Jun. 25—The capital murder trial has been set for 2025 in Butler County Common Pleas Court for a Fairfield Twp. man accused for setting a woman on fire last year. Robbi Robinson, 24, is charged with aggravated murder, aggravated arson and felonious assault for the May 11, 2023, incident on Arroyo Ridge Court. Robinson was […]
WASHINGTON — A convicted Jan. 6 defendant from Georgia who served 20 days in prison for his actions during the attack on the U.S. Capitol lost a Republican primary runoff for a House seat in Georgia, The Associated Press projects. Charles Hand III, or Chuck Hand, was defeated by former Trump administration official Wayne Johnson […]
Jun. 18—One of two capital murder defendants accused of kidnapping a Hartselle woman in 2021 and pushing her off a cliff to her death has applied for youthful offender status, according to court filings. Jessie Eden Kelly, 22, along with her mother, Loretta Kay Carr, 45, are both charged with killing Mary Elizabeth Isbell. Isbell […]
Health insurer Aetna has for years been taking money it is not entitled to from medical malpractice plaintiffs, a new lawsuit alleges. The class action suit is led by Francis McWilliams, a Jasper County resident who filed a malpractice lawsuit in 2022 over a botched surgical procedure that partially paralyzed his face. The parties eventually […]
A newly unsealed court document sheds light on a location in the search for Bardstown mother Crystal Rogers’ body. One of the defendants charged in the Nelson County murder case told Kentucky State Police he saw two men digging in Cox’s Creek soon after Rogers went missing in July 2015. Steven Lawson told state police […]
Jun. 13—One of five people charged with murder in the 2022 death of a man whose body was found in Lone Butte has agreed to testify against his co-defendants as part of a plea deal. Under the agreement with prosecutors, Edgar Herrera, 32, must testify he witnessed four other men kill 26-year-old Adan Ponce-Galdeano at […]
Natalie M. Classen rarely went out. In one of the tragic ironies in her murder — one that prosecutors have called another senseless act of gun violence by a teenager — Classen was fatally shot by someone she never met on a northeast Reading street corner last June as she walked home with a group […]
EAU CLAIRE — A two-day trial on charges of OWI 5 and PAC 5 appears to be delayed after the defendant failed to appear for a hearing in January. Benjamin Winters, 42, was charged in January 2022 after an Eau Claire police officer watched him drive away from a local tavern. According to the criminal […]
A Michigan man swept the internet last week after a viral video showed him attending a court hearing via Zoom after he appeared to park his car. That quickly became a national story. Should it have been? The footage, which first made the rounds on social media, showed Corey Harris calling into a hearing before […]
A defendant in the Feeding Our Future trial testified Thursday that he doled out food to thousands of children in Bloomington, but wasn’t responsible for any of the financial paperwork that resulted in millions of dollars in federal reimbursements. Mukhtar Mohamed Shariff, 33, of Burnsville, was the only one of the seven defendants in the […]
This is a breaking news story. Check back to idahostatesman.com for updates. To sign up for breaking news alerts, click here. State prosecutors in the University of Idaho student homicide case relied on a federal grand jury to obtain dozens of subpoenas to build their case against suspect Bryan Kohberger, it was revealed for the […]
Troy Brewer was on his knees with his hands in front of his face when his teenage son fired a bullet from a 9mm Glock handgun into the man’s body, according to a theory developed by Tarrant County prosecutors. After Carl Brewer killed his adoptive father at the family’s house in Crowley, the 17-year-old used, […]