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
By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A former Idaho state lawmaker charged with rape earlier this month has been arrested in Georgia. Aaron von Ehlinger is being held without bond in the Clayton County, Georgia jail on a “fugitive from justice” charge, according to court records. He was arrested Saturday in connection […] More
September 27, 2021
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Investigators have several “promising leads” in the shooting death of Utah sophomore cornerback Aaron Lowe, the Salt Lake City police chief said Monday as family and friends mourned the football player killed less than a year after teammate Ty Jordan died in an accidental shooting. Lowe was shot at a […] More
September 27, 2021
By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — R. Kelly, the R&B superstar known for his anthem “I Believe I Can Fly,” was convicted Monday in a sex trafficking trial after decades of avoiding criminal responsibility for numerous allegations of misconduct with young women and children. A jury of […] More
September 27, 2021
R. Kelly has been found guilty on all counts at his sex trafficking trial. The R&B singer was convicted on all nine counts including racketeering and violations of the Mann Act, which prohibits the transport of “any woman or girl” across state lines for any “immoral purpose.” He faces life in prison. The jury of […] More
September 27, 2021
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Scripps News Nashville) — Metro Nashville Police Department homicide detectives charged a Chattanooga man Sunday with failure to report the discovery of a dead body and evidence tampering after he admitted to driving a corpse, believed to be that of his mother, from Hamilton County to Nashville. Thomas Henshall Jr., 37, arrived at […] More
September 27, 2021
John Hinckley was 25 when he shot and wounded the 40th U.S. president outside a Washington hotel on March 30, 1981. More
September 27, 2021
