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“You are the embodiment of evil,” Judge James C. Babler told Jake Patterson before sentencing him to life without parole for kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs and killing her parents, “and the public can only be safe if you are incarcerated until you die.” Watch Judge Babler’s full statement in the player above.

A Connecticut state employee whose guns were seized after he allegedly made threatening comments to co-workers has been fired.

Federal police officers arrested a Silver Spring, Maryland, woman suspected of attempting to steal sensitive medical specimens and equipment from the clinical center of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda.

A Killingworth man is accused of sexually assaulting a young girl in his care multiple times over the course of several years.

An East Haven man is accused of sexually assaulting a young family member.

A 47-year-old plastic surgeon from Westchester County allegedly had a huge weapons cache in his car, one including assault rifles, body armor, a ballistic helmet, knives and more than 1,600 rounds of ammunition, among other weapons, when police stopped him as they investigated a report he had threatened his estranged wife and family.

Amber Portwood is accused of wielding a machete while attacking her boyfriend Andrew Glennon during a confrontation that led to her arrest last week. On July 5, the 29-year-old “Teen Mom” star was arrested after allegedly assaulting her boyfriend in their Indiana home while he was holding their 1-year-old son, James. She was charged with three felonies: domestic battery, domestic...

Former USC campus gynecologist George Tyndall, who is charged with sexually assaulting 16 patients, had his nearly $2.1 million bail reduced to $1.6 million Tuesday, despite his attorneys asking that the amount be set as low as $350,000.

Former USC campus gynecologist George Tyndall, who is charged with sexually assaulting 16 patients, had his nearly $2.1 million bail reduced to $1.6 million Tuesday, despite his attorneys asking that the amount be set as low as $350,000.

A Wisconsin man was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs and killing her parents in a case that mystified authorities until the girl made a daring escape from the remote cabin where she was held for 88 days.

A 27-year-old Kansas man has been extradited to Connecticut to face charges he kidnapped and sexually attacked a woman who mistook him for her ride-share driver when she left a bar in December.

A man accused of kidnapping a 13-year-old Wisconsin girl and killing her parents waived his right to a preliminary hearing Wednesday, telling his father, “I love you,” moments after he was ordered to stand trial. Jake Patterson, 21, is accused of killing James and Denise Closs on Oct. 15 and kidnapping their daughter, Jayme Closs, from their Barron home. Jayme...

A former volunteer firefighter in Connecticut accused of drunkenly setting a fire behind a Shelton firehouse has taken a plea deal in the case.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is an unlikely national rock star. The Notorious RBG, as she’s nicknamed, is now appearing in the second documentary film about her this year.

A man accused of murdering his girlfriend at a motel in East Lyme faced a judge and the victim’s family Wednesday.

The man accused of killing his girlfriend in an East Lyme motel went before a judge on Wednesday.

A woman who was found with several stab wounds at the Starlight Inn on Flanders Road in East Lyme Monday night has died and police have arrested a suspect in her killing.

Police made an arrest late Tuesday in the fatal stabbing of a woman at an East Lyme motel.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is home from the hospital Friday, just over a day after fracturing three ribs in a fall in her office at the court, the court said. The court said Friday that Ginsburg, 85, “is doing well and plans to work from home today.” The court’s oldest justice fell Wednesday evening, according to the court....

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has three broken ribs and is being monitored in the hospital after falling at her office at the court Wednesday night, officials said Thursday. The 85-year-old went home after the fall but went to George Washington University Hospital Thursday morning after experiencing discomfort, according to the court’s office of public information. “Tests showed that...