Crime and Courts

A 17-year-old Wisconsin teen charged with killing his parents is also accused of plotting to assassinate President Donald Trump, according to an unsealed affidavit from the FBI, NBC News reported.

The aunt of Erik and Lyle Menendez, who is the sister of the men’s father, was hospitalized after a graphic image of her brother’s body was shown in court on Friday, according to family. Terry Baralt, 85, is in critical condition after seeing the image in the brothers’ latest court appearance, according to the Justice for Erik and Lyle Coalition,...

Attorneys for the man accused of killing a health insurance CEO are trying to get the death penalty off the table, calling a directive to seek capital punishment “a political stunt,” NBC News reported.

Erik and Lyle Menendez’s resentencing hearings can continue despite opposition from the Los Angeles County district attorney, a judge ruled Friday.

A week after a South Jersey woman was arrested on accusations of trying to hire a man she recently met on Tinder to kill her ex-boyfriend — who is a Philadelphia police officer — and his teenage daughter, the woman appeared in a Camden County courtroom Friday. Find out what happened.

A man already jailed on federal charges of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump last fall will face additional state terrorism and attempted murder charges.

The courtroom saga of Lyle and Erik Menendez entered a new chapter Friday as the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office asked a judge to allow the withdrawal of a resentencing recommendation for the brothers, now serving life-without-parole sentences for murdering their parents.

Former Texas wideout Isaiah Bond surrendered on a sexual assault warrant Thursday and was released after posting bail, according to published reports.

 A jury on Thursday found that rapper Soulja Boy was liable for sexually assaulting and physically and emotionally abusing a former assistant, awarding the woman $4 million in damages.

The woman allegedly manipulated four elderly women out of hundreds of thousands of dollars each by using aliases, the Oklahoma attorney general says.

A 20-year-old Nassau County man has been indicted on murder charges for allegedly shaking his infant daughter so violently as she cried last month that she hemorrhaged and died, prosecutors say. According to the indictment, Rabanales Pretzantzin was home alone with his 2-month-old daughter, Liseyda Rabanales-Barrios, and 14-month-old son around 11 a.m. on March 7. The littlest one was crying….

Attorneys for Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students, argued about what evidence should be allowed at trial.

A jury awarded $1.68 billion in damages to 40 women who accused writer and director James Toback of sexual abuse and other crimes over a span of 35 years.

A judge is set to hear motions that will shape the proceedings in the Idaho college murders trial and could remove the death penalty as punishment.

A New York court has awarded $1.6 billion to more than 100 women who say they were sexually abused by a former pediatrician on Long Island.

A New Jersey “serial predator” who posed as a nurse online and on dating apps to help him attract women, then kidnap and attack those he met up with across the New York City area, was sentenced to a decade behind bars, according to prosecutors.

A Missouri woman who has fostered more than 200 children is being investigated for abuse, including possibly exchanging her child for a monkey.

A South Jersey woman is accused of trying to hire a man she recently met on Tinder to kill her ex-boyfriend — who is a Philadelphia police officer — and his teenage daughter.

A man faces murder charges after leaving his girlfriend badly injured and killing her mother in a brutal double stabbing in the Bronx, police said

A 30-year old woman was the victim of a terrifying attempted sexual assault as she was on a Manhattan subway platform, according to police. The alleged attack occurred around 2:30 a.m. Monday as the victim was waiting for a northbound F train at the East Broadway station in the Lower East Side. When the suspect, who has not yet been…