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The criminal case against a Mexican megachurch leader on charges of child rape and human trafficking was dismissed Tuesday by a California appeals court on procedural grounds.

A judge delayed a ruling Tuesday on whether or not a wrongful petition conviction can move forward after attorneys for Marni Yang claimed new evidence cleared the convicted murderer in the highly-publicized case.

The house that sits on the property where John Wayne Gacy buried many of his victims – and where the notorious serial killer’s home once stood – is now for sale.

New forensic evidence and “never heard before recordings” are at the center of a petition aiming to clear Marni Yang, a convicted murderer serving a double life sentence for killing the pregnant girlfriend of ex-Chicago Bear Shaun Gayle.

Last September, a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed black man in his own apartment. That much is settled. But nearly every other aspect Amber Guyger’s murder trial for the killing of Botham Jean remains cloaked in controversy as opening statements in the case are set to start Monday.

Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine said Cardi B was a gang member while testifying under oath Thursday as part of a case against two alleged members of a Brooklyn street gang, NBC News reported. 6ix9ine, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, said under cross-examination that Cardi B was also a member of the notorious Bloods gang, according to the New York Daily...

The upcoming trial of a Chinese national on federal charges that she trespassed at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort and lied to the Secret Service is potentially a circus wrapped in mystery. Rejecting the strong recommendation of U.S. District Judge Roy Altman, Yujing Zhang fired her public defenders in June to act as her own attorney – a longshot move...

A Cook County judge ordered the release Wednesday of 20 documents from the Jason Van Dyke trial which had previously been kept sealed.

Newly-released documents reveal the intense arguments filed by former Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke, in an attempt to dismiss the murder charges he faced two years ago. NBC 5’s Phil Rogers investigates.

Police say a New Jersey man who broke into Taylor Swift’s beachfront mansion in Rhode Island took his shoes off because he wanted to be polite. Westerly police who responded to the home just after 5 p.m. Friday found 26-year-old Richard Joseph McEwan inside.

Federal police officers arrested a Silver Spring, Maryland, woman suspected of attempting to steal sensitive medical specimens and equipment from the clinical center of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda.

A Texas prosecutor says a 39-year-old man killed six members of his ex-wife’s family as part of a plan to harm anyone who had helped the woman.

A Wisconsin man has been convicted of murder in the drowning death of his wife 19 years ago in the bathroom of their suburban Chicago home.

A white Florida man who told detectives he had a “pet peeve” about illegal parking in handicapped spots was convicted late Friday of manslaughter for the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man in a dispute over a handicapped spot.

The man dubbed the “Hollywood Ripper” for the grisly slayings of two women in Hollywood and El Monte was sane at the time of the crimes, a Los Angeles jury found Thursday.

Jurors reached guilty verdicts Thursday in the trial of a man accused of fatally stabbing two women and trying to kill a third in a series of violent and calculated attacks at the victims’ Southern California homes.

A 47-year-old plastic surgeon from Westchester County allegedly had a huge weapons cache in his car, one including assault rifles, body armor, a ballistic helmet, knives and more than 1,600 rounds of ammunition, among other weapons, when police stopped him as they investigated a report he had threatened his estranged wife and family.

The U.S. Navy has dropped charges against four SEALs involving alleged abuse of detainees in Afghanistan in 2012.