Crime and Courts

Police are searching for a gunman after an armed security guard and store employee who were trying to stop a shoplifter were shot near a Target in a downtown Los Angeles shopping mall, according to authorities.

A Virginia man was arrested after federal authorities found a cache of homemade explosive devices, some of which were marked as “lethal,” at his home, marking the largest seizure by number of finished explosive devices in FBI history, officials said.

A Colorado man spent New Year’s Eve behind bars, accused of bias crimes for allegedly trying to strangle a TV news reporter while saying, “This is Trump’s America now,” officials said.

Authorities have released the identity of the sleeping woman burned to death inside a New York City subway train by a man who allegedly lit her on fire and stayed to watch the aftermath, officials said Tuesday.

An 8-year-old girl, 16-year-old boy and 44-year-old woman were fatally stabbed the day after Christmas in the San Gabriel Valley community east of Los Angeles.

A shooter who opened fire on security guards is sought by police. Lauren Coronado reports for Today in LA on Tuesday Dec. 31, 2024. 

Two people were shot near the Target store in downtown Los Angeles. Darsha Philips reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 30, 2024.

Police are searching for a gunman after two people were shot near the Target in downtown Los Angeles, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

Police are searching for potential additional victims after a Beverly Grove doctor was arrested on suspicion of rape. Tracey Leong reports for the NBC4 News at 7 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 30, 2024.

Authorities are seeing possible additional victims in an investigation involving a Southern California doctor accused of drugging and assaulting a woman at his home in West Los Angeles.

An Argentine judge has confirmed charges against five people in connection with the death of Liam Payne.

A cloud of mystery hangs over the killing of Mosley, a mother, grandmother and deeply respected law enforcement leader in southern New Jersey.

Luka Doncic of the Dallas Mavericks is the latest professional athlete whose home has been burglarized.

Dozens of Chinese workers have been taken and put up in hotels in Brazil’s tropical northeastern region after local labor authorities found them at a construction site for electric vehicle automaker BYD.

Video of the fatal Dec. 9 assault on Robert Brooks was made public on Friday by the state’s attorney general, who is investigating the officers’ use of force.

Newly released body-camera footage shows that a man fatally beaten in a New York prison this month was repeatedly pummeled by correctional officers while in handcuffs.

The man accused of burning a woman to death inside a New York City subway train has been indicted on state charges.

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday the state will continue to support Oakland and the East Bay in an ongoing crime crackdown, but also called for a change in the city’s pursuit policy.

The woman has sued the embattled rapper, alleging he drugged and sexually assaulted her in 2006.

An Alabama woman who says she was raped by Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs when she was 13 can proceed anonymously, for now, in her lawsuit against the rap moguls, a judge ruled Thursday.