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A Naperville high school student was charged with a hate crime after allegedly posting a racist Craigslist ad featuring another student, prosecutors announced Wednesday.

A Naperville high school student was charged with a hate crime after allegedly posting a racist Craigslist ad featuring another student, prosecutors announced Wednesday.

Police have launched a hate crime investigation into a racist Internet post involving two Naperville Central High School students, authorities said Monday.

Three men were charged in connection with an alleged migrant smuggling ring that recruited San Diego high school students as drivers, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

It’s a widely known vaping cartridge in the marijuana economy, but it’s not a licensed brand. And it’s got the kind of market buzz no legitimate company would want. The vaping cartridges that go by the catchy, one-syllable name “Dank” — a slang word for highly potent cannabis — are figuring prominently in the federal investigation to determine what has...

It’s a widely known vape cartridge in the marijuana economy, but it’s not a licensed brand. And it’s got the kind of market buzz no legitimate company would want.

San Diego-based business managers Aidan Curry and Connor Brooke pleaded guilty in federal court Monday for conspiring to launder dark web proceeds through their unlicensed online business, which sold cryptocurrency in exchange for cash.

The country’s largest electronic cigarette maker announced that it will stop running ads in the United States. Lolita Lopez reports for the NBC4 News on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019.

A former videographer for a San Diego porn company that has been accused of luring young women into appearing in sex videos admitted in court Thursday that he knowingly lied to the women.

A first-time homeowner in San Diego recently fell prey to a growing scam that involves fake “for rent” ads posted on popular websites meant to convince renters to send deposits. Photos of her home were used in these ads.

Nearly two dozen women are suing a San Diego-based porn company alleging its owners used fraud and coercion when convincing them to have sex on-camera.

A man accused of sexually assaulting women he approached at bars and nightclubs or met on online dating sites listened as four witnesses gave graphic testimony about their encounter in court Wednesday.

On review boards for commercial sex, buyers denigrate the women they rate and spin fantasies about sex acts. They use forums on the sites to warn one another about anti-trafficking busts and to answer each other’s questions about the “hobby.”

As football season kicks off, one man’s story offers a warning about buying tickets: you may think those tickets you snagged are the real deal, only to later learn they’re not.

One man’s story offers a warning to those buying tickets online. Carolyn Johnson reports for the NBC4 News on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019.

Disturbing details of animal abuse were revealed in court Tuesday at the arraignment for a 26-year-old Escondido man facing animal cruelty charges after several cat carcasses were found on his property in May.

San Diego Comic-Con is one of the most in-demand pop culture conventions in the world, with tickets selling out each year in a matter of hours. But with its popularity comes scammers ready to take advantage.

People who live in a Venice Beach neighborhood are fed up with homeless people renting vans to sleep in that take up parking spaces. In the stretch on Riviera Avenue near Grand Boulevard, three vans come back registered to the same person: he’s known as the “vanlord.” Neighbors said he rents them out for as much as $300 a month,...

A man is renting more than a dozen vans to homeless people and residents are fed up with it, saying the vans are taking up space and most of them leave large amounts of trash after they move. Angie Crouch reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, July 9, 2019.

Most homeless people in San Francisco sleep in parks and on sidewalks but a growing number are living out of their vehicles, helping fuel an overall 17% increase in homelessness in the last two years, according to a report released Friday.