Crime and Courts

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 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.

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.

Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke spoke on her concerns regarding the use of electronic monitoring. NBC Chicago’s Charlie Wojciechowski reports.

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.

Prosecutors in Los Angeles filed a murder charge with special circumstances Monday in the disappearance and death of Oscar Omar Hernandez, a 13-year-old boy who vanished last month after visiting a soccer coach.

Karl Mitchell, 71, did not have the proper permits to own the animals, and violated other rules over the years, according to the NYE County Sheriff’s Office.

The smash-and-grabs come amid a slew of other retail burglaries across other Chicago suburbs.

Police in suburban Downers Grove are investigating after as many as 20 storefronts overnight were burglarized, including popular restaurants.

Indian police have arrested a 24-year-old American Youtuber who visited an off-limits island in the Indian Ocean.

A man attempted to rob a Houston convenience store earlier this year but as he was drawing a handgun from his waistband, the weapon slipped and slid down the leg of his sweatpants.

Lori Vallow Daybell, who was convicted of killing her two youngest children and conspiring to murder a romantic rival, is on trial again Monday. This time, she’s accused in Arizona of conspiring to murder her estranged husband.