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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

Examine how the Texas definition of first-degree murder impacted the trial of Amber Guyger and whether her status as a police officer held her to a higher standard. (Episode 57) More

September 17, 2020

Daniel Ellsberg came to the defense of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in his legal fight to avoid extradition to the United States. More

September 17, 2020

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A judge in Washington state has reduced the damages in a wrongful death case brought by Susan Cox Powell’s parents on behalf of her sons. Judith and Charles Cox had said the state didn’t do enough to keep their 7- and 5-year-old grandsons safe from their father, who killed the boys […] More

September 17, 2020

ROME (AP) — A 20-year-old California man charged with murdering an Italian police officer apologized in court Wednesday, saying he was “filled with remorse” and hoped one day the slain man’s family would forgive him. Finnegan Lee Elder, who has been on trial in Rome since February along with a fellow American, asked the court […] More

September 17, 2020

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Three people filed a lawsuit Monday against New York Giants cornerback DeAndre Baker, claiming that he robbed them at gunpoint during a May cookout in Florida, court records show. The civil lawsuit filed in Broward County court seeks $100,000 in damages. Baker was formally charged Aug. 7 with four counts […] More

September 16, 2020

The City of Louisville will pay several million dollars to Breonna Taylor's family and install police reforms as part of a settlement. More

September 15, 2020