Crime and Courts

A South African woman has been convicted of kidnapping and selling her 6-year-old daughter in a case that horrified the country.

An administrator at the Contra Costa School of the Performing Arts was arrested on Wednesday after being accused of having sex with an underage student.

Sean “Diddy” Combs confirmed at a hearing Thursday that he had rejected a plea deal from federal prosecutors in his sex trafficking case, paving the way for his trial to begin next week.  

Luigi Mangione, accused in the killing of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, will be the focus on a new musical debuting in San Francisco on June 13.

A Florida-based Christian organization with a history of child sex abuse allegations against it has been hit with a lawsuit claiming one of its missionaries sexually assaulted a minor overseas 15 years ago.  

Members of a high school lacrosse program in upstate New York are accused of staging an armed abduction of younger players in a stunt that “went way beyond hazing,” prosecutors said this week.

The Australian host of a weekend family lunch is on trial charged with murdering her estranged husband’s parents and an aunt and attempting to murder an uncle with poisonous mushrooms.

Helicopter video shows the pair riding away from the scene before they were stopped by police.

Middletown native Joey Logano wondered Tuesday if Baseball Hall of Famer Chipper Jones had ever driven a race car at Talladega after the former Atlanta Braves slugger criticized the NASCAR champion in a series of social media posts. Jones was defending Austin Cindric, winner of Sunday’s race at Talladega Superspeedway, after Team Penske teammate Logano unleashed an expletive-laden rant...

A brother and sister from Old Greenwich are accused of submitting false claims with state treasuries around the country for more than $1.2 million in unclaimed funds and they face federal charges. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania said 75-year-old Henry J. White Jr. and his sister, 69-year-old Patricia A. White, were both charged with…

The man who struck and killed Connecticut State Trooper First Class Aaron Pelletier on I-84 in Southington in May, then left the scene, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison.

A Pittsburgh pet mortuary owner faces charges after allegedly victimizing thousands by carelessly dumping their deceased pets into landfills.

The driver told Connecticut police that she was speeding because she was running late to a “Thomas the Train” event.

Yunice Abbas was the first defendant questioned Tuesday in the trial in connection with the 2016 robbery during which the reality star was held at gunpoint.

The man who struck and killed Connecticut State Trooper First Class Aaron Pelletier on Interstate 84 in Southington in May, then left the scene, was sentenced to 18 years in prison.

The man who struck and killed Connecticut State Trooper First Class Aaron Pelletier on Interstate 84 in Southington in May, then left the scene, will be sentenced today.

The man who struck and killed Connecticut State Trooper First Class Aaron Pelletier on Interstate 84 in Southington in May, then left the scene, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison. Alex Oyola-Sanchez, 45, of Hartford, had accepted a plea deal and the judge imposed the sentence on Tuesday. “I’m sorry because it was not my intention,” Oyola-Sanchez said…

Police said that “up to 15 bodies had been mutilated and subject to experimentation” by the suspect, who owns a mortuary in Texas.

Jonathan Pullen, the Rocky Mountain DEA’s special agent in charge, said the agency seized illegal drugs and weapons at the nightclub.

Almost nine years after Kim Kardashian was held at gunpoint and robbed of more than $9 million in jewelry in Paris, the suspects are now on trial.