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Takeaways from legal filings for Trump’s impeachment trial
Takeaways from legal filings for Trump’s impeachment trial

Watch Court TV’s live coverage of former President Trump’s 2nd impeachment trial, beginning Tuesday afternoon at 1/12c. WASHINGTON (AP) — The legal sparring around Donald Trump’s impeachment trial is underway, with briefs filed this week laying out radically different positions ahead of next week’s Senate trial. House prosecutors and the former president’s defense team are putting forward […] More

February 4, 2021

Ohio police officer charged with murder in Andre Hill death
Ohio police officer charged with murder in Andre Hill death

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A white Ohio police officer was charged with murder Wednesday in the latest fallout following the December shooting death of 47-year-old Andre Hill, a Black man, the state’s attorney general said. Former Columbus Police Officer Adam Coy was indicted on a murder charge by a Franklin County grand jury following an […] More

February 4, 2021

Firings of officers after students pulled from car reversed
Firings of officers after students pulled from car reversed

ATLANTA (AP) — Video of Atlanta police officers using Tasers and pulling two college students from a car during a large protest last year against police brutality and racial injustice sparked national outrage, and two of the officers were immediately fired. This week their dismissals were overturned.   The Civil Service Board found the city […] More

February 3, 2021

House Dems make case for conviction; Trump denies charges
House Dems make case for conviction; Trump denies charges

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump endangered the lives of all members of Congress when he aimed a mob of supporters “like a loaded cannon” at the U.S. Capitol, House Democrats said Tuesday in making their most detailed case yet for why the former president should be convicted and permanently barred from office. Trump denied the […] More

February 2, 2021

Police: Rapper Silento charged with murder in shooting death
Police: Rapper Silento charged with murder in shooting death

ATLANTA (AP) — Silento, the Atlanta rapper known for his hit song “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae),” was arrested Monday and charged with murder in the shooting death of his 34-year-old cousin, authorities said. DeKalb County police said in a statement on Twitter that the 23-year-old rapper whose legal name is Ricky Hawk was arrested in […] More

February 2, 2021

FBI: 2 agents killed, 3 wounded, suspect dead in Florida
FBI: 2 agents killed, 3 wounded, suspect dead in Florida

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Two FBI agents were killed and three wounded in a shooting that erupted on Tuesday when they arrived to search an apartment in a child pornography case, a confrontation that marked one of the bloodiest days in FBI history. The suspect is believed to have killed himself. The violence forced residents […] More

February 2, 2021

Oklahoma man charged in shooting deaths of 5 kids, brother
Oklahoma man charged in shooting deaths of 5 kids, brother

MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) — A 25-year-old Oklahoma man was charged with murder Wednesday in the killings of his brother and five young children, police said.   Jarron Deajon Pridgeon of Muskogee was charged with six counts of first-degree murder, shooting with intent to kill and possession of firearms during probation, court records show. Muskogee police […] More

February 2, 2021

Famed San Francisco private eye Palladino dies after attack
Famed San Francisco private eye Palladino dies after attack

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Jack Palladino, the flamboyant private investigator whose clients ranged from presidents and corporate whistleblowers to scandal-plagued celebrities, Hollywood moguls and sometimes suspected drug traffickers, died Monday at age 76. Palladino suffered a devastating brain injury Thursday after a pair of would-be robbers tried to grab his camera outside his home in […] More

February 2, 2021

Marilyn Manson denies Evan Rachel Wood’s abuse allegations
Marilyn Manson denies Evan Rachel Wood’s abuse allegations

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rocker Marilyn Manson was dropped by his record label on Monday after actor Evan Rachel Wood accused her ex-fiancé of sexual and other physical abuse, alleging she was “manipulated into submission” during their relationship. Manson called the allegations “horrible distortions of reality.” Wood, who stars on HBO’s “Westworld,” had spoken frequently […] More

February 2, 2021

The Unsolved Casefile
The Unsolved Casefile

Court TV takes a closer look at the clues surrounding unsolved cases from around the country and speaks directly to the investigators and family members searching for justice. More

February 1, 2021

Prince Harry accepts apology, damages in UK libel suit
Prince Harry accepts apology, damages in UK libel suit

LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry on Monday accepted an apology and damages from the publisher of British tabloid The Mail on Sunday and its online version, MailOnline, in a libel lawsuit relating to articles about his relationship with the British armed forces. Harry sued Associated Newspapers for libel over two articles published in October which […] More

February 1, 2021

Trump names 2 lawyers to impeachment defense team
Trump names 2 lawyers to impeachment defense team

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump announced a new impeachment legal defense team just one day after it was revealed that he had parted ways with an earlier set of attorneys with just over a week to go before his Senate trial. The two representing Trump will be defense lawyer David Schoen, a frequent […] More

February 1, 2021

2 arrests in attack on famed San Francisco private eye
2 arrests in attack on famed San Francisco private eye

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Two men have been arrested in connection with an attempted robbery that left famed San Francisco private investigator Jack Palladino on life support, police said Sunday. Palladino himself may have inadvertently helped detectives make the arrests after photographs were recovered from a camera the suspects unsuccessfully tried to steal, the San […] More

February 1, 2021

Rod Stewart reaches plea deal for Florida altercation
Rod Stewart reaches plea deal for Florida altercation

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Rock icon Rod Stewart and his son have reached a plea deal to settle misdemeanor battery charges stemming from an altercation with a security guard at a posh Florida hotel. Prosecutors and defense attorneys announced Friday that Stewart and his son, Sean Stewart, would not be going to trial […] More

