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For years, a savage murderer called the “Torso Killer” dribbled out confessions to a New Jersey detective. More

April 28, 2021

Evan Miller was just 14 when he committed the slaying that sent him to prison. More

April 28, 2021

The grandmother of a 2-year-old girl who was beaten and starved to death wants to file a wrongful death lawsuit against three caseworkers who oversaw the girl's care. More

April 28, 2021

A juror who cast one of the unanimous votes to convict a white former Minneapolis police officer of killing George Floyd said most of deliberations was primarily spent trying to convince one person who was uncertain about part of the jury instructions. More

April 28, 2021

A Colorado police officer accused of dislocating the shoulder of a 73-year-old woman with dementia while arresting her seemed to be aware he had injured her. More

April 28, 2021

An Atlanta-area sheriff is accused of violating the civil rights of several people in his agency's custody. More

April 27, 2021

Andrew Brown Jr., a Black man killed by deputies in North Carolina, was shot five times, including in the back of the head, according to an independent autopsy report released Tuesday by his family's attorneys. More

April 27, 2021

On a cold, dark March morning in 2010, Darla Kustra was walking to work. She never made it. More

April 27, 2021

A judge is set to decide the punishment for an Alabama man, sentenced to life in prison for a murder he committed at age 14. More

April 27, 2021

A panel of three Texas appeals court judges appeared skeptical Tuesday of arguments to overturn the conviction of a former Dallas police officer who was sentenced to prison for fatally shooting her neighbor in his home. More

April 27, 2021

Garrett Rolfe's attorney said his client didn't get a chance to defend himself before he was fired for fatally shooting Rayshard Brooks. More

April 26, 2021

A search warrant being served when deputies shot and killed a Black man in North Carolina says that investigators used information from an informant, including recordings of drug buys, according to court documents released Monday. More

April 26, 2021

Daniel Yuen disappeared in February 2004. More

April 26, 2021

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGLES (AP) — The parents of missing California college student Kristin Smart on Thursday sued the father of the man charged with killing their daughter nearly 25 years ago. The lawsuit filed in San Luis Obispo County Superior Court said Smart’s body was buried in Ruben Flores’s backyard and […] More

April 23, 2021

WILLOUGHBY HILLS, Ohio (AP) — Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback Justin Layne was arrested Friday in Ohio after police said they found a loaded gun in his car during an early morning traffic stop. Layne, 23, was arrested on a fourth-degree felony charge of improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle, Willoughby Hills police said. […] More

April 23, 2021

"Jersey Shore" star Ronnie Ortiz-Magro was arrested Thursday for investigation of felony domestic violence, police said. More

April 23, 2021

IDAHO  — April 23, 2021: Lori Daybell Attorney Mark Means and Chad Daybell Attorney John Prior filed multiple motions: Motion to oppose use of DNA Motion to preserve DNA samples Motion for photographic recordings of serology samples and review lab records Means also asks that prosecutor not “CC” the court on discovery-related letters, accusing Wood […] More

April 23, 2021

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — Authorities strongly believe that remains found a day earlier in a grave along railroad tracks in southern Pennsylvania are those of a young Amish woman who disappeared last summer, a county prosecutor said Thursday. Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams told a news conference that a coroner has not made a […] More

April 23, 2021

Edward 'Jake' Wagner pleaded guilty to 23 counts, which spares him the death penalty for the murders of 8 members of the Rhoden family. More

April 23, 2021

A third-degree murder charge could impact to the three other fired Minneapolis police officers, Thomas Lane, J. Alexander Kueng, and Tou Thao, who still have a pending issue with the Minnesota Court of Appeals. More

April 22, 2021

After just ten hours of deliberations, the jury for the Derek Chauvin murder trial delivered their verdict – guilty on all counts. More

April 22, 2021

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — A jury deliberated for less than an hour before convicting a West Virginia woman charged in the death of her 5-year-old grandson. Michelle Lynn Boggs, 49, of Lost Creek wept at the verdict finding her guilty of knowingly allowing death of a child by parent, guardian or custodian by child abuse, The […] More

April 22, 2021

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An alternate juror at the trial of Derek Chauvin said she agreed with the jury’s decision to convict him in George Floyd’s death, saying she saw Chauvin as the leader of officers at the scene and that he brushed off warnings by bystanders that Floyd was in danger. “I felt he was guilty,” Lisa Christensen said […] More

April 22, 2021

After 3 weeks of testimony and 45 witnesses, the Derek Chauvin murder trial moved into closing arguments. More

April 22, 2021

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Just days after guilty verdicts were handed down for the former Minneapolis police officer whose killing of George Floyd set off nationwide protests and a reckoning over racism, the family of another Black man killed by police, this time in a nearby suburb, is preparing for his Thursday funeral.   Hundreds of people turned […] More

April 22, 2021

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (Scripps News San Luis Obispo) — 3-year-old Orson and 4-year-old Orrin West have been missing for months. According to Trezell and Jacqueline West, the boys adoptive parents, the boys disappeared from their backyard on Dec. 21.   “They do not just roam around these patches … I think definitely would have been picked up or […] More

April 22, 2021

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The superintendent of the Florida school district where 17 students and staff died in a 2018 high school massacre was arrested Wednesday after investigators said he lied to a grand jury investigating events surrounding the shooting. Broward County Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie was arrested by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement at […] More

April 21, 2021

Convicted of the murder and manslaughter of George Floyd, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was taken to his new home at Minnesota Correctional Facility, the state's only maximum-security prison in Oak Park Heights. More

April 21, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is opening a sweeping investigation into policing practices in Minneapolis after a former officer was convicted in the killing of George Floyd there, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Wednesday. >>>WATCH ON DEMAND: MN v. Derek Chauvin The announcement comes a day after former officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murder […] More

April 21, 2021

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The fatal police shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant, a Black teenager seen on video charging at two people with a knife, came within minutes of the verdict in George Floyd’s killing — causing outrage by some over the continued use of lethal force by Columbus police. >>>READ MORE: MN v. Derek Chauvin Trial Highlights Officials […] More

April 21, 2021