Crime and Courts

The complaint said the back door of the truck opened by unknown means, leading to three bags of U.S. currency falling out.

Scott Peterson said in a declaration seeking to overturn his murder conviction that he had “absolutely nothing to do with the disappearance and deaths of my wife and son.”

A Texas mother who officials say took alcoholic Jell-O shots to her child’s elementary school Christmas party has been arrested.

Mangione faces four federal charges, for which prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

The former GOP representative had pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud and aggravated identity theft charges.

The New York Republican pleaded guilty last summer to federal wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

Prosectors believe Mangione presents danger after he “expressed intent to target an entire industry, and rally political and social opposition.”

Disgraced former U.S. Rep. George Santos, who lied about his life story and defrauded donors, faces sentencing in federal court on Friday.

The 43-year-old is accused of raping six women over five months in a depraved rampage in which he punched, waterboarded and shocked victims with a cattle prod and kept recordings of the assaults as trophies.

Florida police have released video of the arrest of a suspect accused of kidnapping the wife of her ex-boyfriend by impersonating an ICE agent.

Officials released video of the April 10 arrest of a suspect accused of kidnapping a woman by impersonating a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.

Andre Brown had his conviction overturned after serving more than half of the sentence behind bars. But after three years of freedom, he may be heading back to prison, unless top officials intervene.

Families of the school shooting victims reached a settlement with the city of Uvalde, Texas, where nineteen children and two teachers were killed.

Not far from where a gunman killed 23 while targeting Hispanics at a Texas Walmart, victims’ family members and survivors got a chance to address him.

“Doomsday mom” Lori Vallow Daybell was convicted Tuesday of conspiring to kill her fourth husband, Charles Vallow.

A Florida man has been arrested for attacking an 11-year-old girl because he believed she’d thrown eggs at his home in an incident caught on video.

A man in Tampa is facing charges after he pinned down an 11-year-old girl who he thought was throwing eggs at his apartment building.

Walgreens has agreed to pay up to $350 million in a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, who accused the pharmacy of illegally filling millions of prescriptions in the last decade for opioids and other controlled substances. In a settlement Friday, the nationwide drugstore chain must pay the government at least $300 million and will owe another $50 million...

Karen Read’s second murder trial began Tuesday with a prosecutor saying the defendant’s own words will bolster evidence that she killed her police officer boyfriend three years ago and a defense attorney calling the case “the definition of reasonable doubt.”

Prosecutors said that Vallow Daybell and her brother, Alex Cox, planned to kill her estranged husband so she could collect money from his life insurance policy and marry her then-boyfriend, Chad Daybell, an Idaho author who wrote several religious novels about prophecies and the end of the world.