Crime and Courts

Questions surrounding public safety in downtown Chicago have increased following a shooting near Macy’s on State Street as the Magnificent Mile Lights Festival wrapped up on Saturday night.

A newborn baby girl was removed from the Safe Haven Baby Box at the Grove Creek Medical Center on Oct. 13 in Blackfoot. Officials say she was dead before she was placed in the box. 

A woman was injured in a shooting near Macy’s on State Street in downtown Chicago late Saturday night, authorities said. NBC Chicago’s Vi Nguyen reports.A woman was injured in a shooting near Macy’s on State Street in downtown Chicago late Saturday night, authorities said. NBC Chicago’s Vi Nguyen reports.

A woman was injured in a shooting near Macy’s on State Street in downtown Chicago late Saturday night, authorities said.

An Idaho teenager has been arrested in connection with the body of an infant found last month at a hospital in a box meant for people to anonymously give up a newborn, police said Friday.

A decision on whether Sean “Diddy” Combs’ will be released on bail was pushed back to next week by the judge overseeing his sex-trafficking case.

He may be nicknamed the “Preppy Predator,” but police warn that an alleged robber in Manhattan should be considered extremely dangerous.

The individual accused of shooting and injuring a Jewish man walking to synagogue and subsequently opening fire at first responders in Chicago’s West Rogers Park neighborhood performed searches on Google for synagogues, a Jewish community center and gun range in the days ahead of the attack.

A civil jury in Ireland has found that mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor sexually assaulted a woman in a hotel penthouse in 2018.

The NBA and NFL is urging its players to take additional precautions to secure their homes following reports of recent high-profile burglaries of dwellings.

The victim reported being punched and kicked while the suspect allegedly screamed derogatory terms at her such as “you’re not a woman, you’re a man.”

Thursday’s short filing says “all claims against Defendant … are hereby dismissed with prejudice.”

Leilani Simon was convicted of murder in the death of 20-month-old Quinton Simon. She will be eligible for parole.

A missing Kansas woman who disappeared this year and was found in a freezer buried in a cow pasture in the Oklahoma panhandle was killed in a stabbing attack that left her with dozens of wounds, according to a medical examiner’s report.

A former Kentucky sheriff was indicted Thursday in the slaying of a judge who was gunned down in his courthouse chambers two months ago, shocking a tiny Appalachian community.

Danny Masterson’s defense team is facing criticism and possible legal action for allegedly contacting jurors after his conviction in his rape trial.

Officials in Lehigh County say Jayleen Rivas-Rodriguez has pled guilty after her 22-month-old child died of an overdose while in her care in April of 2021.

A Florida man who allegedly impersonated billionaire SpaceX founder Elon Musk on Facebook defrauded an elderly woman out of at least a quarter of a million dollars, police said.

The Illinois Supreme Court announced its decision to reverse former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett’s criminal conviction connected to a 2019 hate crime hoax in Chicago.

John Ramsey, the father of JonBenét Ramsey, is still searching for his daughter’s killer, nearly three decades after she was found dead in their Boulder, Colorado, home in 1996.