Crime and Courts

Police are looking for a woman who attacked a dog owner and stole her 1-month-old Maltipoo puppy in broad daylight.

Adnan Syed, whose murder case rose to prominence through the hit podcast “Serial,” appeared in court Thursday in Maryland, where a three-judge panel considered whether the victim’s family experienced improper treatment when a Baltimore court overturned Syed’s conviction last year, allowing his release after more than two decades behind bars.

Nathan Chasing Horse is accused of abusing his position as the leader of a group called The Circle to physically and sexually assault Indigenous girls and women and take underage wives.

A state agent testifying in Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial meticulously reconstructed activity from his iPhone and the cellphones of his son and wife the night they were killed

Police in several Chicago-area suburbs are investigating multiple reports of catalytic converter thefts happening in the parking lots of various schools.

Las Vegas police on Tuesday arrested and raided the home of a former actor turned alleged cult leader accused of sexually assaulting young indigenous girls during a period spanning two decades, according to police records obtained by The Associated Press.

Cook County prosecutors have charged the former head of food services at a south suburban school district of engaging in a massive embezzlement scheme in which she allegedly stole more than 11,000 cases of chicken wings and $1.5 million in taxpayer funds over a 19-month period, court documents revealed.

Police in north suburban Glenview have launched a search for the individual who tried to kidnap a girl just as she got off a school bus Monday afternoon, according to law enforcement. At approximately 3:41 p.m., officers with the Glenview Police Department were called to the area of Milwaukee Avenue and Kennicott Lane in regard to an attempted kidnapping, police…

A New York City grand jury has been convened in the case of hush money payments made to Stormy Daniels by Donald Trump in 2016, three sources familiar with the situation confirmed to NBC News.

A 1-year-old boy was killed in a Milwaukee crash after someone stole his mother’s vehicle with the infant still inside, authorities say. Zarion Robinson was found partially strapped into his car seat, which had overturned, after the car collided with another vehicle Friday night on the city’s Northwest Side. Zarion was taken to an area children’s hospital where he...

An 80-year-old man left critically wounded during a home invasion near O’Hare International Airport Monday shot one of the two intruders who attacked him, authorities said. NBC 5’s Karen Aguilar reports.

Prosecutors have charged the former head of food services at a south suburban school district of engaging in a massive embezzlement scheme in which she allegedly stole more than 11,000 cases of chicken wings and $1.5 million in taxpayer funds over a 19-month period, court documents revealed.

Benjamin Obadiah Foster, 36, is the subject of an intensive, round-the-clock search by police after a woman was found unconscious, bound and near death in Grants Pass, Oregon, on Tuesday. She was hospitalized in critical condition.

The Memphis police chief has disbanded the city’s so-called Scorpion unit after some of its officers beat to death Tyre Nichols.

Julian Khater, a New Jersey man who joined a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced Friday to more than six years in prison for using pepper spray to assault police officers — including Brian Sicknick, who died a day after the siege

A jury has awarded an Oregon woman $1 million in damages after finding she was discriminated against by a gas station employee who told her, “I don’t serve Black people.”

NBC’s Catie Beck has details on the first day of testimony in the Alex Murdaugh trial.

Joseph Paul “Joe” Wilson, 41, and Jodi Ann Wilson, 38, of Mount Airy, were arrested Jan. 13 on accusations their actions led to the death of their son, Skyler Wilson.

The man is facing attempted murder charges after allegedly driving his pickup truck into a police department’s lobby.

Jurors reached a guilty verdict in the federal death penalty case of a 34-year-old man who killed eight people on a Manhattan bike path five years ago in a bid, prosecutors said, to impress a terrorist group.