A former Yahoo software engineer has pleaded guilty to hacking into the accounts of some 6,000 Yahoo users in search of sexual photos and videos. The US Attorney’s Office says Reyes Daniel Ruiz admitted in court Monday that he mostly targeted accounts belonging to younger women, including his personal friends and work colleagues.

Norwalk police arrested a man accused of threatening a woman and prompting a police standoff Friday morning.

A Connecticut school administrator charged in connection with a student “fight club” has applied for a special court program that could lead to the case being dismissed.

A woman wielding a machete wounded three men, a father and his two sons, during a fight outside a hotel in Sharon, Massachusetts, early Sunday, police said. The woman, 34-year-old Allison Maitland of Hanson, was arrested on three assault and battery charges and pleaded not guilty in court Monday.

A man was arrested at JFK Airport Sunday after attempting to smuggle into the United States 34 live birds from Guyana — concealed in plastic hair curlers, prosecutors announced.

The blood of a missing Connecticut mother of five has been found on various items tossed in different locations, and blood spatter was found in her home, an arrest affidavit for the estranged husband charged in her disappearance reveals.

The blood of a missing Connecticut mother of five has been found on various items tossed in different locations, and blood spatter was found in her home, an arrest affidavit for the estranged husband charged in her disappearance reveals.

Lawyers for 19 parents, including Hollywood actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Gianulli, learned Monday that their clients will have to appear back in federal court in Boston in July. The judge wants to be able to speak with them to ensure they’re clear about information and procedure moving forward.

Lawyers for 19 parents, including Hollywood actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Gianulli, learned Monday that their clients will have to appear back in federal court in Boston in July. The judge wants to be able to speak with them to ensure they’re clear about information and procedure moving forward.

The estranged husband of Jennifer Dulos, a missing New Canaan woman, and his girlfriend appeared in court Monday after being charged with tampering with or fabricating physical evidence and hindering prosecution in the first degree in connection to the missing person case and bond was set at $500,000 for both of them.

The estranged husband of Jennifer Dulos, a missing New Canaan woman, and his girlfriend appeared in court Monday after being charged with tampering with or fabricating physical evidence and hindering prosecution in the first degree in connection to the missing person case and bond was set at $500,000 for both of them.

Once the darling of Silicon Valley, Elizabeth Holmes, founder of failed startup Theranos, was in court Monday, now a suspected felon.

A jury has found Chanel Lewis guilty on all counts at his retrial for the murder of New York City jogger Karina Vetrano.

Michael Avenatti did not enter a plea and was released on $300,000 bond, but it’s not the end of his legal issues as he faces coast-to-coast charges. Gus Rosendale reports.

A day after he was charged with trying to extort millions of dollars from Nike, attorney Michael Avenatti has launched a new public attack on the company, claiming the sneaker giant of made cash payments to amateur basketball players and their families. In a string of tweets Tuesday, the lawyer accused Nike of “trying to divert attention from their own...

Former Stormy Daniels attorney and prominent Trump critic Michael Avenatti has been charged in New York with trying to extort Nike for millions as well as bank and wire fraud in California, according to separate complaints from federal prosecutors on opposite coasts.

Two men suspected in a drive-by shooting that killed a 7-year-old black Houston girl mistakenly thought they were attacking people whom they had fought with at a club hours earlier, a prosecutor said Monday. One of the men, Eric Black Jr., appeared in court Monday on a capital murder charge in the Dec. 30 killing of Jazmine Barnes. Black, 20,…

A hung jury mistrial has been declared in the case of a 22-year-old man accused of murdering a young woman when she went out for a run in her Queens neighborhood more than two years ago.

A former strawberry farm supervisor was accused in court Monday of retaliating over a workplace grievance by putting needles into the fruit, sparking recalls that devastated the Australian industry. Magistrate Christine Roney said while prosecutors were alleging My Ut Trinh was “motivated by spite or revenge” she would not consider granting bail for the woman until the reasons for her...

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump visited Pittsburgh on Tuesday as the Jewish community began burying some of the victims of a massacre at Tree of Life Synagogue.