Rapper and singer Sean Kingston and his mother have been indicted in South Florida on federal charges of committing more than $1 million worth of fraud
July 19, 2024
2 badly decomposed bodies found in 18-wheeler in NW Houston resembled 'mummies,' HPD says
July 19, 2024
50 people arrested or cited in Sacramento-area Target retail theft operation
July 19, 2024
Chile will speed up construction of a new maximum security prison in the region that encompasses the capital city of Santiago to help fight organized crime, President Gabriel
July 18, 2024
FBI seeking fedora-wearing "Derby Desperado" in Dallas and Garland bank heists
July 18, 2024
New details released in ‘murder-for-hire’ scheme involving developer who killed self following FBI raid in Coral Gables
July 18, 2024
Jury delivers mixed verdicts for the man accused of killing Detroit synagogue president Samantha Woll
July 18, 2024
Asylum-seekers have gravitated to working food delivery in New York and other major cities, drawn by an abundance of customers and ease of getting started
July 18, 2024
Man who escaped Oregon prison 30 years ago was found in Georgia with a stolen identity, authorities say
July 18, 2024
The mother of a 3-year-old girl whose body was found in a San Francisco Bay Area recycling center over the weekend says she feared for her daughter’s well-being whenever the child was with her ex-husband, who authorities say died by suicide and is suspected in the child's death
July 17, 2024
Paraguay carries out largest cocaine bust in its history as 4 tons are found in sugar shipment headed to Europe
July 17, 2024
Birmingham mayor pledges violent criminal crackdown, calls for weapons ban
July 17, 2024
A West Virginia woman has died two years after she awakened from a coma and identified her now-late brother as her attacker
July 17, 2024
Interpol has announced the outcome of a global operation targeting West African organized crime groups across five continents in 21 countries
July 17, 2024
The founder of the now-defunct Platinum Partners hedge fund was sentenced on Tuesday to six months of home confinement over his role in what prosecutors called
July 16, 2024
Ozy Media and founder Carlos Watson were convicted of fraud by a Brooklyn federal jury on Tuesday, in a case accusing them of lying to investors about the now-defunct
July 16, 2024
Donald Trump may link immigration to violent crime more effectively than any American politician before him, but he’s hardly the first to promote the unfounded narrative
July 16, 2024
A Nigerian court on Tuesday denied a request by former central bank Governor Godwin Emefiele to travel out of the country for treatment of an undisclosed ailment.
July 16, 2024
The U.S. has imposed sanctions on three Mexican accountants and four firms allegedly linked to a timeshare fraud ring run by the Jalisco New Generation drug cartel
July 16, 2024
An Australian computer scientist who claimed he invented bitcoin faces a criminal investigation in Britain for alleged perjury after he was found to have repeatedly lied
July 16, 2024
Suspected serial killer confesses to murdering 42 women, Kenyan police say
July 15, 2024
A suspected serial killer has been arrested in Kenya following the discovery of several bodies at a quarry in Nairobi, with police saying on Monday he had confessed to killing 42
July 15, 2024
A 34-year-old man has been charged with murdering two men whose remains were found in two suitcases in southwest England
July 15, 2024
Colorado felon dies days after fleeing police in stolen vehicle, crashing
July 14, 2024
Murder charge dropped against woman in 2021 Candler shooting death
July 14, 2024
The attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump has spawned a wave of conjecture and speculation online
July 14, 2024
Investigators are hunting for any clues about what may have driven Thomas Matthew Crooks to try to assassinate former President Donald Trump
July 14, 2024
Former President Donald Trump is calling for unity and resilience after an attempt on his life added fresh uncertainty to a tumultuous presidential campaign
July 14, 2024
As cartels take a stake in ‘green gold,’ US and Mexico rethink how avocados reach American kitchens
July 13, 2024
Ohio mom struck by her own car while trying to save her child from a carjacking, authorities say
July 13, 2024
Authorities found the body of a 23-year-old woman who went missing in northern Mexico days after she used the ride-hailing app DiDi, a case that has sparked outrage in the
July 12, 2024
Charges not expected against Wade Wilson for 2019 sexual battery case
July 12, 2024
Shocking family mass murder leaves Alameda neighborhood reeling
July 12, 2024
Pennsylvania woman accused of DUI, abandoning two toddlers inside car after Maryland police chase
July 12, 2024
Asheville man found guilty of recording sex crime against unconscious victim
July 12, 2024
Russian-born couple charged with spying offense in Australia
July 12, 2024
South Florida prosecutors dropped the computer hacking charge Thursday against an OnlyFans model accused of fatally stabbing her boyfriend in a Miami condo in 2022
July 11, 2024
British police have arrested a 26-year-old man on suspicion of killing two sisters and their mother in a crossbow attack
July 11, 2024
Congress has passed legislation overhauling oversight and bringing greater transparency to the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons following reporting from The Associated Press that exposed systemic corruption in the federal prison system and increased congressional scrutiny
July 10, 2024
A woman who pleaded guilty to the killing of entertainment consultant and social justice advocate Michael Latt last November has been sentenced to 35 years to life in prison
July 10, 2024
Postal worker convicted of stealing checks, gift cards from mail
July 10, 2024
Mexican navy officials running the country's biggest port are increasingly concerned about the rising flows of unregulated "dual use" chemicals used to
July 10, 2024
Two French rugby players arrested in Argentina over alleged sexual assault
July 09, 2024
Businesswoman found guilty of defrauding government of nearly half million dollars
July 08, 2024
83-year-old man shoved down NYC subway stairs
July 08, 2024
Police finds newborn dead in car trunk; mother charged with abuse of a corpse
July 08, 2024
Water gun fight leads to shooting, deputies say
July 08, 2024
Mother, 2-year-old child injured when shots are fired, deputies say
July 08, 2024
Woman arrested after attacking three police officers
July 08, 2024
As a young hitchhiker, he survived a ride with a serial killer. Now he’s telling his story
July 07, 2024
Undercover Minnesota police officer discovers plot to kill British TV personality
July 06, 2024
Man in custody following sword attack in downtown hotel
July 05, 2024
A South Korean court says a man who stabbed the country's opposition leader in the neck earlier this year has been sentenced to 15 years in prison
July 05, 2024
Police seek person who threw cheese at someone's car
July 04, 2024
Group finds decomposed body inside flooded U.S. Steel pump house, police say
July 04, 2024
French government spokesperson Prisca Thevenot has been attacked on the campaign trail just days before a high-stakes legislative election
July 04, 2024
Two Americans convicted of killing Italian police officer have sentences reduced
July 03, 2024
Banned NBA player Jontay Porter to face federal charges in connection with gambling case, court documents say
July 03, 2024
Wisconsin fugitive wanted for 30 years arrested in West Des Moines
July 03, 2024
Noise complaint leads to gun-related arrests
July 03, 2024
Police destroy 800 marijuana plants at illegal grow site
July 03, 2024
Elderly woman dies after being pushed into BART train in San Francisco; suspect arrested
July 03, 2024
Former nurse Lucy Letby, convicted last year of murdering seven babies and trying to kill six others, told an English court on Monday that she had never harmed or intended to harm a
July 03, 2024
An Indian court on Tuesday extended a hold on a lower court's order granting bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a graft case, leaving the key opposition leader in
July 03, 2024
An Illinois man charged with murder and hate crimes for stabbing a 6-year-old Muslim boy to death and wounding his mother pleaded not guilty before a judge on Monday at an
July 02, 2024
American writer and filmmaker A.M.
