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It’s been nearly a year since a gunman walked into a Church’s Chicken restaurant in Otay Mesa and shot three employees, killing a woman, and despite a halt in the legal system due to the coronavirus pandemic, her family continues to push for justice.

The company said it had paused clinical trials following an “unexplained” patient illness.

The Israeli prime minister’s corruption trial has resumed following a two-month hiatus

A defiant Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has lashed out at the country’s justice system as his historic corruption trial began

Real estate heir Robert Durst has never been charged in the 1982 New York disappearance of his wife, who was later declared dead.

Opening statements begin in murder trial of real estate mogul Robert Durst. As seen on the NBC4 News March 4, 2020. 

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…

A jury convicted high-profile lawyer Michael Avenatti on all counts in his Nike extortion trial on Friday. Prosecutors maintained Avenatti threatened to use his fame to stage a news conference and deliver claims that Nike executives were corrupting college basketball by funding payments to elite young players and their families — unless he was paid millions of dollars to conduct…

Harvey Weinstein trundled into court this week for the start of a New York City rape trial as he faced the prospect of spending the rest of his life in prison if convicted

A 29-year-old Garden Grove man was found not guilty Thursday by reason of insanity for the fatal stabbing of his stepbrother. Orange County Superior Court Judge John Conley determined that Andres Adolfo Serrat committed second-degree murder in the Aug. 3, 2015, stabbing of 20-year-old Donte Barcalo, but he found the defendant was insane at the time due to multiple diagnoses…

No cellphones. No talking. No escape. That’s the reality during the Senate’s impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, which will begin each day with a proclamation: “All persons are commanded to keep silence, on pain of imprisonment.” After that, 100 senators will sit at their desks for hours on end to hear from House prosecutors, Trump’s defense team and possibly a...

Two years before mother-of-five Jennifer Dulos went missing last May in what police believe was a murder, her estranged husband tried to run her over outside her new Connecticut home around the time she had filed for divorce, the children’s nanny told police. The allegations were revealed in nearly 500 pages of search warrants that were released Wednesday after being…

Jury selection resumed Monday at the trial of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, who has pleaded not guilty to charges he raped a woman in a Manhattan hotel room in 2013 and sexually assaulted another in 2006. The initial screening process, now on its fifth day, has been stymied by a host of challenges and distractions, including repeatedly denied requests from…

A woman who spoke out against Jeffrey Epstein at a July bail hearing is among three women who are suing his estate.

Michael Gargiulo was convicted in the stabbing deaths of two SoCal women and an attempt to kill a third in a series of violent and calculated attacks. Patrick Healy reports for the NBC4 News at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019.

A judge refused Thursday to reduce actor Michael Jace’s 40-year-to-life sentence for fatally shooting his wife in front of their two young children in their Hyde Park home in 2014.

It was 25 years ago that Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were viciously attacked and murdered outside her Brentwood condo. Reporter Conan Nolan covered the case in the ‘90s and is now taking a look back at what happened. Conan Nolan reports for the NBC4 News at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, June 12, 2019.

Following days of shocking new details being released and emotional testimonials from grieving family members, there was more explosive testimony Thursday from friends in the trial for a Massachusetts teenager accused of beheading his classmate. One friend of defendant Mathew Borges told jurors in Salem Superior Court that Borges confessed to the Dec. 1, 2016 murder of 16-year-old Lee Manuel...

The wealthy founder of a drug company has been convicted of scheming to bribe doctors across the country to prescribe a highly addictive fentanyl spray. A jury found Insys Therapeutics Founder and former CEO John Kapoor guilty of racketeering conspiracy on Thursday after 15 days of deliberations.

The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to review the case of actor Michael Jace, who was convicted of second-degree murder for fatally shooting his wife in front of their two young children in their Hyde Park home nearly five years ago.