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
FBI says county coroner confirmed human remains found in Wyoming Grand Teton National Park are those of 22-year-old Gabby Petito. More
September 21, 2021
A former probation officer has been found guilty for her role in the kidnapping and killing of a Minneapolis real estate agent. More
September 21, 2021
A Michigan woman has been charged with murder days after her 3-year-old daughter's body was found with stab wounds inside a garbage bag, authorities said. More
September 21, 2021
The arrest affidavit in the Barry Morphew case, which details the allegations into why he was arrested for the murder of his wife, has been made public. More
September 21, 2021
The FBI gave no details on the search by at least a dozen law enforcement officers, but agents removed several boxes and towed away a car. More
September 21, 2021
Pilot 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. More
September 20, 2021
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Two students were wounded in a shooting at a Virginia high school and a suspect is in custody, police said Monday. A 17-year-old boy was shot in the side of his face at Heritage High School and a 17-year-old girl was shot in the leg, Newport News police Chief Steve […] More
September 20, 2021
Four people whose bodies were found in an abandoned SUV in western Wisconsin were killed in St. Paul Minnesota where three of the victims lived police said Monday. More
September 20, 2021
Prosecutors will be allowed to present evidence at an upcoming trial that they say shows a U.S. Air Force airman charged in the death of Mennonite woman had disdain for the religious group, a judge ruled Friday. More
September 20, 2021
The U.S. resident and Belgian citizen was convicted on eight charges including membership in a terrorist group, murder and abduction. More
September 20, 2021
Prosecutors at the R. Kelly sex trafficking trial ended their case Monday after calling dozens of witnesses over the past month who detailed the government’s sweeping allegations against the singer in lurid detail. More
September 20, 2021
An Illinois woman accused of resenting a boyfriend's 4-year-old son was sentenced to 75 years in prison for killing the boy. More
September 20, 2021
The FBI said the body of Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito was found Sunday by law enforcement agents who spent the weekend searching camp sites on the eastern border of Grand Teton National Park. More
September 20, 2021
Prosecutors will not be able to argue that Kyle Rittenhouse is affiliated with the Proud Boys or that he attacked someone else months before. More
September 17, 2021
A judge ruled there is enough evidence case to proceed against Barry Morphew Colorado man charged with first-degree murder after his wife was reported missing on Mother's Day 2020. More
September 17, 2021
Prosecutors closer to concluding case at R. Kelly sex-trafficking trial calling two final witnesses to cement allegations he groomed young victims for unwanted sex dating to the 1990s. More
September 17, 2021
A Los Angeles jury found eccentric real estate scion Robert Durst guilty of murdering his best friend more than 20 years ago. More
September 17, 2021
Texas woman convicted of capital murder for her role in the slayings of a Wichita couple who were killed after a carnival worker ordered their deaths as part of a fictitious carnival mafia. More
September 17, 2021
Los Angeles jury began deliberating in murder trial of New York real estate heir Robert Durst after prosecutor described him as "narcissistic psychopath" who needs to be held accountable. More
September 17, 2021
Police video shows Florida woman who disappeared during a cross-country journey in a converted camper van had an emotional fight with her boyfriend in a Utah tourist town before she vanished. More
September 17, 2021
