A Missouri man on trial for allegedly raping a Washington University medical student said it was consensual. The victim, who said she was a virgin at the time, claimed she was awoken to the man, a stranger, on top of her in the middle of night at her St. Louis apartment. St. Louis Dispatch reports …
A little girl lost her life in 2016 after her father’s girlfriend reportedly left her inside a hot car in a Pennsylvania parking lot. After hearing two days’ of testimony and evidence including a distressing 911 call, a Pennsylvania jury must decide if the child’s death was a crime or a tragic accident. On Tuesday …
A North Carolina man accused of killing his wife admitted in court on Friday to stabbing her death after taking “too much” Coricidin cough medicine. The News & Observer reports that over 50 people packed into a Raleigh courtroom Friday morning in support of Lauren Phelps, who lost her life in 2017 when her husband, Matthew …
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) — A career criminal accused by authorities of raping and killing six women in the 1970s yelled “I am not guilty!” to a jury at the start of his trial Friday for two of the killings. Rodney Halbower also yelled “I have never raped or murdered in my life!” to the …
CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — A former Virginia Tech student pleaded guilty Tuesday to concealing the body of a slain 13-year-old girl, but still faces trial on a more serious charge of being an accessory to the teen’s killing. Natalie Keepers is scheduled to go on trial in September, accused of being an accessory before the …
By PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A San Francisco jury on Friday ordered agribusiness giant Monsanto to pay $289 million to a former school groundskeeper dying of cancer, saying the company’s popular Roundup weed killer contributed to his disease. Dewayne Johnson’s lawsuit was the first of thousands of cases filed in state and …
Judge who sentenced swimmer recalled amid #MeToo movement By PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The beginning of the end for the first California judge recalled since 1932 began almost exactly two years ago, when Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky sentenced a former Stanford swimmer convicted of sexual assault to six months in …
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A day of reckoning for two cousins accused of brutally killing four young men on a farm last summer was upended Wednesday when one of them reneged on a plea deal, a stunning turn that had prosecutors seeking the death penalty and considering his cousin as a star witness at his …
A trial for Emily Glass, the stepmother of missing Lucas Hernandez, started on Tuesday in a Sedwick County, Kansas, courtroom. Glass stands accused of child endangerment. KSN reports that although prosecutors allege Glass, 25, was arrested after smoking marijuana in home off of South Edgemoor before driving to a nearby Olive Garden with her toddler …
By COLLEEN LONG and TOM HAYS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A nanny convicted of brutally murdering two small children in her care has been sentenced in New York City to life in prison without parole. Yoselyn Ortega was convicted last month in the deaths of 6-year-old Lucia Krim and 2-year-old Leo Krim and was …
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Three men accused of raping a 9-year-old Utah girl while her mother was smoking methamphetamine in a garage were found not guilty Wednesday after their lawyers argued they couldn’t be convicted without physical evidence. Prosecutors said the girl’s clear, harrowing testimony that the three grabbed and assaulted her after a …
By COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A nanny who argued she was too mentally ill to be held responsible for stabbing two children to death at their home has been convicted. Jurors on Wednesday found that Yoselyn Ortega killed 6-year-old Lucia Krim and 2-year-old Leo Krim in October 2012 and understood the consequences …
