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Prosecutors said Danyal Hussein had pledged to kill six women every six months in order to win the Mega Millions Super Jackpot lottery. More

October 28, 2021

A man freed from prison last year after serving nearly 60 years in the slaying of one of three suburban Chicago women found bludgeoned to death in a state park has won court approval for DNA testing of evidence found at the crime scene. More

October 28, 2021

Families of nine victims killed in a racist attack at a Black South Carolina church have reached a settlement with the Justice Department. More

October 28, 2021

Lori Vallow Daybell's attorney filed explosive motion alleging that client -- who is currently committed to a psychiatric facility -- is being manipulated by her caretakers. More

October 28, 2021

Vinnie Politan discusses three big legal stories that have grabbed national headlines: Maya Millete, Maya Millete, Brian Laundrie and Alec Baldwin. More

October 28, 2021

Suspended Virginia Tech linebacker Isimemen Etute -- accused in the fatal beating of a Tinder match -- has been indicted on a charge of second-degree murder. More

October 27, 2021

2008 settlement agreement that a lawyer for Prince Andrew says would protect him against claims he sexually abused an American when she was 17 can remain secret. More

October 27, 2021

Jury seated in civil trial to determine whether white nationalists who planned 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville will be held responsible for the violence. More

October 27, 2021

A federal appeals court granted stays of execution on Wednesday for two Oklahoma inmates who were scheduled to receive lethal injections in the coming weeks. More

October 27, 2021

An Alabama woman received a life sentence Wednesday for helping her husband plan the 2015 killings of his estranged pregnant wife her unborn child and three others. More

October 27, 2021

New York state trooper Christopher Baldner charged with murder in death of 11-year-old girl Monica Goods by ramming patrol vehicle into her family's vehicle. More

October 27, 2021

Donald Trump's lawsuit to get his Twitter account restored must be heard in a California court not a Florida one under user agreement covering everyone on the platform. More

October 27, 2021

On April 4, 1991, a town sanitation worker found a baby boy's remains in a trash can rack on East Tides Drive. More

October 27, 2021

An attorney for the U.S. government argued that the judge was wrong to conclude that Julian Assange’s mental health was too fragile to withstand the U.S. judicial system. More

October 27, 2021

Beyond murder, the fired deputies faced charges of involuntary manslaughter, false imprisonment, aggravated assault, simple assault and reckless conduct. More

October 27, 2021

After deliberating barely two days, the jury delivered a split verdict in the case against Officer Andrew Hall, who now faces up to 17 years in prison. More

October 27, 2021

One of the surviving siblings called authorities and told them his brother had been dead for a year and the body was inside the apartment. More

October 27, 2021

The news conference promises the first detailed public comments by investigators about the killing of Halyna Hutchins at a New Mexico ranch. More

October 27, 2021

Chicago Blackhawks mishandled allegations assistant coach sexually assaulted player during team's Stanley Cup run in 2010 according to investigation cast shadow over NHL. More

October 26, 2021

Prince Andrew's lawyer asks New York judge to keep sealed 2009 legal agreement he says protects the prince against a lawsuit's claims he sexually assaulted an American woman under age 18. More

October 26, 2021

A jury found Stanley Ford guilty of aggravated murder in the deaths of nine neighbors -- including five children. More

October 26, 2021

Months before Rosa Parks became the mother of the modern civil rights movement by refusing to move to the back of a segregated Alabama bus Black teenager Claudette Colvin did the same. More

October 26, 2021

Stanley Ford, convicted of killing nine people in arson fires, was sentenced to life in prison without parole for each death. More

October 26, 2021

North Dakota man has pleaded guilty to killing a 14-year-old girl who authorities said was strangled and stabbed more than 20 times in a random attack outside a store in June. More

October 26, 2021

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Alec Baldwin the actor, who pulled the trigger on a prop gun while filming “Rust” in New Mexico and unwittingly killed a cinematographer and injured a director, likely won’t be held criminally or civilly liable for the tragedy.   But Alec Baldwin the producer might be, along with several others in […] More

October 26, 2021

A local prosecutor has filed a motion to clear the names of four young African American men who were wrongly accused of raping a white woman more than seven decades ago in what is considered one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in Jim Crow-era Florida. More

October 26, 2021

A Las Vegas woman is accused of defrauding Social Security for years after she allegedly dismembered her dead husband’s body and threw his remains in the trash. More

October 26, 2021

After the shootings, Ali Abulaban, still armed, picked up his daughter from school, Deputy District Attorney Taren Brast said.  More

October 26, 2021

A 44-year-old Kansas City woman has admitted that she had a role in the attempted murder of an inmate at the Lansing Correctional Facility. More

October 26, 2021

“The guy is going to be in a box for the rest of his life,” attorney Mark Fernich said. “I’m not asking you to play violins for him. This is his last shot.” More

October 26, 2021