Latest Amanda Knox News

What to know about the latest trial involving Amanda Knox

Apr. 10, 2024 15:40 PM EDT

FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Amanda Knox is again defending herself in an Italian court in a slander case that has the potential to remove the last legal stain against her, following her exoneration nine years ago in the 2007 murder of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher. Despite a...

Italy opens new slander trial against Amanda Knox. She was exonerated 9 years ago in friend's murder

Apr. 10, 2024 10:06 AM EDT

FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Amanda Knox was back on trial for slander Wednesday for wrongly accusing a Congolese man of murdering her roommate while the young women were exchange students in Italy. Knox herself was convicted of the slaying before being exonerated in a case that grabbed the global...

Amanda Knox faces a new slander trial in Italy that could remove the last legal stain against her

Apr. 10, 2024 07:44 AM EDT

MILAN (AP) — Amanda Knox faces another trial for slander this week in Italy in a case that could remove the last legal stain against her, nine years after Italy’s highest court threw out her conviction for the murder of her 21-year-old British roommate. Knox, who was a...

Today in History: March 26, bodies of 39 members of Heavens Gate cult are discovered

Mar. 26, 2024 13:12 PM EDT

Today in History Today is Tuesday, March 26, the 86th day of 2024. There are 280 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 26, 1997, the bodies of 39 members of the Heaven’s Gate techno-religious cult who took their own lives...

Man convicted in Italy for 2007 Meredith Kercher murder is under surveillance over abuse claims

Feb. 09, 2024 14:32 PM EST

ROME (AP) — A Rome court has ordered that the man convicted in the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher and freed three years ago be placed under “special surveillance” for allegedly abusing a former girlfriend, Italian media reported on Friday. The order came after...