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A woman heard a noise in her apartment and found a man wearing a towel hiding in her bedroom closet.

Some consider cash bonds in criminal cases a punishment for poor defendants while others say it’s a means to ensure defendants show up to court. Prince George’s County’s state’s attorney is taking a side in this debate, and it could change the way justice is handed out in one of the busiest court systems in our region. County Bureau...

Federal prosecutors in Atlanta say the managing partner of a Chicago travel agency fraudulently accumulated millions of points in a Delta Air Lines frequent flyer program.

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.

A newlywed Illinois prison guard has been charged with assault after his wife recorded a fight that ended with her being found dead at the bottom of a parking garage near the St. Louis stadium where the Cardinals play.

A stolen car crashed into the gates of Taylor Swift’s beachfront home in Rhode Island following a police chase, police said. The singer was not home, though police do plan to ask for surveillance video from her property to help the investigation, Westerly Police Chief Shawn Lacey said Wednesday. The chase started around 1 a.m. Tuesday when a Hopkinton officer...

Federal prosecutors say three Michigan residents have been charged with conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State group. They say FBI agents arrested Muse Abdikadir Muse, Mohamud Abdikadir Muse and Mohamed Salat Haji on Monday, and prosecutors charged the Lansing residents in a complaint filed Tuesday.

Prosecutors in Minnesota have charged a woman whose 2-year-old child tumbled from the back seat of a moving vehicle while still strapped in a car seat. Forty-year-old Maimuna Hassan of Mankato was charged Thursday with child endangerment, failing to properly secure a child passenger restraint and a misdemeanor driver’s license violation. Dashcam video captured the moment the car seat and...

Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has filed for divorce from his wife of 42 years.

A Northern Virginia police officer has been suspended after his arrest on child pornography charges.

A wealthy stock trader’s negligence led to a deadly fire that killed a young man who was helping him build a network of tunnels for a bunker beneath a suburban Washington, D.C., home, a lawsuit alleges.

A year ago, a deadly fire exposed Daniel Beckwitt’s curious campaign to build an underground bunker for protection from a nuclear attack. Neighbors knew nothing about the tunnels before they heard Beckwitt’s screams and saw smoke pouring from the house where 21-year-old Askia Khafra died that afternoon.

Police say they arrested a man in the murder of 10-year-old Makiyah Wilson. Detectives have identified a second suspect, but he’s still at large. News4’s Darcy Spencer spoke to Makiyah’s mother who said she just wants justice for her baby.

A Utah man died after crashing a plane into his own home. Police say Duane Youd was arrested before the crash for a domestic dispute with his wife.

A Utah man flew a small plane into his own house early Monday just hours after he had been arrested for assaulting his wife in a nearby canyon where the couple went to talk over their problems, authorities said. The pilot, Duane Youd, died. His wife and a child who were in the home survived despite the front part the...

Puerto Ricans who fled Hurricane Maria’s devastation and have been living in temporary housing on the mainland were granted a reprieve Saturday night when a federal judge temporarily blocked the government from ending an assistance program that was set to expire. U.S. District Judge Leo T. Sorokin of Massachusetts ordered that the Federal Emergency Management Agency cannot end its Transitional...

More than 16,000 local drivers should expect a check in the mail because of a court ruling against a controversial towing company in Maryland.

A former teaching assistant at a Maryland elementary school has been charged with sex abuse for an incident involving a 7-year-old girl during the 2010-2011 school year.

Police say an inmate serving a 10-day sentence has fatally overdosed on heroin smuggled into a Maryland jail.

A winner of the reality TV show “Survivor” bit a police officer after being found unconscious in the driver’s seat of her running parked car and had to be revived with the opioid overdose antidote drug Narcan, police said.