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
OMAHA, Neb. Scripps News Omaha) — James Fairbanks, who pleaded no contest to second-degree murder in the killing of convicted sex offender Mattieo Condoluci last year, was sentenced in a Douglas County on Wednesday morning. 3 News Now reporter, Jon Kipper was in the courtroom where a judge sentenced him to a total of 40–70 […] More
July 14, 2021
By RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A judge on Wednesday delayed sentencing for the man convicted of killing University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts after defense lawyers said they needed time to investigate new information pointing to other potential suspects. Cristhian Bahena Rivera, 27, was scheduled to be […] More
July 14, 2021
SEATTLE (AP) — Former Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers star Richard Sherman was booked into a jail in Seattle on Wednesday morning, accused of “Burglary Domestic Violence.” The King County Correctional Facility lists Sherman as being booked at 6:08 a.m. Online records say bail was denied, though it was unlikely Sherman would have had […] More
July 14, 2021
By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three weeks after Britney Spears ‘ dramatic comments in court condemning the conservatorship that has controlled her life for 13 years, a Los Angeles judge and others with legal power over the pop star will convene for a hearing Wednesday to deal with the aftermath. Spears’ remarks […] More
July 14, 2021
SEATTLE (AP) — A man has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a young man last year in Seattle’s temporary Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone, police said. Seattle officers and U.S. Marshals arrested Marcel Long, 19, in the Seattle suburb of Des Moines on Monday, The Seattle Times reported. Police had identified Long […] More
July 14, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed failed U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore’s $95 million lawsuit targeting comedian Sacha Baron Cohen filed after Moore complained he was tricked into an interview that lampooned sexual misconduct accusations against him. Judge John Cronan wrote that Moore signed a clear disclosure agreement that prohibited any […] More
July 14, 2021
BOSTON (AP) — Actor Sacha Baron Cohen has sued a Massachusetts cannabis dispensary he says used an image of his character Borat on a billboard without his permission, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court in Boston. The billboard for Somerset-based Solar Therapeutics Inc. showed Baron Cohen posing as Borat with two thumbs up […] More
July 14, 2021
