ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (AP) — The latest of many searches in the nearly 25-year mystery of the disappearance of California college student Kristin Smart ended Tuesday with no comment from authorities on whether it yielded any results. The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office tweeted that service of a search warrant was concluded at the Arroyo […] More
March 17, 2021
ATLANTA (AP) — A white gunman was charged Wednesday with killing eight people at three Atlanta-area massage parlors in an attack that sent terror through the Asian American community, which has increasingly been targeted during the coronavirus pandemic. A day after the shootings, investigators were trying to unravel what might have compelled 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long […] More
March 17, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A judge on Wednesday dismissed two jurors who had been seated for the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer accused in George Floyd’s death over concerns they had been tainted by the city’s announcement of a $27 million settlement with Floyd’s family. >>>HOW TO WATCH: Court TV’s Live Coverage of MN v. Derek […] More
March 17, 2021
LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — The owners of a former Christian reform school for girls in southwest Missouri are charged with more than 100 counts alleging they sexually, emotionally and physically abused girls for years. Sixteen former residents of the Circle of Hope Girls Ranch in Cedar County say Boyd and Stephanie Householder frequently restrained them […] More
March 17, 2021
ATLANTA (AP) — Shootings at two massage parlors in Atlanta and one in the suburbs Tuesday evening left eight people dead, many of them women of Asian descent, authorities said. A 21-year-old man suspected in the shootings was taken into custody in southwest Georgia hours later after a manhunt, police said. The attacks began around […] More
March 17, 2021
CAMDENTON, Mo. (AP) — A judge has denied bond for a southwest Missouri real estate agent who is accused of attempting to hire a hit man to kill her former mother-in-law. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Camden County Judge Heather Miller said Tuesday that she believed that 43-year-old Leigh Ann Bauman posed too much of a safety […] More
March 17, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jury selection for a former Minneapolis police officer’s trial in George Floyd’s death faced a possible setback Wednesday, as the judge prepared to recall seven jurors to see if they have been tainted by news of a $27 million settlement for the Floyd family. >>>HOW TO WATCH: Court TV’s Live Coverage of […] More
March 17, 2021
MILAN, Ohio (Scripps News Cleveland) — Milan, Ohio is best known for being the birthplace of Thomas Edison. For locals, the town of 1,300 is also known for its dark past. On April 1, 1968, a triple murder rocked the small farm town — three members of a well-loved family, slain in the dead of […] More
March 17, 2021
CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. (AP) — The Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers has announced an increase in the award for a Port Charlotte Teen who was found deceased in 2019. Gage Jackson went missing in March of 2019. Family and friends knew something was wrong when Jackson did not show up to work. About a week later, […] More
March 16, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A lawyer for a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death asked the judge again Tuesday to allow evidence of a previous arrest during which Floyd was found with drugs, a request the prosecutor derided as an attempt to “smear” Floyd’s character. >>>HOW TO WATCH: Court TV’s Live Coverage of […] More
March 16, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The jurors seated so far in the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death are a diverse group, an element being closely scrutinized in a case where race plays such a central role. >>>HOW TO WATCH: Court TV’s Live Coverage of MN v. Derek Chauvin Nine jurors […] More
March 16, 2021
SAN DIEGO (Scripps News San Diego) — It’s a mother’s desperate plea to find the person responsible for killing her daughter, 40 years ago. Cold case detectives are no closer to finding Michelle Louise Wyatt’s killer today than they were in 1980. But family and friends of Wyatt want to bring her story back into […] More
March 16, 2021
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A man suspected of killing three adults and a child and abducting his baby daughter had pulled out a gun and opened fire following a heated argument at an Indianapolis home, police said Monday. The baby’s mother was also wounded in Saturday night’s shootings. The 6-month-old girl was later found unharmed. Malik […] More
March 15, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An attorney for a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death said Monday that he’s “gravely concerned” that the announcement of a $27 million settlement for Floyd’s family makes it impossible for his client to get a fair trial. >>>HOW TO WATCH: Court TV’s Live Coverage of MN v. Derek […] More
March 15, 2021
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia’s highest court opened a door Monday for taxpayer funds to help cover the legal defense of a man awaiting trial for the 2005 slaying of a high school teacher whose disappearance remained a mystery for more than a decade. The Georgia Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that private attorneys for Ryan […] More
