Crime and Courts

Embattled Clark Mayor, Sal Bonaccorso, has resigned as mayor effective immediately Friday, after pleading guilty to using Clark employees for his private business, a landscaping and underground oil storage tank removal company. As part of his agreement, Bonaccorso,  entered a consent order immediately forfeiting his office as mayor of Clark and agreeing to be permanently barred from holding any future…

Prosecutors called for the lengthy prison term for the 71-year-old New Jersey Democrat in papers filed in Manhattan federal court late Thursday.

A federal judge is set to hear arguments Friday on whether to hold Rudy Giuliani in contempt of court for continuing to spread lies about two Georgia election workers after they secured a $148 million defamation judgment against him. Plaintiffs’ attorneys have asked U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington, D.C., to impose civil contempt sanctions against Giuliani, the former New York City...

A Manhattan judge chose a sentence that sidestepped thorny constitutional issues to end the case but assures Trump will become the first person convicted of a felony to assume the presidency.

A judge can sentence a defendant to unconditional discharge. What does that mean and how often is it used?

President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced to unconditional discharge on all 34 counts in his hush money case.

NBC News has a Special Report on the Trump sentencing.

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...

President-elect Donald Trump was formally sentenced Friday in his hush money case, but the judge declined to impose any punishment.

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.