Jun 29 R. Kelly is sentenced 30 years in sex trafficking case By Tom Hays, Bobby Caina Calvan, Associated Press R. Kelly has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for using his R&B superstardom to subject young fans to systematic sexual abuse. Continue reading
Jun 29 R. Kelly in court for federal sex trafficking sentencing By Tom Hays, Associated Press R. Kelly is being sentenced in a sex trafficking case that could put him behind bars for years. A judge is set to impose the sentence Wednesday in a federal court in New York City. Continue reading
Oct 20 R. Kelly’s Chicago trial on federal sex charges set Aug. 1 By Associated Press A federal judge has ordered R&B superstar R. Kelly to stand trial in Chicago on child pornography and obstruction of justice charges next year after the scheduled sentencing for his conviction in an earlier sex trafficking trial in New York. Continue reading
Sep 27 R&B superstar R. Kelly convicted in sex trafficking trial By Tom Hays, Associated Press R. Kelly has been convicted in a sex trafficking trial after several accusers testified in lurid detail how he subjected them to perverse and sadistic whims when they were underage. Continue reading
Sep 24 Watch 5:21 Jury begins deliberating in R. Kelly case after weeks of harrowing witness testimony Continue watching
Sep 22 R. Kelly says he won’t testify at his sex trafficking trial By Tom Hays, Associated Press R. Kelly told a judge on Wednesday that he won't take the witness stand at his sex trafficking trial, meaning he'll avoid the risk of a potentially brutal cross-examination. Continue reading
Aug 18 Watch 4:13 News Wrap: Caldor Fire ravages California’s Grizzly Flats In our news wrap Wednesday, Northern California's Caldor Fire destroyed at least 50 homes in Grizzly Flats on Tuesday and threatened hundreds more. Remnants of Tropical Storm Fred blew into the Northeastern U.S. today, with warnings of mudslides and flash… Continue watching
Aug 18 Years in the making, R. Kelly sex abuse trial gets underway By Tom Hays, Associated Press A prosecutor has introduced a jury to the sex abuse claims against R&B star R. Kelly, saying the criminal trial was “about a predator" who used his fame to manipulate children and women. Continue reading
Aug 14 R. Kelly’s manager charged with phone threats to theater By Larry Neumeister, Associated Press R. Kelly's manager has been arrested on charges that he threatened a shooting at a Manhattan theater two years ago, forcing an evacuation and the cancellation of the screening of a documentary addressing allegations that the singer had sexually abused… Continue reading
Aug 12 Prosecutors charge 3 with threatening women in R. Kelly case By Jim Mustian, Associated Press Prosecutors said Wednesday that one of the men set fire to a vehicle in Florida outside a residence where one victim was staying and offered to pay another victim $500,000 to keep her from cooperating in Kelly's prosecution. Continue reading