By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska man linked to the 2018 death of a 10-year-old girl has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and sexual abuse of a minor, authorities said. Peter Vance Wilson entered his plea Monday in the death of Ashley Johnson Barr in the remote Inupiat town of […] More
June 22, 2021
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A former elementary school teacher in Sioux Falls has been sentenced to 100 years in prison for sexually assaulting two students. Thomas Richard Strong, 72, of Sioux Falls, was earlier found guilty of four counts of rape and one count of sexual contact with a child under 16. He was […] More
June 22, 2021
The penalty phase of the trial of 32-year-old Ronnie Oneal III is set to begin Wednesday. More
June 22, 2021
De'Rell Brown was just 25 years old when police say he was found shot in the parking lot of his Indianapolis apartment complex. More
June 22, 2021
A Colorado father killed his 13-year-old son in 2012 over photographs that triggered a fatal rage, prosecutors argued in court Monday. More
June 22, 2021
A Greek helicopter pilot is appearing in court in Athens on charges of premeditated murder over the death of his young wife. More
June 22, 2021
TAMPA, Fla. (Scripps News Tampa) — On Monday afternoon, a Riverview man was found guilty of murdering his girlfriend and 9-year-old daughter in 2018. Ronnie Oneal III, 32, was found guilty of killing Kenyatta Barron and Ron’Niveya Oneal. He was also found guilty of trying to kill his son, who was eight years old at […] More
June 21, 2021
By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — State police released a number of additional reports Monday on the shooting deaths of a mother and her son from a prominent South Carolina legal family, but they contained little new information and a number of passages blacked out. Paul Murdaugh, 22, and his mother, Maggie, […] More
June 21, 2021
By TERRY TANG and FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona teenager suspected of killing one person and injuring a dozen others during a 90-minute drive-by shooting spree in metropolitan Phoenix told police he believed people were after him because of his involvement in another shooting, according to court documents released Friday. Ashin […] More
June 21, 2021
Here's a look at how conservatorships operate, what's unusual about hers, and why the cry to #FreeBritney keeps getting louder. More
June 21, 2021
Greek pilot Babis Anagnostopoulos has confessed to murdering his wife and staging the crime scene as a robbery. More
June 21, 2021
Chester Vegas Sr. is accused of murdering his wife inside a Louisiana restaurant decades ago. More
June 21, 2021
Police believe missing Colorado woman Jepsy Kallungi was strangled and buried by her husband. More
June 21, 2021
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans man has been charged with killing an off-duty university police officer outside a high school basketball game where he’d shown up without a mask.John Shallerhorn, 35, was indicted on a charge of first-degree murder in the Feb. 26 death of Martinus Mitchum, the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office […] More
June 18, 2021
By TOM HAYES NEW YORK (AP) — Jailed R&B singer R. Kelly will likely get to keep a new lawyer in his federal sex-trafficking case despite questions about the attorney’s texts and other communications with one of Kelly’s ex-girlfriends. Kelly, 54, is accused of leading an enterprise made up of his managers, bodyguards and other […] More
June 18, 2021
ISLANDTON, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina newspaper is suing the police agencies investigating the shooting deaths of a mother and son from one of South Carolina’s prominent legal families, arguing that authorities violated public records law by refusing to release 911 calls and police reports. The Post and Courier in Charleston reported that it filed the […] More
June 18, 2021
WACO, Texas (AP) — A judge denied a request to suppress the confession of a woman accused of helping kill and dismember Spc. Vanessa Guillén, who was missing for about two months before her remains were found. U.S. District Judge Alan D. Albright rejected to toss Cecily Ann Aguilar’s confession after 2.5 hours of testimony […] More
June 18, 2021
A Cleveland man will spend the next 40 years in prison for numerous crimes he committed in 2018. More
June 18, 2021
A rare and intense situation played out in court as Ronnie Oneal III questioned his son. More
June 18, 2021
Jury selection for the trial of Mark Redwine, who is accused of murdering his 13-year-old son, began Monday. More
June 17, 2021
PODCAST: Christian “Kit” Martin, the former U.S. Army major and commercial airline pilot, took the stand in his own defense this week in an attempt to convince the jury he had nothing to do with the gruesome deaths of three of his neighbors. Was he able to convincingly explain all of the evidence that implicated […] More
June 17, 2021
The group accused of beating a man to death behind a grocery store allegedly did so because they thought he beat his pregnant girlfriend. More
June 17, 2021
Lindsy Maves is accused of setting another woman on fire. More
June 17, 2021
Alexander Jackson was found at the home suffering from a gunshot wound to the foot and taken to a local hospital for treatment. More
June 17, 2021
Prosecutors urged a judge Wednesday to impose a “very substantial” prison sentence on Michael Avenatti for trying to extort millions of dollars from Nike. More
June 17, 2021
Kim Avis was found guilty of of raping three women and sexually assaulting a minor following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow. More
June 17, 2021
Chaos broke out after Judge Synenburg ruled the motion to acquit Tevin Biles-Thomas on all charges. More
June 16, 2021
ISLANDTON, S.C. (AP) — State police have released a brief timeline of events as part of their investigation into the shooting deaths of a mother and son from one of South Carolina’s prominent legal families. On Tuesday, the State Law Enforcement Division released an update into their probe of the deaths of Paul Murdaugh and […] More
June 16, 2021
BIG SPRING, Texas (AP) — Authorities have arrested a man in the death of a 13-year-old West Texas girl who was reported missing more than a decade ago, a police spokesman said. Texas Rangers arrested Shawn Casey Adkins on Monday on a murder charge in the killing of Hailey Dunn, said Sgt. Fred Biddle, a […] More
June 16, 2021
By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A judge has approved a $15 million settlement against a doctor in a lawsuit by the parents of an incapacitated woman who was sexually assaulted and later gave birth at a Phoenix long-term care center, marking the last of several deals to resolve legal claims over the […] More
June 16, 2021
