Crime and Courts

In a singular moment in U.S. history, President-elect Donald Trump faces sentencing Friday for his New York hush money conviction after the nation’s highest court refused to intervene. Like so much else in the criminal case and the current American political landscape, the scenario set to unfold in an austere Manhattan courtroom was unimaginable only a few years ago. A state judge...

Judge Juan Merchan isn’t going to sentence Donald Trump to jail before he takes office.

Judge Juan Merchan isn’t going to sentence Donald Trump to jail before he takes office.

A New Jersey school bus aide charged in the death of a 6-year-old girl took the stand in her own defense on the same day the jury saw new video showing what occurred leading up to the child’s death — and as prosecutors alleged the woman was on her phone the whole time.

A New Jersey school bus aide charged in the death of a 6-year-old student on her bus took the stand Thursday in her own defense, sharing a message for the jury — which also saw new video that some may find tough to watch. NBC New York’s Pat Battle reports.

Actor Alec Baldwin has filed a civil lawsuit for malicious prosecution and civil rights violations in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the Western movie “Rust.”

A divided Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s bid to delay his sentencing in his hush money case in New York.

A judge has ruled that a Wisconsin woman who stabbed her sixth grade classmate to please horror character Slender Man can be released from a psychiatric hospital.

President-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing in the so-called hush money case is still set for Friday morning, unless the U.S. Supreme Court steps in. New York state’s highest court turned down Trump’s filing to try to stop the sentencing. Should the sentencing occur, Trump would become the first president in history to go to the White House as a convicted felon....

Disgraced former congressman George Santos has won a few months’ freedom from federal prison in order to come up with more than half a million dollars in court fines.

A 9-year-old girl was punched in the head and slashed on her hands as she tried to break up a fight that escalated into an attempted murder inside a Long Island home, according to police.

The lawyers filed papers in Manhattan federal court asking a judge to find that their clients should be given the rings marking New York Yankees’ victories in 1996, 1999 and 2000.

Federal authorities executed a search warrant Tuesday in St. Louis in connection with an investigation in Puerto Rico of a tourist accused of setting businesses on fire last week.

Prosecutors say the 36-year-old Santos has earned more than $400,000 from appearances on Cameo, the video-sharing website, and another $400,000 from a new documentary.

The former U.S. Marine acquitted of criminal charges in the death of a man on a New York City subway train is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the victim’s father. Daniel Penny’s lawyer, in a court filing Monday, said his client denies the lawsuit’s claims that he is culpable for civil damages for using a chokehold on Jordan...

A Miramar woman who laundered millions of dollars that were stolen in romance scams was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison, authorities said.

An ex-gang leader is filing to dismiss all the charges against him in the killing of rap music icon Tupac Shakur decades ago, citing constitutional violations.

The man accused of being drunk when his car struck and killed NHL star Johnny Gaudreau and brother Matthew as they biked near their South Jersey hometown the night before their sister was to be married pleaded not guilty in court on Tuesday morning. Prosecutors have offered a plea deal.

Two people were slashed after an argument on a platform at Grand Central Station, authorities say. One of the men was treated at the scene for cuts to his right arm after the incident on the northbound platform of the 4/5/6 line at the Manhattan hub around 1 a.m. Tuesday. The other was taken to a hospital with cuts to…

Four San Diego State University fraternity members pleaded not guilty Monday to criminal charges stemming from a skit that allegedly involved intentionally setting one of the defendants on fire, causing him to suffer third-degree burns.