Crime and Courts

A trial has begun for a man accused of killing his wife and blaming her death on a Baltimore panhandler.

A professor at Liberty University is accused in the abduction and sexual battery of a student, according to the evangelical school and Lynchburg, Virginia, court records

David Marc Ratcliff was released from federal custody in June after serving most of a 25-year prison sentence for committing a string of 19 bank robberies in the late 1990s

Police in Las Vegas say they’re investigating sexual assault allegations involving R&B artist Trey Songz at a Las Vegas Strip hotel

A woman testified on Tuesday that she had repeated sexual contact with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein when she 14 and that Ghislaine Maxwell was there when it happened

The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison after pleading guilty to helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar criminal empire

An off-duty Newark police officer fatally struck a man walking on a highway shoulder then drove around with the man’s body and visited his mother looking for advice, according to charges released Wednesday.

The case of three white men charged with murder in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery is now with the jury

A police officer convicted of raping a woman and assaulting another was sentenced to home detention after a judge found that there was no “psychological injury” in one of the cases

Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty on all counts after the trial over his fatal shooting of two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin. In this clip, Rittenhouse hears the verdict from the jury foreperson and some parting words from Judge Bruce Schroeder.

Police say four people have been found dead inside a car which matched the description of a vehicle connected to a former Maryland police officer accused of taking off with his daughters in Pennsylvania.

Longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon has appeared before a judge to face federal contempt charges for defying a subpoena from a House committee investigating January’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol

Despite his suicide, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein will still be put on trial in a sense in the coming weeks by a proxy: his former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell

Authorities in Las Vegas believe the body of a woman who died unnoticed in 2018 remained in her home for more than two years until squatters found it, dismembered it and buried it in her backyard

When Kyle Rittenhouse traveled to Kenosha, Wisconsin, on a night of racial justice protests during the summer of 2020, he carried an AR-style semi-automatic rifle. Now on trial for murder after shooting and killing two men and wounding a third, his fate hinges on whether jurors believe he fired in self-defense. Criminal defense attorney Joseph Tully joined LX News to...

The prosecution said it wants jurors to be able to consider what are often called “lesser included charges.” Those lesser charges can give the jury an option when there is not a strong case for the charged offenses.

A teenage gamer in Virginia is said to be involved in the recent spate of bomb threats at colleges and universities in the tri-state area, sources familiar with the investigation told NBC New York.

Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial had a dramatic day on Wednesday, with tears from the defendant on the stand and threats of a mistrial from the judge. Criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor Bernarda Villalona joined LX News to explain the legal strategies, and missteps, behind the fireworks.

Dorit Kemsley is sharing harrowing details from her recent home robbery.

Two sisters, who along with their 11 siblings were held captive for years by their parents before escaping their Southern California home in 2018, are now speaking for the first time publicly about the abuse they endured.