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Authorities have released the arrest report for the man accused of brutally killing his girlfriend in a Las Vegas hotel room. More

July 20, 2021

Dennis Perry was convicted in 2003 largely on the testimony of his ex-girlfriend’s mother. More

July 20, 2021

Erica Stefanko was sentenced for helping her then-husband, Chad Cobb, murder his ex-girlfriend, Ashley Biggs. More

July 20, 2021

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press Bodyguards for troubled rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine turned New York City into the Wild West last summer, piling into SUVs and chasing a man for 20 blocks with lights flashing after he attempted to record cellphone video of the recording star, prosecutors said Monday. Five members of 6ix9ine’s security team, […] More

July 19, 2021

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man who was serving a life sentence for killing three people when he was 17 now has the opportunity to seek parole. District Judge Amy Eddy resentenced Steven Wayne Keefe, 53, on Friday in Great Falls, the Great Falls Tribune reported. Keefe petitioned for resentencing in 2017 based […] More

July 19, 2021

The FBI has released hundreds of pages of records from notorious Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger's file. More

July 19, 2021

Prosecutors want Paul Allard Hodgkins to serve 18 months behind bars. More

July 19, 2021

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Three men arrested with more than a dozen weapons and hundreds of rounds of ammunition at a Denver hotel near the site of Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game have been charged with federal firearms crimes, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Friday. The number of weapons found May […] More

July 16, 2021

By ANDREW DALTON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — For crimes he called “vicious and frightening,” a judge on Friday gave a death sentence to a man prosecutors called “The Boy Next Door Killer” for the home-invasion murders of two women and the attempted murder of a third.    Victims’ family members wept as […] More

July 16, 2021

By RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Two childhood friends named by defense lawyers as alternate suspects in the killing of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts said Friday they had nothing to do with the crime. Lawyers for Cristhian Bahena Rivera, the man convicted of killing Tibbetts, named Gavin Jones […] More

July 16, 2021

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (AP) — More than two dozen women described disturbing and dangerous encounters — including sexual assaults while they were semi-conscious and felt drugged — with the man charged with killing missing California college student Kristin Smart. Incidents with Paul Flores ranged from creepy stalking to unwanted touching to aggressive sexual behavior […] More

July 16, 2021

By PATTY NIEBERG Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — A Colorado father was convicted Friday of second-degree murder and child abuse resulting in death in the 2012 disappearance of his 13-year-old son.    Mark Redwine, 59, was indicted in 2017 in connection with the disappearance of Dylan Redwine, who was reported missing on […] More

July 16, 2021

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A Utah man who was sentenced to 30 years in prison last month in the beating death of his wife on an Alaska cruise has died, the Alaska Department of Corrections said. Kenneth Manzanares was in the department’s custody, at a facility in Juneau, when he […] More

July 16, 2021

By FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Two men apparently killed themselves, police said, in a suite at the Miami Beach hotel that Gianni Versace turned into his mansion, nearly 24 years to the day after the fashion designer died on the building’s front steps. Their bodies were found by housekeeping on […] More

July 16, 2021

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge Thursday allowed jailed R&B singer R. Kelly to shake up his legal defense team just weeks before he is set to go on trial in New York on racketeering charges. U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly granted a request by Kelly’s top two attorneys, Steve Greenberg and Michael Leonard, […] More

July 16, 2021

SEATTLE (AP) — A judge ordered former Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers star Richard Sherman released from jail without bail Thursday following his arrest on suspicion of attempting to break into his in-laws’ home. King County District Court Judge Fa’amomoi Masaniai found probable cause Sherman committed criminal trespassing, malicious mischief, driving under the influence […] More

July 16, 2021

By Katie McLaughlin, Court TV A 10-year-old Houston girl whose family was brutally murdered before her eyes on June 30 was able to stay alive by playing dead in front of her would-be assailant. She even managed to FaceTime her grandmother for help during the ordeal. The girl had been shot in the arm when […] More

July 16, 2021

By Katie McLaughlin, Court TV A former New York City police officer who allegedly forced his young son to sleep in an unheated garage in the bitter cold is fighting to keep home camera footage out of trial. Michael Valva and his fiancée, Angela Pollina, are charged with second-degree murder in the January 2020 death […] More

July 16, 2021

Prosecutors rejected claims that the Mollie Tibbett's 2018 murder could be connected to sex trafficking and other abductions. More

July 15, 2021

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A jury on Thursday found the gunman who killed five people at a Maryland newspaper criminally responsible for his actions, rejecting defense attorneys’ mental illness arguments. The verdict means Jarrod Ramos will be sentenced to prison, not a maximum-security mental health facility, for one of the […] More

July 15, 2021

WALTERBORO, S.C. (AP) — State police told a judge that they don’t want to release more information about the slayings of two members of a prominent South Carolina legal family and, after more than a month of investigation, said they still don’t know what evidence might be important to solve the case. The State Law […] More

July 15, 2021

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Richard Sherman’s father-in-law armed himself with a handgun and fired pepper-spray at the NFL cornerback to protect his family as Sherman tried to bust in the door of his in-laws’ home, according to a police statement obtained by The Associated Press. Sherman was arrested early Wednesday after […] More

July 15, 2021

BALTIMORE (Scripps News Baltimore) — A suspended Baltimore City Police officer has been charged with the murder of his 15-year-old step-son. Eric Glenn Banks Jr., 34, was initially arrested July 6 at his home on Stoney Point Way in Curtis Bay, after police discovered the body of Dasan James “DJ” Jones stuffed inside an attic […] More

July 15, 2021

MARIANNA, Fla. (AP) — A former Florida sheriff’s deputy received a 12-year prison sentence for planting drugs inside drivers’ cars during traffic stops and then arresting them. Former Jackson County deputy Zachary Wester, 28, did not speak at Tuesday’s hearing. He was convicted in May on 19 of 67 counts, including racketeering, official misconduct, fabricating […] More

July 15, 2021

A jury convicted Bo Pete Jeffrey of beating his ex-wife to death on her birthday and hiding her body in their RV. More

July 15, 2021

While Bo Pete Jeffrey admitted to hiding his ex-wife's body in their trailer, he denied being the one to kill her. More

July 15, 2021

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A new attorney has been appointed to represent Britney Spears in her conservatorship after a hearing in which the singer tearfully spoke about the case’s impact on her life. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny on Wednesday approved Spears hiring former federal prosecutor Mathew […] More

July 14, 2021

Actor Jussie Smollett returned to court for a hearing that will determine whether one of his attorneys will be allowed to stay on his case. More

July 14, 2021

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI made numerous serious errors in investigating sexual abuse allegations against former USA Gymnastics national team doctor Larry Nassar and didn’t treat the case with the “utmost seriousness,” the Justice Department’s inspector general said Wednesday. The FBI acknowledged conduct that was “inexcusable and […] More

July 14, 2021

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that “Tiger King” Joe Exotic should get a shorter prison sentence for his role in a murder-for-hire plot and violating federal wildlife laws. Joe Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, was sentenced in January 2020 to 22 years in federal […] More

July 14, 2021