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A woman abducted from North Las Vegas and held for several days was rescued earlier this week from the Antelope Valley desert – where she had been beaten, bound with duct tape, and left to die, several law enforcement sources told NBC4. Detectives from the LA County Sheriff’s Department and FBI agents have arrested a father and daughter suspected of...

All 39 people found dead in a refrigerated container truck in England last week were Vietnamese nationals, British police said, as three more people were arrested in Ireland and Vietnam in the sprawling international investigation into what appears to be a people-smuggling tragedy. British detectives initially said the victims discovered near the southeast port of Purfleet on Oct. 23 were...

A judge will halt lawsuits against Purdue Pharma and its owners for six months in hopes of finalizing a settlement over the OxyContin maker’s role in the national opioid crisis, he said Friday.

A federal control board that oversees Puerto Rico’s finances filed in court Friday a long-awaited plan that it says would reduce the U.S. territory’s debt by more than 60 percent and pull the island out of bankruptcy in what government officials called a historic moment. The plan comes three years after U.S. Congress created the board and would reduce $35...

The arrest of a Lubbock man who allegedly confided in his grandmother a plot to carry out a mass shooting is “a tragedy averted,” according to U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.

Terrance Matthews is accused of killing his ex’s gandmother and young brother, kidnapping the ex and then leading police on a chase he streamed on Facebook.

A YouTube and Instagram influencer with hundreds of thousands of social media followers is facing identity theft and fraud charges after being indicted Friday in Suffolk County.

Documents reveal what led up to the shooting of Red Sox legend David Ortiz. He is not specifically mentioned, but the shooter was handed a photo of Ortiz.

A man nicknamed “Bone” was ordered Monday to spend one year in preventive prison as Dominican authorities said they were closing in on the mastermind and motive behind the attempted killing of baseball great David Ortiz, who is recovering at a hospital in Boston. The hearing was closed to the public and officials did not release details, but according to...

There are still suspects that have not been arrested, according to officials.

Authorities are continuing to investigate a shooting that injured former Red Sox slugger David Ortiz in the Dominican Republic. So far ten suspects have been arrested.

A self-described gang member took the stand Monday, at one point wiping away tears, as he described what happened in the case of a teen who was dragged out of bodega and murdered in a machete attack last summer by a group of alleged Trinitarios gang members.

The teenage parents and grandmother of a newborn baby thought to have been abandoned in a Chicago alley were charged early Friday, according to police.

A few months after he turned 17 — and more than two years before he was arrested — Vincent Vetromile recast himself as an online revolutionary. Offline, in this suburb of Rochester, New York, Vetromile was finishing requirements for promotion to Eagle Scout in a troop that met at a local church. He enrolled at Monroe Community College, taking classes...

A former NYPD officer has been convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend with a machete-style knife during an ambush at her New Jersey home several years ago.

Powerful Philadelphia union leader John “Johnny Doc” Dougherty, along with a city councilman and six others were indicted for allegedly using union money for personal use. We have more details on what led to the indictment.

President Donald Trump’s confidant Roger Stone has been charged with lying about his pursuit of Russian-hacked emails damaging to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election bid. Prosecutors allege that senior Trump campaign officials sought to leverage the stolen material into a White House victory. The self-proclaimed dirty trickster, arrested by the FBI in a raid before dawn Friday at his Florida home,...

The Russia investigation snared another associate of President Donald Trump with the arrest Friday of self-described political “dirty trickster” Roger Stone....
The charges brought by special counsel Robert Mueller reveal new details about how the Trump campaign sought to benefit from the release of hacked material damaging to Hillary Clinton. But they don’t definitively answer the key question in the Russia...

A dancing FBI agent who accidentally shot a man in the leg after doing a backflip at a Denver bar will avoid jail time after pleading guilty Friday to third-degree assault. Chase Bishop, 30, struck a plea deal with prosecutors and was sentenced to two years of probation, The Denver Post reported . He also must pay more than $1,600...

A New Jersey judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the family of a man who died when the sand under his feet collapsed as he walked along the shoreline, plunging him into the swirling waters of an inlet.