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The Idaho Attorney General has agreed to investigate Lori Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell in connection with the death of his first wife. More

April 27, 2020

LAS VEGAS (Scripps News Las Vegas) — Kelsey Turner is back in Las Vegas, according to an inmate search of Clark County Detention Center. She was booked on a charge of open murder with a deadly weapon.   ORIGINAL STORY 7/3/2019 LAS VEGAS (AP) — Prosecutors have decided they won’t seek the death penalty for […] More

April 27, 2020

ORIGINAL STORY 4/22/20 WEST JORDAN, Utah (AP) — A man suspected of forcing his way into the home of a couple he knew and killing them both was arrested Wednesday morning in California, police said.   The U.S. Marshals Service and other law enforcement agencies helped in the apprehension of Albert Enoch Johnson, 31, in […] More

April 27, 2020

UPDATED 4/24/20   ORIGINAL STORY 4/7/20 PITTSBURGH (AP) — A federal judge has rejected a bid by the suspect in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting to have the death penalty removed as a potential sentencing option. Lawyers for Robert Bowers argued that capital punishment violates the Fifth Amendment’s due process clause and the Eighth Amendment’s ban […] More

April 24, 2020

By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A new search warrant was served Wednesday at the Los Angeles home of a man who has long been described as a person of interest in the 1996 disappearance of California college student Kristin Smart, authorities said.   The warrant served at the home of Paul […] More

April 23, 2020

A quarter of a century ago a young immigrant bride and her Marine veteran husband found themselves in the center of media storm due to a night of domestic violence. Their names? Lorena and John Bobbitt. More

April 23, 2020

A federal judge dismissed actor Jussie Smollett's malicious prosecution lawsuit against the city of Chicago and several police officers. More

April 23, 2020

By: Court TV Staff R Kelly’s second bid for release from jail due to COVID-19 has been denied, according to an order from Federal Judge Ann Donnelly.   The judge acknowledged the disease has spread at Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) Chicago, where the Grammy-winning R&B singer is being held as he awaits trial. The judge […] More

April 22, 2020

PHOENIX (AP) — A high-profile Arizona prosecutor challenged a decision to fire him after a 30-year career. Juan Martinez’s appeal of his termination was released Monday by the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, The Arizona Republic reports. Martinez became well known when he prosecuted Jodi Arias, who was convicted of killing Travis Alexander in his Mesa […] More

April 22, 2020

  ORIGINAL STORY: 4/7/30 ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) — Murder charges were filed Tuesday against a Tennessee man accused of breaking into a suburban Chicago home with an accomplice who was fatally shot by the homeowner. Bradley Finnan, 39, of Chattanooga is being held without bond on murder and home invasion charges for the alleged […] More

April 22, 2020

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Until Monday, Oregon was the only state that still allowed nonunanimous jury convictions. The U.S. Supreme Court ended that in a decision involving a murder conviction in Louisiana, a state which, until 2019, had also allowed nonunanimous jury convictions. But the ruling also applied to Oregon’s […] More

April 21, 2020

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Family members of four passengers killed in a helicopter crash with Kobe Bryant and his daughter have joined the NBA star’s widow in filing wrongful death lawsuits against the companies that owned and operated the aircraft. The suits on behalf of three members of one family, […] More

April 21, 2020

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press The judge overseeing the case against actress Lori Loughlin, her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli and other parents charged with cheating the college admissions process called allegations of misconduct by investigators “serious and disturbing” on Friday. U.S. District Judge Nathaniel Gorton ordered prosecutors to respond to allegations that investigators bullied their […] More

April 20, 2020

LAREDO, Texas (AP) — A 20-year-old man was jailed without bond Friday after four members of a Texas family, including a two-year-old child, were found dead. Samuel Enrique Lopez was booked into the Webb County Jail in Laredo on two counts of capital murder, one involving multiple victims and another involving a child younger than […] More

April 20, 2020

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and longtime fixer Michael Cohen will be released from federal prison to serve the remainder of his sentence in home confinement because of the coronavirus pandemic. Cohen is currently locked up at FCI Otisville in New York after pleading guilty to numerous […] More

