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Three Georgia men pleaded not guilty to federal hate crime charges Tuesday in the slaying of Ahmaud Arbery. More

May 12, 2021

The family of Ashley Brown, a Nashville surgical technician who was killed four years ago, is still waiting for answers in the cold case murder. More

May 12, 2021

A man accused of killing eight people, six of them women of Asian descent, in shootings at three Atlanta-area massage businesses was indicted Tuesday on murder charges, and a prosecutor filed notice that she’ll also seek hate crime charges and the death penalty. More

May 11, 2021

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A man accused of killing eight people, six of them women of Asian descent, in shootings at three Atlanta-area massage businesses was indicted Tuesday on murder charges, and a prosecutor filed notice that she’ll also seek hate crime charges and the death penalty. A Fulton County grand […] More

May 11, 2021

Court TV will air special coverage of the pretrial hearings in the case of Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed 25-year-old black man, who was pursued by three white men and fatally shot while jogging near Brunswick, Georgia. Live coverage begins tomorrow morning at 10/9c on Court TV. Here's how to watch. More

May 11, 2021

A former nursing assistant who killed seven elderly veterans with fatal injections of insulin at a West Virginia hospital was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday. More

May 11, 2021

The public will be able to watch the trial of the man charged with killing University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts. More

May 11, 2021

The juvenile made his first appearance in court, via a Zoom call which his parents were also on. More

May 11, 2021

Prosecutors called for the release of a Missouri man who has spent more than 40 years in prison for a triple murder he did not commit. More

May 11, 2021

A Texas man free on bond from a murder charge was returned to custody Monday after neighbors found a pet tiger wandering around a Houston neighborhood. More

May 11, 2021

The mother of a Black man pursued and killed by white men who said they suspected him of a crime says she is “thankful, very thankful” that Georgia has repealed its Civil War-era citizen's arrest law. More

May 11, 2021

Three Georgia men were scheduled to appear before a federal judge Tuesday on federal hate crime charges in the slaying of Ahmaud Arbery. More

May 11, 2021

Sentencing is set this week for a fired nursing assistant who admitting to killing seven elderly veterans with fatal doses of insulin. More

May 10, 2021

A French serial killer sentenced twice to life imprisonment for the murder of eight women has died Monday. More

May 10, 2021

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Authorities say a sixth-grade girl brought a gun to her Idaho middle school, shot two students and a custodian, and then was disarmed by a teacher. More

May 7, 2021

A Georgia judge Friday scheduled an October trial for three white men charged with murder in the slaying of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who was chased and shot while running in the defendants' neighborhood. More

May 7, 2021

By AMY FORLITI and MIKE BALSAMO Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted the four former Minneapolis police officers involved in George Floyd’s arrest and death, accusing them of violating the Black man’s constitutional rights as he was restrained face-down on the pavement and gasping for air, according to indictments unsealed […] More

May 7, 2021

The first day of Michelle Boat's murder trial was emotionally fraught, with the defendant sobbing and clutching her chest. More

May 7, 2021

An Iowa woman was sentenced to life in prison after she was convicted of murdering her estranged husband's girlfriend, Tracy Mondabough. More

May 7, 2021

CHAFFEE COUNTY, Colo. (Scripps News Denver) — In his first court appearance Thursday morning, Barry Morphew, who’s accused of first-degree murder in the Suzanne Morphew case, was read his rights and told he was allowed to have “civil contact” with his daughters if they wanted to interact with him.   Barry, 53, was arrested Wednesday near […] More

May 6, 2021

PODCAST: It’s been almost two years since 20-year-old University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts disappeared while on an evening jog, setting off an enormous search that made national news. A month after her disappearance Cristhian Rivera, a local dairy farm worker who was in the country illegally, was arrested, allegedly confessed to her murder and […] More

May 6, 2021

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Nearly two decades after an Australian woman was convicted of killing her four children, dozens of scientists are backing the claim that they may have died of natural causes. Australian law says Kathleen Folbigg is one of the nation’s worst female serial killers who smothered her […] More

May 6, 2021

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday allowed former reality TV star Josh Duggar to be released as he awaits trial on charges that he downloaded and possessed child pornography. Magistrate Judge Christy Comstock ordered Duggar, 33, confined to the home of family friends who have agreed […] More

May 6, 2021

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — A jury in Italy convicted two American friends in the 2019 slaying in Rome of a police officer in a tragic unraveling of a small-time drug deal gone bad, sentencing them to the maximum life in prison. More than 12 hours after deliberations began, the jury of […] More

May 6, 2021

CHAFFEE COUNTY, Colo. (Scripps News Denver) — Barry Morphew, the husband of missing Colorado mother Suzanne Morphew, has been arrested in Chaffee County on multiple charges, including first-degree murder, almost a year after Suzanne was first reported missing, according to court documents. Barry, 53, was arrested Wednesday on charges of first-degree murder after deliberation, tampering […] More

May 5, 2021

A St. Paul man has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for his role in the arson fire that burned a Minneapolis police station during protests over the death of George Floyd. More

May 5, 2021

EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (Scripps News Colorado Springs) — Court documents released on Monday, May 3, show Letecia Stauch requested a state attorney be appointed to her case, after waiving her right to counsel and deciding to represent herself. In the motion filed on April 28, Stauch writes that she does not want an attorney […] More

May 5, 2021

Garrett Rolfe was fired in June, a day after he shot Rayshard Brooks in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant. More

May 5, 2021

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — A trial is underway for a 61-year-old man facing a first-degree murder charge in the death of a U.S. Navy recruit who was strangled and dumped in an overgrown field in central Florida 37 years ago. Thomas Garner of Jacksonville has pleaded not guilty to killing Pamela Cahanes. He was arrested […] More

May 5, 2021

Derek Chauvin, convicted of killing George Floyd, has asked for a new trial saying the trial court abused its discretion. More

May 5, 2021