Crime

Pakistan's NCCIA raided a Muzaffargarh studio on May 23, 2025, after Interpol and NCMEC tips. Officials say a German national left before the raid. More than 50 children were identified…

A Decatur County grand jury indicted former Climax Mayor Joseph Melvin Kelly on five child molestation counts, enticing a child, and violation of oath. He resigned June 2, 2025. No…

Kimberly Sullivan rejected two July 2026 plea offers, including a 30-year sentence suspended after 10 years, in the Waterbury case where her stepson says he was locked in a room…

A Waterbury man who weighed 68 pounds burned his way out of a Blake Street room. Kimberly Sullivan rejected prison plea offers and is heading toward trial.

Ex-MCC Chicago officer Brittany Hall pleaded not guilty to eight federal sex-abuse counts involving four women on Unit 12, including Heather Mack. She is free on bond. The Bureau of…

Rodrigo Duterte was arrested in Manila in March 2025 and flown to Scheveningen. Pre-Trial Chamber I confirmed three crimes-against-humanity counts on April 23, 2026. Trial Chamber III kept him detained…

Alexandra Bialousow was charged with two misdemeanors after the 2,059-acre Covington Drive fire near Myrtle Beach. The blaze smoldered for 95 days. On the morning of trial she accepted a…

Jaythan Lawrence Gilder posed as an Orlando Magic representative, grabbed two pairs of Tiffany diamond earrings worth $769,500, then swallowed them during a Panhandle traffic stop. Police recovered the stones…

Retta Cruse, 38, was found unresponsive on February 21, 2025, at the Arizona State Prison Complex-Perryville. She was serving consecutive life terms after pleading guilty to murdering Aleyah McIntyre, 9,…

A Will County jury convicted Joseph Czuba of murder and hate crimes in the October 2023 stabbing of Wadee Alfayoumi and the attack on the boy's mother. He received 53…