SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday approved legislation prompted by the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant and eight other peopls that makes it a crime for first responders to take unauthorized photos of deceased people at the scene of an accident or crime. Reports surfaced after the Jan. 26 crash that […] More
September 29, 2020
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The curfew has been lifted in Louisville, where many people have been charged with refusing to stop their nighttime protests after a grand jury’s decision not to charge officers in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor. Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer said he allowed the curfew to expire as of 6:30 a.m. […] More
September 28, 2020
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — The Kenosha police officer who shot Jacob Blake in the back seven times last month told investigators he thought Blake was trying to abduct one of his own children and that he opened fire because Blake started turning toward the officer while holding a knife, the officer’s lawyer contends. Brendan Matthews, […] More
September 28, 2020
Crowds marched through the streets for a fifth night after a grand jury failed to charge officers involved in the death of Breonna Taylor. More
September 28, 2020
Breonna Taylor's family has criticized the KY AG for failing to charge the police officers involved in her death. More
September 25, 2020
17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse fought his return to Wisconsin to face homicide charges after killing two protesters. More
September 25, 2020
A suspect in the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann faces another investigation over an alleged rape. More
September 25, 2020
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a school district can’t be forced to pay more than $300,000 total to the victims or their families in the Parkland high school massacre that left 17 people dead and another 17 wounded. Justices unanimously sided with Broward County Public Schools, agreeing that the Feb. 14, […] More
September 25, 2020
By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Evel Knievel’s son is on a collision course with the Walt Disney Co. and Pixar over a movie daredevil character named Duke Caboom. A federal trademark infringement lawsuit filed in Las Vegas accuses the movie company of improperly basing the new character in last year’s “Toy […] More
September 24, 2020
By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida prosecutors dropped a misdemeanor charge against New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft on Thursday after courts blocked their use of video that allegedly shows him paying for massage parlor sex. Palm Beach County court records show that the charge was dropped Thursday. Palm […] More
September 24, 2020
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the death sentence for an Illinois man convicted of abducting his estranged girlfriend from Kentucky in 2014 and killing her along an Ohio highway. Death row inmate Terry Froman was sentenced to death in 2017 by a Warren County […] More
September 24, 2020
Kyle Rittenhouse's defense has portrayed him as a courageous teenager exercising his right to bear arms amid riots in the street. More
September 24, 2020
Court TV's Vinnie Politan talks about the verdict of former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger, who fatally shot Botham Jean. (Episode 58) More
September 24, 2020
Breonna Taylor was fatally shot in her Louisville apartment during a botched police raid on March 13, 2020. More
September 24, 2020
By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Carole Baskin, who became a pop culture sensation due to Netflix’s docuseries “Tiger King,” is being sued for defamation by a former assistant. As part of the lawsuit, the daughters of Baskin’s former husband are seeking more information about what happened to their father, who disappeared […] More
September 23, 2020
By MARK SHERMAN and MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With crowds of admirers swelling outside, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was remembered Wednesday at the court by grieving family, colleagues and friends as a prophet for justice who persevered against long odds to become an American icon. The court’s eight justices, masked […] More
September 23, 2020
A grand jury returned an indictment against a single former police officer for shooting into neighboring apartments during the raid. More
September 23, 2020
By DAVID RISING and DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been released from a Berlin hospital after more than a month’s treatment for poisoning, with doctors now believing that a “complete recovery” from the nerve agent is possible, the facility said Wednesday. Navalny spent 32 days in treatment […] More
September 23, 2020
By MICHAEL BALSAMO and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Canadian woman accused of mailing a package containing ricin to the White House included a threatening letter in which she told President Donald Trump to “give up and remove your application for this election,” according to court papers filed Tuesday. Pascale Ferrier, of […] More
September 23, 2020
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A former Southern California lawyer was sentenced Friday to life without the possibility of parole for strangling his ex-wife and throwing her body off a cruise ship in the Mediterranean in 2006. Lonnie Loren Kocontes, 62, of Safety Harbor, Florida, was convicted in June of first-degree murder with a special […] More
September 23, 2020
By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Vanessa Bryant, the widow of basketball star Kobe Bryant, has filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles County sheriff claiming deputies shared unauthorized photos of the crash that killed her husband, their 13-year-old daughter and seven others. After the Jan. 26 crash, reports surfaced that graphic […] More
September 23, 2020
FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) — A home where Lizzie Borden lived in Fall River, Massachusetts, is on the market again, after being sold most recently in 2018. The current owners, Donald Woods and Leeann Wilber, also operate a Borden-themed museum and bed-and-breakfast at a different home where Borden was famously accused of killing her […] More
September 22, 2020
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Police Department has used facial-recognition software nearly 30,000 times since 2009 even while denying at times that it used the controversial technology at all, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday. The LAPD doesn’t have its own face-scanning platform but uses the face-comparison software provided through the Los Angeles County Regional […] More
September 22, 2020
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City police officer was charged on Monday with being an “intelligence asset” for the Chinese government who agreed to spy on U.S. supporters of the Tibetan independence movement. Baimadajie Angwang, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Tibet, worked since 2018 as an agent for the People’s Republic of China […] More
September 22, 2020
Police vacations have been cancelled and barricades are being erected ahead of an announcement on whether officers will be charged. More
September 21, 2020
By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — “That ’70s Show” actor Danny Masterson, charged with raping three women, made his first appearance Friday in a Los Angeles courtroom, where his attorney declared his innocence and denounced the charges against him as “politicized.” Masterson, 44, who has been free on bail since […] More
September 21, 2020
By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A family is suing over the fatal December shooting of a Florida UPS driver who was taken hostage by two robbers and killed in a torrent of gunfire after he and the suspects got stuck in rush-hour traffic. Attorneys representing the two young daughters of […] More
September 18, 2020
By DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Jerry Harris, the star of the Netflix documentary series “Cheer,” was arrested Thursday and charged with producing child pornography, three days after twin boys filed a lawsuit alleging he sent them sexually explicit photos of himself and cornered one of them in a bathroom and begged for […] More
September 17, 2020
LOS ANGELES (AP) — One of the two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies shot in an ambush attack last weekend has been released from the hospital, the sheriff said Wednesday. The 31-year-old female deputy and 24-year-old male deputy underwent surgery after the shooting Saturday evening in Compton. The female deputy remains hospitalized. Both are expected […] More
September 17, 2020
By DAVID PORTER Associated Press A former “Melrose Place” actress who has already served a prison sentence for a fatal 2010 drunken driving crash in New Jersey is headed back behind bars after a judge agreed with prosecutors Thursday that her initial sentence was too lenient. Saying Amy Locane still refuses to fully acknowledge […] More
September 17, 2020
