A Chester County pastor wanted on charges he raped and impregnated a teen girl is out of the country but expected to return and surrender to police by week’s end, said police.

Many states have victim’s advocates or child advocates, people in the judicial system who represent those affected by crime or abuse. Now, one state has created legal advocates for abused animals, an experiment being watched nationwide for signs of success. There are eight approved volunteer advocates across Connecticut — seven lawyers and a University of Connecticut law professor, working with...

A federal judge sentenced disgraced former California Sen. Leland Yee to five years in prison Wednesday morning after the career politician asked the judge for leniency and to take his whole life of service into account.

Former national security adviser Michael Flynn has pleaded guilty to a count of making false statements to the FBI. He is the fourth person charged in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s involvement in the 2016 presidential election.

Here is a look at a timeline of events on the investigation into Jennifer Dulos’s disappearance.

Drexel University paid the United States nearly $190,000 after a former professor at the school allegedly used federal grant money for visits to Philadelphia strip clubs and sports bars.

Constance Wannamaker wanted to scream and cry at the same time. The Texas immigration attorney had just heard what should have been great news: Her client, a 21-year-old Guatemalan woman, was getting released from the El Paso Processing Center after weeks in detention. But that’s just a sliver of the story.

NFL quarterback Drew Brees and his wife, Brittany Brees, have sued a jeweler from La Jolla, California, claiming he misrepresented the value of diamonds.

Willie Veasy, behind bars since 1992 for murder, could walk free Oct. 1 if a Philadelphia judge overturns his decades-old conviction.

As Texas legislators work towards possibly making CBD legal in the state, confiscation of the oil by federal officers has “skyrocketed” this year at DFW Airport, NBC 5 Investigates has learned.

Pacific Gas & Electric on Wednesday urged a federal bankruptcy judge to approve a key insurance settlement as it struggles to regain its financial footing and cover at least $20 billion in losses stemming from catastrophic wildfires in California tied to its equipment.

An attorney for 21 alleged sexual assault and rape victims will hold a press conference Wednesday in San Francisco to announce a new lawsuit against rideshare company Lyft.

African-Americans in San Diego are approximately five times more likely to get prosecuted for minor drug offenses than Whites and Hispanics, according to data obtained by NBC 7 Investigates through a public records request.

The FBI indicted a former San Diego resident with charges of terrorism after nearly a decade of alleged crimes that landed him on the department’s Most Wanted Terrorists list.

Authorities say a woman placed a plastic bag over her 3-year-old son’s head and tied his hands as their Santa Paula home burned.

Nine people, including two children, were killed Saturday when a plane crashed in rough weather near Chamberlain, South Dakota, authorities said. A Pilatus PC-12, a single-engine turboprop passenger plane, had as many as 12 people on board when it crashed shortly after takeoff about a mile from Chamberlain Municipal Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement. Brule County...

A bill originally meant to help law enforcement investigate cold cases of murdered and missing indigenous women that has floundered in Congress for two years may have the missing ingredients to become law — money and muscle. The money comes from an appropriations subcommittee chaired by Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who told The Associated Press that for the first...

Closing arguments wrapped up Wednesday in the trial of two women who are charged with the beating death of a 23-year-old woman outside a Santa Ana nightclub earlier this year.

Richard Spencer, who was fired at Navy secretary for his handling of a SEAL war crimes case championed by President Donald Trump, wrote Wednesday that the commander in chief “has very little understanding” of how the American military works. The extraordinary accusation came in an opinion piece published on The Washington Post’s website Wednesday evening, three days after he was...