Author's Note: This story has been clarified to state that new information became available on May 15, indicating that Judge Heath Taylor may not be overseeing the actual murder retrial. A retrial ...

A judge has blocked a settlement between Sandy Hook families and right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, a deal that would have allowed for a second attempt to auction off Jones’ media company, ...

Alex Murdaugh — the disgraced former lawyer serving a life term for the murders of his wife and son — will get a new trial in South Carolina, the state Supreme Court said on Wednesday.

Now that the South Carolina Supreme Court has decided that formerly convicted murderer Richard "Alex" Murdaugh deserves a new trial, who will schedule and oversee the second round of what many have ...