By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada man who pleaded guilty in state and federal courts to crimes stemming from the abduction and rape of two teenage girls was sentenced Tuesday to about 15 more years in federal prison and lifetime supervision as a top-tier sex offender. “I just wish I […] More
August 31, 2021
Jury selection fraud trial Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes cast spotlight on fallen Silicon Valley star facing felony charges alleging she duped financial backers customers and patients. More
August 31, 2021
Oklahoma appeals court reversed previous rulings that overturned death penalty cases based on Supreme Court ruling limiting state jurisdiction for crimes committed on tribal reservations. More
August 31, 2021
In a short video taken immediately after the shooting, the gunman can be seen dancing while people are heard screaming. More
August 31, 2021
Paul Tay is accused of kidnapping and raping a woman who replied to a Craigslist ad about a job on his campaign. More
August 31, 2021
A man accused of capital murder in the 2019 death of a college student he occasionally dated pleaded guilty to a lesser charge that took the death penalty off the table. More
August 31, 2021
Starke County prosecutors charged Justin Miller of Hamlet with murder Monday afternoon in the death of Mercedes Lain. More
August 31, 2021
The “Martinsville Seven," as the men became known, were all convicted of raping 32-year-old Ruby Stroud Floyd, who was white. More
August 31, 2021
House committee investigating Jan. 6 insurrection U.S. Capitol asks social media + telecommunications companies to preserve phone or computer records More
August 30, 2021
A federal grand jury has indicted a defrocked American priest Richard Daschbach on charges of having sex with minors while running a children's shelter in a remote part of East Timor. More
August 30, 2021
New Hampshire woman forced to behead her lover's corpse after her husband killed the man pleaded guilty on Monday to three counts of falsifying evidence plea agreement with prosecutors. More
August 30, 2021
Maine State Prison inmate Doug Burr has settled a lawsuit against the state Department of Corrections for the nearly two years he spent in solitary confinement. More
August 30, 2021
Cristhian Bahena Rivera sentenced to life in prison without parole in abduction and killing of Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts three years after she disappeared while out for a run. More
August 30, 2021
A man took the witness stand at R. Kelly's sex-trafficking trial in New York City on Monday to say the R&B star exploited him when he was a high school student. More
August 30, 2021
Robert Aaron Long killed 8 people Atlanta massage will spend life in prison pleading guilty in four of the killings. But he faces more charges + possible death sentence. More
August 30, 2021
Jury selection is set to begin Monday in the trial of one of two Georgia prisoners accused of killing two guards more than four years ago. More
August 30, 2021
The man convicted of killing Mollie Tibbetts — in a trial Court TV carried gavel-to-gavel — is scheduled to be sentenced Monday, August 30, starting at 2:30/3:30c. After a two-week trial, a jury found Cristhian Bahena Rivera guilty of the 20-year-old University of Iowa 2018 student’s stabbing death. Tibbetts’ body was discovered in a cornfield […] More
August 30, 2021
Robert Aaron Long is accused of shooting four people to death at a massage business and shooting and wounding a fifth person in Cherokee County on March 16 and then killing four more people at two massage businesses in Atlanta. Six of the eight slain victims were women of Asian descent. More
August 30, 2021
Prosecutors in southeastern Wisconsin have charged a former professional clown with killing his newborn daughter 30 years ago. More
August 30, 2021
Prosecutors said David Bogdanov met 17-year-old Nikki Kuhnhausen in downtown Vancouver in June 2019, and that he strangled her. More
August 30, 2021
SAN DIEGO (AP) — U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin was granted parole Friday after two of RFK’s sons spoke in favor of Sirhan Sirhan’s release and prosecutors declined to argue he should be kept behind bars. The decision was a major victory for the 77-year-old prisoner, though it does not assure his release. The […] More
August 27, 2021
Maryland's highest court has agreed to take up the case of Lee Boyd Malvo who is serving life in prison for his role in the 2002 sniper spree that terrorized the Washington D.C. region. More
August 27, 2021
Judge orders Michigan couple pay over $30K to son for getting rid of pornography collection. U.S. District Judge Paul Maloney's decision after 43-year-old David Werking won lawsuit parents. More
August 27, 2021
The child abuse charges could mean three to twelve months in jail. More
August 27, 2021
A judge on Thursday agreed to scale back criminal charges against a reality TV doctor and his girlfriend who had been accused of drugging and raping several women at their Southern California home. More
August 27, 2021
Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo is expected to hear testimony from juror Richelle Nice, who is at the center of the dispute and has denied that she was influenced by her own background of domestic abuse. More
August 27, 2021
NEW YORK (AP) — R&B star R. Kelly once compared himself to rock legend Jerry Lee Lewis — notorious for marrying his 13-year-old cousin decades ago — saying they were both misunderstood geniuses, a witness at Kelly’s sex-trafficking trial testified Thursday. The witness recounted the comment while for the first time publicly accusing Kelly of […] More
August 26, 2021
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Sirhan Sirhan faces his 16th parole hearing Friday for fatally shooting U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, and for the first time no prosecutor will be there to argue he should be kept behind bars. Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón, a former police officer who took office last […] More
August 26, 2021
"Making a Murderer" subject Steven Avery has appealed his latest unanimous legal defeat asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to take the case. More
August 26, 2021
Jussie Smollett's attorneys cannot call as a witness the Chicago prosecutor whose office dropped initial charges against the actor. More
August 26, 2021
