Jane Velez-Mitchell

Before the Jodi Arias verdict was revealed, TV commentators Wednesday afternoon kept citing the Casey Anthony verdict. The outcome was quite different: Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the slaying of her former boyfriend, Travis...

The media can't get enough of a riveting crime story. On Monday alone, news organizations closely followed the discovery of three missing women in Cleveland, the observations for Chief Judge Belvin Perry Jr. on the Casey Anthony trial, and the latest...

Poor Virginia Welch. In "Prosecuting Casey Anthony" (7 p.m. Jan. 19, Lifetime; 2 stars out of 4), not only does she have the thankless task of playing "the most hated woman in America," but she has to do so with barely any dialogue. Welch cries a lot,...

  “Prosecuting Casey Anthony” won't premiere until Jan. 19 on Lifetime. But I've just seen it and wanted to supply an early preview.  The movie doesn't glorify Anthony (played by Virginia Welch), who has a minor role in a script focused on the...

EVANSDALE, Iowa -- Investigators say they are confident that human remains found in a rural wildlife area in northeastern Iowa are those of two young cousins who vanished in July. Hunters found two bodies Wednesday believed to be those of 2 young Iowa...

Current and former neighbors call George Zimmerman caring, passionate and polite, a regular guy they enjoyed being around. But critics of the investigation into the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin at the hands of the Florida neighborhood watch...

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- Authorities released the last known picture of the missing Fort Bragg soldier Kelli Bordeaux Thursday and say it was the outfit she wore to the night she went missing. Bordeaux, a 23-year-old combat medic with the 44th Medical...

"That has absolutely nothing to do with Robyn and Gary," Baez said. "To bring out the mud -- everyone has a past, everybody's done things that they're not proud of. To try and bring that up as some kind of reason why he would murder a friend of his is...

The Humane Society of the United States, the nation's largest animal protection organization, has announced the nominees for its 26th Genesis Awards, given out to news and entertainment media for outstanding reporting and creative portrayal of animal...

The 10 p.m. time slot will be closely watched to see how NBC's "Smash" stands up in the second episode. The competition to play Marilyn Monroe intensifies. ABC counters with "Castle." CBS goes with what looks like an intense episode of "Hawaii Five-O."...

Fox News Channel says that Uma Pemmaraju and Rick Folbaum will anchor from noon to 2 p.m. from New York. Correspondent Kelly Wright will report from Newark. Fox News said it will air portions of the AP live pool stream during those hours and stream it...