Crime

Alan Douglas Fox of Nashville is facing up to 20 years in prison for setting four churches on fire as well as a five-year sentence for a firearms violation for carrying and using a firearm during one of the arsons.

The Minneapolis police officer who killed the uncle of a key figure surrounding George Floyd's death is facing up to 20 years in prison after being formally charged for his role in the death.

A former Wisconsin high school teacher accused of secretly videotaping undressed students during field trips was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison after reaching a plea deal with federal prosecutors.

The Eustis Police Department in Florida is under fire after bodycam footage was released showing officers tasing a Black man with severe autism.

A newly reduced prison sentence for former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor, who was originally convicted of third-degree murder, has prompted speculation about the legal implications it has for Derek Chauvin, who was found guilty of the same charge for killing George Floyd.

A homecoming event at Grambling State University ended with the shooting death of one person and multiple others injured in the melee, occurring just days after a separate gun incident ended fatally for another GRAM student.  

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered R&B superstar R. Kelly to stand trial in Chicago on child pornography and obstruction of justice charges next year after the scheduled sentencing for his conviction in an earlier sex trafficking trial in New York.

Public Enemy member and reality TV icon Flavor Flav was recently arrested on a domestic violence incident in Las Vegas.

A woman in North Philadelphia not only had to endure being raped on a commuter train, but also ended up being assaulted on a whole other level after witnesses thought it was more important to record the attack rather than intervene and stop it from happening altogether.

A gang that kidnapped 17 members of a U,S.-based missionary group has demanded a $17 million ransom for them, according to Haiti’s justice minister, as quoted by the Wall Street Journal.

Video of a Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office deputy slamming a Black woman to the ground by her hair in Louisiana has gone viral.

Jury selection begins more than one year after Ahmaud Arbery was jogging and ambushed by a posse of vigilantes who trapped and shot the unarmed Black man to death on a road in broad daylight. This timeline unravels a tangled web of key moments in the case.