Crime and Courts

A good Samaritan who went outside to grab a delivery found two infant girls who were dumped in a ditch near his Indiana home after the car they were in was stolen.

Trump’s attorneys said President Biden’s statement that his son had been “selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted” also applies to the president-elect.

Six former Apple employees are facing fraud charges in a scam that targeted the tech giant’s program for matching workers’ charitable donations, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office.

Benefield, 33, was convicted of manslaughter in July for a killing that she said was self-defense. Florida prosecutors had charged her with murder.

The anonymous jury is weighing manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide charges in the death of Jordan Neely, a troubled street performer who was homeless. The veteran, Daniel Penny, has pleaded not guilty.

A man concealed items inside shipping containers in Long Beach that were bound for North Korea, federal authorities say.

A 47-year-oldFlorida woman has been sentenced to life in prison for zipping her boyfriend into a suitcase and leaving him to die of suffocation amid a history of domestic and alcohol abuse.

Jamie Lee Komoroski pleaded guilty Monday to reckless homicide and three felony driving under the influence charges.

The Los Angeles Police Department said Monday it had video that showed Hannah Kobayashi, the woman from Hawaii who vanished last month after landing at LAX, crossing the border into Mexico, and said there was no evidence of foul play in her disappearance.

Closing arguments got underway Monday in the Daniel Penny manslaughter trial in Manhattan. News 4’s Rana Novini reports. 

Police say a 23-year-old woman was dumped in the woods of Bridgewater back in 1997. Last week, detectives tracked down her alleged killer, all the way in Canada. News 4’s Jen Maxfield reports. 

The body of a 7-year-old boy has been recovered after he went missing over the weekend in Two Rivers, Wisconsin.

Decades after a woman was killed and her body was dumped in the woods of New Jersey, a suspect has been extradited from Canada to face murder charges, according to law enforcement.

Ahead of closing arguments in the subway chokehold death trial of Daniel Penny, defense attorney Michael Bachner explains what the jury could hear this week before deliberations. News 4’s Ida Siegal reports. 

Closing arguments have begun in the trial of a Marine veteran charged with recklessly choking to death an irate, homeless man on a New York subway train.

“I never went a day without worrying or thinking about if they had a terrible ending to their life,” Christine Heller Seaman said about her grandparents Charles and Catherine Romer, who were reported missing in April 1980.

The daughter was charged with second-degree murder for killing her mother on Thanksgiving Eve, according to Suffolk County Police. 

The ongoing crisis at Rikers Island continues. A federal judge gets closer to appointing someone to oversee the notorious jail. Melissa Colorado reports. 

Marc Santia with the latest. 

A Long Island City woman is facing a murder charge for stabbing her 84-year-old mother to death on Long Island Thanksgiving Eve, police said. Suffolk County Police responded to a call Wednesday, shortly after 9 p.m. following a report of a stabbing victim on Carmen Court in Dix Hills, police said. When officers arrived to the scene they allegedly found…