KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A 17-year-old from Illinois who is charged with killing two people during a protest in Wisconsin and whose case has become a rallying cry for some conservatives posted $2 million bail Friday and was released from custody. Kyle Rittenhouse is accused of fatally shooting Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and wounding […] More
November 20, 2020
UPDATED (COURT TV) Nov. 20, 2020 — An arraignment is scheduled for January 4, 2021, in the Colorado murder trial of Michael Close, the man accused of shooting a couple walking their dog in a Denver neighborhood, killing one. DENVER (AP) June 12, 2020 — Several hundred people gathered in a Denver suburb to remember […] More
November 20, 2020
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota judge has rejected a divorce settlement between former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin and his wife, citing the possibility of fraud. Washington County District Judge Juanita Freeman did not discuss motives for the divorce in her October decision to reject an agreement that transferred most of the couple’s assets to […] More
November 19, 2020
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli reported to prison on Thursday to begin serving his five-month sentence for bribing his daughters’ way into college, officials said. Giannulli’s wife, “Full House” actor Lori Loughlin, is already behind bars for her role in the college admissions bribery scheme involving […] More
November 19, 2020
VENTURA, Calif. (AP) — A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed over the drowning of “Glee” actor Naya Rivera, who died this summer while boating with her 4-year-old son on a California lake. The suit, filed Tuesday, blames Ventura County and managers of Lake Piru for her accidental death on July 8 at the lake […] More
November 19, 2020
Greg and Travis McMichael were back in court last week hoping to be released on bond. (Episode 66) More
November 19, 2020
By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rapper Tory Lanez pleaded not guilty through his attorney Wednesday to felony assault charges in the July shooting of hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion. Lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley entered the plea in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom to counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm […] More
November 18, 2020
FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) — A thief took a break during his burglary of a Southern California pizzeria to make himself a pizza pie before fleeing with the restaurant’s delivery car, authorities said. The suspect, later identified as 25-year-old Oscar Sanchez, broke into Big Slice Pizza in Fullerton, Calif., on Nov. 8, police said. He was […] More
November 18, 2020
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A former Army Green Beret charged with espionage activity on behalf of Russia is scheduled to plead guilty to federal charges. A plea hearing in U.S. District Court in Alexandria is scheduled for Wednesday morning for Peter Rafael Dzibinski Debbins, 45, of Gainesville. Court records do not spell out the specific […] More
November 18, 2020
BOSTON (AP) — A California couple got prison time Tuesday for paying $250,000 to get their daughter into the University of Southern California as a volleyball recruit — the latest sentencing in the college admissions bribery scheme that’s roiled the worlds of higher education, sports and entertainment. Diane Blake was sentenced to six weeks behind […] More
November 17, 2020
By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Rapper Lil Wayne was charged Tuesday in Florida with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, a federal offense that carries a potential sentence of up to 10 years in prison. Documents filed in Miami federal court say the rapper, whose […] More
November 17, 2020
Skylar Richardson was released from the probation she was sentenced to after she was convicted of abuse of a corpse. More
November 17, 2020
PITTSFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A suburban Detroit woman who said she fatally shot her husband in self-defense was released from prison Tuesday after serving 20 months. Tina Talbot hugged her 9-year-old son, whom she hadn’t seen since March because of coronavirus-related visitor restrictions, while family and friends cheered outside the Huron Valley prison for […] More
November 17, 2020
Larynzo Johnson was indicted on assault and wanton endangerment charges for allegedly shooting police during demonstrations. More
November 17, 2020
By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Former New York Giants cornerback DeAndre Baker was cleared of robbery charges in Florida on Monday after his alleged victims’ attorney was arrested on extortion charges. The Broward County State Attorney’s Office announced it was dropping all charges against Baker shortly after the county sheriff’s […] More
November 16, 2020
KEMPTON, Pa. (AP) — Defense attorneys say they will mount an insanity defense in the case of a woman charged with murder in the deaths of her two young children found in an eastern Pennsylvania basement last year. Attorneys for Lisa Snyder filed papers in Berks County Court on Thursday citing a number of serious […] More
November 16, 2020
By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British serial killer known as the “Yorkshire Ripper” died Friday, reviving unsettling memories of a killing spree that bred fear across northern England in the late 1970s. He was 74. Peter Sutcliffe was serving a life sentence for the killings of 13 women in Yorkshire and […] More
November 13, 2020
A Georgia judge denied bond for Travis and Gregory McMichael, the father and son charged with killing Ahmaud Arbery. More
November 13, 2020
LANCASTER, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man convicted of killing his teenage roommate and disposing of the body has been sentenced to 60 years in prison. Christopher Allen Holford, 33, pleaded guilty Thursday to murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime in the February 2018 death of Austin Tyler Steele, 18, […] More
November 13, 2020
By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The man who fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery had previously used racial slurs in a text message and on social media, a prosecutor said Thursday as a judge weighed whether to grant bond for the defendant and his father. Travis McMichael and his father, Gregory McMichael, have […] More
November 12, 2020
A justice department report found Labor Secretary Alex Acosta exercised 'poor judgment' in handling the Epstein investigation. More
November 12, 2020
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia judge is scheduled to consider bond requests by a father and son jailed on murder charges in the February shooting of Ahmaud Arbery. Gregory McMichael and his adult son, Travis McMichael, were to appear Thursday morning before Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley. They also have asked the judge to […] More
November 12, 2020
Court TV shares recordings Lori Vallow made before she met Chad Daybell, speaking about the thoughts of murdering her third husband. (Ep. 65) More
November 12, 2020
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — A state panel has finalized Nevada’s $2.85 million payment to a woman who spent almost 34 years in prison for a Reno killing she didn’t commit before she was exonerated by DNA evidence in 2015. Attorney General Aaron Ford announced last month that a state judge in Reno had approved […] More
November 12, 2020
ATLANTA (Court TV) — Two of the three Georgia men accused in the death of Ahmaud Arbery will remotely stand before a judge Thursday morning to request that they be released pending their upcoming trials. Travis and Gregory McMichael, father and son, have been in the custody of the Glynn County Sheriff’s Department for the […] More
November 11, 2020
By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Britney Spears fears her father and will not resume her career so long as he has power over it, her attorney said in court Tuesday. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny declined to suspend James Spears from his central role in the court conservatorship […] More
November 11, 2020
Tony Rhoden Sr. filed a lawsuit against the four members of the Wagner family charged with murdering 8 members of the Rhoden family. More
November 10, 2020
ANTIOCH, Ill. (AP) — The mother of an Illinois 17-year-old charged in the fatal shooting of two men during a protest in Wisconsin said neither her son nor the protesters should have been on the street that night and put much of the blame for what happened on police and the governor. Kyle Rittenhouse, […] More
November 10, 2020
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors have charged a Wisconsin man with supplying the gun that police say an Illinois teen used to kill two people during a protest over police brutality in August. Online court records show prosecutors in Kenosha charged 19-year-old Dominick Black on Nov. 3 with two felony counts of supplying a dangerous […] More
November 10, 2020
PHOENIX (AP) — The prosecutor’s office in Arizona’s most populous county announced Monday that all pending cases for possessing an ounce or less of marijuana will be dismissed after the state’s voters approved a legalization measure. The announcement from the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office said the decision would also apply to cases for possessing paraphernalia […] More
November 10, 2020