July 02, 2024
Paraguay and Brazil launched dozens of raids across the two countries on Tuesday to seize weapons sent from Europe to be sold to Brazil's largest criminal groups.
July 02, 2024
It's a common sight on the streets of downtown Portland, Oregon: people in front of stores, trendy restaurants and hotels, on sidewalks, corners, and
July 02, 2024
William Franklin, recently released after serving 44 years in prison, could walk from a Philadelphia courtroom an exonerated man on Friday, or he may face another trial
July 02, 2024
81-year-old woman convicted of cold case murder sentenced to life in prison
July 02, 2024
Woman attacked with pruning saw in fight
July 02, 2024
'We just ask God for the strength': Crete family tries to recover after attack from neighbor
July 02, 2024
Special task force seizes $1 million worth of drugs, including 6,000 fentanyl pills
July 02, 2024
Former City of Miami Police officer sentenced to 11 years in federal prison for extortion, attempted drug distribution
July 02, 2024
Man arrested for child porn after allegedly using AI to alter girl's photo
July 02, 2024
Woman found dead in Puna home was strangled, killer still on the loose
July 02, 2024
Michigan man pleads guilty to murder in death of 2-year-old Wynter Cole-Smith
July 02, 2024
Man pleads guilty in connection with scheme to smuggle $1 million in ammunition to Mexico
July 02, 2024
The last of three young men to plead guilty in a Denver fire that killed five people from an extended Senegalese family could be sent to prison for 60 years when he is sentenced Tuesday
July 02, 2024
Poland's top prosecutor has asked parliament for permission to detain and charge a former deputy justice minister accused of involvement in the misuse of public money for purposes
July 01, 2024
Man faces charges after shooting at woman who was stuck in ditch
July 01, 2024
Mother sentenced to 11 years in prison after guilty plea in her child's overdose death
July 01, 2024
Child targeted in attempted kidnapping; Armed suspect detained
July 01, 2024
Authorities are not ruling out racist motives as they investigate why a white Nebraska man shot and wounded seven neighbors who were Guatemalan immigrants
July 01, 2024
Couple stab each other during domestic struggle after man allegedly strangles woman, police say
July 01, 2024
Minutes before going on stage for the first presidential debate on Thursday, Donald Trump received a phone call from the mother of 12-year-old
June 30, 2024
Philadelphia woman bought a Brazilian butt lift with COVID relief funds stolen from Florida, prosecutors say
June 29, 2024
A former employee of Northeastern University was convicted on Friday of U.S. charges that he staged a hoax explosion in 2022 and fabricated a story about being
June 28, 2024
The founder and the top doctor of a San Francisco-based telehealth startup were charged by the U.S.
June 28, 2024
Prosecutors in Indonesia have demanded an eight-month medical rehabilitation for an Australian man charged with possessing methamphetamine on the tourist island of Bali, after his earlier charge of drug trafficking was dropped which would have carried the death penalty
June 27, 2024
Authorities say a man fatally shot five people and wounded a 13-year-old girl before shooting himself as he was confronted by police near Las Vegas
June 25, 2024
A second Venezuelan man living in the U.S. illegally and accused of killing a 12-year-old Houston girl has been ordered to be held on a $10 million bond
June 25, 2024
Almost 960,000 Italians aged between 15 and 19, or 39% of them, have consumed illegal substances at least once, an annual government report to parliament showed on Tuesday, as drug
June 25, 2024
More than 50 defendants, including six with U.S., British, Canadian or Belgian citizenship, appeared in court in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday charged
June 25, 2024
The first weekend of summer brought a tragic yet familiar pattern for American cities wracked by gun violence
June 24, 2024
A new mom reveling in her daughter's development was among four people shot and killed when a gunman opened fire at an Arkansas grocery store
June 23, 2024
A man who bludgeoned Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer and was sentenced to 30 years in federal court has also been convicted of aggravated kidnapping by a state court, a conviction that mandates life behind bars
June 21, 2024
An Alaska serial killer who admitted that he killed five people, including one when he was only 14, has died in an Indiana prison
June 21, 2024
Attorneys for a woman accused of striking her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV and leaving him for dead in a snowbank outside another officer’s home have begun presenting their case that she was framed by police
June 21, 2024
Federal authorities have identified a now-deceased serial rapist from Ohio as the man they believe raped and murdered two women in Virginia's Shenandoah National Park almost three decades ago
June 20, 2024
For the second time this month, a police dog has been killed while trying to help arrest a suspect in South Carolina
June 20, 2024
Officials say at least 34 people have died and dozens are hospitalized after drinking illegally brewed liquor tainted with methanol in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu
June 20, 2024
There was one thing missing when a wealthy Missouri couple purchased their oceanfront home overlooking Camden Harbor in Maine: The million-dollar view was blocked by a neighbor's trees
June 19, 2024
Federal authorities say they've uncovered a complex scheme between one of Mexico’s most notorious drug cartels and Chinese individuals in the U.S. who laundered millions of dollars from illicit drug sales
June 18, 2024
The shooter who killed five people and injured 19 others at a nightclub in Colorado Springs has pleaded guilty to 50 federal hate crimes
June 18, 2024
New Jersey’s attorney general has charged Democratic power broker George Norcross with racketeering and other crimes in connection with government issued tax credits
June 17, 2024
The president of Honduras has announced the creation of a new 20,000-capacity “megaprison.”
