Trials
2024 US Olympic diving trials coming to Knoxville, Tennessee

Jan. 12, 2023 05:39 PM EST
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The U.S. diving trials for the 2024 Olympics will be held in Knoxville, Tennessee. USA Diving awarded the competition to the...

Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah arrives at a Geneva's courthouse ahead of the verdict for a trial for forgery in connection with arbitration, in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Sept. 10, 2021. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)
Olympic power broker Sheikh Ahmad found guilty of forgery

By Graham Dunbar Sep. 10, 2021 06:29 AM EDT

Roglic on brink of 3rd straight Spanish Vuelta title

Sep. 04, 2021 11:59 AM EDT
MOS, Spain (AP) — Primoz Roglic has only the decisive stage’s time trial left to win his third consecutive Spanish Vuelta title after finishing the rugged 20th...

FILE - In this June 24, 2012, file photo, United States Olympic team head coach Gregg Troy speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials in Omaha, Neb. Unlike young swimmers, who may unquestioningly follow a coach's orders, Caeleb Dressel is frank in his exchanges with Troy. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)
US OLYMPIC SWIMMING TRIAL 07/23/12

Jul. 18, 2021 01:06 PM EDT

Jennifer Starr Dodd, center, and other supporters react to the sentencing of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd, Friday, June 25, 2021, at George Floyd Square where Floyd was killed, in Minneapolis. Chauvin was sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Chauvin gets 22 1/2 years in prison for George Floyd's death

By Amy Forliti And Steve Karnowski Jun. 25, 2021 03:40 PM EDT

FILE - In this April 15, 2021, file image from video, defense attorney Eric Nelson, left, and defendant, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, address Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn. Nelson is asking that the judge sentence Chauvin, convicted of murder in the death of George Floyd, to probation and time already served,  probationary sentence, limiting his incarceration to time served, or in the alternative, a downward durational departure in crafting its sentence for Mr. Chauvin. (Court TV via AP, Pool File)
Minnesota weighs more cameras in courts after Chauvin case

By Steve Karnowski Jun. 24, 2021 02:10 PM EDT

Min Min Soe, a lawyer assigned by the National League for Democracy party to represent deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, meet journalists in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Monday, June 21, 2021. As the trial for ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi entered its second week, her lawyers said prosecution witnesses testified about charges that she had illegally imported and used walkie-talkies for her bodyguards, and along with Win Myint, president in her government, had flouted laws on public gatherings that were meant to combat the spread of COVID-19. (AP Photo)
Suu Kyi tells lawyers trial testimony against her is wrong

By Grant Peck Jun. 21, 2021 11:42 AM EDT

FILE - This April 11, 2021 file photo from the Royal Court twitter account, shows Jordan's King Abdullah II, center, Prince Prince Hamzah, second left, and others during a visit to the tomb of the late King Hussein, in Amman Jordan. Jordan's version of a trial of the century gets under way as early as Monday, June 21, 2021. A relative of King Abdullah II and a former chief of the royal court will be ushered into the defendants’ cage at the state security court to face sedition charges. They are accused of conspiring with Prince Hamzah, a half-brother of the king, to foment unrest against the monarch. (Royal Court Twitter Account via AP, File)
Jordan's unprecedented palace drama moves to the courtroom

By Karin Laub Jun. 20, 2021 07:21 AM EDT

Maine man convicted in fatal beating of girlfriend

Jun. 19, 2021 08:04 AM EDT
PARIS, Maine (AP) — A jury needed only 25 minutes to convict a man of killing his longtime girlfriend at their home in western Maine. ...

3rd murder trial reopening of courts gets underway in Maine

Jun. 15, 2021 10:34 AM EDT
SOUTH PARIS, Maine (AP) — The state's third murder trial since courts began reopening during the pandemic got underway Tuesday in Oxford County. ...

FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2018, file photo, Myanmar's deposed Leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrives to attend the Myanmar Entrepreneurship Summit at the Myanmar International Convention Center in Naypyidaw, Myanmar. The trial of Aung San Suu Kyi entered its second day Tuesday, June 15, 2021, with the prosecution presenting arguments that she incited public disorder and flouted coronavirus restrictions, part of a package of charges the ruling junta is seen as using to discredit her and consolidate its control. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo, File)
Myanmar prosecutors present sedition charge against Suu Kyi

