Crime and Courts

A federal judge has sentenced a former Oklahoma police officer to 25 years in prison for the 2014 killing of his daughter’s boyfriend

Here are some reflections on the players involved in the high-profile trial and how the deliberations ultimately unfolded over five days.

Each charge carries a maximum prison term of five to 40 years. Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of five of them but she’s unlikely to face the max.

More than two years after Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide behind bars, and following a shorter-than-expected trial, his longtime companion Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty of multiple sex trafficking charges. A New York City jury found that Maxwell was Epstein’s chief enabler, recruiting and grooming young girls for him to abuse. The twelve jurors found Maxwell guilty on five of the six...

John McVoy Jr., opened fire during an argument with the victim’s husband during a garage band practice. One of the shots hit Susan Garcia as she held her 2-year-old son

A prosecutor in Las Vegas says a 57-year-old man jailed after police found the severed head and body parts of an acquaintance in the truck he was driving has prior felony and federal criminal convictions dating to the 1980s in states including California, Texas and Nevada

One of New Jersey’s most notorious cold cases took another twist Tuesday, as the state Supreme Court overturned a woman’s conviction in the 1991 murder of her 5-year-old son.

MSNBC legal analyst Danny Cevallos breaks down the latest on three of the most high-profile legal cases in the country: Elizabeth Holmes’ fraud trial, Kim Potter’s manslaughter trial and the Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking trial. Holmes is accused of defrauding investors as CEO of the biotech startup Theranos; Potter, a former police officer, is charged in the shooting death of...

Authorities say a 58-foot-long pedestrian bridge stolen from an Ohio city last month has been found and a man is facing charges

Just four days after Rogel Aguilera-Mederos, 26, was given his hefty sentence based on the state’s mandatory minimum laws, over 3 million people have signed the petition demanding his sentence be commuted to time served

The former football hero and actor, acquitted California murder defendant and convicted Las Vegas armed robber was granted good behavior credits

For many rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, self-incriminating messages, photos and videos that they broadcast on social media before, during and after the riot are influencing even the sentences in their criminal cases

A Baltimore jury convicted a man of first-degree murder Thursday in the 2018 stabbing of his wife that he blamed on a panhandler.

A former media company CEO who authorities say paid more than $500,000 to get her two children into elite universities has been sentenced to prison time.

A House staffer who walked into a congressional office building with a gun in his bag Thursday has been arrested, U.S. Capitol Police said.

A company once owned by “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli will pay up to $40 million to settle allegations that it jacked up the price of a life-saving medication by roughly 4 ,000% after obtaining exclusive rights to the drug

The “Who Killed Barbara Jean?” docuseries explores the unsolved murder of Barbara Jean Horn, who was found dead in a cardboard box on a Philadelphia street in 1988. In 2020, a man accused of killing the 4-year-old was released from prison, after a conviction review found flaws in his prosecution. That brought the case back into the spotlight and started...

A trial has begun for a man accused of killing his wife and blaming her death on a Baltimore panhandler.

A professor at Liberty University is accused in the abduction and sexual battery of a student, according to the evangelical school and Lynchburg, Virginia, court records

David Marc Ratcliff was released from federal custody in June after serving most of a 25-year prison sentence for committing a string of 19 bank robberies in the late 1990s