June 15, 2024
Authorities say a gunman shot three people at a food court in downtown Atlanta before then getting shot by a police officer
June 11, 2024
An Oregon man who drugged his daughter’s friends with a sleeping medication after they didn’t go to bed during a sleepover was sentenced to two years in prison
June 11, 2024
A man convicted of killing his former lover and her husband in what prosecutors called a fit of rage has been executed in Missouri
June 11, 2024
Police in New Zealand offered an 80,000 New Zealand dollar reward and immunity from prosecution on Tuesday to anyone who could help them secure the safe return of three children missing since December 2021
June 11, 2024
British nurse Lucy Letby on Friday lost her attempt to overturn her conviction for murdering seven babies and trying to kill six others.
June 10, 2024
Authorities say seven people have been arrested after smuggling 26 migrants near San Antonio, Texas, in a secret compartment of a trailer with little water and in sweltering heat
June 07, 2024
A jury has convicted five Minnesota residents and acquitted two others in a scheme to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic to steal more than $40 million from a program meant to feed children
June 07, 2024
Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa on Wednesday declared a new state of emergency in seven of the country's 24 provinces, as well as one area of a further
June 07, 2024
The wife of an Irish businessman who was beaten to death in 2015 and the woman's father have been released from North Carolina prisons
June 06, 2024
Court has adjourned for the day in Hunter Biden’s gun trial
June 05, 2024
Hunter Biden’s ex-wife and a former girlfriend testified in his gun trial about finding his crack pipes and other drug paraphernalia
June 05, 2024
Rapper and singer Sean Kingston is back in South Florida, where he and his mother are charged with committing more than a million dollars worth of fraud
June 03, 2024
Police investigating a deadly shooting at a street party in Akron over the weekend think at least one person opened fire on the crowd from a vehicle, killing one person and wounding 24 others
June 03, 2024
Mexico’s projected election winner Claudia Sheinbaum will become the first female president in the country’s 200-year history
June 02, 2024
The first criminal conviction of a former American president is raising a host of legal and political questions: Will Donald Trump go to prison
May 31, 2024
Donald Trump sought to move past his historic criminal conviction on Friday and build momentum for his bid to return to the White House with fierce attacks on the judge who oversaw the case, the prosecution’s star witness and the criminal justice system as a whole
May 31, 2024
A Chicago woman who pleaded guilty to helping her mother kill a pregnant teenager in 2019 before the baby was cut from her womb with a butcher knife has been sentenced to 30 years in prison
May 30, 2024
A Welsh couple who dined out on pricey meals and then bolted when the bill came is now paying the price
May 30, 2024
Hundreds of police are scouring northern France for Mohamed Amra, a fugitive known as "The Fly" who was freed by gunmen in a brazen attack against a prison van that killed two guards
May 30, 2024
Authorities say a fugitive dubbed the “bad breath rapist” has been arrested in the San Francisco Bay Area more than 16 years after he fled following a conviction for sexually assaulting a coworker in Massachusetts
May 29, 2024
Jury deliberations are underway in the trial of an Idaho man accused of killing his wife and his girlfriend’s two youngest children
May 29, 2024
Rapper and singer Sean Kingston has agreed to return to from California to Florida, where he and his mother are charged with committing more than a million dollars in fraud
May 28, 2024
Ahead of upcoming presidential elections, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and frontrunner Claudia Sheinbaum have strongly rejected any criticism of the governing party's security strategies
May 28, 2024
Authorities say Sean Kingston and his mother committed more than a million dollars in fraud in recent months, stealing money, jewelry, a Cadillac Escalade and furniture
May 24, 2024
Closing arguments tell the jury why the evidence is believable or not, how the facts are linked or not and, most importantly, why their decision to either acquit or convict is moral and just.
May 24, 2024
A jury was chosen on Thursday in the criminal racketeering trial of Sung Kook "Bill" Hwang over the 2021 collapse of his $36 billion fund Archegos Capital
May 24, 2024
A northern Arizona man has been convicted of first-degree murder and other crimes in the 2020 starvation death of his 6-year-old son
May 23, 2024
A man has been found fit to stand trial on charges of killing four people and injuring seven others during a series of frenzied attacks in northern Illinois in March
May 23, 2024
Malta's attorney general has filed charges of fraud and misappropriation of funds against Central Bank of Malta Governor Edward Scicluna and Deputy Prime Minister Chris Fearne,
May 22, 2024
The adult children of an Idaho man accused of killing their mother and his girlfriend’s two young kids testified in his defense this week
May 21, 2024
A former University of Arizona graduate student has been convicted of first-degree murder for fatally shooting a professor on campus two years ago
May 21, 2024
Closing arguments are scheduled for Monday in the trial of a former University of Arizona graduate student accused of killing a professor on campus two years ago
May 19, 2024
A man wanted in connection with the random assault on actor Steve Buscemi on a New York City street earlier this month has been arrested on an assault charge
May 17, 2024
A Colorado man has pleaded guilty to murder charges for starting a 2020 house fire that killed five members of a Senegalese family out of misplaced revenge for a stolen iPhone
May 17, 2024
A Missouri inmate who is weeks away from execution is in a hospital after suffering what a Missouri Department of Corrections spokeswoman described as a “medical emergency."
