Crime and Courts

Two smugglers charged after 53 immigrants died in the back of a sweltering tractor-trailer with no air conditioning have been found guilty.

The purloined potty has never been recovered but is believed to have been cut up and sold.

The Louisiana woman accused of theft and fraud in connection with the death of a Super Bowl reporter near New Orleans last month will also be charged with second-degree murder in the case, authorities said Tuesday.

A federal judge has dismissed the charges against a Minnesota man accused of hiding a stolen pair of ruby slippers that Judy Garland wore in “The Wizard of Oz.”

An Australian woman narrowly avoided jail on Monday over her plans to sell on the black market two human toes that had been regurgitated by dogs at the animal shelter where she worked. Joanna Kathlyn Kinman, 48, was not present at the animal shelter in the southeastern state of Victoria when the two dogs vomited up the toes and other...

Robert Morris surrendered to officials in Oklahoma, where he was charged last week with five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child.

Two men, a retired priest and a Catholic school teacher, have been charged with sexually abusing the same child multiple times between 1994 and 1996 when they worked in Wilmington, Delaware.

Audio from a 911 call made after four University of Idaho college students were fatally stabbed reveals the panic of the survivors as they struggled to understand what occurred, NBC News reported. The 911 audio call made on the morning of Nov. 13, 2022, was obtained by NBC News on Friday, about two weeks after the transcript of the call was entered into court...

A Los Angeles County jury awarded a man with $50 million after he suffered severe burn injuries from a hot drink at a Starbucks drive-thru.

A Maryland judge has formally sentenced Adnan Syed to the time he’s already served in prison.

According to the indictment, Combs used the “power and prestige” he wielded as a music mogul to intimidate, threaten and lure women into his orbit, often under the pretense of a romantic relationship.

President Donald Trump used a triumphant visit to the Justice Department on Friday to air a litany of grievances about the criminal investigations that threatened to torpedo his political career, decrying in often profane terms his adversaries and casting himself as a victim of unfair and biased prosecutions.

The Trump administration has delivered an extraordinary ultimatum to Columbia University, threatening to permanently end federal funding to the school unless it cedes control of an international studies department and implements sweeping changes to other campus policies. In a letter sent Thursday night, federal officials said the university must immediately place its Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department...

After a man was found emaciated inside a home in Waterbury, telling police he was locked in a room for decades, his stepmom was back in court Thursday. She posted bond and is now walking free.

A father in Missouri was sentenced to 13 years in prison for shooting and wounding a St. Louis youth football coach over his son’s playing time.

A Marlborough man has been arrested after he allegedly submitted nearly two dozen false invoices and received over $43,000, according to police. State police said a member of the Roy B. Pettengill Ambulance Association submitted 22 fraudulent invoices and was reimbursed a total of $43,133. It happened between 2011 and 2024, according to an arrest warrant. Troopers said the invoices…

A Virginia high school track athlete is facing a misdemeanor charge following a viral video of her at a meet where her competitor gets struck in the head with a baton.

Pentagon secrets leaker Jack Teixeira has pleaded guilty to military charges of obstructing justice. In his address to the judge at his court-martial Thursday, Teixeira called himself a “proud patriot” and claimed that he had exposed President Joe Biden’s lies about the war in Ukraine.

A day after Waterbury police arrested a woman who is accused of holding her stepson captive for 20 years and depriving him of food, investigators are revealing more information about a case that the police chief called the “worst treatment in humanity’ that he has seen in his decades of law enforcement.

Officials described the disturbing conditions that a Waterbury, Connecticut, man endured during 20 years of captivity.