Crime and Courts

An 81-year-old former North Dakota lawmaker is scheduled to be sentenced in federal court after pleading guilty last year to traveling to Europe with the intent to pay for sex with minors.

A California woman’s son is suing Trump International Hotels for alleged negligence, claiming a Trump Hotel Las Vegas door caused her to fall and later die.

The gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack at an El Paso Walmart in 2019 in one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history has been offered a plea deal to avoid the death penalty.

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.”

Two men accused of molesting a minor on board a Royal Caribbean cruise ship were arrested on Friday, police said.

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.