Defying police, Iranians protest over plane shootdown
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iranian demonstrators defied a heavy police presence Sunday night to protest their country’s days of…
Men who ran $11M California investment scam sentenced
Three men who ran an $11 million investment scheme that bilked elderly Californians are going to prison January 4, 2020,…
Winner of $400M border wall contract: ‘a gung-ho, smart guy’
BISMARCK, N.D. — Tommy Fisher peered into a Fox News camera and talked up his North Dakota-based company’s ability to…
Tennessee inmates ask court to stop execution scheduling
Attorneys for Tennessee death row inmates argue that mental issues, poor legal representation, newly surfaced evidence, and racism in the…
Knife attack near Paris treated as terror-related
French prosecutors said a knife attack on Friday that left one man dead and two women injured in a park…
Police arrest 7 in New Year’s Eve mob sexual assault
A senior security official says police have arrested seven young men for allegedly taking part in a mob sexual assault…
New York education leader appears on child sex crime charge
A high-ranking New York City education official accused of arranging a sexual encounter in Wisconsin with someone he thought was…
3 women investigated for causing deadly blaze at German zoo
Three women are under investigation in Germany for launching paper sky lanterns blamed for igniting a fire that destroyed an…
Pompeo to visit Ukraine as Senate weighs impeachment trial
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Ukraine this week, making his first trip to the country at the heart…
Cyprus court: British teen guilty of fabricating rape claims
A Cyprus court has found a 19 year-old British woman guilty of fabricating claims that she was gang raped by…
New wife, 26, charged with exploiting husband, 77, for money
A newly married 26-year-old woman has been arrested on charges alleging she tried to cash almost $1 million in checks…
Spanish police investigate British family’s pool deaths
Spanish police are investigating the swimming pool deaths of a British man, his 9-year-old daughter and 16-year-old son December 25,…
Texas man to be exonerated after DNA leads to new arrest
Authorities say they will begin the process to exonerate a Houston man who was convicted in a 2010 fatal stabbing…
Ex-Miss Kentucky admits to trading sexual photos with teen
A former Miss Kentucky who worked as a teacher in West Virginia has admitted to exchanging sexual photos with a…
Woman forced to remove hijab in jail settles for $120K
A Minnesota Muslim woman has received $120,000 to settle her lawsuit alleging she was forced to strip in jail and…
Florida officer charged with violating women’s civil rights
A Florida police officer has been indicted on federal charges following allegations that he sexually assaulted several women December 13,…
Missouri sex offender expert charged with abusing 2 boys
A Missouri forensic psychologist who has worked with national groups on management of sex offenders is facing sexual abuse charges…
NYC paying $625K to mom whose baby was ripped away by police
New York City says it will pay $625,000 to resolve a lawsuit filed by a mother whose toddler was yanked…
Inmate’s suicide shows need for reforms, advocates say
ALBANY, N.Y. — The final two months of Cachin Anderson’s life in New York’s prison system were filled with warnings…
Recording devices found in downtown Minneapolis hotel rooms
Police are investigating after recording devices were found in guest rooms at the Hyatt Regency hotel in downtown Minneapolis December…
Funeral home owners sentenced after decomposing body found
The former co-owners of a South Carolina funeral home have been sentenced to a year’s probation in connection with a…
Utah police: Body was in freezer 10 years before discovery
Utah police say a man found dead in his wife’s freezer last month had been there 10 years December 12,…
PGA golfer arrested in Florida prostitution sting
A professional golfer was one of 124 people arrested in Florida in a prostitution and human-trafficking sting December 12, 2019,…
Runner apologizes for slapping reporter’s rear on live TV
A Georgia man says he’s sorry for slapping a news reporter’s rear end on live TV while she was covering…
Mom charged after police say she abandoned special needs son
Police charged a mother with cruelty to children after a special needs teenager was found abandoned at a downtown Atlanta…
Scout leader convicted of branding 3 children in a ritual
A Dutch appeals court has convicted a scout leader of branding three children in a campfire initiation ritual. The appeals…
Israeli PM’s son, driver strike settlement over leaked tape
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son has reportedly reached a court settlement with a former driver whom he sued for…
North Carolina police arrest man pretending to be officer
Police say a North Carolina man has been arrested for impersonating a law enforcement officer after he got himself involved…
Norway arrests US far-right activist, seeks deportation
Norwegian authorities have arrested a high-profile U.S. white supremacist scheduled to speak at an international far-right conference in Oslo and…
Assistant scoutmaster charged with sexually abusing boy, 12
