Crime
The eyewitness testimony of Donald Williams was at once confident, emotional and unflappable as Derek Chauvin's defense lawyer tried in vain to discredit him and get under his skin.
Black and Latino youth populations in detention centers grew while white non-Latino youth decreased during the pandemic, a new survey has found.
The criminal trial of three white police officers charged with beating a handcuffed undercover Black detective during the 2017 protests in St. Louis is testing the so-called Blue Wall of Silence as officers have begun turning on one another.
An attempted carjacking that led to the death of the driver has resulted in two teenage girls being charged with murder, sparking a larger discussion about characterizing the episode as an "accident."
The Minnesota Supreme Court's unanimous decision to overturn a conviction of a man who raped an unconscious woman has exposed a loophole in state law.
Announcing a “new progressive direction” on handling arrests and prosecutions, Mosby said the city would no longer spend limited resources on “low-level crimes” including drug possession and prostitution.
Georgia police forcibly arrested Democratic State Rep. Park Cannon for peacefully and nonviolently protesting the governor signing a new law increasing voting restrictions expected to disproportionately affect Black people.
Two Black women accused of a racist attack against the Asian owner of a beauty shop in Houston claim they were the ones who were actually targeted and forced to defend themselves.
Jury selection has been completed in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who is accused of killing George Floyd. The jury includes three Black men and one Black woman.
Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa was identified as the prime suspect in a shooting that killed 10 people, including a police officer, during a mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado, on Monday.
Kirbyjon Caldwell, the former pastor of Windsor Village Methodist Church, was sentenced on Wednesday to six years in prison on fraud charges pertaining to a Chinese bond scheme which bilked investors out of millions.