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The trial of the former Minneapolis police officer accused of killing George Floyd is on hold while an appeal proceeds over the possible reinstatement of a third-degree murder charge.

Barbed wire and concrete barriers surround the courthouse where the white former Minneapolis police officer charged with killing George Floyd is due to soon go on trial.

The day started with a warning from House Democrats that graphic videos from the Capitol Riot would be played throughout the day. Here are some of the other key moments.

Former President Donald Trump’s attorney, Bruce Castor, said arguing that Trump violated the 14th Amendment and incited an insurrection is “ridiculous.” “It doesn’t take a Constitutional scholar to recognize that [the 14th Amendment] is written for people who fought for the Confederacy… and it doesn’t take a Constitutional scholar to require that they be convicted first in a court with...

It’s been nearly a year since a gunman walked into a Church’s Chicken restaurant in Otay Mesa and shot three employees, killing a woman, and despite a halt in the legal system due to the coronavirus pandemic, her family continues to push for justice.

U.S. regulators have ended one of Eli Lilly’s COVID-19 antibody trials early after data suggested the drug was “unlikely to help” coronavirus patients recover.

The company said it had paused clinical trials following an “unexplained” patient illness.

The Israeli prime minister’s corruption trial has resumed following a two-month hiatus

A defiant Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has lashed out at the country’s justice system as his historic corruption trial began

Real estate heir Robert Durst has never been charged in the 1982 New York disappearance of his wife, who was later declared dead.

Opening statements begin in murder trial of real estate mogul Robert Durst. As seen on the NBC4 News March 4, 2020. 

There is almost no physical evidence connecting New York real estate heir Robert Durst to the slaying of his best friend in Los Angeles 20 years ago. What does link him to the killing of Susan Berman, though, is a cryptic note sent to police with her address and one word: “CADAVER.” The slip of paper intended to lead authorities…

A jury convicted high-profile lawyer Michael Avenatti on all counts in his Nike extortion trial on Friday. Prosecutors maintained Avenatti threatened to use his fame to stage a news conference and deliver claims that Nike executives were corrupting college basketball by funding payments to elite young players and their families — unless he was paid millions of dollars to conduct…

Harvey Weinstein trundled into court this week for the start of a New York City rape trial as he faced the prospect of spending the rest of his life in prison if convicted

A 29-year-old Garden Grove man was found not guilty Thursday by reason of insanity for the fatal stabbing of his stepbrother. Orange County Superior Court Judge John Conley determined that Andres Adolfo Serrat committed second-degree murder in the Aug. 3, 2015, stabbing of 20-year-old Donte Barcalo, but he found the defendant was insane at the time due to multiple diagnoses…

No cellphones. No talking. No escape. That’s the reality during the Senate’s impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, which will begin each day with a proclamation: “All persons are commanded to keep silence, on pain of imprisonment.” After that, 100 senators will sit at their desks for hours on end to hear from House prosecutors, Trump’s defense team and possibly a...

Two years before mother-of-five Jennifer Dulos went missing last May in what police believe was a murder, her estranged husband tried to run her over outside her new Connecticut home around the time she had filed for divorce, the children’s nanny told police. The allegations were revealed in nearly 500 pages of search warrants that were released Wednesday after being…

Jury selection resumed Monday at the trial of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, who has pleaded not guilty to charges he raped a woman in a Manhattan hotel room in 2013 and sexually assaulted another in 2006. The initial screening process, now on its fifth day, has been stymied by a host of challenges and distractions, including repeatedly denied requests from…

A woman who spoke out against Jeffrey Epstein at a July bail hearing is among three women who are suing his estate.

Michael Gargiulo was convicted in the stabbing deaths of two SoCal women and an attempt to kill a third in a series of violent and calculated attacks. Patrick Healy reports for the NBC4 News at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019.