An assistant scoutmaster on Long Island has been charged with sexually abusing a 12-year-old boy at several Boy Scouts of…
Man surrenders after authorities edit photo to add costume
All it took for one fugitive in Illinois to turn himself in was a little photo manipulation. WBBM-TV in Chicago…
Ex-All-Star slugger Josh Hamilton charged with child injury
Former All-Star slugger Josh Hamilton has been charged with injury to a child after his 14-year-old daughter told his ex-wife…
Authorities break up mixed-gender party, arrest 15 in Iran
Iran’s semi-official news agency says Iranian authorities have arrested 15 men and women at a mixed-gender party at the Iranian…
Police: Man killed after shootout with officers in Georgia
Authorities in Georgia are investigating the death of a man shot by police. The Athens-Clarke County Police Department says the…
Maryland police sentenced for assault of handcuffed suspect
A white Maryland police officer has been sentenced to spend six months in jail after he was convicted of assault…
2 Proud Boys members sentenced to 4 years over NYC melee
Two members of the far-right Proud Boys were sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison for their roles in a…
Man sprays bear repellent during California Trump protest
Authorities in Southern California say a supporter of Donald Trump was arrested after spraying bear repellent on a small crowd…
80 injured in third night of Catalonia protests; 33 arrested
Catalonia’s separatist leader vowed Thursday to hold a new vote to secede from Spain in less than two years as…
Prosecutors seek life for New Mexico man who killed family
A New Mexico man convicted of killing his parents and three younger siblings when he was 15 apologized to the…
Father sues Telsa after teen son killed in flaming crash
The father of an 18-year-old Florida teen killed when his speeding Tesla slammed into a wall and caught fire is…
NYPD officer arrested on sex charges involving young girl
A New York City police detective who monitors sex offenders has been arrested on sex abuse charges involving a 12-year-old…
Mar-a-Lago Army officer lied during child porn investigation
A military officer who had been in charge of the U.S. Army’s White House communications at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago…
LAPD investigates after ad put up on right-wing website
The Los Angeles Police Department has launched an investigation after a recruitment ad went up on the right-wing website Breitbart,…
Man pleads guilty in kidnap, torture plot of plastic surgeon
A Florida man has pleaded guilty to kidnapping a plastic surgeon who was tortured with a blowtorch in an extortion…
Woman linked to chef’s overdose death denies another
A woman pleaded not guilty Friday to charges she supplied the fentanyl-laced drug that caused the fatal overdose of a…
Witnesses clash in Tennessee abortion wait period trial
Expert witnesses on Wednesday presented dueling views of whether Tennessee’s 48-hour waiting period before abortion helps or hinders women’s decision…
Jurors convict Iowa farmer in corn rake killing of wife
A jury Monday convicted an eastern Iowa hog farmer of using a corn rake to kill his wife, agreeing with…
Woman accused of threatening to shoot up old school
Authorities have arrested an 18-year-old Oklahoma woman accused of threatening to carry out a mass shooting at her old high…
Detectives: Transgender woman slain, body burned in car
Florida sheriff’s deputies are investigating the slaying of a transgender woman whose body was found in her burning car. Media…
Acquitted Navy SEAL sues ex-lawyers, legal nonprofit
A Navy SEAL acquitted in a war crimes trial has sued two of his former attorneys and a military legal…
Over 70 arrested in immigration protest at Microsoft store
Dozens of immigration policy protesters have been arrested at a demonstration outside a Microsoft store in New York City. Police…
Sackler family used Swiss banks to hide transfers: Filings
The family that owns OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma used Swiss and other hidden accounts to transfer $1 billion to themselves,…
Virginia joins states suing owners of Purdue Pharma
Virginia has joined a growing number of states suing members of the family that owns Purdue Pharma for their alleged…
3 killed in shooting in Dutch city; 1 seriously wounded
A Dutch police officer and two children died and a woman was seriously wounded in a shooting Monday at a…
Spain: Children grow body hair from alleged drug mix-up
Parents in Spain whose babies and toddlers developed abnormal body hair plan to sue a company that put a hair…
Man gets 30 months in prison for role in $20M Ponzi scheme
A Maryland man has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for his role in a Ponzi scheme…
Hong Kong democracy activists get bail, protest march banned
Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong and another core member of a pro-democracy group were granted bail after being charged with…
Wave of child sex abuse lawsuits threatens Boy Scouts
The Boy Scouts of America is facing a threat from a growing wave of lawsuits over decades-old allegations of sexual…
Virginia man gets 5 years in prison for dog burned alive
A Virginia man will serve five years in prison without parole for the death of a pit bull that was…