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
By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press A New York judge on Tuesday approved disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s extradition to California, where he faces additional sexual assault charges, ending a legal fight prolonged by the COVID-19 pandemic, the defense’s concerns about Weinstein’s failing health and a squabble over paperwork. Judge Kenneth Case said there was […] More
June 16, 2021
LAS VEGAS (Scripps News Las Vegas) —The California woman accused of murdering her son and dumping his body at a trailhead near Las Vegas will have a virtual hearing on her advisement this coming Thursday, June 17th at 10:30 am ET. Samantha Moreno Rodriguez, 35, was taken into custody on June 8th in Denver, Colorado, […] More
June 15, 2021
Ronnie O'Neal is accused of murdering his girlfriend and their daughter. More
June 15, 2021
Dashboard video from Trooper Rodney Dunn’s cruiser shows he performed a PIT maneuver about two minutes after initiating the stop. More
June 14, 2021
ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. (Scripps News Denver) — A teen brutally stabbed last September felt justice was served on Friday when a judge handed down her attacker a 60-year jail sentence. In a wheelchair and surrounded by family and friends, Jadah McDaniels held her head high as she entered the Arapahoe County District Court for the […] More
June 14, 2021
By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Eighteen-year-old Angie Dodge was raped and killed in her Idaho home a quarter-century ago and an innocent man wrongly served 20 years in prison for the crime. On Tuesday, the man authorities have said is the real killer was sentenced to life in prison. Brian Leigh […] More
June 14, 2021
A jury found Joseph Daniels guilty of murdering his missing 5-year-old son. More
June 14, 2021
William Wallace dragged his wife’s body from the bedroom to the living room couch, placed sunglasses on her. More
June 14, 2021
Authorities charged 33-year-old Christopher Collin Demmon this week with malice murder in the killing. More
June 14, 2021
YORK, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania judge declined to dismiss some charges and suppress part of a statement by a woman accused of keeping her maternal grandmother’s remains in a freezer for a decade and a half and continuing to receive the dead woman’s Social Security checks for a portion of that time. The York […] More
June 14, 2021
It's now been two years since Carnell Sledge and Katherine Brown were shot and killed in a double homicide in the quiet Rocky River Reservation. More
June 14, 2021
ISLANDTON, S.C. (AP) — A longtime prosecutor in South Carolina has died just days after his grandson and daughter-in-law were found dead on the family’s land in Colleton County in a shooting investigators have said little about. The announcement of Randolph Murdaugh III’s death came from his law firm Peters, Murdaugh, Parker, Eltzroth & Detrick […] More
June 11, 2021
Closing arguments are being heard today in the trial of Joseph Daniels, the man accused in the presumed death of his 5-year-old son. More
June 11, 2021
