Crime and Courts

They were a picture-perfect couple — both University of Virginia lacrosse players, Yeardley Love from the Baltimore suburbs and George Huguely from Chevy Chase. But the couple had a stormy, on again, off again relationship. And at Huguely’s trial, prosecutors said that on May 3, 2010 — in a jealous, drunken rage — Huguely entered her apartment, broke down her…

Security camera video shows an arsonist setting fires in front of four D.C. homes early Monday, forcing a dozen people to run for their lives in the middle of the night. Mulugeta Ayele and his wife were asleep inside their home on Buchanan Street NW when they got a rude awakening. “Loud popping sound, so, as I look towards...

A Virginia man accused of trying to abduct a 4-year-old girl was freed from jail Friday after almost two years. The Fairfax County commonwealth’s attorney dropped charges against Hyram Baquedano Rodriguez after a judge refused to sign off on a guilty plea with a two-year sentence. A family friend of the victim said the judge worried the sentence was...

A D.C. woman is still searching for answers a year after a hit-and-run killed her boyfriend and nearly ended her life as well last year. News4’s Darcy Spencer spoke to the survivor.

Security video shows someone setting several fires in Northwest D.C. early Sunday. News4’s Walter Morris reports the homeowners demand answers as fire officials investigate.

A Metro Transit Police officer shot a woman in the leg after she and a man allegedly attempted to rob a jewelry store in the Dupont Circle area Friday afternoon, police said. The officer was working the safe passage detail – helping children get home from school – when a witness flagged down the officer. One of the suspects pointed…

A Metro Transit Police officer shot a woman in the leg after she and a man attempted to rob a jewelry store in the Dupont Circle area, police said.

Fifteen years since University of Virginia the killing of lacrosse player Yeardley Love, her mother and coach work to prevent relationship violence. News4’s Julie Carey spoke with them.

A South African woman has been convicted of kidnapping and selling her 6-year-old daughter in a case that horrified the country.

An administrator at the Contra Costa School of the Performing Arts was arrested on Wednesday after being accused of having sex with an underage student.

Sean “Diddy” Combs confirmed at a hearing Thursday that he had rejected a plea deal from federal prosecutors in his sex trafficking case, paving the way for his trial to begin next week.  

Luigi Mangione, accused in the killing of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, will be the focus on a new musical debuting in San Francisco on June 13.

A Florida-based Christian organization with a history of child sex abuse allegations against it has been hit with a lawsuit claiming one of its missionaries sexually assaulted a minor overseas 15 years ago.  

The search is on for the man who smashed his way into a Silver Spring smoke shop over the weekend. Montgomery County police say it happened early Sunday morning on Fenton Street, and security cameras caught the whole thing. The suspect can be seen crashing through the glass door around 3:30 a.m. and making a b-line for the glass display…

The search is on for the man who smashed his way into a smoke shop in Silver Spring on Sunday. News4’s Walter Morris reports.

A Prince George’s County man is charged with the murder of his girlfriend, whose body was found in her apartment in what police are calling a horrific domestic homicide. It started as a missing person case, but given the couple’s history of domestic violence, when police went to Sherron Turner’s apartment, they broke in and found her body wrapped...

A Prince George’s County man is charged in the murder of his girlfriend at their apartment in Suitland, Maryland. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports police call it a horrific case of domestic homicide.

Members of a high school lacrosse program in upstate New York are accused of staging an armed abduction of younger players in a stunt that “went way beyond hazing,” prosecutors said this week.

The Australian host of a weekend family lunch is on trial charged with murdering her estranged husband’s parents and an aunt and attempting to murder an uncle with poisonous mushrooms.

Helicopter video shows the pair riding away from the scene before they were stopped by police.