Crime and Courts

Two teens were shot and killed Thursday at a cliffside lookout in Los Angeles’ Mount Washington community.

Two people were shot and killed Thursday in Los Angeles’ Mount Washington community. Annette Arreola reports for Today in LA on Thursday Nov. 7, 2024.

Celebrity chef Tobias Dorzon was shot then apparently robbed in Hyattsville, Maryland, shocking surveillance video shows.

Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine struck a deal to end his current jail stint, agreeing to serve a month behind bars for violating the terms of his release after a felony conviction, prosecutors said Wednesday.

A postal worker and her friend were arrested Wednesday in connection with the forging of stolen mail ballots in an alleged attempt to test the security of Colorado’s voting system, according to court documents.

Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small’s lawyer calls the latest charge “sheer nonsense” and says Small asked his daughter to tell the truth.

A 53-year-old woman from Germantown, Maryland, and a 40-year-old woman from Philadelphia were charged for an alleged murder-for-hire plot targeting the 53-year-old’s ex-boyfriend, according to police.

Two former Georgia election workers who were awarded the massive judgment reported to the court that they went to Giuliani’s Manhattan apartment last week to see what assets were there, but that it had been cleared out.

Skyler Philippi, 24, of Columbia, Tennessee, was arrested after the FBI found he planned to attach a bomb to a drone and fly it into an energy facility.

“When he heard that she’s afraid of flying, he took a bottle of alcohol out of [his] bag and said it would help her relax,” prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memorandum

A former police officer was convicted of murder in the 2020 shooting of Andre Hill, a Black man who was holding a cellphone and keys when he was killed.

YNW Melly is seeking immediate release from prison in a new lawsuit, in which he accuses the Broward Sheriff’s Office of cruel treatment and violating his constitutional rights.

The FBI is investigating the death of a Black man in Alabama who was found hanging in an abandoned house.

A federal jury on Friday convicted a former Kentucky police detective of using excessive force on Breonna Taylor during a botched 2020 drug raid that left her dead.

Surveillance video and bodycam footage captured the chaos unleashed during a mass shooting in downtown Orlando that left two dead and at least seven hurt while tens of thousands gathered for Halloween celebrations, according to the Orlando Police Department.

Specialist Wooster Rancy is charged with murder and obstructing justice linked to the death of Sgt. Sarah Roque, the Army said.

The agreement, which includes probation and time served, ends the Atlanta rap star’s part in a sprawling trial that began with jury selection in January 2023.

A Washington state man who authorities said killed at least 118 eagles as part of a wildlife trafficking ring that operated on a Native American reservation in Montana was sentenced Thursday to three years and 10 months in prison, and must pay more than $777,000 in restitution.

Jennifer Guilbeault has been charged with second-degree and third-degree assault as a hate crime after she allegedly pepper-sprayed her Uber driver as he was praying in Arabic on July 31.

A woman who was allegedly caught on surveillance video walking out of a Florida hair salon without paying for her hair extensions was arrested Wednesday, police said.