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
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
