Crime and Courts

A U.S. Capitol Police officer died and another was badly injured Friday when a man rammed a car into them at a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol, authorities said. Police shot the suspect, who also died.

A New York City man and his wife were arrested after allegedly conspiring to provide support for the terror group ISIS and trying to board a cargo ship bound for the Middle East to join the group — and even plotted a domestic attack at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, prosecutors said.

U.S. immigration authorities said Thursday they have detained Anna Sorokin, the con artist who passed herself off as a wealthy German heiress and served more than three years behind bars for defrauding New York banks and hotels.

A baby and toddler were alone for three days in a Spotsylvania County, Virginia, home where their parents and a teenage boy had been slashed to death, according to horrifying new evidence that emerged during a preliminary hearing for three of the five Philadelphia men charged with multiple counts of first-degree murder.

A teen driver has been arrested and issued 43 violations after cops caught him going as fast as 148 mph on highways and roads in New York, according to the state police

Virginia has become the 23rd state to abolish the death penalty

A man was killed Tuesday after two teens allegedly attempted to steal his car and then crashed in Southeast D.C., law enforcement sources confirm.

A vicious beating aboard a New York City subway left a 68-year-old man bloodied and the witness that came to his aid says the attack was racially motivated.

A vicious beating aboard a New York City subway left a 68-year-old man bloodied and the witness that came to his aid says the attack was racially motivated.

A man accused of attempted murder was mistakenly released from Rikers Island Monday due to a clerical error — the second time in the span of a week that a suspected violent criminal had been accidentally freed.

A former Olympian and longtime track coach has pleaded not guilty to sexually molesting boys while working at a sports camp in western Massachusetts in the 1970s

After nearly two decades on death row, Julius Jones is getting closer to making his case for a commutation of his sentence. Jones maintains he is innocent of a 1999 murder and his case has gotten attention from Kim Kardashian West and other celebrities, who point to signs of racial bias and other evidence that supports his claim of innocence....

A federal judge in Washington has ruled that an Arizona man who stormed the U.S. Capitol two months ago while shirtless and sporting face paint and a furry hat with horns will remain jailed until his trial, saying the man’s willingness to resort to violence and refusal to follow police orders during the siege signal that he wouldn’t follow court-ordered...

Court proceedings have begun in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who is charged with second-degree murder in the killing of George Floyd. Attorney Michael Starr Hopkins joined LX News to explain the importance of the first phase of the trial — jury selection.

After spending decades behind bars for a double murder in New York City in 1996, three men will walk free Friday after having their wrongful convictions vacated. George Bell, Rohan Bolt and Gary Johnson were convicted in the Dec. 21, 1996 murders of Ira “Mike” Epstein and NYPD Police Officer Charles Davis in the course of robbing Epstein’s check-cashing business….

Authorities say a police officer in Virginia has been shot and killed by a driver during a traffic stop

A federal judge has ordered the wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to remain temporarily jailed after she was arrested and accused of helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar cartel and plotting his audacious escape from a Mexican prison in 2015. Emma Coronel Aispuro, a 31-year-old former beauty queen, appeared by video conference for an initial court appearance...

The wife of infamous convicted drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was arrested Monday for her alleged role in an international drug trafficking scheme, according to federal prosecutors.

A New York City man could face years in prison after being arrested for allegedly threatening politicians and conservative broadcasters, federal prosecutors announced Friday. Rickey Johnson, also known “Nigel Dawn Defarren,” was arrested Thursday night based on a criminal complaint filed in Manhattan federal court charging Johnson with with making threatening interstate communications, which carries a maximum sentence of five…

Kevin Hart’s one-time personal shopper was charged with defrauding the comedian out of more than $1 million in fraudulent credit card purchases, the Queens District Attorney announced Wednesday.