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The responding officer fired a shot through the home's window, killing Atatiana Jefferson. More

October 14, 2019

NEW YORK (AP) — Cuba Gooding Jr. learned on Thursday that he’s facing a new undisclosed charge in his sexual misconduct case, a development that came as jury selection was set to begin for his trial. At a court hearing in Manhattan, Assistant District Attorney Jenna Long revealed the charge is contained in a sealed […] More

October 10, 2019

NEW YORK (AP) — Two years after Matt Lauer was abruptly fired by NBC News for sexual misconduct, more questions are emerging about the former “Today” show host’s behavior and whether bosses looked the other way at problems involving one of the network’s biggest stars. A new book by Ronan Farrow, a former NBC News […] More

October 10, 2019

Michael Drejka was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the shooting death of Markeis McGlockton outside a Florida convenience store. More

October 10, 2019

NEW YORK (AP) — Cuba Gooding Jr.’s trial on groping charges is set to begin this week. The trial, which is scheduled to start Thursday, was postponed in September after prosecutors said they were still waiting for evidence in the Oscar-winning “Jerry Maguire” star’s case. Gooding’s lawyers argued against the delay. The actor is accused […] More

October 10, 2019

Amber Guyger’s conviction for the murder of Botham Jean, after the ex-cop entered his apartment believing it was her own, didn’t end the drama surrounding her trial.  More

October 10, 2019

NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who worked at NBC News claimed that Matt Lauer raped her at a hotel while on assignment for the Sochi Olympics, an encounter the former “Today” show host claimed was consensual. The claim outlined by Brooke Nevils in Ronan Farrow’s book, “Catch and Kill,” puts a name and details […] More

October 9, 2019

ATLANTA (AP) — Reality television stars Todd and Julie Chrisley have settled allegations that they failed to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in income taxes to the state of Georgia. A spokesman for the couple, Allan Mayer, announced Tuesday that the couple had reached an agreement with the Georgia Department of Revenue. The agreement […] More

October 9, 2019

Investigators believe the three suspects accused of killing Joshua Brown were in Dallas to buy drugs from him. More

October 8, 2019

WASHINGTON (AP) — A seemingly divided Supreme Court struggled Tuesday over whether a landmark civil rights law protects LGBT people from discrimination in employment. With the court’s four liberal justices likely to side with workers who were fired because of their sexual orientation or transgender status, the question in two highly anticipated cases that filled the courtroom […] More

October 8, 2019

Judge Tammy Kemp said she had never previously acknowledged her Christian faith to a defendant or given one a Bible. More

October 7, 2019

Joshua Brown testified in the trial of Amber Guyger about the night neighbor Botham Jean was shot and killed. More

October 5, 2019

LAS VEGAS (AP) — They may have been united by a love for country music, but the people gunned down two years ago at a Las Vegas concert will not be seen as equals when up to $800 million is paid out from a legal settlement. The administrator overseeing the process will have the icy […] More

October 4, 2019

A judge will determine whether a former U.S. attorney can stay on to examine the dismissal of charges against actor Jussie Smollett. More

October 4, 2019

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two actresses sued James Franco and the acting and film school he founded Thursday, saying he intimidated his students into gratuitous and exploitative sexual situations far beyond those acceptable on Hollywood film sets. Sarah Tither-Kaplan and Toni Gaal, former students at the actor’s now-closed Studio 4, said in the lawsuit filed […] More

October 4, 2019

NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein has lost a longshot bid to move his sexual assault trial out of New York City, as a state court rejected Thursday the movie mogul’s concerns that he wouldn’t get a fair trial in the world’s media capital.   A five-judge panel of the state Supreme Court’s Appellate Division […] More

October 3, 2019

The verdict is in for former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger, who mistakenly entered her neighbor Botham Jean’s apartment believing it was her own. More

October 3, 2019

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A man convicted of rape and murder when he was a teenager whose story was documented in the 2015 Netflix series “Making a Murderer” asked Wisconsin’s governor for a pardon or commutation of his life prison sentence on Wednesday. The request from Brendan Dassey came as his advocates launched yet another […] More

October 2, 2019

Bertrum Jean said his son’s death has upended his life back in St. Lucia. Amber Guyger is on trial for the death of Botham Jean. More

October 2, 2019

DENVER (AP) — An Uber driver charged with first-degree murder in the death of a passenger shot the man in self-defense after he touched, punched and pulled his hair as he was speeding down an interstate, his lawyer told jurors Tuesday. In opening arguments in Michael Hancock’s trial, Johnna Stuart said Hancock asked a driver […] More

October 2, 2019

Cheers erupted in the courthouse as the verdict was announced in the trial of Amber Guyger, accused in the death of Botham Jean. More

October 1, 2019

CASTLE ROCK, Colo. (AP) — Prosecutors have enough evidence for a Colorado teenager to be tried for a school shooting in a Denver suburb that killed one of his classmates and injured eight others, a judge ruled Wednesday. Judge Theresa Slade found that Devon Erickson, 19, could be tried on over 40 criminal charges, including […] More

September 26, 2019

The highly anticipated trial of Amber Guyger – the former cop who shot and killed her neighbor after entering what she thought was her apartment and mistaking him for an intruder. More

September 26, 2019

PHOENIX (AP) — The homicide prosecutor who won convictions in the Jodi Arias murder case and other notorious killings in metro Phoenix has been reassigned to handle auto thefts. Chief Deputy County Attorney Rachel Mitchell said in a statement Tuesday night that Deputy County Attorney Juan Martinez’s reassignment gives Martinez time and flexibility to resolve […] More

September 25, 2019

LOGAN, Utah (AP) — A Utah man who pleaded guilty to killing and sexually assaulting his 5-year-old niece was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole Tuesday during an emotional hearing where the girl’s relatives called him a “monster” who savagely took the life of an innocent child. (Credit: KSL, Mary Whipple […] More

September 25, 2019

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lee Boyd Malvo, who terrorized the Washington region in 2002 as one-half of a sniper team, is at the center of a case the Supreme Court will hear this fall. But the justices’ eventual ruling probably will mean less for him than for a dozen other inmates who, like the now-34-year-old Malvo, […] More

September 23, 2019

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A crewman injured while escaping the fire that killed 34 people aboard a dive boat off Southern California sued the vessel’s owner and the company that chartered it. Ryan Sims filed the lawsuit last week in Ventura County Superior Court saying the boat was unseaworthy and operated in an unsafe manner. […] More

September 20, 2019

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Golfer Tiger Woods’ girlfriend has been dropped from a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of a drunken driver who died in a car crash. The lawsuit initially named Woods, his girlfriend Erica Herman and The Woods restaurant. His name was dropped from the litigation in June. The […] More

September 20, 2019

BY KELLY KENNEDY | ASSOCIATED PRESS When Georgia authorities pulled over a Florida driver during the weekend, they made a gruesome discovery in the back of the truck — the body of his decomposing wife. Casei Jones and her four children had been missing from their Florida hometown for over a month, and the discovery […] More

September 20, 2019

Taking the stand in his own defense, Todd Mullis faces tough questions about what's heard on his 911 call. More

September 20, 2019