monday for a man who is charged with killing 18 older women in Dallas and its suburbs over a two-year span. More

November 15, 2021

Opening statements were expected Tuesday in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. More

November 15, 2021

The trial’s drama will revolve around testimony from four women who say they and others were victimized as teens from 1994 to 2004. More

November 15, 2021

Travis and Greg McMichael said they armed themselves and sped after Ahmaud Arbery because they thought he was a burglar, and they wanted to catch him and hold him until police arrived. More

November 15, 2021

The trial of father and son Greg and Travis McMichael and their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan wrapped up its first full week of testimony Friday. More

November 15, 2021

With a verdict near, Gov. Tony Evers said that 500 National Guard members would be prepared for duty in Kenosha if local law enforcement requested them. More

November 15, 2021

The sister, who is older, said she knows Isabella is “dead because she was there,” the court documents said. More

November 15, 2021

Britney Spears is free. A Los Angeles judge on Friday ended the conservatorship that has controlled the pop singer's life and money for nearly 14 years. More

November 12, 2021

Bradley Rukstales - former chief executive of suburban Chicago tech company who lost his job after he threw a chair inside U.S. Capitol during Jan. 6 riot - sentenced to 30 days in jail. More

November 12, 2021

By SCOTT BAUER, MICHAEL TARM and AMY FORLITI Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — The jurors who will decide Kyle Rittenhouse’s fate will be allowed to consider lesser charges if they opt to acquit him on some of the original counts prosecutors brought, the judge said Friday during a contentious hearing in which both sides […] More

November 12, 2021

Trump ally Steve Bannon indicted on two counts of contempt of Congress after he defied congressional subpoena from House committee investigating insurrection at U.S. Capitol. More

November 12, 2021

Iowa teens Willard Noble Chaiden Miller and Jeremy Everett Goodale both 16-years-old formally charged with first-degree murder in the death of high school Spanish teacher Nohema Graber. More

November 12, 2021

Billy Chemirmir is scheduled to go on trial Monday Nov. 15 2021 in the deaths of one of 18 women he's accused of killing in Texas over a two-year span. More

November 12, 2021

St. Paul man TeKeith Jones pleaded guilty to killing his ex-girlfriend and her two children last January - a crime he said he committed to spare the children from their mother. More

November 12, 2021

William Looper told investigators he beat and abused the boy for two weeks and couldn't explain why, Solicitor David Stumbo said. More

November 12, 2021

Jurors will soon begin deliberating in a case that left Americans divided over whether Rittenhouse was a patriot taking a stand against lawlessness or a vigilante. More

November 12, 2021

A police officer testified Friday he planned to give Ahmaud Arbery a trespass warning for repeatedly entering a home under construction before he was chased and shot dead. More

November 12, 2021

With no significant opposition from anyone involved, it appears likely Judge Brenda Penny will dissolve the legal arrangement. More

November 12, 2021

Joseph Elledge - Missouri man who admitted burying wife's body and misleading authorities for more than a year about her whereabouts - was convicted Thursday of second-degree murder. More

November 12, 2021