Crime and Courts

A man who is accused of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend in Providence, Rhode Island was taken into custody in Madison on Thursday. Providence police said officers responded to Crimea Street in Providence at 12:13 a.m. Thursday after getting reports of a person with a gun and a witness told them that a man threatened his ex-girlfriend with a gun, forcibly took…

Watertown police have arrested a man who is accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting two young children in the 1980s. Police said they started investigating in January of this year when they received reports alleging two children under 6 years old were abused over the summers of 1982 and 1983. Police said they have obtained warrants charging 60-year-old John Church,…

Criminal proceedings were suspended Thursday against the man accused of stalking actor Jennifer Aniston and crashing his car into the gate at her home in Bel-Air, Los Angeles.

In the early hours of Nov. 13, 2022, when four University of Idaho students would be stabbed to death in an off-campus house as some of them slept, a neighbor’s home security video captured the same white car circling the block multiple times. The vehicle approached the house again and again before speeding away 13 minutes later. The previously unseen footage obtained...

The 57-year-old is accused of sneaking aboard a New York-to-Paris Delta flight at JFK in November, without a valid boarding pass.

After three former Memphis police officers were acquitted in the beating death of Tyre Nichols, community and civil rights leaders are expressing outrage over another disappointment in the long push for police reform. Nichols’s death more than two years ago sparked nationwide protests and renewed calls for systemic change as the first post-George Floyd case that revealed the limits of...

A 75-year-old man from Long Island, New York, has been arrested for animal cruelty after dozens of dead cats were pulled from his home last weekend.

Singer Smokey Robinson’s attorney responded to a lawsuit accusing the Motown legend of assault and sexual battery.

Three former Memphis officers were acquitted Wednesday of state charges in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols in 2023.

In May of 2022, police say 17-year-old Jimmy McGrath was stabbed to death outside of a home in Shelton where students from a rival school were having a party.

Police arrested a suspect in an apparent road rage hit-and-run caught on video showing a car slamming into a motorcyclist at high speed on a highway.

Four women identified as housekeepers who worked for Smokey Robinson and his wife at their home filed a lawsuit accusing the Motown legend of assault and sexual battery.

Police in Beaverton, Oregon, shared dashcam video which shows a driver sideswiping a motorcyclist in a fit of early morning road rage.

Authorities say they’ve charged a second suspect with murder in the death of a television reporter on assignment to cover the Super Bowl in New Orleans.

Kelsey Grammer is revealing his sister Karen’s final moments after she was kidnapped and brutally murdered in 1975. The actor is recalling that heartbreaking time in an interview with “Good Morning America,” sharing how that moment changed his life and led him to struggle with alcohol and drugs. In his new book “Karen: A Brother Remembers,” he talks about learning...

Police are searching for Trevor McEuen, who was accused of killing Aaron Martinez in 2023.

The shuttered Alcatraz Island has been a major tourist destination since 1973, operated by the National Park Service and part of Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

Sean “Diddy” Combs is accused of engaging in sex trafficking and presiding over a racketeering conspiracy.

A South African woman has been convicted of kidnapping and selling her 6-year-old daughter in a case that horrified the country.

An administrator at the Contra Costa School of the Performing Arts was arrested on Wednesday after being accused of having sex with an underage student.