ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Taylor Swift’s father recently fought a burglar who broke into his $4 million Florida penthouse, a newspaper is reporting. The Tampa Bay Times said that Scott Swift returned to his home in the Vinoy Place Towers in St. Petersburg on Jan. 17 just moments after 30-year-old Terrence Hoover used an emergency escape […] More
February 18, 2020
NEW YORK (AP) — A jury is expected to begin deliberations Tuesday in Harvey Weinstein’s trial after often-emotional testimony from multiple women who accused him of sexual assault. The panel of five women and seven men will begin to weigh the evidence that Weinstein raped a woman in a Manhattan hotel room in 2013 and forcibly performed oral sex on […] More
February 18, 2020
By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer Barraged by hundreds of sex-abuse lawsuits, the Boy Scouts of America filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday in hopes of working out a potentially mammoth victim compensation plan that will allow the 110-year-old organization to carry on. The Chapter 11 filing in federal bankruptcy court in Wilmington, Delaware, sets in […] More
February 18, 2020
By MICHAEL REZENDES Associated Press EASTHAM, Mass. (AP) — The notorious crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger terrorized Boston from the 1970s into the 1990s with a campaign of murder, extortion, and drug trafficking, then spent 16 years on the lam after he was tipped to his pending arrest. In 2013, Janet Uhlar was one of […] More
February 18, 2020
The Los Angeles Fire Department took Dr. Amie Harwick to a nearby hospital, where she later died from her injuries, police said. More
February 18, 2020
Despite almost no physical evidence in the case, prosecutors believe they can prove that Robert Durst killed his best friend, Susan Berman. More
February 17, 2020
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A mistrial has been declared in the first-degree murder trial of an Oklahoma City man, charged in the 2018 death of his 3-month-old son. Court records show the jury deadlocked early Saturday on the murder charge against Deion Reed, 23, but found him not guilty of child abuse in the death […] More
February 17, 2020
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein grinned as he left court, and his lawyers said he was confident heading into what could be his last weekend of freedom as his New York City rape trial moves closer to a verdict. Jurors are set to start deliberating […] More
February 15, 2020
By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Avenatti, the combative lawyer who gained fame by representing porn star Stormy Daniels in lawsuits involving President Donald Trump, was convicted Friday of trying to extort sportswear giant Nike. The verdict was returned by a federal jury in Manhattan following a three-week trial in which […] More
February 14, 2020
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein considered himself such a big shot in Hollywood that he thought he could get away with treating aspiring actresses like “complete disposables,” a prosecutor told a jury in closing arguments Friday at his New York City rape trial. “The universe […] More
February 14, 2020
BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — A jury on Thursday convicted a man of second-degree murder in the death of a Nebraska college student whose body has never been found. Joshua Keadle was found guilty of killing 19-year-old Tyler Thomas, who disappeared in December 2010 after she left a party near Peru State College in southeastern Nebraska. […] More
February 14, 2020
Prosecutors will deliver closing arguments in Harvey Weinstein's New York City rape trial on Friday before deliberations begin Tuesday. More
February 14, 2020
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for “Full House” actress Lori Loughlin, her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli and other prominent parents charged in the sweeping college admissions bribery case say they won’t be ready to go to trial until next year. Federal prosecutors in Boston have said the first trial […] More
February 13, 2020
By TOM HAYS, JENNIFER PELTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer told jurors Thursday that prosecutors in the rape case against him were acting like moviemakers, creating a world where “women are not responsible” for how they interact with men. Weinstein is innocent, attorney Donna Rotunno said, appealing […] More
February 13, 2020
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS and MITCH STACY Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Two former Ohio State football players pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges that they held a woman against her will and raped her this month. Defensive backs Amir Riep and Jahsen Wint — who were kicked off the team Wednesday after the charges […] More
February 13, 2020
With the defense resting its case and both sides preparing for closing arguments, Vinnie Politan and Seema Iyer look back on the rape trial of Harvey Weinstein. (Episode 27) More
February 13, 2020
Closing arguments in Harvey Weinstein's New York City rape trial are scheduled to begin on Thursday. More
February 13, 2020
By MICHAEL BALSAMO and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The four lawyers who prosecuted Roger Stone quit the case Tuesday after the Justice Department overruled them and said it would take the extraordinary step of lowering the amount of prison time it would seek for President Donald Trump’s longtime ally and confidant. The […] More
February 12, 2020
Former 'Empire' actor Jussie Smollett was indicted on charges of lying to police about a racist and homophobic attack. More
February 11, 2020
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The defense rested its case Tuesday in Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial without the disgraced Hollywood mogul taking the witness stand, setting the stage for closing arguments in a landmark #MeToo trial punctuated by graphic testimony from six accusers. As expected, Weinstein chose […] More
February 11, 2020
The defense rested its case in Harvey Weinstein's New York rape trial without calling the defendant to the stand. More
February 11, 2020
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers are set to rest their defense case Tuesday, but not before answering the big question looming over his New York City rape trial: Will he take the risk of testifying? So far, they say, Weinstein hasn’t signaled he’ll roll […] More
February 11, 2020
By MARYCLAIRE DALE and JOCELYN NOVECK Associated Press Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault trial has unfolded this month in a 15th-floor courtroom in New York, but its reverberations are being felt far beyond, as his many accusers anxiously await the outcome. They wonder how the disgraced mogul’s wealth and power might affect the verdict. They wince at […] More
February 10, 2020
A former roommate told the jury that the woman who accused Harvey Weinstein of raping her referred to him as her 'spiritual soulmate.' More
February 10, 2020
Ezra McCandless was sentenced to life in prison with an opportunity for supervised release after 50 years for the murder of Alex Woodworth. More
February 10, 2020
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lauren Marie Young says that after Harvey Weinstein groped her in a Beverly Hills hotel room bathroom in 2013, there was another woman there who did nothing to stop it. Taking the witness stand at Weinstein’s New York City rape trial last week, […] More
February 10, 2020
In the third week of Harvey Weinstein's New York City rape trial, the prosecution rested as the defendant dozed off. More
February 8, 2020
UPDATED 2/7/20 at 11:23 a.m. ET BELFAST, Maine (AP) — Bad weather on Friday delayed the sentencing of a woman convicted of murdering her 10-year-old daughter in a high-profile case that prompted changes to the state’s child protection system. The sentencing of Sharon Carrillo was postponed because courts, like all state offices, were closed because […] More
February 7, 2020
By MICHAEL BALSAMO and CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The man accused of killing 22 people and wounding two dozen more in a shooting that targeted Mexicans in the border city of El Paso, Texas, has been charged with federal hate crimes. Patrick Crusius, 21, has been charged with 90 counts under federal […] More
February 6, 2020
BY SEEMA IYER | COURT TV | OPINION It was billed as the trial to define the #MeToo movement – and New York v. Harvey Weinstein has been all that… and more. As the Weinstein defense team launches its case-in-chief, my legal eyes see that his already uphill battle has grown significantly steeper. For what […] More
February 6, 2020
