Crime and Courts

Two people were shot and killed just miles apart. Brittany Hope reports for Today in LA on Wednesday Oct. 30, 2024.

The woman and another man kidnapped the victim and kept him locked in his car’s trunk as they drove around the Navajo Nation. Then, her co-defendant stabbed him to death.

Ed Kelley, who faces charges over Jan. 6 and plotting to murder FBI special agents, is an anti-abortion activist and was the fourth rioter to enter the Capitol, federal authorities say.

David DePape, the man who attacked Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, was sentenced to life without parole on his state conviction for the October 2022 assault.

David DePape, the man who attacked Nancy Pelosi’s husband in their San Francisco home two years ago, was sentenced to life without parole Tuesday on his state conviction.

Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine was arrested in New York City on Tuesday for alleged parole violations.

Part of the 15 Freeway was closed for a shooting investigation. Christian Cazares report for the NBC4 News on Monday Oct. 28, 2024.

After the L.A. District Attorney recommended resentencing Erik Menendez and Lyle Menendez — who are serving life in prison for murdering their parents — Erik’s wife Tammi Menendez shared her thoughts.

The 15 Freeway between Las Vegas and Los Angeles was closed for hours Monday due to a road rage shooting investigation.

The request by Los Angeles County prosecutors to reduce the prison sentences for brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez, who are serving life-without-parole terms for murdering their parents with shotgun blasts in 1989 inside the family’s Beverly Hills home, will be heard at the Van Nuys Courthouse. The case was transferred to Van Nuys Friday by the presiding judge of the…

A white Minneapolis man accused of shooting and critically injuring his Black neighbor was arrested early Monday following a SWAT standoff, after the department faced backlash for failing to address his escalating threats that turned violent.

The coach of a Brooklyn youth travel baseball team sexually abused multiple teenage boys who played for him, repeatedly insisting the players expose themselves and at times even refusing to stop difficult training exercises until they did so, according to the district attorney.

A firefighter and paramedic in Oklahoma was arrested in North Texas after investigators said he fell for a sex crime ruse, where he intended to meet and have sex with a teenage girl.

A Florida woman accused of zipping her boyfriend in a suitcase and leaving him in there to suffocate was found guilty of murder on Friday, four years after what she had initially described to authorities as a case of drunken hide-and-seek gone wrong.

Grammy Award-winning rapper Lil Durk has been arrested in Florida on federal charges that he paid for the attempted 2022 revenge killing of rapper Quando Rondo at a Los Angeles gas station.

A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer convicted of taking bribes to allow drug-laden vehicles across the U.S.-Mexico border was sentenced to over 23 years in prison.

A former Florissant police officer is facing a third lawsuit accusing him of stealing nude photos from another woman’s phone during traffic stops.

The former longtime CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch pleaded not guilty Friday to federal sex trafficking and interstate prostitution charges.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office filed its motion requesting resentencing of Erik and Lyle Menendez late Thursday, just after DA George Gascón announced he supported reducing their prison terms to allow for their release on parole. “Defendants have demonstrated they no longer present a public safety risk …such that their current sentence is no longer in furtherance...

Popular Chicago rapper Lil Durk is behind bars at Broward County jail on federal murder-for-hire charges.