Crime and Courts

A Texas man went next door with a rifle and fatally shot five of his neighbors, including an 8-year-old boy, after they asked him to stop firing rounds in his yard because they were trying to sleep, authorities said Saturday.

A Kansas county will pay $7.5 million to a man who spent 16 years in prison for a rape and murder he didn’t commit.

Three teenagers have been arrested on first-degree murder charges in connection to the death of a 20-year-old Colorado woman, who was struck by a rock that investigators say was thrown through her windshield while she was driving.

Dhirendra Prasad defrauded Apple and the IRS out of millions of dollars in a yearslong conspiracy to double-bill the company for parts it had already paid for.

A Texas man has been accused by authorities of pausing his dinner date to fatally shoot an individual who had allegedly posed as a parking attendant and scammed him out of $40, according to court records.

Three people, including a father and son, are suspected of trying to rob 57 Walmart and Sam’s Club stores across four states, according to police.

A search of the couple’s home in a Honolulu suburb turned up Polaroids of them wearing jackets that appear to be authentic KGB uniforms, an invisible ink kit, documents with coded language and maps showing military bases, prosecutors said at the time.

A Fugees rapper accused in multimillion-dollar political conspiracies spanning two presidencies was convicted Wednesday after a trial that included testimony ranging from actor Leonardo DiCaprio to former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Prakazrel “Pras” Michel was accused of funneling money from a now-fugitive Malaysian financer through straw donors to Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign, then trying to squelch a...

Alexa Bartell, 20, was talking on the phone with a friend when she was hit by a rock northwest of Denver. After the call went silent, the friend tracked Bartell’s location with a phone app and found the woman dead in her car, police said.

Three teenagers have been arrested on first-degree murder charges in connection to the death of a 20-year-old Colorado woman, who was struck by a rock that investigators say was thrown through her windshield while she was driving.

Jurors began deliberating Wednesday to decide whether former Proud Boys extremist group leader Enrique Tarrio and four lieutenants are guilty of seditious conspiracy in one of the most serious cases the Justice Department has brought in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

About 250 people were estimated to be present when the situation unfolded early Sunday morning, according to local officials.

Police arrested a 20-year-old for possession of child pornography in Pompano Beach after several cyber tips from Snapchat.

Ed Sheeran took the witness stand in a New York courtroom to deny allegations that his hit song “Thinking Out Loud” ripped off Marvin Gaye’s soul classic “Let’s Get It On.” The singer was called to testify Tuesday in the civil trial by the heirs of Ed Townsend, Gaye’s co-writer on the 1973 soul classic. The family has accused the...

A nearly 30-year-old rape claim against Donald Trump has gone to trial. The jury in E. Jean Carroll’s federal civil case got its first look Tuesday at the former advice columnist’s allegation that Trump raped her in 1996 in a luxury department store dressing room. The former president says nothing happened between them. Carroll says a chance encounter with Trump...

A Studio City man is accused of impersonating a doctor and illegally treating thousands of patients for “several years” from a North Hollywood clinic.

As the bullet pierced his lung and liver, the only thing Jamie White could think about was getting his 6-year-old daughter to safety.

Jurors are about to be chosen to hear former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll’s claims that Donald Trump raped her in a luxury Manhattan department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.

Police said about 250 people were estimated to be present when the situation unfolded

During questioning by detectives, the man reportedly told them he had recorded similar videos more than 500 times as a “guilty pleasure.”