May 17, 2024
U.S. officials say the number of reported sexual assaults across the military decreased last year
May 15, 2024
A second teen has pleaded guilty in the death of a 20-year-old driver who was hit in the head by a rock that crashed through her windshield in suburban Denver last year
May 15, 2024
The Canadian province of British Columbia on Friday scrapped a much-criticized pilot program that allowed the open use of some illegal drugs, citing the need to maintain public
May 13, 2024
A federal fraud trial has begun for the owner and chief financial officer of a hedge fund that collapsed
May 13, 2024
In America’s execution chambers, a very troubling new method is emerging. It is called “nitrogen hypoxia” and involves suffocating the prisoner to death by depriving them of oxygen. Several states like Alabama, Oklahoma and Mississippi now allow using nitrogen gas as an execution method as an alternative to lethal injection. But this practice is incredibly inhumane and brutal. With nitrogen hypoxia, the inmate wears a mask that feeds them nitrogen gas instead of regular air with oxygen. As they breathe in the nitrogen, their body is slowly starved of the oxygen it needs to survive. It is essentially a controlled
May 12, 2024
A Michigan judge has sentenced the former executive of a Massachusetts specialty pharmacy to at least 10 years in prison for the deaths of 11 people in 2012
May 10, 2024
A man in a hospital gown who stole two police cruisers while handcuffed and survived gunfire from 11 police officers is in no shape to see a judge
May 10, 2024
A New Hampshire man convicted of killing his 5-year-old daughter and moving her corpse around for months before disposing of it has been sentenced to a minimum of 56 years in prison on murder and other charges
May 09, 2024
The rate of guns stolen from cars in the U.S. has tripled over the last decade, making them the largest source of stolen guns in the country
May 09, 2024
The former leader of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), Jeffrey Donaldson, faces 11 historical sex offence charges, including one
May 08, 2024
A woman accused of serving her ex-husband’s family poisonous mushrooms with lunch has pleaded not guilty in an Australian court to three charges of murder and five charges of attempted murder
May 07, 2024
Mexico's army appears to be raiding only a handful of active drug labs every month, despite U.S. pressure to crack down on fentanyl
May 07, 2024
Thousands of Muslims gathered in mosques across Sydney for regular prayers on Friday despite concerns about retaliatory attacks after police charged a
May 07, 2024
Two Australians and an American were doing what they loved on the stunning, largely isolated stretch of Baja California’s Pacific coast
May 06, 2024
Lawyers in Donald Trump's historic criminal trial on Thursday selected 12 jurors who will assess his guilt or innocence over the coming weeks in a case
May 03, 2024
The former leader of the Michigan House and his wife have pleaded not guilty to financial charges arising from an investigation of how they spent money from unregulated political funds
May 02, 2024
Jurors in the hush money trial of Donald Trump have heard a recording of him discussing with his then-lawyer and personal fixer a plan to purchase the silence of a Playboy model who has said she had an affair with the former president
May 02, 2024
Jailers in Georgia must now check the immigration status of inmates and apply to help enforce federal immigration law
May 01, 2024
The European Union and United Nations abruptly rescheduled the launch of an anti-human trafficking program this week after being confronted with questions on the choice of venue: a Phnom Penh hotel owned by a Cambodian tycoon who has another property that has been used by human traffickers
May 01, 2024
The FBI says scammers stole more than $3.4 billion from older Americans last year
April 30, 2024
Police in Louisiana say three officers have been wounded by gunfire in a standoff with a man suspected of shooting three other people
April 28, 2024
Iraqi authorities are investigating the killing of a well-known social media influencer who was shot by an armed motorcyclist in front of her home in central Baghdad
April 27, 2024
Police in Canada and the United States have arrested six people and are seeking three others in connection with the theft of over C$22 million ($16 million)
April 26, 2024
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April 26, 2024
U.S. prosecutors asked a federal judge on Wednesday to delay the corruption trial of New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez and his wife by at least two months, after
April 26, 2024
Prospective jurors in Donald Trump's trial on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star will be asked their opinions on how the Republican presidential
April 26, 2024
The New York criminal charges against Donald Trump for allegedly covering up hush-money payments to a porn star are serious in the eyes of a firm majority of U.S.
