BOISE, Idaho (Scripps News Boise) – Lori Vallow has been indicted on first degree murder charges in the death of her ex-husband. A Maricopa County Grand Jury in Arizona charged Vallow with one count of Conspiracy to Commit First Degree Murder in the death of Charles Vallow. The indictment states, “Lori N. Vallow, […] More
June 29, 2021
A jury recommended that Andre Warner, convicted of first-degree murder in the killing of a single dad, get the death penalty for his crimes. More
June 29, 2021
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Video footage of a white Nashville police office fatally shooting an armed Black man from behind during a chase will be allowed into next month’s murder trial, a Nashville judge ruled Monday. Judge Monte Watkins’ decision comes as defense attorneys for 27-year-old white Officer Andrew Delke had sought to keep the […] More
June 29, 2021
A man charged in the death of his 13-year-old son in Colorado nearly a decade ago seemed uninterested in the search for the boy after he disappeared, a witness testified Monday. More
June 29, 2021
Eccentric millionaire Robert Durst's brother took the stand at his murder trial, saying that he believes the defendant wants him dead. More
June 28, 2021
LAUDERHILL, Fla. (AP) — Police are looking into reports that the mother of two young girls found dead in a South Florida canal was offering to baptize people in the canal a day earlier. Lauderhill police Lt. Mike Bigwood identified the sisters during a Wednesday evening news conference as 7-year-old Daysha Hogan and 9-year-old Destiny […] More
June 28, 2021
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The ground-floor pool deck of the oceanfront condominium building that collapsed near Miami was resting on a concrete slab that had “major structural damage” and needed to be extensively repaired, according to a 2018 engineering report that also uncovered “abundant cracking and spalling” of concrete columns, beams and walls in the parking garage. More
June 28, 2021
By KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin has been sentenced to more than 22 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd. But it’s not clear yet what Chauvin’s experience will look like. AN UNUSUAL START Since his April conviction, Chauvin has been held at the state’s […] More
June 25, 2021
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said Friday that he’s hoping a judge’s 22 1/2-year sentence imposed on former police Officer Derek Chauvin will be a “moment for change.” Ellison spoke shortly after Chauvin heard his sentence for second-degree murder in George Floyd’s death. Repeating part of his statement after Chauvin’s conviction, Ellison said the sentence […] More
June 25, 2021
By AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Judge Peter Cahill told George Floyd’s family members that “I acknowledge and hear the pain that you’re feeling,” before sentencing a former Minneapolis police officer to 22 1/2 years in prison for murder. Cahill didn’t speak at length during Derek Chauvin’s sentencing hearing Friday, but […] More
June 25, 2021
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s second-largest city has joined Breonna Taylor’s hometown in banning the use of “no-knock” warrants. The Lexington council voted 10-5 to ban no-knock warrants after more than three hours of debate Thursday night, news outlets reported. Lexington Mayor Linda Gorton signed the ordinance into law on Friday, making it effective immediately, […] More
June 25, 2021
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida jury recommended life in prison without parole for a man convicted of killing his girlfriend and special-needs daughter and trying to kill his son. The jurors deliberated in Tampa about three hours to decide whether to impose the life sentence or the death penalty on Ronnie Oneal III […] More
June 25, 2021
By AMY FORLITI and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin has been sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd, whose dying gasps under Chauvin’s knee led to the biggest outcry against racial injustice in the U.S. in generations. The punishment handed […] More
June 25, 2021
By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Britney Spears’ powerful plea to a judge to end the conservatorship that has controlled her life since 2008 brought sympathy and outrage from fans, famous supporters and even casual observers who say she deserves independence. Yet lawyers who deal in such matters say the speech itself may not have […] More
June 25, 2021
A judge has rejected former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin’s request for a new trial in George Floyd’s death. More
June 25, 2021
Daniel Polette was first her stepfather before becoming her husband and forcing her into prostitution. More
June 25, 2021
The older brother of a 13-year-old boy who disappeared in Colorado in 2012 confronted his father about photos of him eating feces from a diaper months before his younger sibling went missing, the boy's brother testified Thursday. More
June 25, 2021
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Officials in Kenosha, Wisconsin, have denied a claim for damages from Jacob Blake Jr., the Black man who was paralyzed when he was shot by a white police officer last summer. Blake sought damages for medical expenses, lost wages and “pain and suffering and disfigurement,” according to the petition. Although the […] More
June 24, 2021
NEW YORK (AP) — An appeals court suspended Rudy Giuliani from practicing law in New York because he made false statements while trying to get courts to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the presidential race. An attorney disciplinary committee asked the court to suspend Giuliani’s license saying he had made false statements to the courts, […] More
June 24, 2021
“This was a crime against humanity, an assault on First Nations,” said Chief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous First Nations in Saskatchewan. More
June 24, 2021
Kenneth Love II was shot and killed while guarding a marijuana dispensary on June 2, 2020. More
June 24, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS (Court TV) – Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is due in court Friday to find out his punishment for the murder of George Floyd. A Hennepin County jury convicted Chauvin in April of three charges in Floyd’s death: unintentional second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. The verdicts were celebrated in the streets […] More
June 24, 2021
The stakes couldn’t be higher for defendant Ronnie Oneal. He’s on trial for double homicide, accused of brutally murdering his girlfriend, his special needs daughter and attempting to kill his seven-year-old son. (Episode 97) More
June 24, 2021
By ARITZ PARRA, RENATA BRITO and BARRY HATTON Associated Press MADRID (AP) — John McAfee, the creator of McAfee antivirus software, was found dead in his jail cell near Barcelona in an apparent suicide Wednesday, hours after a Spanish court approved his extradition to the United States to face tax charges punishable by decades in […] More
June 23, 2021
By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Britney Spears asked a judge Wednesday to end court conservatorship that has controlled her life and money since 2008. The dramatic request at a Los Angeles hearing came with her first words in open court in the conservatorship during its 13-year existence. Spears called the […] More
June 23, 2021
By DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Two men who said they were sexually molested decades ago by a notorious Catholic priest who was imprisoned for molesting other boys have agreed to a settlement of $880,000 from the Archdiocese of Chicago, attorneys announced Wednesday. The men alleged Norbert Maday sexually abused them repeatedly starting […] More
June 23, 2021
By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Information gathered by agents investigating the death of a mother and son from a prominent South Carolina legal family has led state police to review a nearby unsolved hit-and-run death from six years ago. What that information is and why it might be connected to the […] More
June 23, 2021
ST. ANTHONY, Idaho (Scripps News Boise) — A trial date was set Wednesday for Chad Daybell who is accused of killing three people, including Tylee Ryan and Joshua “JJ” Vallow. During a virtual conference meeting, Judge Steven Boyce agreed to schedule Daybell’s jury trial to begin on Nov. 8, the East Idaho News reports. […] More
June 23, 2021
Dozens of people face criminal charges or suffered injuries during a five-day party in south central Kentucky billed as a “Redneck Rave." More
June 23, 2021
A British police officer has been convicted in the death of Dalian Atkinson, a former professional soccer player who died after being Tasered and kicked in the head. More
June 23, 2021
