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A court in Bangladesh’s capital granted bail Sunday to micro-credit pioneer and Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus over the firing of three employees by Grameen Communications, where he is chairman. Acting Chairman of the 3rd Labor Court in Dhaka, Zakia Parveen, granted the bail when Yunus appeared before the court. The country’s High Court had set a Nov. 7 deadline last...

A court in eastern Bangladesh sentenced the principal of an Islamic school and 15 others to death on Thursday over the killing of an 18-year-old woman who was set on fire for refusing to drop sexual harassment charges against the principal. Judge Mamunur Rashid of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal found Principal Siraj Ud Doula and the others...

Jurors in the trial of the convicted double-murderer dubbed the “Hollywood Ripper” are due back in court Monday for the latest phase of the trial, in which they will be asked to recommend whether the defendant should be sentenced to death or life in prison without the possibility of parole.

A jury has awarded more than $13 million to three women, finding they were harmed and did not consent to sexual contact by an employee of a California psychiatric facility.

An NYPD judge recommended firing the officer accused of using a banned chokehold in the July 2014 death of Eric Garner, bring some measure of closure to a nationally influential case that local and federal officials all declined to criminally prosecute. The judge found officer Daniel Pantaleo — who has been on modified administrative duty in the years since Garner’s...

A woman upset over rapper A$AP Rocky’s detention in Sweden showed up at the Embassy of Sweden complex in D.C. and threatened to “blow this motherf—– up,” screamed obscenities at staff and kicked over furniture before she was arrested by the Secret Service, an affidavit obtained by the News4 I-Team shows.

Police have released surveillance video of the last night that Ole Miss student Ally Kostial was seen alive. She was later found dead with gunshot wounds and a college student from Fort Worth has been charged with murder in connection with her death.

The defense lawyer for the man accused of murdering rapper Nipsey Hussle has asked the court for access to any police records that detail criminal investigations into Hussle’s life and businesses.

No more Instagram for Roger Stone. Facebook and Twitter are out, too. A federal judge barred Stone from posting on social media Tuesday after concluding that the longtime confidant of President Donald Trump repeatedly flouted her gag order. Stone, who is charged with lying in the Russia investigation, has used social media repeatedly to disparage the case against him and...

Walkthroughs of crime locations for jurors are rare, but legal analysts suggest the prosecution wanted the jury to see the proximity of the accused and the victim. Patrick Healy reports for the NBC4 News at 4 p.m., Wednesday, June 19, 2019.

A Downey man facing more than 50 criminal charges stemming from the sale of 28 puppies — most of which prosecutors say subsequently died — appeared in downtown courtroom Monday, but his arraignment was postponed to next month.

At first no one knew why the 5-year-old girl could no longer move her legs or control her urine. For months she lay on the ground, unable to walk or play. Some in the community blamed witchcraft but the real reason was more horrific: The child had been brutally raped and left paralyzed as a result of her injuries. The...

A South Carolina father convicted of killing his five young children should die for the murders because he made them suffer in a carefully thought out plan to avoid prison, prosecutors said Thursday. But a lawyer for Timothy Jones Jr. asked the same jurors who convicted him two days earlier to have mercy and choose life in prison without parole...

A Northern Virginia man received four life sentences without the possibility of parole for raping and killing a Muslim teenager as she walked back to a mosque with friends for pre-dawn religious services.

A judge agreed with prosecutors and ruled a Coast Guard lieutenant accused of threats should remain detained. Chris Gordon reports prosecutors must come up with charges other than possession of guns and drugs within 14 days.

An herbalist was convicted Wednesday of practicing medicine without a license in connection with the death of a 13-year-old diabetic boy from the Harbor Gateway area.

Los Angeles prosecutors say a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer has been arrested on charges of illegally selling guns.

A defense attorney for Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman assailed the federal case against the Mexican drug lord as “a fantasy,” telling a U.S. jury Thursday that the prosecution relied on a parade of cooperating witnesses who “lie, steal, cheat, deal drugs and kill people” for a living.

The defense lawyer for a former U.S. Marine who was arrested in Russia for alleged spying said Thursday that he is trying to get the American released from the Moscow prison where he has dealt well with his detention. Michigan resident Paul Whelan, a 48-year-old corporate security director from the Detroit area, was arrested Friday on espionage charges. The Russian...