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The suspect charged in the murder of Pop Smoke insists he only wanted to hit the rapper with a vase, not shoot him.

Botham Jean, the man killed by former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger got a measure of justice when she was sentenced to 10 years for his murder. The jury made the sentencing decision after hearing victim impact statements from Jean’s family, including his mother, Allison Jean, his father, Bertram Jean and his sister,. Alissa Charles-Findley. […]

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles judge ruled Wednesday that grand jury transcripts in a murder case over the killing of rapper Nipsey Hussle will remain sealed, for now. Superior Court Judge Robert J. Perry ordered that the documents, which would give the first glimpse of the prosecution’s evidence against defendant Eric Ronald Holder, […]

Antonio and Dawn Armstrong seemed to be living the American dream. He was a former NFL player. The couple ran a gym franchise, First Class Training, together in Bellaire, a Houston suburb where they also lived. They had two sons, Joshua,  and a daughter, Kyra, and appeared to be a happy family. But on July […]

Henry Segura is no longer a criminal defendant – for now. A Florida judge declared a mistrial this week in a sensational case against Segura who was charged with murdering his girlfriend and her three children to avoid paying back child support. After two days of deliberations, the trial ended in a hung jury: the […]

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A jury has been selected in the case of the man charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of retired New Orleans Saints star Will Smith. The 12-member jury, with four alternates, was completed late Monday night. Opening arguments are expected Tuesday. Strategies from both the prosecution and defense are already […]

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An underground “body sculptor” charged in the death of a London dancer has tangled with a prosecutor who believes her ever-changing names, addresses and business ventures are the work of a classic con. But the hip-hop artist and onetime escort-service entrepreneur known as the “Black Madam” insists she never tried to defraud […]

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Gothic hip-hop artist who called herself “the Michelangelo of buttocks injections” testified at her murder trial on Thursday that she got into body sculpting 20 years ago to help transgender friends and has since performed thousands of procedures. Padge-Victoria Windslowe, who also rapped under the name Black Madam, is charged in […]