Crime and Courts

An administrator at the Contra Costa School of the Performing Arts was arrested on Wednesday after being accused of having sex with an underage student.

Sean “Diddy” Combs confirmed at a hearing Thursday that he had rejected a plea deal from federal prosecutors in his sex trafficking case, paving the way for his trial to begin next week.  

A $10,000 reward was announced in the investigation into the killing of a woman who was shot while driving last year in the Gramercy Park area of Los Angeles. Family members of Lanai Dees, 21, joined Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department investigators Thursday at a news conference to announce the reward. Photos of Dees and a security camera video of…

A Florida-based Christian organization with a history of child sex abuse allegations against it has been hit with a lawsuit claiming one of its missionaries sexually assaulted a minor overseas 15 years ago.  

The grieving family of a 13-year-old boy, who police say was murdered by his youth soccer coach, expressed frustration. Ted Chen reports for the NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, April 30, 2025.

A deputy district attorney said the prosecution has not made a decision about what charges could be filed.

The arraignment for Mario Edgardo Garcia-Aquino has been postponed until June 18.

Members of a high school lacrosse program in upstate New York are accused of staging an armed abduction of younger players in a stunt that “went way beyond hazing,” prosecutors said this week.

The Australian host of a weekend family lunch is on trial charged with murdering her estranged husband’s parents and an aunt and attempting to murder an uncle with poisonous mushrooms.

Helicopter video shows the pair riding away from the scene before they were stopped by police.

A Westminster man accused of slamming his young dog to the ground by her leash, then kicking and dragging her away outside a Long Beach apartment building pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a felony animal cruelty charge. Alexander Cueva, 28, also faces a special allegation of personal use of a deadly and dangerous weapon, which authorities said was the dog’s…

A Pittsburgh pet mortuary owner faces charges after allegedly victimizing thousands by carelessly dumping their deceased pets into landfills.

The driver told Connecticut police that she was speeding because she was running late to a “Thomas the Train” event.

Yunice Abbas was the first defendant questioned Tuesday in the trial in connection with the 2016 robbery during which the reality star was held at gunpoint.

Police are searching for a group of men accused of assaulting a transgender woman in West Los Angeles. This video was broadcast on the NBC4 News at 7 p.m. on Monday, April 28, 2025.

Police said that “up to 15 bodies had been mutilated and subject to experimentation” by the suspect, who owns a mortuary in Texas.

Jonathan Pullen, the Rocky Mountain DEA’s special agent in charge, said the agency seized illegal drugs and weapons at the nightclub.

Almost nine years after Kim Kardashian was held at gunpoint and robbed of more than $9 million in jewelry in Paris, the suspects are now on trial.

The complaint said the back door of the truck opened by unknown means, leading to three bags of U.S. currency falling out.

Scott Peterson said in a declaration seeking to overturn his murder conviction that he had “absolutely nothing to do with the disappearance and deaths of my wife and son.”