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Details about what they allegedly did could not be released because of “the nature of the allegations” and because court records are sealed, CBI said. More

July 9, 2021

Authorities say Kaliyha Everett intended to rob Tysaiah Donaldson when he contacted him to purchase marijuana in 2015. More

July 9, 2021

R&B singer R. Kelly's lawyers were given more time to prepare his defense ahead of his sex-trafficking trial in New York. More

July 8, 2021

KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) — Authorities announced the arrest of a man Thursday in connection with the killing of three men found shot to death on the golf course of a suburban Atlanta country club.    Cobb County sheriff’s deputies and U.S. marshals arrested Bryan Rhoden more than 25 miles (40 kilometers) from where the […] More

July 8, 2021

BOISE, Idaho (Scripps News Boise) Prosecutors in Maricopa County will not prosecute Chad Daybell in connection with the death of Charles Vallow.    In a letter from Maricopa County Attorney Allister Adel to the Chandler Police Department obtained by East Idaho News, prosecutors listed “no reasonable likelihood of conviction” in charges of conspiracy to […] More

July 8, 2021

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Avenatti, the brash California lawyer who once represented Stormy Daniels in lawsuits against President Donald Trump, was sentenced Thursday to 2 1/2 years in prison for trying to extort up to $25 million from Nike by threatening the company with bad publicity. Avenatti, 50, was […] More

July 8, 2021

It has now been six months since Maya Millete, a Chula Vista mother of three, disappeared. More

July 8, 2021

Six long years have passed since Crystal Rogers was last seen or heard from. The mother of five went missing on July 3, 2015, in Bardstown. More

July 8, 2021

The big question now is what happens next with Joe Clyde's mother Krystal? More

July 8, 2021

Jurors heard details in testimony from Robert Durst's trial in Texas, where he was accused of murdering his neighbor. More

July 8, 2021

Michael Avenatti faces sentencing over a year after a jury concluded he tried to extort millions of dollars from Nike by threatening the company with bad publicity. More

July 8, 2021

Authorities are launching a grand jury investigation into the collapse and at least six lawsuits have been filed by Champlain Towers families. More

July 8, 2021

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — A Pennsylvania man was arrested Wednesday on charges that he assaulted an Associated Press photographer and police officers during the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Alan William Byerly, 54, was armed with what appeared to be a stun gun when he charged at […] More

July 7, 2021

KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) — Investigators have identified three men found shot to death on the golf course of a country club in the Atlanta suburbs, but it’s still unclear what prompted the violence.”  Golf pro Eugene Siller was gunned down when he went to find out why a white pickup truck had driven onto […] More

July 7, 2021

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A founder of a now-defunct Massachusetts pharmaceutical facility responsible for a deadly meningitis outbreak will spend 14 and a half years behind bars, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, lengthening his initial punishment of nine years that was tossed out by an appeals court. Barry Cadden, who […] More

July 7, 2021

AUBURN, Maine (AP) — Police have charged two Maine people with drug crimes after a mother complained that she found a medication used to treat opioid use disorder in her son’s Happy Meal box at McDonald’s. Auburn police said Wednesday they reviewed video surveillance footage and concluded the incident was the result of an accident […] More

July 7, 2021

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The teenager who recorded the last moments of George Floyd’s life in a video that helped launch a global protest movement against racial injustice said her uncle has died in a crash involving a Minneapolis police car. Darnella Frazier said in a Facebook post that Leneal Lamont Frazier died early Tuesday after his vehicle was struck by the […] More

July 7, 2021

A California inmate firefighter left “half a block of destruction” when he stole a firetruck in an apparent Independence Day escape bid. More

July 7, 2021

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Britney Spears’ court-appointed attorney on Tuesday filed documents to resign from her conservatorship, the latest of several such moves that have come in the fallout from the pop singer’s comments in court decrying the legal arrangement that controls her money and affairs. Samuel Ingham III […] More

July 7, 2021

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Kyle Rittenhouse’s attorney wants a judge to allow him to argue that one of the men his client fatally shot during a Wisconsin protest was a sex offender, saying it supports a defense theory that he attacked Rittenhouse and intended to take his gun because he […] More

July 6, 2021

Prosecutors said Danyal Hussein was obsessed with demons and spells, and had signed a pact in his blood with a mythical figure known as King Lucifuge. More

July 6, 2021

Pueblo police officers found some of the remains for 58-year-old Maria Cuevas-Garcia inside a dumpster on October 19, 2019. More

July 6, 2021

NEW YORK (AP) — R. Kelly’s new lawyers are asking a judge to postpone his Aug. 9 sex trafficking trial in New York City, arguing they haven’t had enough time to prepare because he’s under a mandatory jail quarantine since his transfer from Chicago. In a letter Monday to U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly, lawyer Deveraux […] More

July 6, 2021

Lawyers for British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell are arguing a court decision that freed Bill Cosby from prison backs up tossing out her sex trafficking case. More

July 6, 2021

The body of 53-year-old Masako Kenley was found late Sunday along the Jordan River in Utah. More

July 6, 2021

Investigators believe a golf pro was shot to death on the course at his country club in the Atlanta suburbs because he witnessed a “crime in progress." More

July 6, 2021

Host Vinnie Politan and Court TV anchor Julie Grant will explain the law behind the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Bill Cosby's sex assault conviction. More

July 3, 2021

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A Louisiana sheriff’s deputy has been charged with malfeasance in connection with the death of a man he and other deputies had arrested while they were trying to conduct a search. Deputy Ryan Chapman is accused of handcuffing William Walls without reasonable suspicion of a crime, his attorney, Ronald Miciotto, told […] More

July 2, 2021

BOSTON (AP) — A man suspected of stabbing a rabbi several times near a Jewish day school in Boston was held without bail Friday at his arraignment pending a hearing to determine whether he is a danger to society. Khaled Awad, 24, pleaded not guilty to assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon […] More

July 2, 2021

SURFSIDE, Fla. — A Miami-Dade Circuit Judge has accepted a tentative plan from the insurance carrier for the Champlain Towers South condo association. The agreement includes up-front payments to resolve damage claims resulting from a class-action lawsuit filed on June 24. Circuit Judge Michael Hanzman, who placed the condo association board into receivership, appointed Michael […] More

July 2, 2021