April 26, 2024
Donald Trump next week is set to become the first former U.S. president to face a criminal trial - a case involving hush money paid to porn star Stormy
April 26, 2024
Donald Trump must stop verbal attacks on family members of the New York judge and others in his upcoming trial on charges stemming from a hush money payment to a porn star, the
April 26, 2024
Sam Bankman-Fried is set to be sentenced on Thursday over his conviction on fraud charges stemming from the dramatic collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange he
April 26, 2024
A third man was charged on Thursday with murder after a gunfight on the fringe of a Super Bowl victory rally in Kansas City, Missouri, last month killed one person and wounded more than 20
April 26, 2024
Homicides across the U.S. dropped by more than 13% in 2023, according to FBI data released this week, declining for the second consecutive year after a precipitous spike during the
April 26, 2024
As increasingly powerful alliances of heavily armed gangs expand their influence over Haiti's capital, its government formally requested a multinational force be deployed
April 26, 2024
U.S. authorities on Wednesday charged the leader of a Japanese crime syndicate with conspiring to traffic nuclear materials from Myanmar for expected use by Iran in nuclear
April 26, 2024
U.S. federal prosecutors charged Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, the co-founder of Mexico's notorious Sinaloa drug cartel, with conspiracy to manufacture and distribute fentanyl,
April 26, 2024
A Virginia doctor who prescribed more than 500,000 opioid doses in less than two years had his conviction and 40-year prison sentence thrown out by a federal appeals
April 26, 2024
U.S. authorities on Thursday charged the co-founders of private technology startup Bitwise Industries for their roles in a $100 million fraud scheme, according to federal prosecutors and
April 26, 2024
The White House on Thursday announced $334 million in new grants for state and local law enforcement agencies to bolster community-oriented policing services,
April 26, 2024
Fired Memphis, Tennessee police officer Desmond Mills pleaded guilty on Thursday to federal charges in the death of Black motorist Tyre Nichols and has agreed to plead guilty to related
April 26, 2024
A Las Vegas man faces federal criminal charges after threatening to kill Democratic U.S.
April 26, 2024
The parents of a teenage school shooter who killed four students and wounded six other people in 2021 at his Detroit-area high school will stand trial for involuntary
April 26, 2024
A Texas investment firm agreed on Friday to pay $2.51 million to settle a U.S. government lawsuit accusing it of fraudulently obtaining payments from a fund
April 26, 2024
Australian police say they have arrested seven teenagers accused of following a violent extremist ideology in raids around Sydney to protect the community from a potential attack
April 24, 2024
Second-degree murder charges have been filed against a Michigan woman who smashed her SUV into a boat club that was hosting a birthday party and killed two young siblings
April 23, 2024
A longtime tabloid publisher is expected to tell jurors about his efforts to help Donald Trump stifle unflattering stories during the 2016 campaign as testimony resumes in the historic hush money trial of the former president
April 23, 2024
Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa has won significant voter support for a raft of security measures he says will help him fight sharply increased crime, a quick
April 21, 2024
A man who’s served more than half of his life in prison for his role in the 2001 stabbing deaths of two married Dartmouth College professors as part of a plan to rob and kill people before fleeing overseas has been granted parole
April 18, 2024
A man was sentenced Wednesday to 47 years to life in prison for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl who went missing from a state park in upstate New York last year
April 17, 2024
The head of a specialty pharmacy will be sentenced in Michigan for 11 deaths more than a decade ago that were tied to tainted steroids
April 17, 2024
Canadian police say nine people are facing charges in the biggest gold theft in Canadian history from Toronto’s Pearson International airport a year ago
April 17, 2024
An Ohio man who authorities say fatally shot an Uber driver he thought was trying to rob him after scam phone calls deceived them both has been indicted on a murder charge
April 16, 2024
Police say a man has been arrested after reportedly stabbing a bishop and churchgoers in Sydney
April 15, 2024
A police officer and a sheriff's deputy in upstate New York were shot and killed Sunday night in an exchange of gunfire with a suspect, who also was killed
April 15, 2024
Two doctors are in favor of releasing a Wisconsin woman from a psychiatric hospital, a decade after she nearly killed a girl at age 12
April 11, 2024
A convicted murderer who was released early from a Texas prison in 1993 and now faces two new murder charges has offered to enter a plea and to return to prison for 50 years in exchange for avoiding going to trial and facing a possible death sentence
April 11, 2024
An Idaho teenager is charged with attempting to provide material support to the terrorist group ISIS after prosecutors said he planned to carry out an attack on a Coeur d’Alene church
April 09, 2024
Two members of an Idaho white supremacist prison gang are due in court for a preliminary hearing, along with a woman accused of providing a vehicle they used during 36 hours on the run after an escape in an armed ambush at a Boise hospital
April 08, 2024
New data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives shows that 68,000 illegally trafficked firearms in the U.S. came through unlicensed dealers who aren’t required to perform background checks over a five year report
April 04, 2024
A fourth person has been charged in connection with an ambush that allowed a white supremacist Idaho prison gang member to escape as he was being discharged from a Boise hospital
March 28, 2024
Federal prosecutors say convicted killer Alex Murdaugh didn’t tell the truth when FBI agents repeatedly asked him where more than $6 million he stole ended up
March 26, 2024
Indiana officials have revoked the liquor license of an Indianapolis bar where one person was killed and five others, including a police officer, were wounded during a weekend shooting
March 26, 2024
Kenya's government has begun handing over to relatives the bodies of 429 members of a doomsday cult at the center of a legal case that has shocked the country
March 26, 2024
The Colorado university where a student is charged with killing his suitemate and another person in a dorm room last month has hired two former U.S. attorneys to review of what led to the shooting and whether any campus policies and procedures can be improved
March 25, 2024
Police investigating the killing a pregnant Amish woman in rural Pennsylvania say they seized six guns, a variety of ammunition and a pair of sneakers that may match tread marks left at the crime scene during searches of the suspect’s home and vehicle
March 25, 2024
Authorities are investigating the deaths of an 83-year-old man who was walking his dogs and a 72-year-old man who lived in a remote cabin in connection with the escape of an Idaho white supremacist prison gang member and an accomplice after a Boise hospital ambush
March 22, 2024
An Alabama woman who faked being abducted after stopping her car to check on a toddler wandering along a highway on Thursday pleaded guilty to charges of giving false information to law enforcement
March 21, 2024
