Courts & Law

Jussie Smollett is going on trial this week, accused of lying to police when he reported he was the victim of a racist, homophobic attack in downtown Chicago.

Legal experts say a conviction isn’t as certain as it might seem — at least on the most serious charge she faces, manslaughter.

Police say gunfire erupted just before 1 a.m. Saturday at the lodge on the 1200 block of Airport Road in West Caln.

A bullet went through a window of a home and struck a man inside. A family member and several neighbors told Action News that man did not survive his injuries.

Keir Bradford-Grey, former chief of the Philadelphia Defenders Association, explains why the defendants’ claims of self-defense did not hold up in court.

Rev. Mark Kelly Tyler, co-director for the racial justice organization Power Live Free said the case was about much more than what happened to Ahmaud Arbery.

Arbery’s killing became part of a larger national reckoning on racial injustice after the graphic video of his death leaked online two months later.

Prosecutors said as they filed five counts of first-degree intentional homicide against Darrell Brooks Jr.

A jury has ordered 17 white nationalist leaders and organizations to pay $26 million in damages over violence that erupted during the deadly 2017 rally in Charlottesville.

The defense only called one witness, an FBI agent on the case who called it “atypical.” Federal prosecutors and Frank Nucera Jr.’s attorneys will give closing arguments on Mon

The lead prosecutor said the three defendants could not claim self-defense, given that they initiated the confrontation.

Federal prosecutors say the employees fraudulently collected Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, while also collecting their city paychecks.

Mark D'Amico, his ex-girlfriend Katelyn McClure, and Johnny Bobbitt Jr. had made up a story that led to hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations, prosecutors say.

Kizer, who was 17 at the time, is accused of shooting Randall P. Volar III in the head; Volar had previously been arrested on child sexual assault charges.