January 29, 2021

Man who wore horns at riot willing to speak at Trump’s trial
Man who wore horns at riot willing to speak at Trump’s trial

PHOENIX (AP) — The lawyer for an Arizona man who took part in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol while sporting face paint, no shirt and a furry hat with horns is offering to have his client testify at former President Donald Trump’s upcoming impeachment trial. Lawyer Albert Watkins said he hasn’t spoken to any […] More

January 29, 2021

Oklahoma mom of 2 who drowned pleads guilty to child neglect
Oklahoma mom of 2 who drowned pleads guilty to child neglect

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma woman whose two young children wandered from their apartment and drowned has pleaded guilty to reduced charges in the case. Donisha Renee Willis, 24, agreed Monday to two child neglect charges in the May 2020 deaths of 3-year-old Miracle Crook and 21-month-old Tony Crook Jr., according to court records. The charges […] More

January 29, 2021

Teen charged in fatal shootings of 5 at Indianapolis home
Teen charged in fatal shootings of 5 at Indianapolis home

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A 17-year-old Indianapolis boy has been charged with murder for allegedly fatally shooting his father, stepmother, two teenage relatives and a 19-year-old pregnant woman in the family’s home, a prosecutor announced Thursday. Raymond Ronald Lee Childs III, who was arrested Monday, was charged as an adult with six counts of murder, including one […] More

January 28, 2021

Pakistani court: Release man accused in Daniel Pearl’s death
Pakistani court: Release man accused in Daniel Pearl’s death

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered the release Thursday of a Pakistani-British man convicted and later acquitted in the beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002. The court also dismissed an appeal of Ahmad Saeed Omar Sheikh’s acquittal by Pearl’s family and the Pakistani government. It wasn’t immediately clear whether Sheikh would be […] More

January 28, 2021

Attorney: Murder charge after deadly drug raid ‘political’
Attorney: Murder charge after deadly drug raid ‘political’

HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston police officer indicted for murder following a deadly 2019 drug raid in which a couple was killed is being targeted by a district attorney looking to score political points in the wake of last year’s nationwide protests against police brutality, his attorney alleged on Tuesday. Officer Felipe Gallegos became the […] More

January 27, 2021

Rittenhouse, mother fixated on social media treatment
Rittenhouse, mother fixated on social media treatment

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An Illinois teen accused of killing two people during unrest in Wisconsin and the teen’s mom were fixated on social media comments about them in the hours after his August arrest, newly released police video shows.   Police in Antioch, Illinois, on Monday released four hours of video taken after Kyle […] More

January 27, 2021

Judge: Floyd’s past arrest details can’t be used at trial
Judge: Floyd’s past arrest details can’t be used at trial

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Information about George Floyd’s prior arrests can’t be used at the trials of four former Minneapolis police officers charged in his death, but jurors will be allowed to hear details about two previous incidents involving the officer who kneeled on Floyd’s neck, a judge ruled. In an order dated Monday and made […] More

January 27, 2021

GOP largely sides against holding Trump impeachment trial
GOP largely sides against holding Trump impeachment trial

WASHINGTON (AP) — All but five Senate Republicans voted in favor of an effort to dismiss Donald Trump’s historic second impeachment trial on Tuesday, making clear a conviction of the former president for “incitement of insurrection” after the deadly Capitol siege on Jan. 6 is unlikely.   While the Republicans did not succeed in ending […] More

January 27, 2021

Vermont Sen. Leahy taken to hospital for observation
Vermont Sen. Leahy taken to hospital for observation

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy was taken to a hospital Tuesday evening after not feeling well, a spokesman said, hours after the 80-year-old Democrat began presiding over the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump. Leahy, who’d been in his Capitol office, was taken to the hospital “out of an abundance of caution” […] More

January 26, 2021

Mossimo Giannulli loses bid to finish prison term at home
Mossimo Giannulli loses bid to finish prison term at home

BOSTON (AP) — Fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli’s request to serve the remaining three months of his prison term in the college admissions bribery scheme at home was denied Tuesday by a federal judge. Giannulli argued he should be released to home confinement for the rest of his five-month sentence because he spent eight weeks under […] More

January 26, 2021

Judge OKs Weinstein bankruptcy plan with $17M for victims
Judge OKs Weinstein bankruptcy plan with $17M for victims

DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware judge has approved a revised Weinstein Co. bankruptcy plan that provides about $35 million for creditors, with roughly half that amount going to women who have accused disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct. The judge approved the plan after a hearing Monday, overruling objections by attorneys representing […] More

January 26, 2021

Trump impeachment goes to Senate, testing his sway over GOP
Trump impeachment goes to Senate, testing his sway over GOP

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats delivered the impeachment case against Donald Trump to the Senate for the start of his historic trial, but Republican senators were easing off their criticism of the former president and shunning calls to convict him over the deadly siege at the U.S. Capitol. It’s an early sign of Trump’s enduring sway over the […] More

January 26, 2021

Trump adds ex-prosecutor to impeachment team
Trump adds ex-prosecutor to impeachment team

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Donald Trump is adding another South Carolina attorney to his impeachment legal team, according to a trial lawyer group in the state. In an email sent to South Carolina members of the American College of Trial Lawyers, group chairman Wallace Lightsey wrote that Deborah Barbier — a former federal prosecutor-turned-defense attorney […] More

January 26, 2021