A New York jury found former Hollywood studio boss Harvey Weinstein guilty of third-degree rape in the case of Jessica Mann and guilty of first-degree criminal sexual assault in the case of Mimi Haleyi, acquitting him of the two most serious counts of predatory sex assault. Those two counts of predatory sex assault, which carried a max sentence of life…

What started as a quick trip to a bookstore in a New Jersey town for a teenager and her mother quickly turned into a horrifying bathroom experience — and an arrest

A Maryland police officer’s 17-year-old son tried to sell marijuana products on Snapchat and messaged his address to his alleged killer less than an hour before his death, court documents say.

A family friend of a pizza delivery driver who was recently gunned down in Baltimore says he had fled war-torn Syria to seek a better life

Authorities say a 14-year-old has been arrested in the fatal stabbing of a Barnard College student in a Manhattan park in December.

There is almost no physical evidence connecting New York real estate heir Robert Durst to the slaying of his best friend in Los Angeles 20 years ago. What does link him to the killing of Susan Berman, though, is a cryptic note sent to police with her address and one word: “CADAVER.” The slip of paper intended to lead authorities…

Opening arguments have begun in the death penalty trial of a man accused of killing eight people in Mississippi in 2017.

A jury convicted high-profile lawyer Michael Avenatti on all counts in his Nike extortion trial on Friday. Prosecutors maintained Avenatti threatened to use his fame to stage a news conference and deliver claims that Nike executives were corrupting college basketball by funding payments to elite young players and their families — unless he was paid millions of dollars to conduct…

A man walked out of the D.C. jail on Wednesday night after 25 years of incarceration for a crime he says he did not commit. A note found in an old police homicide file was a key to his early release. Calvin Bright, 47, had been convicted of the 1994 killings of Tammy Peay and William Ramsey in Northeast Washington….

Lawrence Ray, previously known for his role in helping to send former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik to prison, pleaded not guilty to all charges on Wednesday.

Lawrence Ray — the federal informant whose information helped lead to the arrest of former NYPD commissioner Bernie Kerik — has been arrested by the FBI on sex trafficking and other charges, according to the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. Ray “targeted a group of college students and others for indoctrination and criminal…

A Mexican model and actress denies a Harvey Weinstein accuser’s claim that she stood by and did nothing while the once-powerful movie mogul groped the woman in a Beverly Hills hotel in 2013

A Los Angeles amateur basketball league’s founder has told jurors that Michael Avenatti betrayed him when the lawyer threatened to make his complaints against Nike public.

Prosecutors in Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial have rested their case

A woman was charged with murder after she allegedly used a nail clipper to stab her husband during a domestic dispute, authorities announced Tuesday.

A prosecutor at the outset of an espionage trial has blamed a former CIA employee for what he called the biggest leak of classified defense information in the agency’s history

A key accuser in the the New York City rape trial of Harvey Weinstein is set to face a potentially grueling cross-examination

Jelani Maraj, brother of rapper Nicki Minaj, was sentenced Monday morning to 25 years to life in prison for repeatedly raping an 11-year-old girl at his Long Island home, a spokesperson for the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office told NBC News. Maraj was convicted in November 2017 of predatory sexual assault against a child and endangering the welfare of a…

An Afghan-born U.S. citizen already serving a life prison term for a bombing in New York City was sentenced Friday to another life sentence for the attempted murder of five police officers stemming from a shootout with police in New Jersey in 2016. Ahmad Khan Rahimi appeared briefly in state court in Elizabeth. The shooting occurred in Linden, New Jersey,…

Michael Avenatti, the one-time attorney to Stormy Daniels, is being held in a federal jail cell once occupied by the Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, Avenatti’s lawyer said in a court filing Monday. In a letter to a federal judge in New York requesting that his client be moved to Metropolitan Correctional Center’s general population, lawyer Scott...