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A former Angels employee facing trial in connection with the 2019 fatal overdose of pitcher Tyler Skaggs may have also supplied illegal drugs to at least five other Major League players, according to court documents filed by federal prosecutors.

A prosecutor described sex abuse claims against R&B star R. Kelly Wednesday, saying the long-anticipated trial now underway is “about a predator” who used his fame to entice girls, boys and young women before dominating and controlling them physically, sexually and psychologically for at least three decades. “This case is not about a celebrity who likes to party a lot,” Assistant...

Starting this week, what prosecutors say was a not-so-secret dark side of R&B superstar R. Kelly will be presented in lurid detail for a jury in New York City.

Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie producer, has been charged with 11 sexual assaults in California between 2004 and 2013, and was brought back to Los Angeles from New York to stand trial. Eric Leonard reports for NBC4 on July 20, 2021.

Political activist and donor Ed Buck is accused of supplying methamphetamine to five men, two of whom overdosed and died. Eric Leonard reports for the NBC4 News on Wednesday, July 14, 2021.

A jury of seven women and five men was sworn in Tuesday for the federal criminal trial of former political donor Ed Buck, accused of providing drugs to two men who overdosed and died in his apartment.

A jury of seven women and five men was sworn in for the federal criminal trial of former political donor Ed Buck, who is accused of providing methamphetamine to two men who overdosed and died in his West Hollywood apartment. Angie Crouch reports for the NBC4 News on Tuesday, July 13, 2021.

Jury selection is set to start Tuesday morning in the federal criminal trial of former political donor Ed Buck, who is accused of nine felony charges, including providing methamphetamine to two men who overdosed and died in his West Hollywood apartment.

Trial is set to begin Wednesday for Ed Buck, a well-known political activist and donor who’s accused of causing the overdose deaths of two men inside his West Hollywood apartment. Eric Leonard reports for NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on July 12, 2021.

A juror has been removed from the murder trial of multimillionaire Robert Durst because she violated the court’s order not to read about the case during the unprecedented 14-month pandemic hiatus.

Prosecutors from the state Attorney General’s Office told an Orange County Superior Court judge Friday they don’t believe they can prove most of the rape charges against a Newport Beach hand surgeon and his girlfriend and want to amend the complaint against the pair to include just one sexual assault case involving one of the seven charged victims.

Prosecutors say they met women in bars, drugged them and raped them. Now there is a motion before an OC judge to drop multiple charges against a Newport Beach surgeon and his girlfriend. Vikki Vargas reports for NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on May 14, 2021.

Attorneys for Robert Durst filed an emergency motion Thursday asking a judge to postpone his murder trial indefinitely and release him on a “high bail amount,” citing the 78-year-old real estate scion’s “serious health conditions.”

Prosecutors and defense attorneys in the public corruption case involving ex-Los Angeles City Councilman José Huizar will ask a federal judge Monday to put off the trial for one year, but the judge has indicated he wants to start the proceedings earlier.

A jury in Rome on Wednesday began deliberating the fates of two young American men who are charged with killing an Italian police officer near the hotel where they were staying while on summer vacation in 2019.

The upcoming trial of a former Massachusetts mayor first elected at the age of 23 will showcase the dramatic rise and fall of the wunderkind accused of stealing from his investors and extorting marijuana companies.

A federal judge gave the green light Thursday to move jailed R&B singer R. Kelly to New York City to go on trial this summer after several delays.

Many Black men and women in the U.S. are keeping tabs on what’s unfolding in the televised murder trial of white former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, taking in what they can before turning away to allow their anger and hurt to subside

Courteney Ross shared details about the moment she met George Floyd, when Floyd was working as a security guard. “And this kind of person to come up and tell you he wants to pray for you… It was so sweet,” Ross said.

A federal judge in LA has denied efforts by former political fundraiser and activist Ed Buck, to exclude some key evidence from his upcoming trial for the drug overdose deaths of two men. I-team’s Eric Leonard reports for NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on March 25, 2021.