Crime and Courts

Police are investigating a report that a person was sexually assaulted by two people wearing ski masks and gloves in an alley around Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, officials said Friday.

Photos released Friday by the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office offer a look at how officials believe 10 inmates escaped from a jail in New Orleans.

Officials in New Orleans announced a manhunt after 11 inmates broke out of an Orleans Parish jail early Friday morning.

More details have emerged in the killing of Mexican social media influencer Valeria Márquez, who was shot during a TikTok livestream.

Three inmates have been apprehended as officials search for the other escapees who they said should be considered armed and dangerous.

Two forensic experts with the Massachusetts State Police Crime Lab took the stand Friday in the Karen Read murder trial.

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NBC News has obtained exclusive bodycam and surveillance video of two human smuggling busts that authorities made earlier this year in Coral Gables, Florida.

A dead dolphin was found missing its head in Pender County, North Carolina. Officials with NOAA say someone intentionally decapitated it, and they are offering a reward to find who did it. WECT’s Jacee Caldwell reports.

Forensic analysts from the Massachusetts State Police crime lab were on the stand in the the high-profile Karen Read murder trial Friday, following a grueling lineup of graphic testimony the day before.

An audit of Maryland autopsies has uncovered at least 36 deaths in police custody that should have been considered homicides, state officials said.

It was a difficult day in the second Karen Read murder trial, as the most graphic evidence so far was presented while the medical examiner who performed John O’Keefe’s autopsy testified about her findings. Get a recap and analysis of her testimony on the undetermined death finding, more of what it was like in court while images of O’Keefe’s body...

The cause and manner of John O’Keefe’s death was the subject of Day 16 of the second trial against Karen Read.

A Victorville, California, family accused of “repetitively” torturing six children pleaded not guilty during their initial court appearance Thursday.

A man has been found guilty of shooting the mother of his children, who was pregnant, at her apartment in Brockton, Massachusetts, in 2020, leaving the woman permanently blind, prosecutors said Thursday.

A Texas mother has been charged with aiding her son plot a terror attack against his middle school by buying him ammo and gear, documents said.

Police are seeking to identify a group of people believed to have stolen dozens of sunglasses from a Sunglass Hut store on Newbury Street in Boston on Wednesday, officials said.

The jury in the Karen Read murder trial saw some very graphic evidence on Thursday, Day 16 of testimony.

It happened just before 2 a.m. on April 29, when video shows four men in hoodies using a stolen master key to open mailboxes at the Pinnacle at Park Central community.

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.