Phil Spector gets 19 years to life for murder of actress
May 31, 2009
Music producer Phil Spector was sentenced Friday to the maximum sentence of 19 years to life for the murder six years ago of actress Lana Clarkson.
Slumped, stone-faced and wearing a dark suit and bright red tie, he sat silently throughout his sentencing by Judge Larry Paul Fidler.
A day in the trial of ex-soldier convicted of murder in Iraq
May 18, 2009
Former U.S. soldier Steven Green has been convicted of raping and killing a 14-year-old Iraqi girl.
He arrives in the early morning hours, when the downtown streets here are empty and quiet.
An electric gate jerks to life as the black sedan with tinted windows pulls into a parking lot protected by an iron fence. It’s five blocks from the local county jail to the U.S. Federal Courthouse of Western Kentucky. Not even a five-minute drive.
Haleigh Cummings’ dad: ‘She’s still out there somewhere’
May 16, 2009
Haleigh Cummings, 5, was last seen as she was put to bed about 8 p.m. February 9.
More than three months after 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings disappeared from her home in Satsuma, Florida, her father took to the Web to beg anyone with information about his daughter’s whereabouts to call police.
Oklahoma community mourns young family
January 22, 2009
Summer Rust's children -- clockwise from top, Autumn, Kirsten, Evynn and Teagin -- carve pumpkins.
Hundreds of people filled a college auditorium Wednesday to pay their last respects to an El Reno, Oklahoma, woman slain along with her four children last week.
Family wants police charged in New Orleans killing
January 10, 2009
Adolph Grimes Jr., with grandson Chris, wife Patricia and his son
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) — As fireworks exploded over the Big Easy on New Year’s Eve, 22-year-old Adolph Grimes III pulled up to his grandmother’s home near the French Quarter after a five-hour drive from Houston, Texas.
Former Marine pleads not guilty to raping, killing college student
January 5, 2009
The family of Brianna Denison launched a Web site dedicated to her memory after her death in 2008.
A former Marine and suspected serial rapist pleaded not guilty this week to raping and murdering 19-year-old college student Brianna Denison.
Is recession behind spike in bank robberies?
January 1, 2009
A surveillance camera captures a bank robbery suspect in New York on December 2.
NEW YORK (CNN) — A rash of bank robberies in New York has the city’s police commissioner worried that criminals have turned banks into “virtual cash machines” and some wondering whether tough economic times are fueling the trend.
Dubai sex-on-beach offender: I was naive
December 30, 2008
Vince Acors said he had been
A British businessman jailed in Dubai after being convicted with a female companion for having sex on a beach said he had acted naively as he spoke publicly Monday for the first time since returning to the UK.
Police: Burns from fire altered ‘killer Santa’ plan
December 28, 2008
After shooting several people at the home of his former in-laws, police say Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, still dressed as Santa Claus, sprayed gasoline throughout the home intending to set it on fire.
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — After shooting several people at the home of his former in-laws, police say Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, still dressed as Santa Claus, sprayed gasoline throughout the home intending to set it on fire.
‘Sopranos’ actor acquitted in cop killing
December 23, 2008
NEW YORK (CNN) — Lillo Brancato Jr., an actor who appeared in “The Sopranos,” was acquitted of the 2005 killing an off-duty New York City police officer but found guilty of attempted burglary.