By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Avenatti should spend no more than six months behind bars after a jury concluded he tried to extort $25 million from sportswear giant Nike, his lawyers told a judge Wednesday, saying the once high-flying California attorney faces constant ridicule after his “cataclysmic fall.” In a […] More
June 10, 2021
By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman pleaded guilty Thursday to charges in the U.S. and admitted that she helped her husband run his multibillion-dollar criminal empire. Emma Coronel Aispuro, wearing a green jail uniform, appeared in federal court in Washington and pleaded guilty […] More
June 10, 2021
By Katie McLaughlin FREEMONT COUNTY, Idaho (Court TV) – An Idaho district judge has signed an order that will send Lori Vallow Daybell to a state mental health facility. In the meantime, her husband Chad Daybell has entered a plea of Not Guilty in court today. Just moments ago, he appeared before District Judge Steven […] More
June 9, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A more detailed trial schedule for three former Minneapolis police officers charged with aiding and abetting in the death of George Floyd has been set for next March, according to an order made public Wednesday. Last month, a judge pushed the trial of Thomas Lane, J. Kueng and Tou Thao out to next March, in part […] More
June 9, 2021
ISLANDTON, S.C. (AP) — A mother and son from a prominent South Carolina legal family were found shot and killed on their family’s land, and authorities said they have made no arrests in the double homicide case. Deputies in Colleton County found the two dead from gunshots on property near Islandton around 10 p.m. Monday, […] More
June 9, 2021
The Minnesota Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Wednesday in the case of Mohamed Noor. More
June 9, 2021
By AMY TAXIN Associated Press SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California man was charged Tuesday with murder in a road rage shooting that killed a 6-year-old boy on a local freeway last month. Prosecutors in Orange County, California charged Marcus Anthony Eriz, 24, with murder in the death of Aiden Leos. Eriz was […] More
June 8, 2021
By Katie McLaughlin NEW YORK (Court TV) – Lawyers for R. Kelly have filed a motion to withdraw from the entertainer’s New York racketeering trial. Chicago-based attorneys Steve Greenberg and Michael Leonard filed the request on June 7th. In a letter to a federal judge in New York, Greenberg wrote, “Our reasons for withdrawal are […] More
June 8, 2021
A quiet night of watching television in April 2008 turned into a night of terror for Frederick Wilson and his girlfriend when intruders went into their home. More
June 8, 2021
DENVER (Scripps News Denver) – The man Longmont police named as a suspect nearly three years ago in the March 2018 disappearance of Rita Gutierrez-Garcia has been charged with her kidnapping and murder, according to court documents. Juan Jose Figueroa, 32, faces counts of first-degree murder after deliberation, felony murder and second-degree kidnapping in connection with the […] More
June 7, 2021
rosecutors have accused a suburban Milwaukee woman of killing her friend by poisoning her with eyedrops. More
June 7, 2021
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) — The mother of a 14-year-old Florida boy accused in a teenage girl’s slaying is facing a charge of evidence tampering, authorities say. State Attorney R.J. Larizza said in a news release that Crystal Lane Smith, 35, was arrested Saturday morning in St. John’s County. She was later released on $25,000 […] More
June 7, 2021
Prosecutors have accused 20-year-old Chrystul Kizer of killing 34-year-old Randall Volar III in 2018. More
June 4, 2021
CAMERON, La. (AP) — A head found along a highway near the Louisiana coast three years ago has been identified as that of a Texas woman who was last seen in 2017. Investigators used dental records to identify the dead person as Sally Ann Hines, 58, of San Antonio, news outlets reported. Police had received […] More
June 4, 2021
By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A Utah man was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in prison in the beating death of his wife on an Alaska cruise in 2017, with a federal judge describing the crime as violent and brutal. Prosecutors had sought life in prison for Kenneth Manzanares, who pleaded […] More
June 4, 2021
By MARK PRATT Associated Press WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) — F. Lee Bailey, the celebrity attorney who defended O.J. Simpson, Patricia Hearst and the alleged Boston Strangler, but whose legal career halted when he was disbarred in two states, has died, a former colleague said Thursday. He was 87. Bailey died at a hospital in the […] More
June 3, 2021
PODCAST: Encore Episode — This encore episode will give you all of the background you need on the Doomsday Couple. Lori Vallow and her husband, Doomsday prophet Chad Daybell, hoped to spend the rest of their lives together, but instead, their marriage has been spent behind bars due to the discovery of the bodies of […] More
June 3, 2021
Derek Chauvin is scheduled to be sentenced after he was convicted of murder and manslaughter charges in the death of George Floyd. More
June 3, 2021
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Scripps News Nashville) — The jury has been selected in the trial of Joseph Daniels who’s accused of killing his 5-year-old son, Joe Clyde Daniels. The evidence phase of the trial will begins Thursday at 1 p.m. in Dickson County. Jury selection began Wednesday morning in Chattanooga. It was supposed to begin Tuesday, […] More
June 3, 2021
By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — More than a decade after soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo paid $375,000 to hush a Nevada woman’s claim that he raped her in Las Vegas, new allegations about cyber hacking, document theft and attorney misconduct are being raised to block the woman’s bid for another payout. Ronaldo’s […] More
June 3, 2021
The 2017 death of 17-year-old Maggie Long in Bailey has been classified as a hate crime. More
June 3, 2021
By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Epic Ponzi scheme mastermind Bernard Madoff is dead. But the effort to untangle his web of deceit lives on. More than 12 years after Madoff confessed to running one of the biggest financial fraud in Wall Street history, a team of lawyers is still […] More
June 2, 2021
By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For a fifth time, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has lost a bid to be freed on bail while she awaits trial on charges she recruited teenage girls for the millionaire Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan issued a […] More
June 2, 2021
JASPER, Texas (AP) — A child found dead in a Texas motel room is believed to be a boy reported missing in Houston and a suspect has been arrested in the case, police said Wednesday. Authorities had been searching for Samuel Olson, who was reported missing May 27. On Tuesday night, police recovered a child’s […] More
June 2, 2021
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A gunman who killed nine co-workers at a Northern California rail yard shot himself twice in the head as sheriff’s deputies raced into a building, according to authorities who on Tuesday released body-camera footage of the tense encounter. The nearly 4 1/2 minutes of footage is from one deputy who […] More
June 2, 2021
Former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, convicted of George Floyd's murder, appeared in court on federal charges. More
June 2, 2021
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (Scripps News West Palm) — Casey Anthony told police a woman poured a drink on her at a downtown West Palm Beach bar during an argument about a man. Anthony, who was acquitted of murder in the 2008 death of her 2-year-old daughter, called West Palm Beach police on May 23, […] More
June 1, 2021
A court filing indicated prosecutors do not intend to seek a new death sentence for Scott Peterson for the murder of his pregnant wife, Laci. More
June 1, 2021
COLUMBIA, Md. (AP) — A Maryland man has been charged with murder and rape in connection with the 1982 abduction and slaying of a woman who had been walking to the grocery store. Howard County Police announced Thursday that 62-year-old Howard Jackson Bradberry Jr. of Laurel was arrested at his home May 25. Police say DNA […] More
June 1, 2021
Cristhian Bahena Rivera was found guilty of abducting and murdering University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts. More
May 28, 2021
