Crime and Courts

Families of the school shooting victims reached a settlement with the city of Uvalde, Texas, where nineteen children and two teachers were killed.

Not far from where a gunman killed 23 while targeting Hispanics at a Texas Walmart, victims’ family members and survivors got a chance to address him.

“Doomsday mom” Lori Vallow Daybell was convicted Tuesday of conspiring to kill her fourth husband, Charles Vallow.

A Florida man has been arrested for attacking an 11-year-old girl because he believed she’d thrown eggs at his home in an incident caught on video.

A man in Tampa is facing charges after he pinned down an 11-year-old girl who he thought was throwing eggs at his apartment building.

Walgreens has agreed to pay up to $350 million in a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, who accused the pharmacy of illegally filling millions of prescriptions in the last decade for opioids and other controlled substances. In a settlement Friday, the nationwide drugstore chain must pay the government at least $300 million and will owe another $50 million...

Karen Read’s second murder trial began Tuesday with a prosecutor saying the defendant’s own words will bolster evidence that she killed her police officer boyfriend three years ago and a defense attorney calling the case “the definition of reasonable doubt.”

Prosecutors said that Vallow Daybell and her brother, Alex Cox, planned to kill her estranged husband so she could collect money from his life insurance policy and marry her then-boyfriend, Chad Daybell, an Idaho author who wrote several religious novels about prophecies and the end of the world.

A jury found Nadine Menendez guilty on all counts in a bribery case in which prosecutors said she was a “critical participant” in the five-year fraud with her husband, former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, as they accepted cash, gold bars and a luxury car from three New Jersey men looking for help with business dealings or legal woes. The jury began...

Dawn Hughes has served as an expert witness in some of the most high-profile sexual misconduct trials of the last several years.

Nearly six years after a man fatally shot 23 people in a racist attack targeting Hispanic shoppers at a Walmart in Texas near the U.S.-Mexico border, the gunman’s criminal case is set to come to a close.

A judge says a former roommate of four University of Idaho students who were killed in 2022 can testify about seeing an intruder with “bushy eyebrows” around the time of the crime.

A South Florida man accused of stabbing another man more than 49 times and partially burning his body took bloody selfies after the killing, investigators said in a court hearing Thursday.

An escaped California killer convicted in an LA County murder and sought in a shootout in Tijuana that killed a law enforcement officer is in custody.

New Pornographers’ drummer Joe Seiders has been arrested for child pornography and molestation, police confirmed, with the band sharing in a statement they’ve cut all ties with the former member.

Luigi Mangione was indicted Thursday on a federal murder charge in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a necessary step for prosecutors to seek the death penalty.

Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov will next appear before a local court in Port Blair — the capital of India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands — on April 29.

A New Jersey man has been indicted on 15 counts of third-degree invasion of privacy after prosecutors said he allegedly secretly recorded multiple men without their consent inside the restrooms of a Planet Fitness and Wawa.

Matthew Macatuno Naval was charged with kidnapping and unlawful sexual conduct with a minor Sunday, authorities said.

Luigi Mangione, the man accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel in December, was indicted in a New York court on four charges including a count eligible for the death penalty.