Crime and Courts

Some neighbors had to clean blood off of their sidewalks after the shooting that killed three people. News4’s Aimee Cho reports.

A judge is set to hear motions that will shape the proceedings in the Idaho college murders trial and could remove the death penalty as punishment.

Friends and family of Aiden Vining got a chance to speak for him, and about him, at Monday’s sentencing for Cesar Alexander Lopez, 26, of Hyattsville, Maryland. Last November, Lopez pleaded guilty to Involuntary Manslaughter for selling counterfeit Percocet found to be laced with deadly amounts of fentanyl. Aiden Vining, who was 17, was found unresponsive in his family’s Chevy…

A mother is speaking out after the sentencing of the drug dealer who sold her son fentanyl-laced pills. She says she feels the sentence does not fully reflect that the crime took a life. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.

A Missouri woman who has fostered more than 200 children is being investigated for abuse, including possibly exchanging her child for a monkey.

A South Jersey woman is accused of trying to hire a man she recently met on Tinder to kill her ex-boyfriend — who is a Philadelphia police officer — and his teenage daughter.

Sad, alone and angry. That’s how Maryland mother Ondraya Graves says she felt after she learned the man accused of killing her daughter was being offered a plea deal. “I actually was at work when they called and so my heart dropped and was very sad… it just made me feel alone…” Graves said. “Essentially he would get away...

Her disappearance has been surrounded by mystery and innuendo-filled Facebook posts. Now, investigators in Charles County, Maryland, are setting the record straight about the intense search for a young mother who has not been seen since the end of March. The Charles County Sheriff’s Office says they suspect foul play in the disappearance of Lesbia Mileth Ramirez Guerra. They...

Investigators in Charles County, Maryland are setting the record straight about the intense search for a young mother who has not been seen since the end of March. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.

A Maryland mother worries her daughter, who was shot and killed in Southeast D.C. in November, won’t get justice after the accused killer accepted a plea deal. News4’s Walter Morris reports.

Police are addressing nighttime fighting — an increasing problem in the Clarendon section of Arlington, Virginia. Surveillance video shows three people involved in a fight and police moving in to break it up. In the same area in March, police were called to a restaurant for a fight. Three people were arrested. Across the street in late February, Bar Bao…

Nighttime fighting is an increasing problem in the Clarendon section of Arlington, Virginia. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports.

Prosecutors in Los Angeles filed a murder charge with special circumstances Monday in the disappearance and death of Oscar Omar Hernandez, a 13-year-old boy who vanished last month after visiting a soccer coach.

Karl Mitchell, 71, did not have the proper permits to own the animals, and violated other rules over the years, according to the NYE County Sheriff’s Office.

Indian police have arrested a 24-year-old American Youtuber who visited an off-limits island in the Indian Ocean.

A man attempted to rob a Houston convenience store earlier this year but as he was drawing a handgun from his waistband, the weapon slipped and slid down the leg of his sweatpants.

Lori Vallow Daybell, who was convicted of killing her two youngest children and conspiring to murder a romantic rival, is on trial again Monday. This time, she’s accused in Arizona of conspiring to murder her estranged husband.

A man is accused of going on a stabbing spree in the Trinidad neighborhood in Northeast D.C., which left six people injured Thursday afternoon. The victims are all in stable condition, and their injuries are considered non-life-threatening, according to police. Police said good Samaritans from the community chased and subdued Andrade before he was taken into custody. “He poked...

A man is accused of stabbing six people in the Northeast D.C. neighborhood of Trinidad. The attack took place in broad daylight. News4’s Dominique Moody reports.

Prosecutors are seeking more than seven years in prison for disgraced former congressman George Santos after he pleaded guilty to federal fraud and identity theft charges. The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York argues in a court filing filed Friday that a significant sentence was warranted because the New York Republican’s “unparalleled crimes” had “made a mockery”...