By Grant Peck Jun. 15, 2021 07:08 AM EDT

FILE - In this March 10, 2020, file photo, real estate heir Robert Durst looks over during his murder trial in Los Angeles. Durst, the multimillionaire real estate heir on trial in the killing of his best friend, was hospitalized Thursday, June 10, 2021, for an unspecified health issue, according to the judge in the long-delayed trial. (AP Photo/Alex Gallardo, Pool, File)
Robert Durst hospitalized, delaying his murder trial again

Jun. 10, 2021 03:00 PM EDT

FILE - In this July 23, 2019, file photo, California attorney Michael Avenatti walks from a courthouse in New York, after facing charges. On Wednesday, June 9, 2021, Avenatti's lawyers said he should spend no more than six months behind bars after a jury concluded he tried to extort $25 million from Nike. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)
Lawyers: Avenatti shamed, merits leniency for Nike extortion

By Larry Neumeister Jun. 10, 2021 12:29 AM EDT

FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2018, file photo, defendant Billy Ray Turner, charged with killing NBA basketball star Lorenzen Wright, makes an appearance in Judge Lee V. Coffee's courtroom in Memphis, Tenn. Judge Coffee, on Wednesday, June 2, 2021, set a 2022 trial date for Turner, charged with conspiring with the ex-wife of Wright to kill the former NBA player nearly 11 years ago in Memphis. (Mark Weber/The Commercial Appeal via AP, File)
Trial in former NBA player's killing set for January 2022

By Adrian Sainz Jun. 02, 2021 12:14 PM EDT

FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2019, file photo, workers are shown in the kitchen of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Tacoma, Wash., during a media tour. After years of litigation and pandemic-related delays, jury selection is underway in a trial to determine whether GEO Group must pay minimum wage to detainees at its immigration detention center in Washington state. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
Trial to determine if GEO must pay detainees minimum wage

By Gene Johnson Jun. 01, 2021 08:05 PM EDT

FILE - This undated, file photo released by Chongyi Feng shows Yang Hengjun and his wife Yuan Xiaoliang. The Chinese Australian writer tried in Beijing for alleged espionage said he pleaded to a judge to reject evidence of what he had said while being tortured by interrogators. Yang faced a closed trial on Thursday. The court deferred its verdict to a later date.(Chongyi Feng via AP, File)
China rejects Australian writer's torture claim in trial

Jun. 01, 2021 04:34 AM EDT

FILE - This undated, file photo released by Chongyi Feng shows Yang Hengjun and his wife Yuan Xiaoliang. The Chinese Australian writer tried in Beijing for alleged espionage said he pleaded to a judge to reject evidence of what he had said while being tortured by interrogators. Yang faced a closed trial on Thursday. The court deferred its verdict to a later date.(Chongyi Feng via AP, File)
Man urges Chinese judge to reject torture-tainted evidence

By Rod Mcguirk May. 31, 2021 03:20 AM EDT

FILE - In this April 15, 2011, file photo, a bottle of Johnson's baby powder is displayed. Johnson & Johnson is asking for Supreme Court review of a $2 billion verdict in favor of women who claim they developed ovarian cancer from using the company's talc products. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
Johnson & Johnson asks high court to void $2B talc verdict

By Mark Sherman May. 31, 2021 12:49 AM EDT

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021 file photo, supporters of President Donald Trump, including Jacob Chansley, right with fur hat, are confronted by U.S. Capitol Police officers outside the Senate Chamber inside the Capitol in Washington. Many of those who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 cited falsehoods about the election, and now some of them are hoping their gullibility helps them in court. Albert Watkins, the St. Louis attorney representing Chansley, the so-called QAnon shaman, likened the process to brainwashing, or falling into the clutches of a cult. Repeated exposure to falsehood and incendiary rhetoric, Watkins said, ultimately overwhelmed his client's ability to discern reality. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
Defense for some Capitol rioters: election misinformation

By David Klepper May. 29, 2021 09:00 AM EDT

FILE - In this July 20, 2016 file photo, Kuwaiti Minister of Defense Sheikh Khalid al-Jarrah al-Sabah arrives to attend the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL Meeting, hosted by Defense Secretary Ash Carter, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Kuwait's justice system is testing government pledges to hold ministers accountable for $790 million gone missing from the Defense Ministry fund years ago. The ministerial court ordered two former ministers and royal family members, Sheikh Jaber al-Mubarak Al Sabah and his ally, former Interior Minister Sheikh Khalid al-Jarrah Al Sabah, detained April 2021 in Kuwait's Central Prison over their suspected misuse of the ministry's funds. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
Ex-premier's graft case a test of justice in oil-rich Kuwait

By Isabel Debre May. 29, 2021 02:11 AM EDT