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Second man charged in connection with theft of ruby slippers worn in ‘The Wizard of Oz'
A second man has been charged in connection with the 2005 theft of a pair of ruby slippers that Judy Garland wore in “The Wizard of Oz,” according to an indictment made public Sunday.
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Gypsy Rose Blanchard apologizes for ‘lack of accountability' in her first month from prison release
Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the child abuse victim who was convicted of killing her mother, apologized to people offended by her “lack of accountability” in her social media posts and media appearances during the first month she was released from prison.
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Former Arkansas State college football player accused of murdering his pregnant girlfriend
Blaise A. Taylor, 27, was taken into custody in Utah and held in connection to the fatal poisoning of Jade Benning, who died in Nashville on her 25th birthday.
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Queens doctor facing new sex crime charges
Prosecutors in Queens have added more alleged sex crimes to an already lengthy list of charges faced by gastroenterologist, Dr. Zhi Alan Cheng.
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James Crumbley, who bought gun used by son to kill 4 students, guilty of manslaughter in Michigan
The father of a Michigan school shooter was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter Thursday, a second conviction against the teen’s parents who were accused of failing to secure a gun at home and doing nothing to address acute signs of his mental turmoil.
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I-Team: third indictment for Queens doc accused of recording sex crimes against sedated women
Prosecutors in Queens have added more alleged sex crimes to an already lengthy list of charges faced by gastroenterologist, Dr. Zhi Alan Cheng. The latest accusations, contained in a third indictment against Cheng, involve a 48-year-old woman who says, in November of 2021, she was sedated for a colonoscopy inside New York-Presbyterian Hospital Queens only to wake up and find…
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Brooklyn man sentenced for drugging, sexually assaulting teen girls at his apartment
A 40-year-old Brooklyn man was sentenced to decades behind bars for sexually assaulting two teen girls he drugged in his apartment — crimes that were captured on surveillance video, the local district attorney’s office announced.
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Accused Gilgo Beach killer's estranged wife defends him in new statement
The wife of an architect charged in a string of slayings known as the Gilgo Beach serial killings released a statement late Wednesday in her husband’s defense, saying she didn’t believe him capable of the brutality of which he is accused. The statement, released on Asa Ellerup’s behalf by her lawyers, is her first statement in months since her husband’s arrest...
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Mississippi officer charged with forcing prisoner to lick urine off floor
A Mississippi police officer has been charged with forcing a person who was being booked in jail to lick urine off the floor of a holding cell, federal prosecutors alleged in court documents filed this month.
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Montana man pleads guilty to creating ‘giant' hybrid sheep with cloned animal parts
Court documents describe a yearslong conspiracy, beginning in 2013, in which Schubarth and at least five other people sought to create “giant sheep hybrids” by cross-breeding different species
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3 men charged with federal firearms counts after Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade shooting
Federal prosecutors have charged three men from Missouri with federal counts related to the illegal purchase of high-powered rifles and guns with extended magazines after last month’s shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade and rally left one person dead and roughly two dozen others injured.
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Connecticut police identify 1974 cold case victim after DNA breakthrough
State police have solved a 50-year-old cold case and identified the remains of a woman found dead in a shallow grave in Ledyard, Connecticut, in 1974.
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‘Our dad didn't make it:' NYC sucker-punch victim dies after nearly 7 years in coma
Domingo Tapia has died, nearly seven years after he was attacked while riding his bike on a Bedford-Stuyvesant street.
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NYC sucker-punch victims dies after nearly 7 years in coma
Nearly seven years after he was sucker-punched by a stranger on a New York City street, a beloved father and husband has died. Checkey Beckford reports.
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Ghislaine Maxwell asks court to overturn sex trafficking conviction
Imprisoned British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to toss out her sex trafficking conviction and 20-year prison sentence.
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2nd man arrested in case of burned bodies found in car near NYC golf course
Another man has been arrested in connection to a grisly 2022 double murder that left a pair of 22-year-olds dead, with their bodies found in a flaming vehicle near a Bronx golf course, investigators said Tuesday. In a case that has been haunting two families for nearly two years, the remains of victims Nikki Huang and Jesse Parilla were discovered…
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Brooklyn ‘Bling Bishop' found guilty of wire fraud, extortion
A Brooklyn preacher known for his flashy lifestyle and who boasted of his friendship with New York City’s mayor was found guilty in federal court Monday of wire fraud, attempted extortion and lying to the FBI. NBC New York’s Chris Jose reports.
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Brooklyn preacher known for flashy lifestyle convicted of wire fraud, attempted extortion
A Brooklyn preacher known for his flashy lifestyle and who boasted of his friendship with New York City’s mayor was found guilty in federal court Monday of wire fraud, attempted extortion and lying to the FBI.
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Arrest warrant issued for worst NYC landlord after racking up hundreds of violations
A New York City landlord named the worst in the city by the Public Advocate’s office could now be heading to jail, after allegedly failing to perform hundreds of court-ordered repairs on some Manhattan properties he owns.
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A US man is sentenced to life in prison for murder and rape in attack on 2 American women near castle in Germany
An American man was convicted of murder and other charges on Monday for brutally attacking two American women near Germany’s famed Neuschwanstein castle last summer and pushing them into a ravine, fatally injuring one of them.