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A trial date has been set for the East Tennessee mother charged with murder in the death of her 15-month-old daughter. More

September 30, 2021

By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Murder charges were dismissed Thursday against a man who spent 15 years in prison for the fire-related deaths of five children in suburban Detroit, the climax of an investigation that found misconduct by police and prosecutors. Juwan Deering will not face a second trial, Oakland County […] More

September 30, 2021

Despite her advanced age, the German woman was to be tried in juvenile court because she was under 21 at the time of the alleged crimes. More

September 30, 2021

David & Mia Swan were shot multiple times, but investigators say there’s no evidence anyone broke in or stole anything from their home. More

September 30, 2021

After a six-week trial in a federal courthouse in Brooklyn, NY, Grammy Award-winning recording artist learned his fate when the jury returned with a verdict of guilty on all counts in his sex trafficking trial. More

September 30, 2021

A serving London police officer was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Thursday for the kidnapping, rape and murder of a woman he tricked into his car using his police identification and COVID-19 laws. More

September 30, 2021

By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The brother of a U.S. Air Force airman on trial in the death of a Mennonite woman testified Wednesday that the defendant asked him to remotely scrub information from his cellphone shortly before he was arrested and later charged with kidnapping and murder. Samuel Gooch’s testimony […] More

September 29, 2021

EATONTON, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia prisoner found guilty of murder in the 2017 killings of two guards on a transport bus was sentenced Wednesday to serve life in prison without parole. After taking only a few hours last week to convict Donnie Rowe of malice murder and other crimes, jurors could not agree on […] More

September 29, 2021

A man who broke into Eminem's suburban Detroit home and allegedly told the rapper "he was there to kill him" has been sentenced to five years probation and time served. More

September 29, 2021

In a victory for Britney Spears a judge suspended the singer's father from conservatorship that controlled her life and money for 13 years saying arrangement "reflects a toxic environment." More

September 29, 2021

A federal judge has denied motions seeking to dismiss child pornography charges against former reality TV star Josh Duggar. More

September 29, 2021

The Minneapolis suburb where Black motorist Daunte Wright was killed by an officer in April has enacted its first step in a plan to change policing in the city. More

September 29, 2021

A mother is facing a first-degree murder charge after allegedly shooting her two children at a home in south Phoenix. More

September 29, 2021

Judge Brenda Penny has been the calm eye of the storm surrounding Britney Spears and the conservatorship that controls her life. More

September 29, 2021

Prosecutors have charged a man and his father in connection with three slayings in Southern California between 2014 and 2018. More

September 29, 2021

Stewart Weldon changed his not guilty plea to guilty on 39 charges during a hearing at Hampden County Superior Court in Springfield. More

September 29, 2021

Sedalia man Jon Mark Wilson pleaded guilty to trying to hire someone to kill a victim in a statutory sodomy case. More

September 28, 2021

Federal prosecutors in Washington D.C. amended criminal charges against Tennessee man and Nevada resident arrested in Las Vegas in January accused of violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. More

September 28, 2021

Doctors determining whether Ahmad Alissa -- man charged with killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket -- is mentally competent to stand trial getting more time to finish their evaluation. More

September 28, 2021

Paul Hoff man charged in the 2018 stabbing death of another man who was found buried at a Cedar Rapids home has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge. More

September 28, 2021

Federal court turns down Dylan Roof request for new hearing to challenge his death sentence and conviction in 2015 racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation. More

September 28, 2021

Cara Lee Rintala's wife, Annamarie Cochrane Rintala was found strangled in the basement of the couple's Granby home in 2010. More

September 28, 2021

Authorities found the body Monday of a maintenance worker who was considered a person of interest in the case of a missing central Florida college student. More

September 28, 2021

For the past century, the Murdaughs have steered much of the legal world in this remote corner of South Carolina. More

September 28, 2021

A man already sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to fatally shooting four people at a massage business outside Atlanta is set to enter a plea to shooting four others on the same day at two spas inside the city. More

September 28, 2021

So far, only about 80 cases have been resolved by guilty pleas — largely by those who were charged only with misdemeanor offenses. More

September 28, 2021

CORONA, Calif. (AP) — A man accused of fatally shooting two young people inside a Southern California movie theater last July has pleaded not guilty, and not guilty by reason of insanity, to two counts of murder. Joseph Jimenez, 20, did not speak during Monday’s hearing at the Riverside Hall of Justice, letting his attorney […] More

September 27, 2021

SHREVEPORT,La. (AP) — A woman accused of throwing two of her children into a Louisiana lake has been extradited from Texas to Louisiana, where she faces a murder charge that could send her to jail for life. Ureka Black, 32, of Shreveport, is accused of throwing her 5-year-old and 8-month-old sons into Cross Lake on […] More

September 27, 2021

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer America had yet to really understand sexual harassment when Anita Hill testified against Clarence Thomas in front of an all-male Senate panel in October 1991. He was confirmed to the Supreme Court anyway, but Hill’s work was just beginning. Now, three decades later, what does 65-year-old Hill wish she […] More

September 27, 2021

COLLIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Law enforcement officials on Monday said the gunman who killed one person and wounded 14 others at a Tennessee supermarket before killing himself had been asked to leave his job at the grocery store earlier that day. In a news release, Collierville police say UK Thang had moved to the upscale […] More

September 27, 2021