April 17, 2020

By: Court TV Staff The New York federal case against Grammy-winning artist R. Kelly is expected to be the first of the four pending cases against him to go to trial. This week, attorneys are drafting a juror questionnaire ahead of his trial. Prosecutors are objecting to one of the more controversial questions saying it […] More

April 17, 2020

Dr. Amie Harwick died after she was thrown over the third-floor balcony of her apartment. Gareth Pursehouse pleaded not guilty. More

April 17, 2020

By: Court TV Staff A New York federal judge has set a new September 29 trial date in the sexual abuse case of US-NY v. Robert Sylvester Kelly. The Grammy-winning R&B singer’s trial date in New York was originally scheduled for July 7. The judge and attorneys also decided to distribute juror questionnaires beginning the […] More

April 16, 2020

A Florida jury will soon be seated in the murder trial of Sheila Warren, who is accused of dressing up as a clown and shooting her romantic rival, Marlene Warren, 30 years ago. More

April 16, 2020

By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday denied an effort by one of deceased wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged underage sexual abuse victims to to revive a lawsuit claiming Florida federal prosecutors failed to consult victims when reaching a secret plea deal with Epstein […] More

April 14, 2020

If convicted, confessed Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz will face the death penalty for the murder of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre in 2018, the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history. His lawyers say Cruz is prepared to plead guilty in return for a life prison sentence, an offer Florida prosecutors […] More

April 14, 2020

Both Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell are being investigated for the murder, attempted murder or conspiracy of Chad’s first wife, Tammy Daybell. According to a letter from the Idaho Attorney General’s Office,  the state is in agreement to take over the Tammy Daybell case in Fremont County, Idaho, listing both Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell […] More

April 14, 2020

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A Birmingham police detective was arrested early Saturday on suspicion of shooting and killing a woman in a slaying the police chief described as a “love triangle gone wrong.” Police took Alfreda Fluker, 39, into custody at her home in west Birmingham, AL.com reported. Officers responding Friday night to an alert by […] More

April 13, 2020

KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — The wife and three children of a physical therapist who has been charged with their deaths died from overdoses of Benadryl and “unspecified violence,” according to autopsy reports released Tuesday. The Orlando Sentinel reports that Anthony Todt’s wife, Megan, was stabbed twice in the stomach. His sons, Alex, 13, and Tyler, 11, had […] More

April 13, 2020

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge has allowed Michael Avenatti to be temporarily freed from a federal jail in New York City and to ride out the coronavirus scare at a friend’s house in Los Angeles. The attorney, who rose to fame representing porn star Stormy Daniels in lawsuits against President Donald Trump, petitioned last […] More

April 13, 2020

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles prosecutors have charged imprisoned former film producer Harvey Weinstein with an additional count of felony sexual battery by restraint. The district attorney’s office said the charge was filed over allegations the former movie mogul sexually assaulted a woman at a Beverly Hills hotel in May 2010. The woman was […] More

April 10, 2020

Press Release from Los Angeles County District Attorneys Office, April 10, 2020 Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey announced today that film producer Harvey Weinstein was charged with an additional sexual assault count stemming from an incident that allegedly occurred at a Beverly Hills hotel in May 2010. Case BA483663 was amended to add […] More

April 10, 2020

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Former Texas Rangers star Josh Hamilton has been indicted on a felony charge of injury to a child after his teenage daughter accused him of beating her. A Tarrant County grand jury indicted the 38-year-old Hamilton on Monday. He remains free on $30,000 bond after he turned himself in to authorities […] More

April 9, 2020

The true crime documentary series Tiger King has become a national sensation, but did it tell the real story? More

April 9, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Linda Tripp, whose secretly recorded conversations with White House intern Monica Lewinsky led to the 1998 impeachment of President Bill Clinton, died Wednesday at age 70.   Her death was confirmed by attorney Joseph Murtha. He provided no further details. In August 1994, Tripp became a public affairs specialist at the Pentagon, […] More

April 9, 2020