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The criminal case against a Mexican megachurch leader on charges of child rape and human trafficking was dismissed Tuesday by a California appeals court on procedural grounds.

A judge has ruled that a Philadelphia woman charged with third-degree murder in the death of her adult quadriplegic daughter can be released on house arrest.

A woman was arrested Saturday and charged in the murder of her quadriplegic daughter who was found dead inside a Philadelphia home last year.

The trial began Wednesday for Sean Kratz who is accused of helping his cousin Cosmo Dinardo kill three young men and then burying their bodies at a family farm in Bucks County. Kratz could get the death penalty if he is convicted. NBC10’s Matt DeLucia has the details.

A Philadelphia jury will decide whether Michael White is guilty in the stabbing death of real estate developer Sean Schellenger. A voluntary manslaughter charge could get White a maximum of 20 years in prison.

Last September, a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed black man in his own apartment. That much is settled. But nearly every other aspect Amber Guyger’s murder trial for the killing of Botham Jean remains cloaked in controversy as opening statements in the case are set to start Monday.

Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine said Cardi B was a gang member while testifying under oath Thursday as part of a case against two alleged members of a Brooklyn street gang, NBC News reported. 6ix9ine, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, said under cross-examination that Cardi B was also a member of the notorious Bloods gang, according to the New York Daily...

Two men already arrested in the death of a Camden, New Jersey, councilman’s grandson were formally indicted Tuesday by a Camden County jury.

The upcoming trial of a Chinese national on federal charges that she trespassed at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort and lied to the Secret Service is potentially a circus wrapped in mystery. Rejecting the strong recommendation of U.S. District Judge Roy Altman, Yujing Zhang fired her public defenders in June to act as her own attorney – a longshot move...

Police say a New Jersey man who broke into Taylor Swift’s beachfront mansion in Rhode Island took his shoes off because he wanted to be polite. Westerly police who responded to the home just after 5 p.m. Friday found 26-year-old Richard Joseph McEwan inside.

A pair of socks helped lead to an arrest in the killing of a Pennsylvania woman nearly 30 years ago, authorities said.

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.

Philly hip hop star Meek Mill’s decadeslong legal battle finally came to an end Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to a gun charge. Attorney and legal analyst Enrique Latoison takes a look at what it all means.

A Texas prosecutor says a 39-year-old man killed six members of his ex-wife’s family as part of a plan to harm anyone who had helped the woman.

A white Florida man who told detectives he had a “pet peeve” about illegal parking in handicapped spots was convicted late Friday of manslaughter for the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man in a dispute over a handicapped spot.

The man dubbed the “Hollywood Ripper” for the grisly slayings of two women in Hollywood and El Monte was sane at the time of the crimes, a Los Angeles jury found Thursday.

Jurors reached guilty verdicts Thursday in the trial of a man accused of fatally stabbing two women and trying to kill a third in a series of violent and calculated attacks at the victims’ Southern California homes.

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.

An eastern Pennsylvania judge has ruled that state police troopers who said they smelled marijuana in a car weren’t allowed to search it once they were shown a passenger’s medical marijuana card.