Crime

Mayor Quinton Lucas said he was frustrated the Board of Police Commissioners didn't discuss the probe in a closed meeting…
/ September 20, 2022
John Basco, 48, was found unresponsive in his cell early last Sunday morning, said Oklahoma County Detention Center officials.
/ September 20, 2022
In a practice known all across the South as convict leasing, Black men arrested for minor offenses were put to…
/ September 19, 2022
A Colorado judge ruled that the autopsy for Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died after a 2019 police…
/ September 19, 2022
A neon sign reading "Bail Bonds"
There is no such thing as a “purge law.” Illinois’ Pretrial Fairness Act is being wrongly compared to "The Purge."
/ September 19, 2022
Former Travis County sheriff’s deputy Stephen Broderick on Tuesday pleaded guilty to capital murder in the 2021 deaths in Austin, Texas.
/ September 18, 2022
Tim Norman of Welcome to Sweetie Pie's murder-for-hire plot
A federal jury on Friday convicted James Norman of arranging the shooting death of his nephew, Andre Montgomery.
/ September 17, 2022
A jury convicted a 25-year-old man of capital murder Friday in the killing of former Texas Tech basketball star Andre Emmett, who…
/ September 16, 2022
George Floyd
The Texas parole board has changed its mind and rejected a plea to offer George Floyd a full pardon for…
/ September 16, 2022
Grammy-winning rapper Cardi B resolved a yearslong criminal case stemming from a pair of brawls at New York City strip…
/ September 16, 2022
Jurors at R. Kelly's federal trial Sept. 14 was acquitted of rigging his 2008 state child pornography trial,
/ September 16, 2022
A former Kansas City, Kansas, police detective who has long been accused of sexually preying on Black women during criminal...
/ September 15, 2022