Crime and Courts

Two weeks after a 5-year-old girl was shot in Southeast D.C., she’s still in critical condition. D.C. police say her younger brother found a loaded gun inside an apartment and shot her. On the night of the shooting, police charged 21-year-old D’Jaunae McCrory Jackson with cruelty to children, assault on a police officer and possessing the gun used in...

A Virginia man was arrested after federal authorities found a cache of homemade explosive devices, some of which were marked as “lethal,” at his home, marking the largest seizure by number of finished explosive devices in FBI history, officials said.

A Colorado man spent New Year’s Eve behind bars, accused of bias crimes for allegedly trying to strangle a TV news reporter while saying, “This is Trump’s America now,” officials said.

After a 5-year-old was shot when her younger brother found a gun, police have made a new arrest. News4’s Paul Wagner reports.

Authorities have released the identity of the sleeping woman burned to death inside a New York City subway train by a man who allegedly lit her on fire and stayed to watch the aftermath, officials said Tuesday.

The homicide rate in the District of Columbia has dropped significantly, totaling fewer than 200 victims for the first time since 2019. The trend includes an eye-opening drop in violent crime and property crime. City officials credit the turnabout to a number of changes in the law, more focused policing and city agencies working together. The Chief of Police and…

For the first time in four years, the homicide rate in D.C. has dropped significantly, totaling fewer than 200 victims for the first time since 2019. 

A woman has died two weeks after a suspect stabbed her and her toddler while they were walking on a sidewalk in the Pentagon City neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia, police say. Iman Gaye, 26, died at a hospital Monday morning from injuries she suffered in the stabbing on Dec. 15, Arlington County police said. Gaye and her toddler girl were…

An Argentine judge has confirmed charges against five people in connection with the death of Liam Payne.

A cloud of mystery hangs over the killing of Mosley, a mother, grandmother and deeply respected law enforcement leader in southern New Jersey.

Luka Doncic of the Dallas Mavericks is the latest professional athlete whose home has been burglarized.

Dozens of Chinese workers have been taken and put up in hotels in Brazil’s tropical northeastern region after local labor authorities found them at a construction site for electric vehicle automaker BYD.

Jason Lewis, the former D.C. employee found guilty of shooting and killing a D.C. teenager, is set to be sentenced in the case in the early days of 2025. A new court filing accuses him of obstructing a witness in the case.

Jason Lewis, the former D.C. employee found guilty of shooting and killing a D.C. teenager, is set to be sentenced in the case in the early days of the new year.

Video of the fatal Dec. 9 assault on Robert Brooks was made public on Friday by the state’s attorney general, who is investigating the officers’ use of force.

Newly released body-camera footage shows that a man fatally beaten in a New York prison this month was repeatedly pummeled by correctional officers while in handcuffs.

The man accused of burning a woman to death inside a New York City subway train has been indicted on state charges.

The woman has sued the embattled rapper, alleging he drugged and sexually assaulted her in 2006.

An Alabama woman who says she was raped by Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs when she was 13 can proceed anonymously, for now, in her lawsuit against the rap moguls, a judge ruled Thursday.

A 66-year-old man recently diagnosed with dementia was killed in a hit-and-run Tuesday in Kingman Park, a few blocks from Eliot-Hine Middle School in Northeast D.C. Ronnie Clark was standing near 16th and C streets NE on Christmas Eve when the driver of a Nissan jumped the curb and hit him, leaving him trapped under the car. Clark died...