Crime and Courts

A Black man with intellectual disabilities should be awarded more than $500,000 after he was enslaved for five years at a South Carolina restaurant, a court ruled.

Prosecutors in New York have consented to DNA testing of evidence from the 1992 trial of so-called “Fatal Attraction” killer Carolyn Warmus, who was paroled two years ago after serving 27 years in prison for the murder of her lover’s wife. Westchester County District Attorney Mimi Rocah consented on Monday to the testing of three pieces of evidence used to convict...

A social media agitator was convicted Wednesday on federal charges of threatening to kill members of Congress, a verdict that rejected his claims it was harmless rhetoric.

Authorities have finally identified two homicide victims who were found in the Southern California desert in 1980 and linked to a man imprisoned for murder in Mississippi.

A Virginia man was shot multiple times by a sheriff’s deputy after the deputy gave him a ride home, left and then was called back to the man’s home for help.

Three Brooklyn men were arrested and accused of stealing more than $30 million in cash and other valuables from safe deposit boxes in banks across Europe, federal authorities said. A grand jury indictment charged Val Cooper, 56, Alex Levin, 52, and Garri Smith, 49, with money laundering conspiracy and violations of the Travel Act after a string of alleged thefts…

Another New York man was arrested for his role in the siege at the U.S. Capitol in January after law enforcement learned that he talked about storming the Capitol on social media and a dating app, according to prosecutors.

A Bangladeshi immigrant who set off a pipe bomb attached to his chest in New York City’s busiest subway station was sentenced Thursday in Manhattan federal court to life in prison plus 30 years.

In the moments after a Minneapolis jury found former police office Derek Chauvin guilty of murder in the death of George Floyd, emotions were palpable in the city and across the nation. NBCLX storyteller Mackenzie Behm revisits the moments after the verdict.

The three weeks of the Derek Chauvin trial featured dozens of witnesses and hundreds of pages of evidence. But within all that information, there were a few key moments that ultimately turned the jury to a guilty verdict. NBCLX storyteller Jalyn Henderson breaks them down with the help of NBC News legal analyst Danny Cevallos.

Almost a year after the world watched George Floyd die under Derek Chauvin’s knee, jurors found the former police officer charged with his murder guilty on all charges Tuesday. After days of tension across the country, with Americans braced for more outrage in the streets, the faces in a crowd that gathered outside the Minnesota courthouse showed relief as...

After Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all counts for the death of George Floyd, the sentencing phase of his trial begins. Lakai Vinson, a criminal defense attorney, told NBCLX what to expect next.

A judge on Friday rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s arguments to toss charges that she recruited three teenager girls from 1994 to 1997 for then-boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse

A Texas man who was charged for threatening to blow up an Amazon data center in Virginia was apolitical until he lost his job and had plenty of time to research nefarious political conspiracies, federal authorities said.

Video of a bizarre and shocking burglary in Queens shows a thief break a window of a frozen yogurt shop in Queens and take some items from inside — as two young children stand by and even hold a light to aid in the robbery, police said.

A U.S. Capitol Police officer died and another was badly injured Friday when a man rammed a car into them at a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol, authorities said. Police shot the suspect, who also died.

A New York City man and his wife were arrested after allegedly conspiring to provide support for the terror group ISIS and trying to board a cargo ship bound for the Middle East to join the group — and even plotted a domestic attack at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, prosecutors said.

U.S. immigration authorities said Thursday they have detained Anna Sorokin, the con artist who passed herself off as a wealthy German heiress and served more than three years behind bars for defrauding New York banks and hotels.

A baby and toddler were alone for three days in a Spotsylvania County, Virginia, home where their parents and a teenage boy had been slashed to death, according to horrifying new evidence that emerged during a preliminary hearing for three of the five Philadelphia men charged with multiple counts of first-degree murder.

A teen driver has been arrested and issued 43 violations after cops caught him going as fast as 148 mph on highways and roads in New York, according to the state police