Crime and Courts

The body found encased in concrete inside a refrigerator at a Northeast D.C. apartment building has been identified as a 44-year-old woman and housing advocate. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.

The man charged with killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson posted online in recent years about undergoing spinal surgery and struggling with chronic back pain, numbness and restless sleep, according to what appears to be an archived version of his deleted Reddit account.

With a simple pencil, paper and a dash of color, he took the public to places that cameras could not go. Bill Hennessy was a courtroom sketch artist for more than 40 years.

The police chief for Prince George’s Community College is accused of crashing into another car while driving drunk, causing severe injuries to the other driver. News4’s Jessica Albert reports.

A bankruptcy judge rejected a bid by The Onion’s parent company to buy Alex Jones’ far-right media company.

A Delaware judge says a UPS driver who crashed his truck after downing several beers while driving is not entitled to workers’ compensation for his injuries.

The police chief for Prince George’s Community College is accused of driving while intoxicated and causing a crash that critically injured another driver in Fairfax County, Virginia.

The 26-year-old Ivy League grad accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Manhattan street was carrying a notebook that may lend further insight into his mindset and alleged motivation, two sources familiar with the investigation said Wednesday.

Luxury real estate brokers the Alexander brothers have been arrested in connection with a sexual assault investigation in South Florida and New York, authorities said.

The 26-year-old appeared at a hearing in Pennsylvania Tuesday afternoon, where he refused to waive his right to extradition.

The ruling dashed, at least for now, the plans of The Onion’s parent company to take over Infowars and radically shift its content.

Federal authorities have charged a man with burning an American flag in the nation’s capital during protests against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress in July. Michael Snow Jr., of Durham, North Carolina, is charged with destruction of federal property. The flag was pulled down at Columbus Circle, in front of Union Station, by demonstrators calling for an...

A judge will rule on the case of a former Montgomery County high school student charged with making threats of mass violence earlier this year.

Two Department of Homeland Security agents in Utah sold drugs that were previously seized as evidence through an informant in an illegal scheme that brought in up to $300,000, according to court documents.

Luigi Nicholas Mangione was apparently living a charmed life: the grandson of a wealthy real estate developer, valedictorian of his elite Baltimore prep school and with degrees from one of the nation’s top private universities.

A former Montgomery County student who wrote a 129-page document describing the planning of a mass shooting went to trial. News4’s Mauricio Casillas reports.

Russell Williams, 67, is the fourth person to have his conviction overturned in the “sex for lies” investigation.

The former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch has requested a court hearing to determine whether he’s mentally fit to stand trial as he faces federal sex trafficking charges in New York.

A man in the San Fernando Valley of California has agreed to plead guilty to wire fraud, after prosecutors accused him of running a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme targeting local Filipino community members, including senior churchgoers. 

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