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Actor Shia LaBeouf has been allowed to enter a 12-month diversion program in a criminal case in which he is charged with misdemeanor battery and petty theft.

The U.S. has charged 320 people for participating in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, and the Department of Justice says it expects to file charges against at least 100 more, stating that it will likely be one of the largest investigations and prosecutions in American history.

The self-improvement guru was sentenced on charges that he turned female members of the group into sex slaves and even branded some with his initials.

A man has been charged with killing a 3-year-old girl Friday in Austin on the West Side. Terrence Space, 23, is charged with a felony count of first-degree murder, according to Chicago police. Lehleni Edwards was found unresponsive in bed about 12:30 a.m. Sept. 4 in the 1000 block of North Lockwood Avenue, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s…

Chicago police arrested and charged two women with felony counts following a clash between demonstrators and police on Saturday. According to police, 24-year-old Nicoline Arlet was charged with felony theft of government property after Saturday’s planned protest downtown. Police said Arlet knowingly and willingly took the body camera that had been ripped off a Chicago officer during the protest....

A Missouri man has been charged with throwing a brick through the window of a police station Saturday in Lake View on the North Side. Benjamin Lott, 23, was arrested at 4:46 p.m. after he was seen throwing the brick through the window of the Town Hall District station, 850 W. Addison St., according to Chicago police. No injuries were…

A man has been charged with stabbing someone repeatedly on Friday in west suburban Cicero. Tyrell M. Howard stabbed the female victim more than 20 times about 12:15 p.m. at 5147 W. Roosevelt Road, according to a statement from Cicero police. Bystanders were able to detain him until police arrived and took him into custody, according to police. He is…

A Catholic school teacher who was injured last year in a hit-and-run that left another teacher dead in Orland Park filed a lawsuit against the retired priest charged in the crash. Elizabeth Kosteck, 54, and her husband filed the three-count suit on Feb. 14 in Cook County circuity court, naming Paul Burak and Square Celt Ale House & Grill as…

Prosecutors allege R. Kelly sexually abused a 14 to 15 year old victim over a period of 4 years, starting in 1997.

Lawrence Ray — the federal informant whose information helped lead to the arrest of former NYPD commissioner Bernie Kerik — has been arrested by the FBI on sex trafficking and other charges, according to the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. Ray “targeted a group of college students and others for indoctrination and criminal…

Federal prosecutors are accusing singer R. Kelly of scheming with others to pay for a fake ID for an unnamed female a day before he married R&B singer Aaliyah, then 15 years old, in a secret ceremony in 1994. The revised indictment, filed Thursday in New York, accuses Kelly of paying a bribe in exchange for a “fraudulent identification document”…

A Kenosha, Wisconsin, man convinced of murdering his ex-wife was sentenced to 90 years in prison Monday by a Lake County judge. David Brocksom, 47, was found guilty last year of sneaking into the home of his ex-wife, Beata Brocksom, in September 2015 with the intention of killing her and making it look like a suicide, according to the Lake...

A trial for R. Kelly’s federal case is expected to take place in the spring, a judge ruled Wednesday as attorneys for the singer fight to have him released from jail. NBC 5’s Ash-har Quraishi reports.

The man charged with killing rapper Nipsey Hussle pleaded not guilty to murder and attempted murder charges. Patrick Healy reports for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on Thursday, April 4, 2019.

A former reality television show star is facing charges of fraud and identity theft after allegedly stealing and using a debit card from a man she allegedly visited for a prostitution date, authorities say.

The sister of Louise Turpin gave an emotional interview with NBC News Tuesday, and described her relationship with her sister, brother in-law, and 13 nieces and nephews. NBC 7’s Mari Payton has more.

A Sinaloa Cartel cell leader believed to be the highest-ranking Mexican cartel leader ever to self-surrender in the United States pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges in federal court Wednesday.

After practice on Sunday, Blackhawks star Patrick Kane responded to a new report that claims he is “unlikely” to face criminal charges relating to allegations of sexual assault.