Crime and Trials News Headlines

JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — Drew Peterson — the swaggering Chicago-area police officer who gained notoriety after his much-younger fourth wife vanished in 2007 — was sentenced to 38 years in prison on Thursday for murdering his third wife.

TURIN, Italy (Reuters) - An Italian appeals court has handed two former Fiat advisers suspended jail sentences and fines for misleading the market in a 2005 stock transaction that secured the Agnelli family's control of the car maker. Thursday's decision by Turin judges overturned a 2010 verdict by a lower court that had …

Suspected soccer match-fixer Admir Suljic was taken into custody Thursday after landing at Milan's Malpensa airport on a flight from Singapore, Italian police said.Suljic is wanted by judicial authorities ...

A North Carolina man is headed to prison for his role in a $21 million crop insurance fraud.Jimmy Thomas Sasser of Wilson pleaded guilty Wednesday to mail fraud, wire fraud, conspiring to make false statements ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A 911 call comes in about a possible bomb in lower Manhattan and an alert pops up on computer screens at the New York Police Department, instantly showing officers an interactive map of the neighborhood, footage from nearby security cameras, whether there are high radiation levels and whether any other threats …

(Reuters) - Three baristas accused of giving customers peep shows along with their coffee have been arrested in Washington state, accused of operating an adult cabaret without a license from the drive-thru windows of two Grab-N-Go coffee shops, police said on Wednesday. The three women, who were not immediately identified, …

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Arrested Development" is going to Wiig out a little bit when it makes its return on Netflix in May. "Saturday Night Live" alum Kristen Wiig will guest-star on the upcoming revival of the beloved cult sitcom, which will also feature Seth Rogen, with whom she also appeared in "Knocked Up." Details …

(Reuters) - New England Patriots cornerback Alfonzo Dennard faced up to six years in prison after he was found guilty on Wednesday of assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest last year, court officials said. Dennard, 23, who is scheduled to be sentenced on April 11, could escape jail time if he is given probation …

Feb 20 (Reuters) - New England Patriots cornerback Alfonzo Dennard faced up to six years in prison after he was found guilty on Wednesday of assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest last year, court officials said. Dennard, 23, who is scheduled to be sentenced on April 11, could escape jail time if he is given probation …

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Crime novelist Patricia Cornwell and her spouse won nearly $51 million in a federal lawsuit against their former accounting and business management firm, their attorney said on Wednesday. Cornwell and her spouse, Staci Gruber, a neuroscientist, who live in Boston, filed the suit in 2009 …

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) - An Arkansas Crime Lab preliminary autopsy confirmed country music singer Mindy McCready's death was a suicide from a single gunshot wound to the head, the Cleburne County Sheriff's Office said on Wednesday. McCready, 37, whose career was overshadowed by substance abuse and suicide attempts, …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Wednesday to apply retroactively a 2010 ruling that requires lawyers to tell immigrant clients that they can be deported if they plead guilty to certain crimes. The 7-2 decision was a defeat for thousands of immigrants who might have been able to withdraw guilty …

ALFRED, Maine (AP) — Jury selection resumed in the trial of a man accused of helping a Zumba fitness instructor run a prostitution business, and members of the jury pool faced questions about their views on prostitution and their knowledge of the case.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jesse Jackson Jr. pleads guilty in scheme to spend $750K in campaign funds on personal items.

The former congressman and son of famed civil rights leader Jesse Jackson pleads guilty to siphoning campaign funds for personal use

The former girlfriend of a man accused of killing four people, including a prostitute featured on HBO's "Cathouse" series, testified Tuesday she overheard him plan the Oklahoma City shootings ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A prosecutor and defense attorneys plan to argue whether evidence in the trial of six city officials in California proves they were corrupt.

ALFRED, Maine (AP) — Jury selection in the trial of a man accused of helping a Zumba fitness instructor run a prostitution business is resuming in open court, where members of the jury pool could face embarrassing questions about their views on sex, adultery, pornography and prostitution.

Jesse Jackson Jr. pleads guilty in scheme to spend $750K in campaign funds on personal items

A man has been arrested in Florida after posting pictures on Facebook that showed him harassing a baby manatee, authorities announced this week.

A federal jury awarded crime writer Patricia Cornwell nearly $51 million Tuesday in her lawsuit against her former financial management company and a former principal in the firm.The author best known ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it harder for police to detain people far away from a suspected crime scene when the only justification for the detention is to make it safer and easier to conduct a search of the scene. By a 6-3 ruling that did not follow its typical ideological divisions, the court …

MOSCOW (AP) — Zooming around in a Rolls Royce and boasting of ties to Chechnya's strongman ruler, Mikhail Pakhomov didn't live the life of the average provincial Russian lawmaker. He didn't die the death of one either.