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A former Louisiana State Police trooper has been charged with a civil rights violation for pummeling a Black motorist 18 times with a flashlight. More

September 24, 2021

A Georgia inmate was found guilty of murder Thursday in the slayings of two prison guards shot during a bloody escape in 2017. More

September 24, 2021

Timothy Haag of Longview was initially sentenced to life without parole for choking and drowning 7-year-old Rachel Dillard in a bathtub in 1994. More

September 24, 2021

A judge decided the evidence prosecutors presented in a preliminary hearing is sufficient to send Letecia Stauch to trial. More

September 24, 2021

Brian Laundrie, whose girlfriend, Gabby Petito's body was found at a national park, was charged with unauthorized use of a debit card. More

September 24, 2021

Scott Peterson who spent more than 15 years on Death Row in the 2002 murders of his pregnant wife and unborn son will be sentenced to life in prison this fall. More

September 23, 2021

By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A prosecutor in closing arguments at the sex-trafficking trial of R. Kelly urged jurors on Thursday to make the R&B superstar “pay” for his alleged crimes, while a defense lawyer told them they’ve been misled by opportunistic accusers about consensual relationships.    “It is now […] More

September 23, 2021

British police investigating the killing of a 28-year-old woman in London said Thursday they are probing whether she was attacked by a stranger, in a case that sparked new concerns for the safety of women walking the capital's streets. More

September 23, 2021

A double-homicide remains unsolved roughly five weeks after the bodies of Kylen Schulte and Crystal Turner were found outside of Moab. More

September 23, 2021

R. Kelly’s long-awaited racketeering and sex trafficking trial is underway in federal court in Brooklyn, New York. Court TV will provide the latest legal updates and live analysis during the trial. More

September 23, 2021

Robert Durst avoided justice for the murder of his friend Susan Berman for 20 years, but that all came to an end last week when the L.A. jury charged with deciding his fate returned a verdict. More

September 23, 2021

Attorney Stephen Estey said the group of men he represents was devastated by the judge's decision. More

September 23, 2021

Former U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis testified Wednesday in the trial of fallen tech star Elizabeth Holmes. More

September 23, 2021

R. Kelly got away with sexually abusing underage victims by ruling inner circle enablers with an iron fist a prosecutor told jurors at R&B singer's sex-trafficking trial. More

September 22, 2021

Britney Spears said in a court filing Wednesday that she agrees with her father that the conservatorship that has controlled her life and money since 2008 should be terminated. More

September 22, 2021

Opening statements in the case of a U.S. Air Force airman charged in the shooting death of a Mennonite woman are scheduled to start Friday. More

September 22, 2021

Search teams Florida wilderness park look for Brian Laundrie boyfriend of Gabby Petito young woman authorities say was killed while on a cross-country trip with him. More

September 22, 2021

Man punched kicked by Georgia police officers traffic stop filed a lawsuit alleging the stop was unjustified and the officers used excessive force against him. More

September 22, 2021

Oklahoma district judge ruled suburban Oklahoma City police officer Chance Avery face trial fatal shooting Christopher Pool refused to drop a baseball approached officer. More

September 22, 2021

Former Alabama prison worker Daniel Sexton is free on bail charged with sex crimes minors -- rape sodomy and facilitating the travel of a child for a sex act. More

September 22, 2021

The man last seen with Kristin Smart before she vanished from a college campus 25 years ago on the Central California coast will stand trial on a murder charge in her suspected death and his father will face a charge as an accomplice for allegedly helping bury her body, a judge ruled Wednesday. More

September 22, 2021

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — National Public Radio can air audio recordings from the trial of the gunman who killed five Capital Gazette newspaper employees in 2018, a federal judge has ruled in a case challenging Maryland's ban on broadcasting court proceedings. More

September 22, 2021

R. Kelly told a judge on Wednesday that he won't take the witness stand at his sex trafficking trial, meaning he'll avoid the risk of a potentially brutal cross-examination. More

September 22, 2021

A pilot has been arrested in connection with brutal attacks on women in Southern California where he allegedly choked them into unconsciousness and assaulted them in bushes off of a running trail, prosecutors announced Monday. More

September 22, 2021

A West Virginia woman has pleaded guilty to a child sex trafficking conspiracy in which she was charged with providing a 17-year-old relative to a former police chief for sex in exchange for money. More

September 22, 2021

Ashley Johnson-Barr disappeared on Sept. 6, 2018. Her remains were found days later in rugged tundra accessible only by a four-wheeler or on foot. More

September 22, 2021

By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Jury selection began Tuesday in a case against a U.S. Air Force airman accused of kidnapping a Mennonite woman, fatally shooting her and leaving her body in a forest clearing in northern Arizona. Prosecutors have largely circumstantial evidence against Mark Gooch, 22, who was stationed at […] More

September 21, 2021

A 15-year-old Virginia boy has been charged in a shooting that wounded two fellow students at their Heritage Hills High School in Newport News. More

September 21, 2021

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on Tuesday lifted stays in two cases it overturned based on a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the state has no jurisdiction over crimes committed on tribal lands by non-American Indians against Native Americans. The court lifted stays of its previous reversals of the murder […] More

September 21, 2021

R. Kelly is unlikely to take the witness stand at his sex-trafficking trial a lawyer for the R&B singer told a judge Tuesday. More

September 21, 2021