Crime and Courts

U.S. District Judge Tom Lee called the former officers’ actions “egregious and despicable” and imposed sentences near the top of federal guidelines for five of the six.

A sheriff in Kentucky is accused of fatally shooting a district judge at a courthouse on Thursday, authorities said.

Five corrections officers were hospitalized, two of them stabbed, in an incident at the Souza Baranowski maximum security prison, and the officers’ union shared that they’ve been calling for change as well as details from Thursday’s incident. 

The Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security says five correction officers were hospitalized after two were stabbed at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center.

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Authorities say five correction officers were injured Wednesday at a Lancaster prison.

Authorities say two correction officers were stabbed Wednesday afternoon at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Lancaster, Massachusetts. Three other officers were also hurt. The Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security said the Department of Correction learned of the incident at 6:20 p.m. State police have also been notified. Inmates allegedly attacked two correction officers, who suffered multiple stab…

A man has been indicted by a grand jury on charges including assault to rape a child involving two incidents, three years apart, in one Cape Cod town, authorities said Wednesday.

A Massachusetts woman and her child, whom she’s accused of kidnapping, were tracked down at a relative’s house in Puerto Rico Tuesday, authorities said. Danielle Andrews, a 47-year-old from Rockland, was arrested as a fugitive in Carolina, a suburb of San Juan, and the child placed in the custody of local Department of Family Services, according to the U.S....

Brian Jeffrey Raymond kept nearly 500 videos and photographs he took of naked, unconscious women.

Zachary Scheich, who prosecutors said identified himself as 17-year-old ‘Zak Hess,’ pleaded guilty to sexual assault and other crimes.

A longtime CIA officer who drugged, photographed and sexually assaulted more than two dozen women in postings around the world was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison Wednesday

Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty on an additional sex crimes charge in a New York City courtroom on Wednesday.

A former New England Patriots player was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly assaulting an elderly man at a Rhode Island gym, according to police and NBC affiliate WJAR. Patrick Pass, 46, is facing an assault charge for the incident that happened last month at a Planet Fitness gym in North Providence, according to a news release from the town’s police…

Footage of the suspect in the apparent assassination attempt near Trump International Golf Course has been released by the Martin County Sheriff’s Office.

A Pennsylvania man has entered no contest pleas to charges that he killed his father and stepmother with a sword in their Pennsylvania home almost five years ago.

A judge is freeing from prison a Colorado paramedic convicted in the death of Elijah McClain, a Black man whose name became part of the rallying cries for social justice that swept the U.S. in 2020.

Longtime drug cartel leader Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada has pleaded not guilty to U.S. narcotics trafficking charges. Participating through a Spanish-language interpreter, Zambada

The man accused of being drunk when his car struck and killed NHL star Johnny Gaudreau and brother Matthew as they biked near their South Jersey hometown the night before their sister’s wedding will remain jailed awaiting trial as it was revealed he had a blood alcohol level above the legal limit and a history of road rage.

Miss Switzerland finalist Kristina Joksimovic’s husband has been accused by Swiss officials of dismembering her body before pureeing her remains with a hand blender and dissolving them with chemicals.

Home Depot has agreed to pay nearly $2 million to resolve allegations that the company overcharged customers and falsely advertised prices on items, it was announced Thursday.