A 15-year-old boy accused of raping fellow members of his Maryland high school football team in the school’s locker room will be tried as a juvenile, moving the case out of adult court, a judge ruled Friday.

Detectives used DNA left on a straw to catch a man who raped a woman at a pool in Alexandria. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey explains how they got him.

A D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs accused in a heroin/fentanyl ring will be held in custody until trial. Scott MacFarlane reports.

A 35-year-old woman tried to break up with her boyfriend, but he killed her after raging that she had disrespected him, prosecutors say.

Last September, a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed black man in his own apartment. That much is settled. But nearly every other aspect Amber Guyger’s murder trial for the killing of Botham Jean remains cloaked in controversy as opening statements in the case are set to start Monday.

Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine said Cardi B was a gang member while testifying under oath Thursday as part of a case against two alleged members of a Brooklyn street gang, NBC News reported. 6ix9ine, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, said under cross-examination that Cardi B was also a member of the notorious Bloods gang, according to the New York Daily...

The trial has begun in the case of a former security company owner in Alexandria, Virginia, who is accused of killing his girlfriend when she tried to break up with him. News4’s Julie Carey reports.

The upcoming trial of a Chinese national on federal charges that she trespassed at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort and lied to the Secret Service is potentially a circus wrapped in mystery. Rejecting the strong recommendation of U.S. District Judge Roy Altman, Yujing Zhang fired her public defenders in June to act as her own attorney – a longshot move...

Police say a New Jersey man who broke into Taylor Swift’s beachfront mansion in Rhode Island took his shoes off because he wanted to be polite. Westerly police who responded to the home just after 5 p.m. Friday found 26-year-old Richard Joseph McEwan inside.

Federal police officers arrested a Silver Spring, Maryland, woman suspected of attempting to steal sensitive medical specimens and equipment from the clinical center of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda.

An unemployed woman with possible mental health concerns is accused of entering a secured lab at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. Scott MacFarlane reports.

A Texas prosecutor says a 39-year-old man killed six members of his ex-wife’s family as part of a plan to harm anyone who had helped the woman.

A white Florida man who told detectives he had a “pet peeve” about illegal parking in handicapped spots was convicted late Friday of manslaughter for the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man in a dispute over a handicapped spot.

The man dubbed the “Hollywood Ripper” for the grisly slayings of two women in Hollywood and El Monte was sane at the time of the crimes, a Los Angeles jury found Thursday.

Jurors reached guilty verdicts Thursday in the trial of a man accused of fatally stabbing two women and trying to kill a third in a series of violent and calculated attacks at the victims’ Southern California homes.

A 47-year-old plastic surgeon from Westchester County allegedly had a huge weapons cache in his car, one including assault rifles, body armor, a ballistic helmet, knives and more than 1,600 rounds of ammunition, among other weapons, when police stopped him as they investigated a report he had threatened his estranged wife and family.

The U.S. Navy has dropped charges against four SEALs involving alleged abuse of detainees in Afghanistan in 2012.

A Navy admiral dismissed charges Thursday against an officer accused of covering up war crimes by a Navy SEAL later acquitted of murder, and ordered a review of the service’s justice system. The action by the chief of naval operations in the case of Lt. Jacob Portier is the latest blow to military prosecutors and comes a month after a...

A Christian rapper was awarded $2.7 million in damages Thursday by a federal court jury that determined Katy Perry’s hit “Dark Horse” included a musical passage lifted from the rapper’s earlier song titled “Joyful Noise.”