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A former Yahoo software engineer has pleaded guilty to hacking into the accounts of some 6,000 Yahoo users in search of sexual photos and videos. The US Attorney’s Office says Reyes Daniel Ruiz admitted in court Monday that he mostly targeted accounts belonging to younger women, including his personal friends and work colleagues.

A woman wielding a machete wounded three men, a father and his two sons, during a fight outside a hotel in Sharon, Massachusetts, early Sunday, police said. The woman, 34-year-old Allison Maitland of Hanson, was arrested on three assault and battery charges and pleaded not guilty in court Monday.

Without opinions and dissents to write following his retirement from the Supreme Court in 2010, retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens chose instead to write books from his home in Florida, reflecting on his life but also the Constitution.

A man was arrested at JFK Airport Sunday after attempting to smuggle into the United States 34 live birds from Guyana — concealed in plastic hair curlers, prosecutors announced.

The blood of a missing Connecticut mother of five has been found on various items tossed in different locations, and blood spatter was found in her home, an arrest affidavit for the estranged husband charged in her disappearance reveals.

Once the darling of Silicon Valley, Elizabeth Holmes, founder of failed startup Theranos, was in court Monday, now a suspected felon.

A Germantown, Maryland, man is charged with five counts of attempted murder after police say he held a family hostage at gunpoint inside a home on Monday.

A jury has found Chanel Lewis guilty on all counts at his retrial for the murder of New York City jogger Karina Vetrano.

A day after he was charged with trying to extort millions of dollars from Nike, attorney Michael Avenatti has launched a new public attack on the company, claiming the sneaker giant of made cash payments to amateur basketball players and their families. In a string of tweets Tuesday, the lawyer accused Nike of “trying to divert attention from their own...

Michael Avenatti did not enter a plea and was released on $300,000 bond, but it’s not the end of his legal issues as he faces coast-to-coast charges. Gus Rosendale reports.

Former Stormy Daniels attorney and prominent Trump critic Michael Avenatti has been charged in New York with trying to extort Nike for millions as well as bank and wire fraud in California, according to separate complaints from federal prosecutors on opposite coasts.

Derrick Butler was relentless in pushing D.C. police to find his sister Pamela’s killer. Now, he is channeling that same determination to bring healing to another family.

Two men suspected in a drive-by shooting that killed a 7-year-old black Houston girl mistakenly thought they were attacking people whom they had fought with at a club hours earlier, a prosecutor said Monday. One of the men, Eric Black Jr., appeared in court Monday on a capital murder charge in the Dec. 30 killing of Jazmine Barnes. Black, 20,…

Two men were convicted Monday for the murder of two Maryland teenagers, killed the night before their high school graduations in Montgomery County.

Two men were convicted Monday for the murder of two Maryland teenagers, killed the night before their high school graduations in Montgomery County.

A hung jury mistrial has been declared in the case of a 22-year-old man accused of murdering a young woman when she went out for a run in her Queens neighborhood more than two years ago.

A former strawberry farm supervisor was accused in court Monday of retaliating over a workplace grievance by putting needles into the fruit, sparking recalls that devastated the Australian industry. Magistrate Christine Roney said while prosecutors were alleging My Ut Trinh was “motivated by spite or revenge” she would not consider granting bail for the woman until the reasons for her...

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump visited Pittsburgh on Tuesday as the Jewish community began burying some of the victims of a massacre at Tree of Life Synagogue.

Pittsburgh’s Jewish community began burying its dead Tuesday after the synagogue massacre, holding funerals for a beloved family doctor, a pillar of the congregation, and two 50-something brothers known as the Rosenthal “boys.” President Donald Trump, meanwhile, arrived in Pittsburgh to pay his respects and encountered hundreds of shouting, chanting protesters with signs such as “It’s your fault” and “Words...

The man accused in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre appeared briefly in federal court in a wheelchair and handcuffs Monday to face charges he killed 11 people in what is believed to be the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history. Robert Gregory Bowers, who was wounded in a gun battle with police during the shooting rampage, was released from a...