New FBI statistics show violent crime in the U.S. dropping again last year, continuing a downward trend after a pandemic-era spike
March 20, 2024
A conservative social media influencer has been charged with storming the U.S. Capitol and passing a stolen table out of a broken window, allowing other rioters to use it as a weapon against police
March 18, 2024
It’s a scenario that plays out over and over again at American crime scenes: The investigation reveals that the shooter didn’t get his firearm legally from a store or gun show, but instead obtained it from someone who did
March 14, 2024
An open seat to lead the nation’s second-largest prosecutor’s office has become one of the most spirited races in the Illinois primary
March 14, 2024
The judge overseeing the Georgia election interference case has dismissed some of the charges against former President Donald Trump, but others remain
March 13, 2024
A former Jacksonville Jaguars financial manager who pled guilty to stealing more than $22 million from the NFL franchise through its virtual credit card program was sentenced to 78 months in prison
March 12, 2024
The man accused of fatally shooting University of Utah football player Aaron Lowe has pleaded guilty to murder more than two years after police say he killed the cornerback outside a rowdy house party in Salt Lake City
March 11, 2024
An American man has been convicted of murder and other charges for attacking two American women near Germany’s famed Neuschwanstein castle last summer and pushing them into a ravine, fatally injuring one of them
March 11, 2024
Police in northern England say they have removed 34 bodies from a funeral home and arrested a man and woman on suspicion of fraud and preventing lawful burials
March 10, 2024
Machine guns have been tightly regulated in the U.S. since the bloody violence of Prohibition-era gangsters like Al Capone
March 09, 2024
Republican Tennessee House lawmakers have advanced a bill to undo the reforms to police traffic stops made by Memphis officials in response to the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols by officers last January
March 07, 2024
Police in Canada’s capital capital of Ottawa are investigating the deaths of six people including four children and two adults found in a house in a southern suburb
March 07, 2024
A federal judge has banned a Florida gun retailer from selling certain gun parts in New York that officials say can be used to assemble untraceable ghost guns and sold without background checks
March 06, 2024
New obstruction of justice crimes have been alleged against Sen. Bob Menendez
March 05, 2024
It’s the one question on the minds of all Haitians ever since armed gangs plunged the long-suffering Caribbean nation into near anarchy: Where in the world is Prime Minister Ariel Henry
March 05, 2024
Voters in San Francisco are weighing in on a pair of public safety measures on Tuesday’s ballot that reflect frustration over crime and drug use in the politically liberal city
March 05, 2024
A Venezuelan man who became the subject of national attention for allegedly kicking a police officer in Times Square, then flipping off news cameras on his way out of court, was cleared of wrongdoing on Friday
March 02, 2024
Family, friends and classmates of a nursing student found slain on the University of Georgia campus plan to gather to say farewell
March 01, 2024
The killing of nursing student in Georgia has become an issue in the 2024 presidential campaign
February 27, 2024
A Washington state man accused of helping kill more than 3,000 birds including eagles on a Montana Indian reservation then illegally selling their feathers intends to plead guilty to federal criminal charges
February 27, 2024
The suspect in the killing of a nursing student on the University of Georgia campus used an object as a weapon in the crime, and he’s also accused of “disfiguring her skull."
February 27, 2024
Students at two Georgia colleges are grappling with the killing of a nursing student killed in a violent act that Republicans including former President Donald Trump and Gov. Brian Kemp blamed on the immigration policies of President Joe Biden
February 26, 2024
For nearly 50 years, Idaho’s prison staffers have been serving Thomas Eugene Creech three meals a day, checking on him during rounds and taking him to medical appointments
February 25, 2024
Federal authorities say the brother of a man who is charged with killing a Georgia nursing student has been accused of presenting a fake green card to police
February 24, 2024
The killing of a 22-year-old nursing student has once again put the spotlight on dangers faced by female athletes who practice sports alone
February 24, 2024
A student has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder, felony menacing and committing a crime of violence in the shooting deaths of two people in a Colorado college dorm
February 23, 2024
A Houston has man has pleaded guilty to securities fraud for trading on inside information from his wife's business conversations while both were working from home
February 23, 2024
A former Colorado police officer is appealing his conviction by a jury for his role in the death of Eljiah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died after being stopped by police in a Denver suburb in 2019
February 22, 2024
Evidence from NYC shows that stop-and-frisk policing leads to greater mistrust of police and more racial disparities in the criminal justice system.
February 22, 2024
A man accused of kidnapping a 9-year-old girl from a state park in upstate New York pleaded guilty to two felony counts and faces 47 years to life in prison
February 22, 2024
A police detective says he was unnerved to find a U.S. Army rocket launcher when searching a suspicious truck for drugs in central Massachusetts
February 21, 2024
A Michigan man has been charged under the state’s new law requiring safe storage of guns after his 2-year-old daughter shot herself in the head with his revolver the day after the law took effect
February 21, 2024
A judge investigating the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse has indicted his widow, Martine Moïse, ex-prime minister Claude Joseph and the former chief of Haiti’s National Police, Léon Charles, among others
February 19, 2024
A 30-year-old man has gunned down 12 of his relatives in a remote rural area in southeast Iran, the deadliest shooting reported in decades
February 17, 2024
A former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official was sentenced to more than two years in prison for concealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments from a businessman with ties to the Albanian government
February 16, 2024
A suburban Chicago man who pleaded guilty but mentally ill for drowning his three young children has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole
February 16, 2024
Police say the deaths of two people who were shot in a dorm room at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs will be investigated as homicides
February 16, 2024
Hong Kong customs officials have arrested seven people linked to the territory's largest money laundering case on record, involving about $1.8 billion
February 16, 2024
An Anchorage woman will serve 99 years in prison for orchestrating the death of a developmentally disabled woman in a murder-for-hire plot, hoping to cash in on a $9 million offer from a Midwestern man purporting to be a millionaire
February 15, 2024
Kansas legislatore are moving to impose tougher prison sentences for harming or killing police dogs
February 14, 2024
Stopping someone against their will can be false imprisonment or even kidnapping. There are laws that determine who is acting as a hero and who is acting as a vigilante.
