A Michigan man jailed for two years for attempted murder and later exonerated because of a Facebook-backed alibi prevailed Wednesday in a civil case against Detroit police officers who had asked a judge not to find them liable for falsely arresting him.
Read moreAn Oregon woman is suing the University of British Columbia over an October 2016 knife attack in her dorm room by a Saudi Arabian engineering student who said God instructed him to kill her after listening to passages in the Quran.
Read moreAuthorities in Los Angeles County on Wednesday charged a 77-year-old man with capital murder and other charges in the shooting death of a firefighter responding to an explosion police say he set off at a retirement complex.
Read moreThe accused terrorist behind a New York City truck attack that killed eight people last year disregarded warnings about his right against self-incrimination on Friday in a 10-minute speech extolling the Islamic State group.
Read moreAfter 20 years in state prison, a California woman convicted of scheming to kill her twin sister was granted parole last month by Governor Jerry Brown, much to the dismay of a local district attorney’s office that called the woman a “manipulative and dangerous individual.”
Read moreIn the continued saga surrounding rock star Kurt Cobain’s guitar, a woman says she was stalked and threatened by Courtney Love for not helping her retrieve the instrument from her daughter’s ex-husband, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday.
Read moreAfter 24 years since Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain’s suicide, his wife Courtney Love has been accused of ordering the kidnapping and attempted murder of her former son-in-law in an effort to reclaim Cobain’s most famous guitar, according to a recent lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court.
Read moreA federal jury Thursday convicted of a man of all 17 counts of fraud and racketeering, including the attempted murder of Texas state Judge Julie Kocurek.
Read moreA 34-year-old man already serving a 25-year federal prison sentence for trying to send bomb-making materials to terrorists pleaded guilty Tuesday in the attempted murder of a prison warden in 2016.
Read moreThe man accused of shooting three people and killing one in a Kansas bar last year pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree murder and two counts of first-degree attempted murder in a Johnson County courtroom Tuesday.
Read moreThe man accused of shooting three people in a bar, killing one, a year ago may change his not guilty plea next week.
Read moreAdam Purinton, the suspect accused of killing an Indian national and injuring two others at a Kansas bar, pleaded not guilty in a brief court appearance Thursday.
Read moreAn Illinois woman claims in court that the Cook County Department of Corrections never should have hired her ex-girlfriend, who tried to murder the woman and her father before turning her work-issued handgun on herself.
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A second Wisconsin girl reached a plea deal Friday on charges of trying to stab her friend to death to please a fictional boogeyman, avoiding a trial that was set for next month.
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A Wisconsin girl who admitted to participating in the stabbing of a classmate to please horror character Slenderman will avoid prison after a jury determined that she was mentally ill at the time of the attack.
Read moreA handful of prospective jurors were excused Monday in the case of one of two Wisconsin girls accused of trying to stab their friend to death to please a fictional boogeyman, less than a week before her trial begins.
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One of two Wisconsin girls accused of trying to stab their friend to death to please a fictional boogeyman accepted a plea deal Monday for a lesser-included charge of attempted homicide.
Read moreJurors in the upcoming trials of two Wisconsin girls accused of trying to stab their friend to death to please a fictional boogeyman will be isolated from the public during the proceedings, a state judge ruled Thursday.
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