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.

The Orange County District Attorney and the attorney defending the OC judge who was found guilty in his wife’s murder spoke out following the verdict. Hetty Chang reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, April 22, 2025.

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

Orange County judge Jeffrey Ferguson was convicted of second-degree murder in the shooting death of his wife in the couple’s Anaheim Hills home.  

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.

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 fugitive wanted in the killing of a police officer in Tijuana is arrested. Video broadcast Friday April 18, 2025 on the NBC4 News.

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.

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