Crime and Courts

A 13-year-old girl convicted in the beating death of a 64-year-old man in D.C. last year was sentenced to spend the next eight years in a secure juvenile facility.

Three U.S. Army soldiers at Fort Cavazos, Texas, have been arrested on human smuggling charges, U.S. Attorney Jaime Esparza for the Western District of Texas said Thursday.

A suspected gunman is dead and two students are injured following a shooting Wednesday afternoon at a school in Butte County, according to the sheriff’s office.

The mother and sister of a anti-gun violence activist killed in a weekend shooting say they are devastated but strengthened by the outpouring of support. News4’s Mauricio Casillas reports.

A judge sentenced a 13-year-old girl to remain in a juvenile facility for eight years for her role in the fatal beating of a 64-year-old man last year.

A judge ruled that a Virginia man accused of killing his wife, whose body has still not been found, will go trial in September. Thirty-seven-year-old Naresh Bhatt of Manassas Park was indicted earlier this week on charges of murder and defiling the body of his wife, Mamta Kafle Bhatt. The 28-year-old nurse who went missing inthe summer has been the...

A good Samaritan who went outside to grab a delivery found two infant girls who were dumped in a ditch near his Indiana home after the car they were in was stolen.

Trump’s attorneys said President Biden’s statement that his son had been “selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted” also applies to the president-elect.

Six former Apple employees are facing fraud charges in a scam that targeted the tech giant’s program for matching workers’ charitable donations, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office.

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 man concealed items inside shipping containers in Long Beach that were bound for North Korea, federal authorities say.

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.