Crime and Courts

A George Mason University freshman was arrested by the FBI and charged with distributing information about weapons of mass destruction online, after plotting a mass-casualty attack against people at the Israeli consulate in New York, according to court documents.

An Indiana man convicted in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls who vanished during a winter hike will face the maximum sentence of 130 years in prison, a judge ruled Friday in the case that’s long cast a shadow over the teens’ small hometown of Delphi.

A lawyer for celebrity pastor Bishop T.D. Jakes filed a motion seeking more information about four YouTube accounts posting salacious misinformation about him.

A former bank teller is accused of embezzling more than $180,000 from customer accounts, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Thursday.

Boston Scientific’s Relievant Medsystems used at least 25 unclaimed bodies for training, including that of a murdered 21-year-old woman whose family was fighting to bring her home. The company said it didn’t know.

Aurimar Iturriago Villegas left Venezuela hoping to lift her family out of poverty. When she was murdered, her corpse became a commodity in the U.S. body trade.

The Ivy League graduate was indicted on murder as an act of terrorism in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Dozens of men, including the ex-husband of Gisèle Pelicot, were found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting her in a historic trial that shocked France. 

A 20-year-old Carlsbad man has been ordered to surrender his guns after authorities said he communicated with the teenage girl who committed a fatal school shooting in Wisconsin, allegedly expressing his own plans to carry out a deadly attack against a government building.

In addition to state murder charges already filed, federal prosecutors are looking into whether to file additional criminal charges against the suspect charged in gunning down UnitedHealthcare’s CEO outside a midtown Manhattan hotel.

The Justice Department has unsealed a civil complaint alleging CVS Pharmacy Inc. and various subsidiaries filled unlawful prescriptions in violation of the federal Controlled Substances Act.

A Fort Lauderdale tennis coach who’s the grandson of tennis legend Bobby Riggs has been arrested on federal child sex abuse charges, authorities said.

Dennis “DJ” Hernandez, brother of the late NFL player Aaron Hernandez, has plead guilty to making threats against the University of Connecticut and Brown University, as well as multiple individuals, last year. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said Hernandez could face up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to transmitting communication containing a threat to injure....

State leaders say the federal government has “stonewalled” their attempts to investigate the September assassination attempt. Ryan Routh already faces federal charges.

Five family members were found dead at their home outside of Salt Lake City on Tuesday. Police in Utah say the lone survivor of the isolated incident is a teenage boy.

Ohad Fisherman, a friend of the Alexander brothers, is accused of joining Alon and Oren in assaulting a 25-year-old woman at a New Year’s Eve party on Miami Beach in 2016.

A trial date has been set in the case of Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury, Massachusetts, mother accused of killing her three children in 2023, as attorneys and the judge hammered out scheduling details in the case during a hearing Wednesday.

Megan Thee Stallion has asked a court to issue a restraining order against rapper Tory Lanez.

The woman was accused of selling counterfeit versions of popular weight loss drugs including Ozempic and Wegovy. Experts say fakes have exploded in the U.S.

In a news conference on Tuesday, Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg discussed the charges for the shooting of Brian Thompson on Dec. 4.