Crime and Courts

A Long Island man was stabbed and killed by his son while he was participating in a live video chat from his home, police said

Lori Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, will plead guilty today via video conference for their involvement in the “Varsity Blues Scandal.”

A Manhattan resident has been charged for a fraudulent scheme to obtain over $20 million in government-guaranteed loans designed to provide relief to small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, federal prosecutors announced Thursday. Muge Ma, 36 and from Manhattan, is charged with one count each of bank fraud, wire fraud, and making false statements to a bank — each of…

The Bronx man arrived in Honolulu on Monday, and authorities became aware of his social media posts showing him sunbathing, with a surfboard, and walking around the area at night

A Texas man with an assault rifle opened fire outside the Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C., early Thursday and was charged with assault with intent to kill, authorities said. No injuries were reported but Cuban officials reported property damage. Alexander Alazo, 42, of Aubrey, Texas, was arrested. He appears to have been shooting toward the embassy, according to a preliminary…

A Texas man with an assault rifle opened fire outside the Cuban Embassy in D.C. early Thursday and was charged with assault with intent to kill, authorities said.

The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to hear the case of a former Monterey Park police officer who was convicted of crimes against three women during traffic stops, in which he told them to lift their clothing and fondled two of them. Israel Sanchez  — whose trial attorney called him a “decorated Marine” and married father of three children —...

The Supreme Court has sidestepped a major decision on gun rights in a dispute over New York City’s former ban on transporting guns

Josef Neumann has died three months after a deadly stabbing attack that left him in a coma, community officials say.

A woman fatally beat her male roommate with a tape dispenser, a shower rod and other items during a dispute inside their southern New Jersey home last month, authorities said. Mary Carbone, 56, was charged Wednesday with murder and four weapons offenses, according to the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office. It wasn’t known Thursday if she has retained an attorney....

Prosecutors are seeking an 18-month sentence for an alleged neo-Nazi from northern Virginia who pleaded guilty last year to weapons violations

The search of the Times Square offices comes after women filed a lawsuit claiming Nygard enticed them, some as young teenagers, to his estate in the Bahamas where he gave them drugs or alcohol and then raped them.

A man tried to blow up an SUV at the Pentagon on Monday morning and was found later in Arlington National Cemetery. Matthew Dmitri Richardson, of Fayetteville, Arkansas, faces federal charges after Pentagon police say he tried to blow up an active-duty service member’s Land Rover at about 10:55 a.m. Monday. He appeared in court in Alexandria, Virginia, Tuesday...

A New York jury found former Hollywood studio boss Harvey Weinstein guilty of third-degree rape in the case of Jessica Mann and guilty of first-degree criminal sexual assault in the case of Mimi Haleyi, acquitting him of the two most serious counts of predatory sex assault. Those two counts of predatory sex assault, which carried a max sentence of life…

What started as a quick trip to a bookstore in a New Jersey town for a teenager and her mother quickly turned into a horrifying bathroom experience — and an arrest

A Maryland police officer’s 17-year-old son tried to sell marijuana products on Snapchat and messaged his address to his alleged killer less than an hour before his death, court documents say.

A family friend of a pizza delivery driver who was recently gunned down in Baltimore says he had fled war-torn Syria to seek a better life

Authorities say a 14-year-old has been arrested in the fatal stabbing of a Barnard College student in a Manhattan park in December.

There is almost no physical evidence connecting New York real estate heir Robert Durst to the slaying of his best friend in Los Angeles 20 years ago. What does link him to the killing of Susan Berman, though, is a cryptic note sent to police with her address and one word: “CADAVER.” The slip of paper intended to lead authorities…

Opening arguments have begun in the death penalty trial of a man accused of killing eight people in Mississippi in 2017.