A 21-year-old Hofstra University junior was fatally shot early Friday during a home invasion off-campus, authorities said.
A Louisiana woman has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison for impersonating a federal safety official following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Some fans of a homeless hitchhiker who achieved Internet celebrity by acting as a Good Samaritan with a hatchet are stunned by murder accusations against him.
New York Jets running back Mike Goodson was arrested on drug and gun charges in New Jersey early Friday morning, New Jersey State Police said.
A homeless hitchhiker who achieved Internet celebrity by acting as a Good Samaritan with a hatchet is sought by police as a murder suspect in a separate case.
A jury found Wednesday that Jodi Arias was cruel when she killed ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander in 2008.
A pizza deliveryman is accused of selling more than $45,000 in cocaine, hidden among pizza boxes, to undercover agents in New York.
In a fast-moving child abuse investigation that started two weeks ago in Denmark, U.S. officials this week arrested a suspect in northern California and are now trying to determine whether there are additional child victims.
New Orleans police arrested a second suspect in the Mother's Day shooting that wounded 19 people this week, including three still in critical condition.
Residents of a New Jersey senior citizen building have been accused of prostitution and drug-related crimes.
A judge denies a motion to dismiss the murder case will proceed the man accused of killing 6-year-old Etan Patz, a court official and lawyer say.
O.J. Simpson is testifying Wednesday in his effort to get a new trial on robbery, assault and kidnapping charges.
A 12-year-old California boy accused of stabbing his 8-year-old sister to death was charged Wednesday with second-degree murder.
New Orleans police said they arrested a suspect in the Mother's Day shooting that left 19 people wounded this week.
A Bronx Supreme Court Judge dismissed on Wednesday the manslaughter indictment against New York Police Officer Richard Haste, who fatally shot an unarmed teenager in 2012.
Seth Penalver and Herman Lindsey are no longer on Florida's death row, but they are fighting for those who still are. Penalver and Lindsey, two of Florida's death row exonerees, held a press conference on Wednesday asking Florida Gov. Rick Scott to veto a death penalty bill recently passed by the state legislature.
Abortion provider Kermit Gosnell was sentenced to life with no parole in the death of a third baby.
The 12-year-old California boy accused of stabbing his 8-year-old sister to death will be tried as juvenile, his attorney said Tuesday.
A Bronx woman accused of a charity scam after the Connecticut school shooting was indicted Tuesday on charges of scheming to defraud and identity theft, according to prosecutors.
Philadelphia abortion provider Dr. Kermit Gosnell will get life in prison after being convicted of murder, district attorney says Tuesday.
A man whose 4-year-old boy fatally shot a 6-year-old is arrested, accused of having unsecured weapons accessible to children, a prosecutor's office says.
A woman who had an abortion at Dr. Kermit Gosnell's Philadelphia clinic is now regretting her decision.
A jury has found Philadelphia abortion provider Dr. Kermit Gosnell guilty of three counts of first-degree murder.
Disgraced football legend O.J. Simpson is scheduled to be back in court to ask that his robbery, assault and kidnapping convictions be thrown out.
A 12-year-old California boy accused of fatally stabbing his 8-year-old sister had been suspended from his middle school this year.
A judge said Monday there is good cause to let Colorado movie theater shooting suspect James Holmes change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity.
Disgraced football legend O.J. Simpson is scheduled to be back in court to ask that his robbery, assault and kidnapping convictions be thrown out.
Four bodies with gunshot wounds were found in a southern Indiana home late Saturday night, authorities said.
Michelle Knight was rescued last week from more than 10 years in captivity, but her family still doesn't know exactly where she is.
Police burst into a home Sunday in Trenton, New Jersey, finding a woman and her 13-year-old son dead, and her three other children held hostage, police said.
Authorities arrest a teenager and charge him with murder in the case of a missing Georgia college student.
An emergency responder to the Texas fertilizer plant explosion will plead not guilty to having possessed materials for a pipe bomb, his lawyer told CNN Saturday.
