Crime and Courts

Benefield, 33, was convicted of manslaughter in July for a killing that she said was self-defense. Florida prosecutors had charged her with murder.

A 47-year-oldFlorida woman has been sentenced to life in prison for zipping her boyfriend into a suitcase and leaving him to die of suffocation amid a history of domestic and alcohol abuse.

Jamie Lee Komoroski pleaded guilty Monday to reckless homicide and three felony driving under the influence charges.

A grand jury indicted a Virginia man on a first-degree murder charge in the case of his missing wife. News4’s Walter Morris reports.

The Los Angeles Police Department said Monday it had video that showed Hannah Kobayashi, the woman from Hawaii who vanished last month after landing at LAX, crossing the border into Mexico, and said there was no evidence of foul play in her disappearance.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser encouraged residents to shop local as small businesses rely on consumers during the holiday season. She said the Metropolitan Police Department has made progress in reducing retail theft in the District. News4’s Mark Segraves reports.

The body of a 7-year-old boy has been recovered after he went missing over the weekend in Two Rivers, Wisconsin.

“I never went a day without worrying or thinking about if they had a terrible ending to their life,” Christine Heller Seaman said about her grandparents Charles and Catherine Romer, who were reported missing in April 1980.

The owner of the convenience store in Prince George’s County said he watched on his cellphone as a burglar cut open an ATM, trying to take the money inside. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

Five people were arrested after D.C. police say they spray painted and threw liquid on the office building of a pro-Israel lobbying group.

A 20-year-old woman was shot and killed in Woodbridge, Virginia, on Wednesday after officers were called for a domestic dispute, police said. Someone called police the night before Thanksgiving and reported a domestic altercation involving a family member, Prince William County police said. Rhemidee Iyeshala Barnes, of Woodbridge, was shot in a home in the 13500 block of Delaney Road…

Sean “Diddy” Combs has been denied bail as he awaits a May sex trafficking trial.

Police in Boulder, Colorado, are refuting assertions that there is viable evidence and leads about the 1996 killing of JonBenet Ramsey that they are not pursuing.

After a judge on Tuesday said Rudy Giuliani was not complying with court orders to surrender his assets to the two Georgia election workers he falsely accused of election fraud during the 2020 election, former New York City Mayor said that he’s struggling to make ends meet.

Two companies have cut ties with Conor McGregor after a civil court jury in Ireland ruled that he must pay a woman who accused him of raping her more than $250,000.

A Massachusetts man who spent 27 years in jail for a murder he claims that he didn’t commit has been awarded $13 million by a jury.

Marlena Velez, 22, is alleged to have stolen items from a Target in Cape Coral, Florida, by scanning false bar codes with cheaper prices, police said.

Two women said Eduardo Valdivia raped them, and prosecutors said a third potential victim has come forward. News4’s Paul Wagner reports.

Authorities say a suspected terrorist wanted in the U.S. for two bombings in the San Francisco area in 2003 has appeared in a London courtroom after being captured in the U.K.

An FBI agent is accused of luring women to his tattoo studio in Gaithersburg, Maryland, before raping and assaulting them, police say.