Days ahead of a long-awaited trial on murder charges, embattled rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight pleaded no contest Thursday to voluntary manslaughter stemming from a 2015 fatal hit and run.
Read moreAttorneys for the family of an unarmed black man who was shot and killed by a white Dallas cop who mistook his apartment for her own disputed Tuesday her claims that his door was ajar, citing witnesses who say they heard a female voice commanding the door be opened.
Read moreA white Dallas police officer was charged Sunday evening with manslaughter for killing a black male resident in an apartment she mistook for her own but was on the wrong floor.
Read moreDallas police said Friday afternoon that an off-duty white female cop who mistook another apartment for her own will face manslaughter charges for shooting and killing the black man inside.
Read moreState prosecutors filed court papers Wednesday claiming the former Minnesota police officer who fatally shot an Australian woman last year had shown signs of a reckless disregard for human life, citing training records and his responses to prior calls.
Read moreA former Oklahoma cop acquitted in the shooting death of an unarmed black motorist defied protestors Tuesday night, going through with teaching a class to sheriff’s deputies on how to handle the aftermath of police-involved shootings.
Read moreA judge on Monday ordered Michigan’s state health director to stand trial for involuntary manslaughter in two deaths linked to Legionnaires’ disease in the Flint area, the highest ranking official to stand trial as a result of the tainted water scandal.
Read moreIn an unusual move, a California judge on Friday rejected the plea deals of two men who were charged with 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter after a 2016 California warehouse fire.
Read moreThe father of an Australian woman who was fatally shot by a former Minneapolis police officer last summer filed a $50 million lawsuit Monday claiming he and his partner covered up the circumstances of the shooting by not activating their body cameras.
Read moreKenyan police are charging with manslaughter two managers of a private farm where a dam burst due to seasonal rains, flooding a village and killing at least 47 people.
Read moreTwo men pleaded no contest Tuesday to involuntary manslaughter charges over the deaths of 36 people who perished in the Ghost Ship warehouse fire in Oakland and accepted county jail sentences of nine and six years.
Read moreTwo men who fled from unmarked police claim in a federal complaint that they spent years in prison because officers planted drugs on them to avoid liability for an innocent bystander’s death in the chase.
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A state judge on Friday said there is enough evidence for a manslaughter trial to proceed against two men connected to the 2016 Ghost Ship warehouse fire that killed 36 people.
Read moreA nurse was charged Thursday with involuntary manslaughter, neglect and falsifying documents to make it appear she had performed required exams on President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser’s father before he died at a Philadelphia senior care facility last month.
Read moreLos Angeles police officer Edgar Verduzco faces murder and manslaughter charges for causing a collision last September that killed three people, while he was off-duty, driving drunk and speeding.
Read more“Affluenza” killer Ethan Couch was released from a Texas jail Monday, five years after he killed four people while driving drunk as a juvenile and two years after being imprisoned for violating parole by fleeing to Mexico.
Read moreA Pennsylvania judge on Wednesday dismissed many of the most serious charges against nearly a dozen Penn State frat brothers accused of involuntary manslaughter and evidence tampering in last year’s hazing death of a pledge.
Read moreA former executive for a water park company was charged Friday with involuntary manslaughter in the death of a 10-year-old boy who was decapitated on a giant waterslide at a Kansas water park.
Read moreMinneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor was charged with the shooting death of an Australian woman, Hennepin County Attorney Freeman announced Tuesday.
Read moreThe man convicted of killing NFL running back Joe McKnight in a 2016 road rage incident that left McKnight dead was sentenced to 30 years in prison on manslaughter charges Thursday.
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