Crime and Courts

Megan Thee Stallion has asked a court to issue a restraining order against rapper Tory Lanez.

The woman was accused of selling counterfeit versions of popular weight loss drugs including Ozempic and Wegovy. Experts say fakes have exploded in the U.S.

In a news conference on Tuesday, Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg discussed the charges for the shooting of Brian Thompson on Dec. 4. 

The 26-year-old Ivy League grad charged with murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Manhattan sidewalk this month has been indicted by a grand jury in the case, the district attorney’s office announced Tuesday. Luigi Mangione stands accused of first-degree murder, in furtherance of terrorism; second-degree murder, one count of which is charged as killing as an act of terrorism;...

Bob Lee, who founded the popular money transfer service Cash App, was fatally stabbed by an IT consultant after an argument about the suspect’s sister, prosecutors said.

The city of Worcester has unveiled its new police misconduct hotline, which officials hope will make it easier for citizens to report concerns about police behavior following a bombshell report from the Department of Justice accusing the Worcester Police Department of civil rights violations.

The New York City architect arrested last year in connection with a string of cold case bodies found on Long Island’s Gilgo Beach has been charged with another woman’s murder, bringing the body count against him thus far to seven, according to a superseding indictment unsealed Tuesday. Rex Heuermann is accused of murdering Valerie Mack, an escort who vanished in...

The accused stowaway on a flight from New York to Paris in November has been arrested again, this time caught at the U.S.-Canada border after ditching her ankle bracelet monitor, according to a senior official briefed on the matter.

Jay-Z’s lawyer expects the hip-hop mogul, whose real name is Shawn Carter, to soon be “cleared” from a lawsuit that accuses him and rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs of raping a minor in 2000, he told NBC News on Monday. 

A California man has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for running a business to help pregnant Chinese women travel to the United States to deliver babies who would automatically have American citizenship.

A dozen people were arrested and one more remains wanted on an outstanding warrant as investigators in Massachusetts cracked down on what they described as a high-end car theft ring, according to the Attorney General’s Office. “Operation Hellcat” involved 38 local and federal law enforcement agencies working together over the course of the year to track down the people suspected...

Police in Florida are trying to find the rightful owner of over 55 pounds of cocaine, worth an estimated $1.7 million, that were found along the Atlantic coastline.

An American couple were shot to death while visiting the western Mexico state of Michoacan. Officials confirmed their nationalities on Saturday.

The suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO has added a prominent defense lawyer to his legal team as Manhattan prosecutors work to return him from Pennsylvania to face a murder charge. Luigi Mangione will be represented by Karen Friedman Agnifilo, who was a high-ranking deputy in the Manhattan district attorney’s office for years before entering private practice. Friedman Agnifilo’s...

From Utah to the U.K., authorities set on a worldwide chase to find the man, once praised for his work as a child advocate, behind a fake death and years of rape and fraud allegations.

Paula Abdul and former “American Idol” producer Nigel Lythgoe have agreed to settle a lawsuit in which she alleged he sexually assaulted her in the early 2000s when she was a judge on the show.

Police in California gave the FBI a tip about alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione a number of days before he was finally tracked down and captured, according to two senior officials.

The leader of UnitedHealth Group wrote that the health insurance executive gunned down on a Manhattan sidewalk last week cared about consumers and was working to make the system better.

An incoming West Virginia state lawmaker was arrested Thursday after he allegedly threatened to kill other state lawmakers.

The woman who in 2006 falsely accused three Duke University lacrosse players of raping her has admitted publicly for the first time that she made up the story.