March 15, 2021
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania woman is accused of doctoring photos and video of her daughter’s cheerleading rivals to try to get them kicked off the squad, officials said. The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office last week charged Raffaela Spone, 50, with three misdemeanor counts of cyber harassment of a child and related offenses. […] More
March 15, 2021
SEATTLE (AP) — The mother of a newborn found dead in a trash can at a convenience store in Seattle more than 23 years ago was arrested after she was identified using genetic genealogy, authorities said. The mother was 27 when the baby was born, The Seattle Times reported. The statute of limitations for manslaughter is […] More
March 15, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jury selection continues Monday for a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death, with the process halfway complete after the first week. >>>HOW TO WATCH: Court TV’s Live Coverage of MN v. Derek Chauvin Seven people have been picked to hear evidence in the trial against Derek Chauvin, who is […] More
March 15, 2021
As attorneys in the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death screen potential jurors, they’re on guard for anything that suggests jurors would help, or hurt, their side. >>>HOW TO WATCH: Court TV’s Live Coverage of MN v. Derek Chauvin Prosecution and defense attorneys get a number of peremptory challenges […] More
March 15, 2021
AURORA, Colo. (Scripps News Denver) — It’s been more than four years, and the trail of whoever killed an Aurora bartender has gone cold. Friends of Kelly Acosta are still holding out hope that reward money will turn the tables and bring someone to justice. “His picture is up on the wall. He was a […] More
March 15, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The city of Minneapolis on Friday agreed to pay $27 million to settle a civil lawsuit from George Floyd’s family over the Black man’s death in police custody, even as jury selection continued in a former officer’s murder trial. The Minneapolis City Council emerged from closed session to announce the record settlement, […] More
March 12, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man who said he has a “very negative” impression of Derek Chauvin nevertheless became the sixth juror selected for the former Minneapolis police officer’s trial in George Floyd’s death. The man, who told attorneys he could set that aside and consider the evidence in the case, was the only juror chosen Thursday […] More
March 12, 2021
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma man’s murder convictions and death sentence have been overturned following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that much of eastern Oklahoma remains an American Indian reservation. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday reversed the decisions against Shaun Bosse, 38, because the crimes occurred on land within the Chickasaw Nation’s […] More
March 12, 2021
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors trying a white former Minneapolis police officer in George Floyd’s death plan to use a legal doctrine called “spark of life” to humanize Floyd in front of jurors. It’s a doctrine with roots in a 1985 state Supreme Court case, and one that several legal experts said makes Minnesota a […] More
March 11, 2021
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (Scripps News Milwaukee) Family and friends are honoring the victims of a murder 10 years ago. On Oct. 19, 2007, up-and-coming R&B singer Yolanda “Lala” Brown and her producer JeTannue “Kool-Aid” Clayborn were shot and killed in a Milwaukee studio on 55th Street and Lisbon Avenue. Ten years later the case is […] More
March 11, 2021
GEORGETOWN, Ohio (Scripps News Cincinnati) — An Ohio couple who stand accused of starving and abusing an 11-year-old girl in their care will face a jury this year. Margaret and Charles Breeze sat opposite each other in Brown County Common Pleas Judge Scott Gusweiler’s courtroom Wednesday afternoon. They didn’t say a word, although they did […] More
March 11, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A judge on Thursday granted prosecutors’ request to add a third-degree murder charge against the former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death. >>>HOW TO WATCH: Court TV’s Live Coverage of MN v. Derek Chauvin Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill reinstated the charge after the former officer, Derek Chauvin, failed to get […] More
March 11, 2021
PODCAST: 10 months after George Floyd lost his life in a confrontation with four Minneapolis police officers, the first criminal trial related to his death has begun. More
March 11, 2021
The issue of race looms large over the trial of a white former Minneapolis police officer charged in the death last May of George Floyd, a Black man. >>>HOW TO WATCH: Court TV’s Live Coverage of MN v. Derek Chauvin The racial makeup of the jury that will decide Derek Chauvin’s fate has been no exception, […] More
March 11, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Potential jurors in Derek Chauvin’s murder trial return Thursday to continue a selection process moving more quickly than expected. Meanwhile, the former policeman charged in George Floyd’s death faced the prospect of an additional third-degree murder charge. >>>HOW TO WATCH: Court TV’s Live Coverage of MN v. Derek Chauvin Five jurors have […] More
March 11, 2021
