A New Zealand jury on Friday found a man guilty of murder in the death of 22-year-old British backpacker Grace Millane. Millane died last December on her birthday after meeting the man through the dating app Tinder, going out for drinks with him, and then returning to his hotel apartment in central Auckland. Prosecutors said the man strangled Millane to...

A former Vermont police officer was in a St. Albans courtroom Monday, pleading not guilty to an assault charge stemming from the way he handled a handcuffed suspect in March. Defense attorney Rebecca Otey entered a not guilty plea on behalf of her client, Jason Lawton, 31, of Cambridge.

A Maine man captured on a home security video firing shots into his stepfather’s home is due to be sentenced for murder.

A scandal over alleged sexual molestation and abuse at the Vatican’s youth seminary is growing, with more former papal altar boys alleging inappropriate behavior by priests inside the Vatican walls. Le Iene, an Italian investigative television program, plans to air the new allegations Sunday; the show provided the broadcast to The Associated Press ahead of time. The Vatican announced in...

A Massachusetts man is accused of trying to kidnap two teenagers in broad daylight. Jeffrey Lennon, 42, of Plymouth, appeared in Plymouth District Court Monday. Police say he was arrested Friday for allegedly trying to kidnap an 18-year-old woman and a 13-year-old girl in a wooded area off of Lakeview Boulevard.

Judge Tammy Kemp, who hugged Amber Guyger and gave her a Bible after the conclusion of Guyger’s murder trial, is coming under scrutiny over whether she crossed an ethical line.

Car lovers from around the world splashed out more than $27 million at an auction Sunday for dozens of luxury cars seized from the son of Equatorial Guinea’s president in a Swiss money-laundering probe. The 25 lots sold by auction house Bonhams included a white-and-cream 2014 Lamborghini Veneno roadster that cost the buyer 8.28 million Swiss francs ($8.4 million), comprising...

More than once, President Donald Trump brought up how much the U.S. has done for Ukraine. Time and again, he asked Ukraine’s president for help. There was no explicit quid pro quo in Trump’s half-hour phone call with Volodymyr Zelenskiy last July. But it wouldn’t have been a stretch to make a connection between Trump’s pleas for help and his...

A member of an international team supporting the search for 43 missing students in southern Mexico said Wednesday that new information has led Mexican authorities to begin working at another garbage dump. The dump outside the town of Iguala, Guerrero “is in the epicenter of the action,” said former Colombian prosecutor Ángela Buitrago of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights...

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., likened President Donald Trump’s conversation with the Ukrainian president to that of a mob boss.

The searing TV series on the plight of the Central Park Five created a memorable Emmy moment Sunday when the five exonerated men stood and were honored at the awards show.

Singer R. Kelly was a no-show for an initial court appearance in a Minnesota case in which he is accused of offering a 17-year-old girl $200 to take off her clothes and dance in 2001. Kelly, who is jailed in Chicago on sexual abuse and other counts, was charged in Minnesota in August with soliciting the girl after meeting her...

The man charged with breaking into singer Taylor Swift’s Rhode Island mansion is accused of causing more than $20,000 damage to President Donald Trump’s New Jersey golf course.

The elected state’s attorney serving Vermont’s most populous county took her staff inside a prison Tuesday to learn more about the daily lives of the people whose cases the office prosecutes. Behind the razor wire fences of the Northwest State Correctional Facility in St. Albans Town, Chittenden County State’s Attorney Sarah George — who is known for fresh approaches to...

The man who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan is interested in getting a job in the music industry, possibly in California.

Boston’s district attorney can’t be forced to prosecute a protester arrested during the recent “straight pride” rally, a Supreme Judicial Court justice ruled Monday, according to The Boston Globe. The ruling comes after Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins filed an emergency petition last week after Boston Municipal Judge Richard Sinnott denied requests from the DA’s office to dismiss charges...

Massachusetts’ Supreme Judicial Court ruled that Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins cannot be forced by a judge to prosecute a protester arrested at the recent “straight pride” parade.

New Hampshire’s attorney general has taken over criminal law enforcement functions of the prosecutor’s office in the state’s most populated county, citing failures in leadership in several cases and no sign of improvement. Attorney General Gordon MacDonald on Friday sent a letter to Hillsborough County Attorney Michael Conlon on Friday. He appointed former Manchester Police Chief David Mara as an...

A judge who has been criticized after denying prosecutors’ requests to drop charges against counterprotesters arrested during the “straight pride” parade in Boston detained an attorney during arraignments.

Phil Tracy, a former Suffolk County Prosecutor who’s now an attorney, joins Joy to discuss the events that transpired at the so-called “straight pride parade” over the weekend, as well as some other legal matters.