February 12, 2024
A man accused of stalking Taylor Swift after being spotted multiple times outside the singer’s Manhattan townhouse was found unfit to stand trial and will be committed to state custody for psychiatric treatment
February 09, 2024
An Oklahoma judge who sent more than 500 texts to her bailiff during a murder trial will resign
February 09, 2024
New York prosecutors say a Brooklyn woman has been sentenced in connection with a sprawling COVID-19 fraud scheme
February 09, 2024
A prosecutor says he won't charge two off-duty police officers who shot and killed two men while working weekend security at a bar in Nebraska's largest city
February 08, 2024
The mother of a Michigan school shooter is the first parent in the U.S. to be found criminally responsible for a mass school attack conducted by their child, even though she didn't pull the trigger
February 07, 2024
A New Hampshire man accused of killing his 5-year-old daughter told a judge that his attorneys plan to acknowledge his guilt on two lesser charges — falsifying physical evidence and abusing a corpse
February 07, 2024
A man accused of murdering two Alaska Native women recorded images of both of his victims, and the break in the case came when a third woman stole the man’s phone and provided police with photos and videos of one of the killings
February 07, 2024
A Michigan jury will get instructions from a judge and begin deliberations in an unusual trial against a school shooter’s mother
February 05, 2024
The double murder trial of a man accused of killing two Alaska Native women is set to begin more than four years after a woman turned in a stoled digital memory card that authorities say contained gruesome recordings of one of the killings
February 04, 2024
The funeral for seven of the eight victims killed in Joliet-area shootings last month has been held
February 03, 2024
Nearly 3,500 people have been exonerated of crimes in the U.S. since 1989, and $4 billion has been paid in compensation
February 01, 2024
A Michigan school official told jurors that he had no grounds to search the backpack of a teenager before the boy killed four fellow students in 2021
January 30, 2024
Federal investigators say a local want ad for a yoga instructor in Costa Rica helped them capture the killer of rising pro cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson in 2022
January 30, 2024
U.S. federal prosecutors have charged dozens of people across the nation with taking part in major drug trafficking operations, including a narcotics ring run by a
January 26, 2024
Officers in a Detroit suburb found a furry surprise when they patted down a theft suspect: A tiny blue-eyed puppy zipped inside the man’s jacket pocket
January 26, 2024
A Montana felon previously convicted of killing eagles to sell their parts on the black market has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for related gun violations
January 24, 2024
A man who fatally shot eight people in Illinois over the weekend before taking own life as law enforcement closed in on him in Texas was a family relative to most of his
January 23, 2024
New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez is asking a judge to toss out much of the evidence in the prosecution against him, saying investigators illegally searched his residence to get back at him for defeating a prior prosecution
January 23, 2024
A Seattle man was arrested twice in the span of a few days outside the New York City home of musician Taylor Swift, the second time on stalking and harassment charges, police and
January 23, 2024
A woman charged with killing a high-profile entertainment marketing consultant in his Los Angeles home has pleaded not guilty
January 23, 2024
A man suspected of shooting and killing eight people in suburban Chicago fatally shot himself after a confrontation at a gas station with law enforcement officials in Texas
January 22, 2024
A former Los Angeles-area gang leader jailed in the 1996 killing of hip-hop music icon Tupac Shakur has hired a private attorney to represent him ahead of his murder trial
January 22, 2024
Sri Lankan authorities say they have arrested tens of thousands of people in a monthlong crackdown on drugs and are vowing to continue despite U.N. criticism of possible human rights violations during the “heavy-handed” operation
January 19, 2024
A prosecutor says a California man acted callously in pulling out his gun and firing a shot at a car traveling on the freeway, killing a 6-year-old boy who was riding in the back in a booster seat
January 18, 2024
Widespread violence tied to Ecuadorian drug gangs has left the country looking at a draconian response.
January 12, 2024
An Illinois landlord charged with murder, attempted murder and a hate crime in an October attack on a Palestinian American mother and her young son has appeared for a pretrial hearing
January 03, 2024
The judge handling the fallout over Alex Murdaugh’s murder convictions plans to hold an evidentiary hearing next month
December 29, 2023
Authorities say a man who fatally shot his mother two days after Christmas and set off a high-speed police chase through the suburbs of Las Vegas was armed with two rifles
December 29, 2023
The U.S. military is now putting independent lawyers in charge of its investigations of sexual assault and other major crimes, what Secretary of Defense Lloyd J
December 28, 2023
Four children between nine months and 10 years old and their mother have been killed in their apartment east of Paris in what the local prosecutor called an exceptionally violent crime
December 26, 2023
The Vatican’s chief prosecutor has appealed a court verdict that largely dismantled his theory of a grand conspiracy to defraud the Holy See of millions of euros
December 22, 2023
A federal jury has convicted former Chicago Alderman Ed Burke on 13 counts of corruption alleging he used his power to win private law business from developers
December 21, 2023
The adult son of U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer has appeared in court on a new homicide charge in connection with the crash that killed a North Dakota sheriff's deputy earlier this month
December 18, 2023
Spanish police say they have arrested 14 workers at one of the country’s main tourist airports on suspicion of stealing items from checked-in luggage
December 15, 2023
A judge sentenced a South Florida dentist to life in prison for the 2014 shooting death of his former brother-in-law, a prominent professor at Florida State University, following a bitter custody battle
December 12, 2023
The government and police in the nation's capital are handing out tracking devices and dashboard cameras to local drivers to help stem rising crime rates
November 20, 2023
Authorities say a Las Vegas high school student was killed when 10 students between the ages of 13 and 17 beat him in an alleyway around the corner from campus in a prearranged fight over a pair of headphones and a vape pen
November 15, 2023
A judge’s order to deny bail is being challenged by a New Mexico man charged with attempted murder in the September shooting of a Native American activist during confrontations about canceled plans to reinstall a statue of a Spanish conquistador
November 08, 2023
A jury has convicted a Florida dentist of murder in the death of his former brother-in-law, a professor killed in 2014 after a bitter custody battle with the dentist's sister