They've been to hell and back, but a fulfilling life is within reach for the three Cleveland abduction survivors: just look at Elizabeth Smart and Jaycee Dugard.
A defendant in the deadly Florida A&M University hazing incident pleaded no contest to felony hazing in exchange for prosecutors dropping a manslaughter charge.
One of the emergency responders at last month's deadly Texas fertilizer plant explosion is now charged with possessing materials for a pipe bomb, a court document states.
DNA tests confirm Ariel Castro is the father of a 6-year-old girl born to one of the three women he is accused of keeping in captivity for close to a decade.
Here are the latest developments in the case of three long-missing women in Cleveland: Amanda Berry, 27; Georgina "Gina" DeJesus, 23; and Michelle Knight, 32.
The next phase of the Jodi Arias trial has been postponed; court will resume next Wednesday.
Neighbors, friends and relatives are shocked at allegations that Ariel Castro held three women in his home.
Here are the latest developments in the case of three long-missing women in Cleveland: Amanda Berry, 27; Georgina "Gina" DeJesus, 23; and Michelle Knight, 32.
A Florida man fleeing a traffic stop almost got away, police say. Until he met up with an alligator.
A Mississippi teenager faces 27 years in prison after running over and killing a man walking along a rural highway in a case the victim's family called a hate crime.
The University of Montana will overhaul its handling of sexual harassment and assault complaints after a federal probe found "real and significant" problems, the Justice Department announced Thursday.
An elderly nun and two other protesters could spend the rest of their lives in prison after being convicted of breaching a nuclear weapons facility.
Prosecutors in Utah want to charge a teenager as an adult in connection with the death of a soccer referee, the Salt Lake County district attorney's office said Wednesday.
Blood found on the scene of a Michigan kidnapping belonged to the victim, police said Thursday.
Here are the latest developments in the case of three long-missing women who were found alive in Cleveland on Monday.
An Arizona jury Wednesday found Jodi Arias guilty of first-degree murder for killing Travis Alexander in June 2008.
The man who conned his way into the cockpit of an US Airways flight in March pleaded guilty Wednesday in Philadelphia to one count of fraud in connection with an identification document.
After the freeing of three women and a girl from their alleged captivity in Cleveland, people are asking if Cleveland police missed clues.
An elderly nun and two other protesters face 20 years in prison for breaching security at one of the nation's most secure nuclear facilities.
Attorneys for Colorado movie theater shooting suspect James Holmes file intent to enter a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity on behalf of their client.
Even after she was cleared of murder, even after returning home to a scenic haven in Seattle, Amanda Knox is crippled with fear.
The latest developments in the discovery of three long-missing Cleveland women.
Amanda Knox says she's scared to return to Italy to face a new trial nearly six years after her study-abroad roommate's slaying. But she's considering it.
Authorities concluded a three-year operation that resulted in the arrests of 345 sex offenders who failed to register with state authorities, the U.S. Marshals Service said on Tuesday.
Here are the most recent developments in the investigation into the April 15 Boston Marathon bombs:
In the fourth day of deliberations in the trial of a Philadelphia abortion doctor, jurors asked for a description of the babies the doctor is accused of killing.
Here are the most recent developments in the investigation into the April 15 Boston Marathon bombings:
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie signed a law Thursday that encourages people to report drug overdoses without fear of being arrested, a measure he says will help save lives.
Judy Clarke, considered the nation's foremost experts on keeping clients off death row, joins accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's defense team.
After twin blasts shook Boston -- killing three and wounding more than 260 others -- investigators sprung into action looking for those responsible.
Two brothers and two of their uncles are among nine people indicted on allegations of distributing cocaine to Italy and within the United States.
Police have put a face with the description of a man suspected of kidnapping a Michigan gas station cashier.
Jurors in the murder trial of Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell ended their first day of deliberations, Tuesday without a verdict.
George Zimmerman, to stand trial in the shooting death of teenager Trayvon Martin, waived his right Tuesday to a "stand your ground" pretrial immunity hearing.
