Category: Crime and Judiciary

The former Prince Andrew was arrested and held for hours by British police Thursday on suspicion of misconduct in public office related to his links to Jeffrey Epstein, an extraordinary move in a country where authorities once sought to shield the royal family from embarrassment. It was the first time in nearly four centuries that...

A judge on Thursday sentenced an Ohio woman to four consecutive life sentences with the possibility of parole after 60 years after she pleaded guilty to charges alleging she used fentanyl doses to kill four men she was trying to rob. Rebecca Auborn, 36, of Columbus, was indicted in 2023 following the accusation that she...

A Texas judge on Thursday will consider a formal declaration of innocence for the four men who were wrongfully accused of the 1991 Austin yogurt shop murders, including one man who was initially convicted and sent to death row in the killing of four teenagers in a crime that haunted the city for decades. An...

A man has been charged with murder after taking part in a marijuana deal that ended with a shooting that killed two people and hurt another inside a dorm room at South Carolina State University, police said. Khamanti Lytrel Kennedy, 18, ran from the dorm room after the Thursday night shooting at the Hugine Suites...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement cannot re-detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia because a 90-day detention period has expired and the government has no viable plan for deporting him, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. The Salvadoran national’s case has become a focal point in the immigration debate after he was mistakenly deported to his home country...

A people-smuggler turned slave boss has been jailed for 3 years. Ana Lucia Martins used her cleaning company to traffic Brazilian nationals to the UK – promising them work and £400 per week. But, they were forced to work 12-hour shifts with no breaks for food or water. Credit: UK Home Office

A shooting during a Rhode Island youth hockey game left three people dead, including the shooter, and three more hospitalized Monday night in critical condition, authorities said. Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves told reporters that someone helped bring a swift end to the violent scene Monday afternoon by intervening and trying to subdue the shooter,...

A man in northern Sweden is suspected of exploiting his wife and selling sex with her to at least 120 men, the prosecutor in charge of the case told The Associated Press on Monday. The man has been in custody since October, after the woman reported the incidents to police, and investigators have been preparing...

Costa Rican authorities said Monday they were investigating the killing of a U.S. citizen in an apparent robbery. Kurt Van Dyke, a 66-year-old Costa Rica resident and local hotel owner in Puerto Viejo on the country’s Caribbean coast, was killed Saturday, according to the Judicial Investigation Agency. His body showed signs of strangulation and stab...

A man accused of killing 15 people in a mass shooting at a Jewish festival on Sydney’s Bondi Beach appeared in court Monday for the first time since his release from the hospital. Naveed Akram appeared in Sydney’s Downing Center Local Court via a video link from the maximum security Goulburn Correctional Center 200 kilometers...