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Two weeks after a disgruntled lawyer allegedly killed her son and severely wounded her husband at their New Jersey home, a federal judge is speaking out publicly for the first time. Judge Esther Salas released a statement Monday, calling for more privacy for federal judges in the wake of the attack. Erica Byfield with the story.

A North Texas wedding photographer has been awarded a $1.08 million defamation verdict against a married couple whom the jury found posted false statements in a social media campaign after being unhappy about a surprise fee.

Constance Wannamaker wanted to scream and cry at the same time. The Texas immigration attorney had just heard what should have been great news: Her client, a 21-year-old Guatemalan woman, was getting released from the El Paso Processing Center after weeks in detention. But that’s just a sliver of the story.

The 20-year-old New Jersey man accused of killing a college student and another woman in the last few months will now be charged with the murder of a Philadelphia woman as well, Essex County prosecutors said Monday.

John Bolton’s attorney suggested Tuesday that a court order directing former White House counsel Don McGahn to appear before Congress has no bearing on whether his client and another ex-national security official he represents will testify. The statement from attorney Charles Cooper aimed to blunt public speculation that the judge’s order in the McGahn case could influence the actions of...

In his first message from prison, the 81-year-old told NBC10’s Erin Coleman that he is a victim of “entrapment” carried out by a “low-life District Attorney” and “corrupt Judge.”

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a Maryland man’s bid for a new trial based on information uncovered by the hit podcast “Serial.”

A former New Jersey police officer has been found guilty of all charges, including the top count of aggravated vehicular homicide, in a drunken driving crash that killed a fellow cop and another man two years ago.

A courthouse, a municipal building and two community college campuses in Bergen County were evacuated as a precaution Thursday as police investigated multiple bomb threats at the locations, authorities said.

Millionaire heir Robert Durst’s current wife helped him cover up what happened to his long-vanished former spouse, new court papers say.

A longtime resident of New York City was honored Wednesday for warning authorities about one of the devices in last year’s bombing in Chelsea and “saving countless lives.”

The NYPD has closed its investigation into the death of a prominent New York State judge whose body was found floating in the Hudson River last month.

President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen on Thursday said he tried to rig online polls “at the direction and for the sole benefit of” Trump when he was thinking about making a run for the White House. Jonathan Dienst reports.

Activists are calling for the wrestling referee who forced a high school wrestler to cut his dreadlocks before a match to be permanently banned from the sport. Jen Maxfield reports.

The trial for Roderick Covlin is set to begin in lower Manhattan. Covlin is accused of plotting to frame his daughter for killing his wife. Tracie Strahan is outside the courthouse with the latest information.

In September, Amer Fakhoury closed his New Hampshire restaurant to take his first vacation in years to visit family in his native Lebanon — a country he hadn’t been to for nearly two decades. He hasn’t returned to the United States. Soon after his arrival in Lebanon, the 57-year-old American citizen was detained by authorities and remains jailed there. Doctors...

Geena Davis testified Thursday that she does not believe she was ever legally married to a plastic surgeon who filed for divorce from her in 2018 even though a video of a 2001 ceremony shows her vowing to love him as her husband until death.

Lawyers for the victims of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein say Prince Andrew should speak to U.S. investigators immediately, after the senior British royal withdrew from public duties over what he called his “ill-judged association” with the convicted pedophile. U.S. attorney Gloria Allred said Andrew should contact American authorities “without conditions and without delay.” Andrew announced Wednesday that he was pulling...

The lawyer of one of the two American teenagers jailed in Rome over the slaying of a Carabinieri police officer says their trial has been fast-tracked and will begin early next year.