November 06, 2023
Authorities say a driver tried to crash through the exit gates of a South Carolina nuclear plant about an hour after security asked the same car to leave when it tried to enter
November 03, 2023
A timeline released Friday shows that the suspect in the Maine mass shootings stayed one step ahead of police who rushed to the bowling alley and a bar but were too late to stop him from killing 18 people and slipping away into the night in his Subaru
October 28, 2023
California officials say an inmate accused of attacking Paul Flores this summer, shortly after Flores reported to prison to serve his conviction for murdering college student Kristin Smart, strangled his own serial killer cellmate two years ago
October 27, 2023
Prosecutors say an American man has been charged with murder and other offenses for attacking two women from the U.S. near Neuschwanstein castle in Germany in June and pushing them into a ravine
October 26, 2023
A judge has reinstated all charges, including a murder count, against a former police officer who shot and killed a driver through a rolled-up car window
October 25, 2023
Houston’s next mayor will tackle many challenges similar to ones faced by other large U.S. cities: crime, crumbling infrastructure, budget shortfalls and a lack of affordable housing
October 21, 2023
A man who was living in a tent in the woods has been convicted of murder in the fatal shooting of a retired New Hampshire couple who were out for a walk
October 20, 2023
Four defendants in the criminal bribery case against U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, including his wife, have pleaded not guilty in New York City to a revised indictment
October 18, 2023
Jurors have delivered split verdicts in a case that stemmed from the search for a 3-year-old boy who went missing from Georgia
October 17, 2023
Ecuador’s youngest elected president faces a practically impossible task
October 16, 2023
A Philadelphia police officer has been shot and killed and a second officer has been wounded after they confronted people breaking into a car at Philadelphia International Airport
October 13, 2023
Vermont State Police have released a sketch of a person of interest in the killing of a retired college dean who was shot dead last week while walking on her favorite trail near the Vermont State University campus
October 11, 2023
Students and residents in a small Vermont university town are being told to lock their doors and stick together as police search for a killer who shot a retired dean on her favorite walking trail last week
October 10, 2023
Authorities say a suburban Chicago man has been charged in connection with a June shooting where one person died and 22 others were injured
October 06, 2023
A man who prosecutors say was the helmeted motorist who stomped in the back window of a car in Philadelphia and waved a gun at the vehicle’s driver in a weekend assault that was recorded on video is in custody
October 05, 2023
The Michigan Supreme Court has turned down an appeal and cleared the way for the parents of the Oxford High School shooter to face trial on involuntary manslaughter charges
October 03, 2023
Police say an 11-year-old boy retrieved a gun from an unlocked box in his mother’s vehicle and shot two 13-year-olds following an altercation that began during a Pop Warner football practice in central Florida
October 03, 2023
Restrictions on carrying guns in public that are tied to an emergency public health order are going under the legal microscope in U.S. District Court in New Mexico
October 03, 2023
A man who killed two women he met a day apart at north Florida bars in 1996 has been executed
October 03, 2023
Prosecutors say DNA from Gilgo Beach serial killing suspect Rex Heuermann’s cheek swab matches the DNA that authorities had previously collected from a pizza crust and used to link Heuermann to one of the victims
September 27, 2023
Target says it's closing nine stores in four states, including one in New York City’s East Harlem neighborhood, and three in the San Francisco Bay Area
September 26, 2023
A third person has been charged in the death of a toddler apparently poisoned by fentanyl inside a New York City day care center
September 25, 2023
Singapore police say they have uncovered more luxury watches, gold bars and other assets from a massive money laundering scheme that was busted last month, bringing the total amount of assets seized or frozen to $1.75 billion
September 21, 2023
The man charged with murder in the ambush killing of a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy has entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity
September 20, 2023
Hunter Biden will plead not guilty to federal firearms charges filed after the collapse of a plea deal in a long-running federal investigation, his lawyers said Tuesday in court documents
September 19, 2023
A Philadelphia police officer charged in the shooting death of a driver last month is back in custody following the revocation of his bail
September 19, 2023
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September 19, 2023
A former Colorado police officer who put a handcuffed woman in a parked vehicle that was hit by a freight train last year, causing the woman to suffer a traumatic brain injury, has avoided a jail sentence
September 17, 2023
Authorities are asking for the public’s help and offering a $250,000 reward as investigators search for the assailant who shot and killed a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy as he sat in his patrol car at an intersection
September 17, 2023
An armed man accused of impersonating a federal officer was taken into custody outside a Robert F
September 16, 2023
A man whose bomb threat near the U.S. Capitol forced evacuations and sparked an hourslong standoff with police in 2021 was sentenced to five years of probation Friday after a year in jail
September 15, 2023
Federal prosecutors in the case charging Donald Trump with scheming to overturn the 2020 presidential election are seeking an order that would restrict the former president from “inflammatory” and “intimidating” comments about witnesses, lawyers and the judge
September 15, 2023
The director of the federal Bureau of Prisons was scolded Wednesday by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee who say her lack of transparency is hampering their ability to help fix the agency, which has long been plagued by staffing shortages, chronic violence and other problems
September 13, 2023
Pennsylvania authorities say they were able to capture escaped murderer Danelo Cavalcante thanks to thermal imaging equipment in the air, search teams working through a stormy night, a search dog and the element of surprise
September 13, 2023
A federal judge has blocked part of a public health order that suspended the right to carry guns in public across New Mexico’s largest metro area
September 13, 2023Escaped murderer Danelo Cavalcante has been taken to a state prison outside Philadelphia after his capture Wednesday morning
September 13, 2023
Louisiana often holds inmates past their release date, DOJ lawsuit claims
Trump taps ex-Treasury official Miran as chair of Council of Economic Advisers
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