COURTS

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Jerry Gale Kerns, who was the Region II Director of the United Mine Workers of America union, has pled guilty to bombing a methane gas pipeline owned by the Warrior Met Coal company near Brookwood, Alabama in March 2022. Kerns was indicted for the bombing two years ago. He...

(Headline USA) Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial ended a fourth day of deliberations without a verdict Tuesday after earlier saying they couldn’t agree whether the Massachusetts mother is criminally responsible for killing her three young children. Not long after arriving at the courthouse, the jury sent Judge William Sullivan a...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A man from Butler, Pennsylvania—where President Donald Trump was shot at in July 2024—has been sentenced to four years in prison Tuesday for threatening to kill Trump, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. Shawn Monper, 33, was sentenced after pleading guilty in April to two counts of...

(Headline USA) A Utah judge will decide Tuesday if there's enough evidence to put the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk on trial for aggravated murder, which would make him eligible for the death penalty. The hearing in state court comes after prosecutors in July spent five days presenting what they...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A federal grand jury investigating former FBI Director James Comey has subpoenaed his longtime confidant Daniel Richman, the same individual who acknowledged that Comey asked him to leak information to the media, several news outlets reported. The subpoena, reported by Fox News on Monday, is part of...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Justice Department filed a 28-page document on Friday, responding to accusations that a former Capitol Police officer and current CIA employee Shauni Kerkhoff planted the pipe bombs found outside of the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee headquarters on Jan. 6, 2021. The DOJ’s...

(Headline USA) Jurors ended a second day of deliberations on Friday without a verdict in the case of the Massachusetts woman charged with killing her three children in 2023. Clancy doesn't deny strangling her children, but her lawyer said she did it because she had lost her grip on reality due...

(Headline USA) A U.S. military judge on Wednesday set a summer 2028 trail date for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and three others accused of plotting the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The trial is scheduled to begin June 5, 2028, 18 months later than the January 2027 start that prosecutors had...

(Chris Woodward, The Center Square) California Attorney General Rob Bonta co-led a lawsuit Wednesday to block a new federal rule governing mail-in ballots. But a former U.S. Department of Justice lawyer who's now working at a think tank says the suit is unnecessary. Prompted by President Donald Trump’s Executive Order...

(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) A local Missouri health department has told Kathy Kite, a grandmother who serves free breakfast to her neighbors from her home, that she will face legal action if she continues doing so without a permit. That letter came in July, and Kite has continued to...

(Headline USA) Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial in Plymouth, Massachusetts, are deliberating Wednesday whether the former labor and delivery nurse is criminally responsible for killing her three children in 2023. While both sides agree she killed her children, Clancy’s defense team argued she suffered from postpartum psychosis, with...

(Headline USA) Social media influencer Tristan Tate took the witness stand in federal court on Thursday and said he and his brother Andrew can’t adequately defend themselves from criminal sex charges if they have to remain in a Miami jail while fighting extradition to the United Kingdom. Lawyers for the...