A California woman who allegedly planted two bottles of tainted juice at a San Jose Starbucks has been charged with attempted murder, police said Tuesday.
Somebody took Jessica Heeringa from a Michigan gas station. Police seem certain of that but say they're "grasping at straws" for other evidence.
A woman was indicted this week accused of snatching a young girl from a Philadelphia school and raping her.
The defense attorney for a Philadelphia abortion doctor charged with murder in the deaths of four babies on Monday attacked prosecutors' evidence that live births took place at Dr. Kermit Gosnell's clinic as he presented closing arguments in the case.
The search is on for Jessica Heeringa, 25, whom police say was abducted from a Michigan gas station where she was worked.
The Supreme Court has refused to review Alabama's controversial immigration crackdown law, and whether a provision over harboring illegal immigrants conflicts with broad federal authority.
A Mississippi man has been charged in connection with an investigation into ricin-tainted letters sent to President Barack Obama and others, authorities said.
A New Jersey man was arrested this month after authorities determined he had taken explosives onto a commuter train several days earlier, court documents show.
Search warrants were executed Thursday at Steubenville High School and elsewhere as part of the ongoing investigation into the rape of a teenage girl.
The defense in the murder trial of a Philadelphia doctor accused of performing illegal late-term abortions rested Wednesday without calling any witnesses.
Steven Powell, the father of the Washington state man who killed himself and two children by blowing up their home, will serve less than a year in prison, a Washington state prison official tells CNN.
Sandra Avila Beltran, one of the most well known women accused of connections with Mexico's drug trade, pleaded guilty in a Florida court.
The Justice Department late Tuesday formally filed its case against Lance Armstrong and his company Tailwind Sports for millions of dollars that the U.S. Postal Service spent to sponsor the cycling team.
In the final two hours of a dramatic standoff with rogue ex-Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner, San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies did not fire a single gunshot during their raid of a compound where he barricaded himself after killing one deputy and seriously wounding another, according to dispatch logs.
A suspected child predator who was a "most-wanted" fugitive when captured in Nicaragua appeared in federal court on Tuesday where he confirmed his identity and was ordered held.
Military convictions of two terror suspects will get a full federal appeals court review, testing whether the men could be charged with offenses that were not in place when Congress passed a 2006 anti-terror law.
The head football coach of Steubenville High School got a contract extension this week, despite the rape controversy that gripped the small Ohio town.
One of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted fugitives was picked up Saturday in Nicaragua, according to a federal law enforcement official.
Five people died late Sunday in shootings at an apartment complex near Seattle, Washington.
The U.S. Supreme Court turned aside an appeal from tobacco companies seeking to block a federal law that further restricts tobacco marketing.
Evidence uncovered so far supports the theory that the two brothers suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings had no help, authorities said Saturday.
Developments in the Boston Marathon bombings investigation have come quickly since the release of photos of the suspects.
These are updates on the hunt for the Boston Marathon attack suspects.
Boston bombing suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev has tweeted since the Boston Marathon bombings on what two friends of his tell CNN is his Twitter account.
U.S. intelligence and law enforcement review intelligence on the Boston Marathon bombing suspects for clues about their motivations, U.S. officials tell CNN.
The wife of a former justice of the peace is being held on murder charges in connection with the killings of District Attorney Michael McLelland and his wife.
U.S. prosecutors have accused the head of Guinea-Bissau's military of plotting to team up with Colombian rebels as part of a "narco-terrorist" operation.
Testimony continued Tuesday in the trial of a Philadelphia abortion doctor charged with murder in the deaths of seven babies and a 41-year-old woman.
If this all shakes out the way authorities say it will, the deaths of two local prosecutors, the panic that gripped a city and a massive manhunt that ensued may all stem from the theft of some computer monitors and a disgraced lawman who held a grudge the size of Texas.
The wife of a former justice of the peace is being held on murder charges in connection with the killings of District Attorney Michael McLelland and his wife.
The Supreme Court makes it harder for foreign victims of human rights abuses to press their legal claims against corporations in U.S. federal courts.
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