Crime and Courts

Luigi Mangione is asking for a laptop in jail for legal purposes as he awaits trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO.

A mother and her boyfriend are now facing murder charges in connection to the death of a 10-year-old boy, police said.

A 47-year-old Colorado woman has been charged after her elderly mother with dementia was allegedly mauled by dogs that authorities say were living in “unsanitary conditions.”

Former UFC fighter Cain Velasquez was sentenced to five years in prison for a shooting that took place more than two years ago.

A German tourist was booed by visitors after scaling the steps of El Castillo, a sacred Mayan pyramid in Chichén Itzá, Mexico.

A North Texas man has been arrested in connection with a deadly robbery set up through Facebook Marketplace, according to Seagoville police.

Detectives recovered four Tiffany & Co.
diamond earrings two weeks after a suspected thief from Texas gulped them during his arrest in Florida.

A man who has been charged in a deadly Amber Alert case in February appeared in court Friday. NBC Chicago’s Charlie Wojciechowski reports.

A new state law has eliminated the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse claims.

The leader and two members of a cultlike group that has been connected to six killings in three states face new gun charges in Maryland.

Eugene “Big U” Henley, considered a fugitive, portrayed himself as an anti-gang activist associated with a charity that defrauded celebrities and big-name athletes, authorities say.

A West Virginia couple is set for sentencing for mistreating their adopted children.

Police say a 13-year-old boy has been charged with murder in an apparently deliberate hit-and-run of a bicyclist heading to work in Albuquerque.

Two smugglers charged after 53 immigrants died in the back of a sweltering tractor-trailer with no air conditioning have been found guilty.

The purloined potty has never been recovered but is believed to have been cut up and sold.

The Louisiana woman accused of theft and fraud in connection with the death of a Super Bowl reporter near New Orleans last month will also be charged with second-degree murder in the case, authorities said Tuesday.

A federal judge has dismissed the charges against a Minnesota man accused of hiding a stolen pair of ruby slippers that Judy Garland wore in “The Wizard of Oz.”

An Australian woman narrowly avoided jail on Monday over her plans to sell on the black market two human toes that had been regurgitated by dogs at the animal shelter where she worked. Joanna Kathlyn Kinman, 48, was not present at the animal shelter in the southeastern state of Victoria when the two dogs vomited up the toes and other...

Robert Morris surrendered to officials in Oklahoma, where he was charged last week with five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child.

Two men, a retired priest and a Catholic school teacher, have been charged with sexually abusing the same child multiple times between 1994 and 1996 when they worked in Wilmington, Delaware.