Latest Crime & Trial News

Prosecutors at Durst's murder trial only have to prove he killed one person: best friend Susan Berman. But they're not taking any chances. More

September 8, 2021

Britney Spears' father filed to end the court conservatorship that has controlled the singer's life and money for 13 years. James Spears filed his petition in Los Angeles Superior Court. More

September 7, 2021

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Just six years ago, Elizabeth Holmes seemed destined to fulfill her dream of becoming Silicon Valley’s next superstar. She was the subject of business magazine cover stories describing her as the youngest self-made female billionaire in history, former President Bill Clinton was reverently quizzing her about her thoughts on […] More

September 7, 2021

Many women described Ron Jeremy using the same methods in the same places. More

September 7, 2021

A judge last week refused to delay the Oct. 12 trial of Lev Parnas and Andrey Kukushkin on charges that they made illegal campaign contributions to U.S. politicians. More

September 7, 2021

A Maine man who used a baseball bat to beat his mother, his grandparents and his grandparents’ caretaker to death in Massachusetts in 2017 has pleaded guilty. More

September 7, 2021

Teacher Krystal Jackson was booked into Fresno County Jail on multiple charges, including four counts of rape. More

September 7, 2021

Authorities say Eric Westergard led them to an overpass, where they recovered the body of 23-year-old Perrin Damron. More

September 7, 2021

Nicholas Firkus claimed an intruder shot and killed his wife on April 25, 2010. He also sustained a leg injury. More

September 7, 2021

Alex Murdaugh found the bodies of his wife and son after family members said he had been away checking on his mother and ailing father. More

September 7, 2021

R. Kelly paid $200K settle lawsuit woman who accused him of giving her herpes without disclosing he had it R&B singer's sex-trafficking trial. More

September 3, 2021

Curtis Flowers Mississippi man freed after nearly 23 years prison filed lawsuit against district attorney prosecuted him six times in killings of four people at a small town furniture store. More

September 3, 2021

Walter D. Kemp a St. Louis man who spent much of his adult life in prison for violent crimes has been sentenced to up to 20 years for killing a woman in January 2018. More

September 3, 2021

Oklahoma Attorney General John O'Connor said Friday that he is dropping his appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in the first-degree murder case of death row inmate Shaun Bosse. More

September 3, 2021

Hearing determine Ahmad Alissa man charged killing 10 people Colorado supermarket stand trial delayed lawyers believe "mental disability" prevents understand proceedings help defend him. More

September 3, 2021

Ahmaud Arbery's parents praised indictment of former Georgia prosecutor coastal Glynn County Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney Jackie Johnson on charges of misconduct. More

September 3, 2021

By AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota prosecutors filed a more serious charge Thursday against the former suburban Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, but it is not the murder charge that activists were seeking. Former Brooklyn Center officer Kim Potter is now charged with first-degree manslaughter, in addition to […] More

September 3, 2021

Federal marshals arrest Ohio man Benjamin Dagley accused running toward yelling at an MSNBC journalist who was doing a live report by a Mississippi beach after Hurricane Ida. More

September 2, 2021

Woman reluctantly took witness stand against R. Kelly recount how he struck up a relationship with her in 2006 when she was 15 but dodged prosecutor's questions about when they first had sex. More

September 2, 2021

Former Arizona nurse Nathan Sutherland pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting incapacitated woman three years ago at a long-term care facility where she later gave birth. More

September 2, 2021

Former Georgia prosecutor Jackie Johnson misconduct charges alleging used position shield men chased killed Ahmaud Arbery from being charged with crimes immediately after shooting. More

September 2, 2021

NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who wasn’t a fan of R. Kelly ended up getting exposed to a sexually transmitted disease after he enticed her to join him on the road, she testified on Tuesday at the R&B entertainer’s sex-trafficking trial. More

September 2, 2021

A jury has found Joshua Ward guilty in the 2018 shooting deaths of a Kentucky woman and her 9-year-old son. More

September 2, 2021

Christian "Kit" Martin was convicted of murdering Edward Dansereau and married couple Calvin and Pamela Phillips on November 18, 2015. More

September 2, 2021

Michael Fisher is facing charges for allegedly beating his then-two-month-old daughter to the "brink of death." More

September 2, 2021

Accused murderer Robert Durst endured nine days of cross-examination, questioned relentlessly by prosecutor John Lewin about the death of Susan Berman. More

September 2, 2021

A part-time police officer and former firefighter in West Virginia has been indicted on federal civil rights charges involving two victims. More

September 2, 2021

In an exclusive interview, Christian Martins sits down with Court TV legal correspondent Julia Jenaé to discuss his reaction to the verdict and his case. More

September 2, 2021

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Britney Spears will face no charges after an allegation from her housekeeper that Spears slapped a phone out of her hand, prosecutors said Wednesday. A possible misdemeanor battery charge was declined based on insufficient evidence that a crime had occurred and lack of injury to the housekeeper or of significant […] More

September 1, 2021

Robert Durst's marathon testimony over three weeks — in which the ailing millionaire denied killing his wife and best friend but also said he'd lied if he had done so — concluded. More

September 1, 2021