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A Los Angeles man accused of intentionally setting a tent ablaze on Los Angeles’ Skid Row, killing a homeless man, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a capital murder charge.

A Coachella woman suspected of dumping seven newborn puppies in a trash bin was ordered Wednesday to stand trial. A judge ruled that enough evidence was presented at Deborah Sue Culwell’s preliminary hearing to proceed to trial on seven felony charges of animal cruelty and seven misdemeanor charges of animal abandonment.

A father chased after a car thief who stole a vehicle with his children inside and then beat the thief to death with help from bystanders Thursday night in Philadelphia, police said.

A father chased after a car thief who stole a vehicle with his children inside and then beat the thief to death with help from bystanders Thursday night in Philadelphia, police said.

Former USC campus gynecologist George Tyndall, who is charged with sexually assaulting 16 patients, had his nearly $2.1 million bail reduced to $1.6 million Tuesday, despite his attorneys asking that the amount be set as low as $350,000.

Former USC campus gynecologist George Tyndall, who is charged with sexually assaulting 16 patients, had his nearly $2.1 million bail reduced to $1.6 million Tuesday, despite his attorneys asking that the amount be set as low as $350,000.

A woman is in custody after being accused of dumping a plastic bag full of live puppies into a dumpster. Tony Shin reports for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on Monday, April 22, 2019.

The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office will not be charging San Francisco Giants CEO Larry Baer in the public altercation involving his wife.

More than a dozen people were charged with illegally prescribing opioids to patients in the Philadelphia region who didn’t need the drugs in exchange for cash, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday.

A man was found dead early Monday at the West Hollywood apartment of prominent Democratic donor Ed Buck, where another man was found dead of what authorities deemed a drug overdose in 2017.

Los Angeles County prosecutors Tuesday declined to file criminal charges against a trio of celebrities who were accused of sexual assault — Kevin Spacey for an alleged 1992 assault in West Hollywood, Steven Seagal from an allegation dating back to 1993 and Anthony Anderson for allegations that arose over the past year.

A man who fatally bashed a 54-year-old woman in the head with a liquor bottle, in an unprovoked attack that occurred as she stood in line at a Temecula store with her daughter, was sentenced Friday to 25 years to life in state prison.

The mother of an 8-year-old Palmdale boy was sentenced to prison for life and her boyfriend will be sent to death row for the child’s torture death, a case that the judge called “nothing short of evil.”

Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill is inching closer to freedom after the District Attorney’s office on Monday called for a new trial to be set.

A close friend of Robert Durst wept on the witness stand Tuesday as she reluctantly testified for the prosecution in the murder case against the New York real estate scion, saying she has a hard time believing he could be guilty of killing one of his friends in Benedict Canyon.

Two Texas men on Thursday pleaded no contest to hate-crime charges that stemmed from them beating a Sikh man in Richmond last year.

San Francisco filmmaker Kevin Epps, arrested and released this week in the fatal shooting of a man inside his home, applauded the city’s justice system Wednesday during an interview with NBC Bay Area.

Rapper Coolio was charged with a felony Thursday for allegedly carrying a handgun in a backpack at Los Angeles International Airport.

Former San Francisco 49er Dana Stubblefield was charged Monday with the rape of a woman police say is disabled after an investigation that lasted over a year, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office.

Former San Francisco 49er Dana Stubblefield was charged Monday with the rape of a woman police say is disabled after an investigation that lasted over a year, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office.