Crime and Courts

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.

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.

Virtual court appearances were disrupted for hours.

From the 1966 Texas clock tower shooting to the deadly incident at FSU, here’s a look at other shootings on U.S. college campuses in recent decades.

Officials said the 20-year-old suspect is the son of a Leon County Sheriff’s Office deputy.

The father of a 15-year-old boy who was seriously hurt after a hit-and-run driver struck him is speaking out, hoping the driver will do the right thing. Camilla Rambaldi reports for the NBC4 News at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, April 16, 2025.

The Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, is a mega-prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador.

A 15-year-old boy riding a bike was hospitalized after a driver hit him in South Los Angeles before fleeing the scene. The April 7 crash occurred on the 2100 block of Nadeau Street at around 3:30 p.m. in the Florence-Graham area, according to police. Video shows a black four-door 2025 BMW swerving onto the sidewalk, right into the bicyclist. He’s…

A federal judge said in an order Wednesday that he has found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt over the deportation flights that it sent to El Salvador, NBC News reports. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg found “the Government’s actions on that day demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order, sufficient for the Court to conclude...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a motion 3-0 Tuesday to double the fines for street takeovers and sideshows. Sideshows are when groups of cars take over a large intersection to street race and perform burnouts.  “Though street takeovers have occurred in Los Angeles since the 1980s, they have increased dramatically since the COVID-19 pandemic and have become…

A new 911 call details the “disturbance” in a South Florida restaurant that led to the arrest of Cuban-American actor William Levy.