HANOVER -- The man accused of the kidnap and attempted rape of a 6-year-old allegedly injected the girl with an unknown substance from a hypodermic needle that made her sleepy as he bound her hands with black tape and held ...Read More
LOS ANGELES (AP) — UCLA starting forward Nikola Dragovic was suspended for the Bruins' game against Cal State-Bakersfield after his arrest. A statement distributed by a team spokesman just before tip-off Friday night said Dragovic was arrested earlier in the day ...Read More
LOS ANGELES — Britney Spears' ex-boyfriend Adnan Ghalib is being sent to jail for 45 days for leaving the scene of an accident. Los Angeles District Attorney's spokeswoman Jane Robison says Ghalib was taken into custody immediately after being sentenced Friday. He ...Read More
With the Los Angeles City Council poised to take up a medical marijuana ordinance after two years of contentious debate, L.A. County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley warned Tuesday that he intends to prosecute dispensaries that sell the drug even if ...Read More
(NECN/ABC) - In an exclusive interview with ABC's Robin Roberts, to be seen in a special edition for "Prime Time" Wednesday night, Janet Jackson discusses the death of her brother, Michael Jackson.
In a demure voice, reminiscent of her big brother's, ...Read More
A 49-year-old passenger who allegedly refused to move his arm out of the aisle on a transatlantic flight became so belligerent last night that a pilot made an unscheduled landing at Logan International Airport, authorities said. The passenger, John Murray of ...Read More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A 19-year-old New York man who was arrested for armed robbery has been exonerated thanks to a status update he posted on social networking site Facebook. Rodney Bradford was arrested and held for 12 days in connection ...Read More
David Letterman's accused extortionist, Robert Halderman, is asking the judge to dismiss the extortion case against him.
In papers filed with the court, Halderman's lawyer wrote, "The sensationalism surrounding this indictment, fueled by the celebrity of the purported victim and the ...Read More
A year ago Sunday, a group of teens left Marcelo Lucero bleeding and dying on a street in Patchogue, New York - with a knife wound to the chest. Lucero, 37, was an immigrant from Ecuador whose death has become ...Read More
(CNN) -- A 14-year-old California boy told police he drowned his 4-year-old neighbor on Friday because the child had threatened to tell his mother the older boy had molested him, according to an affidavit made public Wednesday. Raul Renato Castro has ...Read More
Another suspect is down for the count.
Los Angeles police confirmed to E! News Wednesday that Jonathan Ajar, 27, another suspected member of a burglary ring that hit up the houses of Hollywood's rich, young and famous is in custody after ...Read More
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An 11-year-old New Mexico boy has been charged with first-degree murder in the August shooting death of his father. District Attorney Lemuel Martinez says his office filed the charge Tuesday. Belen Police Sgt. Joe Portio says evidence supports the ...Read More
LOS ANGELES — Criminal charges won't be filed against 30 Los Angeles police officers who fired rubber bullets and pummeled demonstrators with batons at a pro-immigration rally two years ago, prosecutors said Friday. The district attorney's office called the May Day ...Read More
BOSTON—The off-duty security guard who fatally shot a psychiatric patient as the patient stabbed a doctor says he "just did what anybody would have done." In his first public comments since Tuesday's shooting, Paul Langone (lan-GOHN') told reporters camped outside his ...Read More
The hero guard who saved a Belmont psychiatrist being slashed by a bipolar patient said he’s no hero, just a regular guy who does his job and enjoys walking his dog “Champ.”
“I just did what anyone would have done,” Paul ...Read More
RALEIGH — After four days of putting the campaigns of Gov. Mike Easley and the N.C. Democratic Party under the microscope, the State Board of Elections expects to decide today whether a criminal probe is needed. On Thursday, Easley's personal attorney ...Read More
The killing of a knife-wielding patient at a bipolar clinic earlier this week appears to have been a justifiable shooting, Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said today, based on a preliminary investigation. Conley emphasized that the probe remains "ongoing and ...Read More
Clad in a bulletproof vest and sporting a black eye, 16-year-old Ari Morales rose with his two underage co-defendants in Contra Costa Superior Court in Richmond and heard allegations pronounced that could land him behind bars for life.
The court arraigned ...Read More
DEL NORTE, Colo.—A sheriff in southwestern Colorado says he expects a 14-year-old boy to be charged in the deaths of his mother and stepfather after their bodies were discovered at their home. A relative found the bodies of 38-year-old Tracy Aaron ...Read More
SAVANNAH, Ga.—A grand jury on Wednesday refused to indict a 53-year-old man jailed since August on charges that he tried to stalk Miley Cyrus as the teen star filmed a movie on the Georgia coast.
The Chatham County grand jury decided ...Read More
SANTA ANA, Calif. - A California caregiver has been sentenced to five years in prison for stealing more than $315,000 from her 92-year-old patient. The district attorney's office says Susana Duran forged the victim's signature on checks she made out to ...Read More
