Crime and Courts

Karen Read was back in court Wednesday, where John O’Keefe’s niece testified about the couple’s rocky relationship and a forensic expert was grilled about physical evidence found on Read’s SUV, including a hair and glass.

Investigators say the physical, emotional, and mental abuse went on for years and included daily beatings, strangulation and withholding food and water.

Mexico’s government has confirmed reports that 17 family members of the son of a former cartel leader crossed into the United States. Mexican Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch said Tuesday that it appeared to be part of a deal between the Sinaloa Cartel’s Ovidio Guzmán López and the Trump administration. Independent journalist Luis Chaparro reported over the weekend about Guzmán’s...

John O’Keefe’s niece took the stand Wednesday morning in the Karen Read trial after a one-day cancellation due to illness. Afterward, a series of police officers and crime scene investigators testified.

Defense attorney Mark Geragos speaks after the Menendez brothers were resentenced Tuesday, making them eligible for parole.

After a surprise in the Karen Read murder trial, details on the “unavoidable circumstances” that led to court being canceled for the day. Our courtroom insider shares what it was like learning about the abrupt cancellation in real time — plus, our legal experts share more about Sgt. Yuri Bukhenik’s testimony, and we take more of your questions.

A scheme that saw a small New Jersey deli’s holding company valued at $100 million blew up after a hedge fund manager made fun of it in a client letter.

Testimony was canceled Tuesday in the Karen Read murder trial because Read is sick, sources told NBC10 Boston

The Karen Read trial is not taking place on Tuesday due to “unavoidable circumstances,” a court spokesperson said in an email. Here’s what we know.

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A woman allegedly tried lighting an American flag on fire inside a federal building in New Bedford, Massachusetts, before attempting to crash her car into the entranceway, according to court documents.

The Karen Read trial is not taking place on Tuesday due to “unavoidable circumstances,” a courte spokesperson said in an email.

Rapper Tory Lanez, who is serving a 10-year prison sentence after he was found guilty of shooting rapper Megan Thee Stallion, was stabbed in prison, officials said.

New details were released after a man was arrested on Saturday, accused of abusing his 6-year-old stepson in Miami.

Sean “Diddy” Combs allegedly turned his hip-hop conglomerate into a racketeering enterprise that forced women to satisfy his sexual desires.

A man who is accused of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend in Providence, Rhode Island was taken into custody in Madison on Thursday. Providence police said officers responded to Crimea Street in Providence at 12:13 a.m. Thursday after getting reports of a person with a gun and a witness told them that a man threatened his ex-girlfriend with a gun, forcibly took...

A woman, Julia Byrne, and her son Blake were found fatally shot at a Pembroke, New Hampshire, home early Friday, prosecutors say, suspecting murder-suicide.

On Day 13 of the Karen Read trial we’re expecting Massachusetts State Police Sgt. Yuri Bukhenik back on the stand to continue cross-examination with defense attorney Alan Jackson.

Massachusetts State Police Sgt. Yuri Bukhenik took the stand in the Karen Read trial Thursday, and the key member of the investigation read out evidence in the case — but the defense hammered him on cross-examination after he read out Trooper Michael Proctor’s vulgar text messages in court....

We asked former prosecutor Emily D. Baker whether she thinks Proctor will be...

Criminal proceedings were suspended Thursday against the man accused of stalking actor Jennifer Aniston and crashing his car into the gate at her home in Bel-Air, Los Angeles.

In the early hours of Nov. 13, 2022, when four University of Idaho students would be stabbed to death in an off-campus house as some of them slept, a neighbor’s home security video captured the same white car circling the block multiple times. The vehicle approached the house again and again before speeding away 13 minutes later. The previously unseen footage obtained...