Crime and Courts

Benefield, 33, was convicted of manslaughter in July for a killing that she said was self-defense. Florida prosecutors had charged her with murder.

A 47-year-oldFlorida woman has been sentenced to life in prison for zipping her boyfriend into a suitcase and leaving him to die of suffocation amid a history of domestic and alcohol abuse.

Jamie Lee Komoroski pleaded guilty Monday to reckless homicide and three felony driving under the influence charges.

The Los Angeles Police Department said Monday it had video that showed Hannah Kobayashi, the woman from Hawaii who vanished last month after landing at LAX, crossing the border into Mexico, and said there was no evidence of foul play in her disappearance.

The body of a 7-year-old boy has been recovered after he went missing over the weekend in Two Rivers, Wisconsin.

“I never went a day without worrying or thinking about if they had a terrible ending to their life,” Christine Heller Seaman said about her grandparents Charles and Catherine Romer, who were reported missing in April 1980.

Sean “Diddy” Combs has been denied bail as he awaits a May sex trafficking trial.

Police in Boulder, Colorado, are refuting assertions that there is viable evidence and leads about the 1996 killing of JonBenet Ramsey that they are not pursuing.

After a judge on Tuesday said Rudy Giuliani was not complying with court orders to surrender his assets to the two Georgia election workers he falsely accused of election fraud during the 2020 election, former New York City Mayor said that he’s struggling to make ends meet.

Two companies have cut ties with Conor McGregor after a civil court jury in Ireland ruled that he must pay a woman who accused him of raping her more than $250,000.

A Massachusetts man who spent 27 years in jail for a murder he claims that he didn’t commit has been awarded $13 million by a jury.

Marlena Velez, 22, is alleged to have stolen items from a Target in Cape Coral, Florida, by scanning false bar codes with cheaper prices, police said.

Prosecutors announced indictments against four teenagers more than a month after an attack on a person with a disability near a middle school in Danvers, Massachusetts. The Essex County District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday that four people — two 15-year-old Danvers residents, a 14-year-old from Danvers and a 15-year-old from Lawrence — had been indicted by a grand jury Monday....

Authorities say a suspected terrorist wanted in the U.S. for two bombings in the San Francisco area in 2003 has appeared in a London courtroom after being captured in the U.K.

An FBI agent is accused of luring women to his tattoo studio in Gaithersburg, Maryland, before raping and assaulting them, police say.

A new three-part Netflix documentary series, “Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey” examines how the actions of law enforcement and the media at the time may have influenced the investigation.

A Connecticut couple was arrested at a Lululemon store in Woodbury, Minnesota, on Nov. 14 and charged with retail theft.

Two people were arrested on Nov. 14 at a Lululemon store in Woodbury, Minnesota, according to court documents.

Erik and Lyle Menendez were part of a court hearing in Van Nuys to determine what happens next in the brother’s murder case.

Prosecutors in France are setting out the punishments they want for 51 men accused of raping a woman while she was drugged and rendered unconscious by her husband.