Crime and Courts

A Florida man has been arrested for attacking an 11-year-old girl because he believed she’d thrown eggs at his home in an incident caught on video.

A man in Tampa is facing charges after he pinned down an 11-year-old girl who he thought was throwing eggs at his apartment building.

Walgreens has agreed to pay up to $350 million in a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, who accused the pharmacy of illegally filling millions of prescriptions in the last decade for opioids and other controlled substances. In a settlement Friday, the nationwide drugstore chain must pay the government at least $300 million and will owe another $50 million...

After dozens of court deadlines and hearings, back and forth over witnesses and a complicated jury selection process, Karen Read’s second murder trial is expected to move forward Tuesday with opening statements.

A homicide investigation is underway after someone found a woman’s body in a dumpster in a busy shopping center in Northeast D.C. News4’s Walter Morris reports.

Prosecutors said that Vallow Daybell and her brother, Alex Cox, planned to kill her estranged husband so she could collect money from his life insurance policy and marry her then-boyfriend, Chad Daybell, an Idaho author who wrote several religious novels about prophecies and the end of the world.

A D.C. woman’s body was found in a dumpster at a shopping center in Northeast days after she was reported missing, authorities say.

Prince George’s County police officers shot and killed a man who allegedly stabbed two people and started a damaging fire Sunday at National Harbor. The shooting happened just after 10 a.m. on St. George’s Boulevard, right next to an apartment complex. The Independent Investigations Division spent well over eight hours on the scene collecting evidence. Prince George’s County Chief...

A man who allegedly went on an early morning crime spree was shot and killed at National Harbor. News4’s Paul Wagner reports.

Dawn Hughes has served as an expert witness in some of the most high-profile sexual misconduct trials of the last several years.

Nearly six years after a man fatally shot 23 people in a racist attack targeting Hispanic shoppers at a Walmart in Texas near the U.S.-Mexico border, the gunman’s criminal case is set to come to a close.

A Manassas Park man accused of killing and dismembering his wife will be in court next week for a hearing. His trial begins Sept. 8.

Investigators believe they found the body of a missing 24-year-old mother buried in the woods in Charles County. Telemundo 44’s Freixys Casado reports the woman’s boyfriend faces charges.

What police say began as a kidnapping ended with a barricade situation in Bethesda. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports the situation is over and a suspect is in custody.

A judge says a former roommate of four University of Idaho students who were killed in 2022 can testify about seeing an intruder with “bushy eyebrows” around the time of the crime.

The officer was seriously hurt, but is in good spirits, police say. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

A South Florida man accused of stabbing another man more than 49 times and partially burning his body took bloody selfies after the killing, investigators said in a court hearing Thursday.

An escaped California killer convicted in an LA County murder and sought in a shootout in Tijuana that killed a law enforcement officer is in custody.

New Pornographers’ drummer Joe Seiders has been arrested for child pornography and molestation, police confirmed, with the band sharing in a statement they’ve cut all ties with the former member.

Luigi Mangione was indicted Thursday on a federal murder charge in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a necessary step for prosecutors to seek the death penalty.