Crime and Courts

A Georgia businessman has been convicted of cheating former NBA stars Dwight Howard and Chandler Parsons of $8 million after a trial in Manhattan federal court.

Kim Kardashian has written a personal essay in which she is advocating for the release of the Menendez brothers who are currently serving life sentences for the murder of their parents. In the essay, published by NBC News on Oct. 3rd, she writes, “The trial and punishment these brothers received were more befitting a serial killer than two individuals who...

Author Robert Rant said he found a letter written by Erik Menendez to his cousin, alleging ongoing sexual abuse by his father.

A Colorado man accused of poisoning his wife’s protein shakes and killing her is accused of trying to recruit “attractive women” to give false testimony at his trial, Aurora police say, according to NBC affiliate KUSA in Denver.

Mark Geragos, the defense attorney for Lyle and Erik Menendez said he is “hopeful” that he could get them released by the end of the year.

A woman who allegedly worked as a hair-and-makeup stylist for Garth Brooks said he raped her, according to a new lawsuit.

Prosecutors in Los Angeles are reviewing new evidence in the case of the Menendez brothers, who were convicted of killing their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion more than 35 years ago, the city’s district attorney said Thursday.

Three former Memphis officers were convicted on Thursday of charges of witness tampering in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols in 2023.

Three former Memphis police officers were convicted Thursday in the 2023 fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, but were acquitted of the harshest charges they faced for a death that sparked national protests and calls for broad changes in policing.

Omaha’s police chief says an officer followed protocol when he shot a fleeing armed man eight times, killing him.

Closing arguments are underway in the federal trial of three former Memphis police officers charged with violating Tyre Nichols’ civil rights in a fatal beating.

A 15-year-old has been arrested in Iowa and charged with murder in the shooting death of a mail carrier in Chicago over the summer, police announced Tuesday. NBC Chicago’s Courtney Sisk reports.

The LAPD said Tuesday that the parents of three teenagers who were allegedly shown in security video from recent flash mob-style robberies at convenience stores had brought their children to police stations so they could be arrested.

A Texas-based attorney said he’s representing more than a hundred accusers in a series of new civil lawsuits he’ll file against Diddy.

Federal prosecutors say a network of illegal drug sellers packaged potentially deadly synthetic opioids into pills disguised as common prescription drugs and sold millions of them through fake online drugstores.

Law enforcement on Monday announced an arrest in the “heinous” murder that left a suburban Chicago native dead and her children hiding for hours before calling for help.

An 81-year-old Montana man is expected to be sentenced for using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in Central Asia and the U.S. to illegally create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunts in Texas and Minnesota.

Multiple people were apprehended by law enforcement after a man was fatally shot on Sunday morning in northwest suburban Streamwood, police said.

In a letter signed by both parents, they agreed that there “will be no changing y’all two’s minds and to never contact again” the buyer.

A man accused of killing a Bradley police sergeant with her own weapon in December 2021 was found guilty in her murder. NBC Chicago’s Courtney Sisk reports.