Opening arguments have begun in the death penalty trial of a man accused of killing eight people in Mississippi in 2017.

A jury convicted high-profile lawyer Michael Avenatti on all counts in his Nike extortion trial on Friday. Prosecutors maintained Avenatti threatened to use his fame to stage a news conference and deliver claims that Nike executives were corrupting college basketball by funding payments to elite young players and their families — unless he was paid millions of dollars to conduct…

A man walked out of the D.C. jail on Wednesday night after 25 years of incarceration for a crime he says he did not commit. A note found in an old police homicide file was a key to his early release. Calvin Bright, 47, had been convicted of the 1994 killings of Tammy Peay and William Ramsey in Northeast Washington….

Lawrence Ray, previously known for his role in helping to send former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik to prison, pleaded not guilty to all charges on Wednesday.

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…

A Mexican model and actress denies a Harvey Weinstein accuser’s claim that she stood by and did nothing while the once-powerful movie mogul groped the woman in a Beverly Hills hotel in 2013

A Los Angeles amateur basketball league’s founder has told jurors that Michael Avenatti betrayed him when the lawyer threatened to make his complaints against Nike public.

Prosecutors in Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial have rested their case

A woman was charged with murder after she allegedly used a nail clipper to stab her husband during a domestic dispute, authorities announced Tuesday.

A prosecutor at the outset of an espionage trial has blamed a former CIA employee for what he called the biggest leak of classified defense information in the agency’s history

A key accuser in the the New York City rape trial of Harvey Weinstein is set to face a potentially grueling cross-examination

Jelani Maraj, brother of rapper Nicki Minaj, was sentenced Monday morning to 25 years to life in prison for repeatedly raping an 11-year-old girl at his Long Island home, a spokesperson for the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office told NBC News. Maraj was convicted in November 2017 of predatory sexual assault against a child and endangering the welfare of a…

An Afghan-born U.S. citizen already serving a life prison term for a bombing in New York City was sentenced Friday to another life sentence for the attempted murder of five police officers stemming from a shootout with police in New Jersey in 2016. Ahmad Khan Rahimi appeared briefly in state court in Elizabeth. The shooting occurred in Linden, New Jersey,…

Michael Avenatti, the one-time attorney to Stormy Daniels, is being held in a federal jail cell once occupied by the Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, Avenatti’s lawyer said in a court filing Monday. In a letter to a federal judge in New York requesting that his client be moved to Metropolitan Correctional Center’s general population, lawyer Scott...

A judge sentenced former U.S. Rep. Christopher Collins to more than two years in prison for conspiring in an insider trading scheme

The defense said the “carnival-like atmosphere” surrounding jury selection, coupled with prospective jurors’ social media comments showed Weinstein won’t get a fair shake in his hometown

Two years before mother-of-five Jennifer Dulos went missing last May in what police believe was a murder, her estranged husband tried to run her over outside her new Connecticut home around the time she had filed for divorce, the children’s nanny told police. The allegations were revealed in nearly 500 pages of search warrants that were released Wednesday after being…

The former professor allegedly used $78,000 earmarked for cancer research on personal expenses, such as mortgage payments on his home

The man ran full speed at the cockpit door, then attacked a flight attendant who tried to intervene; once of the ground, he attacked police officers as well.

A lawyer managed to get own his massive, years-old student debt thrown out in New York bankruptcy court this week, after he was able to prove the burden was so huge he could never afford to pay it. The ruling potentially has huge implications for others suffering under crushing student debt loads, as it condemns the common belief that such…