Crime and Courts

The arrest of 33-year-old Miles Harford is the latest allegation of misconduct by Colorado funeral home owners. The finds have underscored the laxness of state funeral home regulations and pressed lawmakers to try to strengthen laws.

Three suspects might have killed two people aboard a yacht, possibly Americans, during an escape from Grenada to St. Vincent and the Grenadines, police said Thursday.

An Ohio mother who left her 16-month-old daughter home alone in a playpen for 10 days last summer while she went on vacation pleaded guilty on Thursday to aggravated murder.

A San Diego jury found Avonte Hartsfield guilty of setting his Rollin Roots food truck ablaze on Oct. 3, 2021.

Michelle Mack is accused of paying as many as 12 women for their travel expenses, as well as providing them with a list of retail stores across the country to target — including stores in 21 counties across California.

A leader of a Japan-based crime syndicate conspired to traffic uranium and plutonium from Myanmar in the belief that Iran would use it to make nuclear weapons, U.S. prosecutors alleged Wednesday.

The 41-year-old man put in bids for vehicles in the thousands of dollars, but when it came time to pay he altered the site to show a sale price of a buck, officials said.

A Chicago small business owner is fearing closure after being hit by burglars for a third time, NBC Chicago’s Vi Nguyen reports.

A judge has set a prison sentence of up to 60 years for parenting advice blogger Ruby Franke after she admitted to physically and emotionally abusing her children.

An unusual criminal trial is set to open over the handwritten lyrics to a classic rock blockbuster: the Eagles’ “Hotel California.”

Kevin Colantonio of North Providence was charged with maliciously damaging or destroying by means of fire or explosion a building or other real property.

An Anchorage woman will serve 99 years in prison for orchestrating the death of a developmentally disabled woman in a murder-for-hire plot, hoping to cash in on a $9 million offer from a Midwestern man purporting to be a millionaire.

Conrad Mainwaring, 72, was sentenced to up to 11 years in prison in connection with the assault of nine youths, aged 13 to 19, at Camp Greylock in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.

New York’s highest court appears torn about potentially overturning Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction. Weinstein’s lawyers urged the state’s Court of Appeals to dismiss the disgraced movie mogul’s landmark #MeToo conviction. They argue the trial judge, James Burke, trampled his right to a fair trial with pro-prosecution rulings that turned the trial into “1-800-GET-HARVEY.” Weinstein, 71, was convicted of a...

After over a decade of utilizing the technology, the city of Chicago announced on Tuesday that it will not renew its contract to use ShotSpotter, announcing that the equipment will be decommissioned later in 2024, NBC Chicago’s Natalie Martinez reports.

A woman in Kansas City, Missouri, was charged in the death of her one-month-old child after she allegedly placed the infant in an oven.

Authorities say a woman entered pastor Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, with a five-year-old child and opened fire.

A teenager pled guilty to multiple charges for falsely reporting a series of school threats in Stafford County, after detectives found a server that “would rival the National Security Agency” at the teen’s home.

A New York man who sued police after he was ticketed for shouting at an officer to turn on his headlights can move forward with his legal action, an appeals court ruled.

A Tennessee man who planned to travel to the southern border with an arsenal of weapons and explosives to “stir up the hornet’s nest” was arrested Monday, federal officials say.