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Kevin Strickland - Kansas City man who has been jailed for more than 40 years for a triple murder - denied having anything to do with the crime. More

November 8, 2021

Florida man Akrum Alrahib pleaded guilty to defrauding California out of over $10 million in tobacco taxes - admitted conspiring to commit mail fraud. More

November 8, 2021

Gaige Grosskreutz - protester volunteer medic wounded in Kenosha by Kyle Rittenhouse - testified he was pointing his own gun toward Rittenhouse unintentionally when Rittenhouse shot him. More

November 8, 2021

Bailey Boswell - convicted of murder in death and dismemberment of a hardware store clerk - sentenced to life in prison avoiding being first woman in Nebraska history sentenced to death. More

November 8, 2021

Authorities on Monday released identifies of the eight people who died after fans at Astroworld music festival in Houston suddenly pushed forward when rapper Travis Scott came on stage. More

November 8, 2021

Eight years after he shot dead his girlfriend Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius is up for parole but first he must meet with her parents. More

November 8, 2021

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Jurors were shown graphic, closeup police photos Monday of the gunshot wounds that killed Ahmaud Arbery, while the first officer to find the 25-year-old Black man bleeding in the road testified he did not try to render medical aid because it would not have been safe. […] More

November 8, 2021

A man who suffered a severe arm injury when he was shot by Kyle Rittenhouse during a night of protests against racial injustice is expected to testify this week as prosecutors near the end of their case in Rittenhouse's murder trial. More

November 8, 2021

LONDON, Ky. (AP) — Law enforcement officials in Kentucky say a 16-year-old girl missing from North Carolina has been found after someone noticed her using a distress signal made popular on TikTok. According to the Laurel County Sheriff’s Office, police have charged the driver who had the girl in his car with unlawful imprisonment and […] More

November 8, 2021

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Prosecutors and defense attorneys on Friday presented dueling portraits of Ahmaud Arbery, who was either an innocent Black runner fatally shot by three white strangers or “a scary mystery” who had been seen prowling around a Georgia neighborhood. >>>READ MORE: The Killing of Ahmaud Arbery: Daily […] More

November 5, 2021

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A prosecutor investigating accusations that former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo groped a woman has asked a judge for more time, saying the criminal complaint filed last week by the local sheriff was “potentially defective.” The request from Albany Country District Attorney David Soares throws the high-profile case in turmoil a […] More

November 5, 2021

Nearly 30 years after Jeffrey Dahmer admitted to killing and dismembering 15 people, one of the jurors at his murder trial talks about what it was like to decide whether Dahmer was insane at the heinous crimes. More

November 5, 2021

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — White men in pickup trucks chased Ahmaud Arbery for five minutes, and one threatened to shoot him, as they cut off the jogger’s escape from a Georgia subdivision and ultimately killed the 25-year-old Black man with a shotgun, a prosecutor told a trial jury Friday. >>>READ […] More

November 5, 2021

Shanga Hankerson - son of R&B legend Gladys Knight - sentenced to two years in prison for failing to withhold payroll taxes for restaurants that bore his mother's name. More

November 5, 2021

Sabrina Dunigan charged with child endangerment in August fire deaths of her five young children who she allegedly left in a southwest Illinois apartment without adult supervision. More

November 5, 2021

The first man shot and killed by Kyle Rittenhouse on the streets of Kenosha was acting “belligerently” that night but did not appear to pose a serious threat to anyone, a witness testified Friday at Rittenhouse's murder trial. More

November 5, 2021

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (Court TV) — Gregory McMichael, Travis McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan are on trial for the February 23, 2020, killing of Ahmaud Arbery. DAY 14 – 11/24/21 The jury requests to see two videos, three times each: original cellphone video (shortened version) and high contrast version. The jury also requests to hear Greg […] More

November 5, 2021

An El Paso County woman accused of killing her 11-year-old stepson, Gannon Stauch, entered a not guilty plea in court Thursday afternoon. More

November 5, 2021

Prosecutors said Larry had made 129 phone calls, and about nine hours’ worth of those calls had been to the kids. More

November 5, 2021

The killing of Ahmaud Arbery has became part of a broader reckoning on racial injustice in the criminal legal system. More

November 5, 2021

Trial of a former longshot Idaho gubernatorial candidate charged in killing of 12-year-old Colorado girl ended with jurors unable to reach verdicts on the most serious charges against him. More

November 4, 2021

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A man who was fired from his dishwashing job at Billings steakhouse returned to the restaurant hours later, grabbed some knives and stabbed or cut some of his former co-workers while demanding money, police said. Five people were injured Wednesday evening, three were taken to area hospitals, and the 21-year-old former […] More

November 4, 2021

By AMY FORLITI, TAMMY WEBBER and MICHAEL TARM Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — The first man shot by Kyle Rittenhouse on the streets of Kenosha was “hyperaggressive” that night, threatened to kill Rittenhouse, and later lunged for his rifle just before the 17-year-old fired, witnesses testified Thursday. >>>READ MORE: Kenosha Protest Shooting Trial Daily […] More

November 4, 2021

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The trial hasn’t even started and yet issues of race are dominating the case in which three white men are charged with murder for chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery.    The 25-year-old Black man’s slaying has become part of the broader reckoning on racial injustice […] More

November 4, 2021

U.S. charges against Chicago woman Heather Mack - convicted of killing wealthy mom on Bali vacation - raised questions about how someone who went to prison overseas can be in U.S. court. More

November 4, 2021

Jennifer Leigh Ryan Texas real estate agent flaunted participation in Jan. 6 Capitol riot bragged she wasn't going to jail because she's white and blond with a good job sentenced to jail. More

November 4, 2021

Eric Kortz - former neighbor of U.S. Postal Service worker who told authorities he thought the mail carrier had poisoned him and his family with cyanide - was indicted on a murder charge. More

November 4, 2021

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man is accused of being violent during the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, federal officials said. The charges against Joshua John Portlock, 40, of Smyrna, include engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds, civil disorder, and assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers, according to […] More

November 4, 2021

Mississippi man Bridell Barber sentenced to life in prison without parole after he pleaded guilty Wednesday to shooting five people to death — one in 2016 and four in 2017. More

November 4, 2021

The man known as “Tiger King,” who gained fame in a Netflix documentary following his conviction for trying to hire someone to kill an animal rights activist, says he has cancer. More

November 4, 2021