An attack in broad daylight in London on Wednesday is drawing a swift response — and a possible terror link — from the highest authorities. Reports suggest two men chased down another man with their car before getting out, attacking him with a machete, and dragging him through the city streets.
Tuesday was a bad day for Chinese politician Bo Xilai and his family: First Bo was suspended from the 25-member Politburo that runs China, then his wife was reportedly arrested for the murder of a British businessman.
Anders Breivik wasn't insane when he carried out the killing spree he's confessed to in Norway last year, and he's not insane now, court-appointed psychiatric experts said on Tuesday, but they didn't say why they'd reversed a November finding that he was insane.
It's become a common practice for police look into the online activities of people they are investigation, but authorities come calling to people who have that info, what exactly do they find out?
We're not here to pass judgment on why you wound up in police custody, but it may happen, and you should know how to comport yourself while getting arrested and once you're in a holding cell.
One Goh, the former nursing student arrested for the shooting spree at an Oakland university, may face the death penalty for seven murder and three attempted murder charges, all apparently stemming from a dispute over tuition.
The name Richard Descoings may not ring a lot of bells in the United States, but the university head was a big deal in France, where President Nicolas Sarkozy paid homage to him after he died, suddenly and mysteriously tuesday in a Manhattan hotel room.
Police and reporters are still trying to figure out exactly what happened when a former nursing student opened fire at a religious medical school in Oakland, California on Monday, in one of the deadliest school shootings ever to hit California.
Add this to the list of reasons to pay those tickets before they go to warrant: A new Supreme Court ruling Monday gives authorities the right to strip-search you before you're admitted to jail, regardless of your offense.
Reading the New York Post's coverage of the Mommy Madam case, one might've been tempted to say that the editors of that paper are in her camp. The New York Observer's Foster Kamer has suggested an explanation: Col Allan, editor of the New York Post, is friends with the Mommy Madam herself.
For the second time in less than a year, a New York City cop faced rape charges, and while a jury convicted Michael Pena on Tuesday of the most serious sexual assault counts, it got hung on rape charges Wednesday and the judge officially declared a mistrial.
Kinde Durkee, the California campaign treasurer expected to plead guilty this week to embezzling as much as $8 million from at least 50 Democratic political clients including Sen. Dianne Feinstein, allegedly squandered the money on a variety of pretty pedestrian expenses.
The latest leak from the Sanford Police Department shows not how scary and threatening Trayvon Martin allegedly was to George Zimmerman (that was yesterday), but rather that prosecutors may have blocked an investigator in his attempt to charge Zimmerman with manslaughter.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been charged with "aggravated pimping" in connection with an alleged prostitution ring in the so-called Carlton Affair in France.
Occupy Wall Street's springtime resurgence is fully underway as the group tried to occupy a second park in New York this week but found itself again pushed out by police late Tuesday night.
The notion that Afghan shooting suspect Staff Sgt. Robert Bales had troubles at home has been vaguely espoused since last week, but on Tuesday the exact nature of at least some of his domestic woes became clearer: Bales owes millions for a fraud settlement and two underwater homes.
An Occupy Wall Street activist accused of elbowing a New York City cop over the weekend walked free on Monday when a judge denied prosecutors' request for $20,000 bail in an apparent rebuke against the police protest crackdown on Saturday.
Whoever opened fire on a Jewish school in Toulouse, Southern France, used the same gun as the one that shot four paratroopers last week.
Catherine Greig, the woman who went on the run with Boston crime legend Whitey Bulger, faces as little as three years in prison after pleading guilty Wednesday afternoon to helping hide Bulger from authorities for 16 years. And, she won't have to testify against him.
Do you have a prized work of art in your collection somewhere, gathering dust and value? Better sell it before it turns out to be a fake.
Felicia "Snoop" Pearson gave one of the best performances in HBO's The Wire in part because she grew up around the Baltimore streets the show portrayed. Newly found recordings of her on a real police wiretap don't exactly evoke her ruthless television character.
Jurors in the trial of Allen Stanford said on Monday they couldn't come to a decision on whether the financier had carried out a $7 billion ponzi scheme, but they changed their mind on Tuesday and convicted him on all but one of 14 criminal counts.
It's not every day that a married "Ugg-wearing" soccer mom with four kids gets busted for operating a prostitution ring out of an apartment on East 78th Street. Thus, New York Post editors are making the most of it, with an array of porny stock photos and puns.
A new study of large school systems shows that the racial gap in the punishment of students is similar to the disparities found in the criminal justice system for adults.
Jared Lougner's lack of sanity has kept him out of the defendant's chair since a judge ruled him unfit to stand trial last year, but a ruling on Monday dealt a serious blow to Loughner's fight to remain crazy as he faces a trial for the mass shooting that killed six and injured Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 12 others.
We do not know exactly what happened with the Morgan Stanley executive arrested for balking on his fare and then stabbing the cab driver outside his home, but we do that Jennings is in for a hell of a time in the press.
The investigation into corporate malfeasance and fraud at Japan’s troubled optical equipment maker Olympus, took a new turn on Thursday with the arrest of three former Olympus officials and four others on charges of violating financial filing regulations.
Mustapha Ouanes, a member of a Saudi prince's traveling entourage charged with rape in New York, was just convicted on four felony counts including first-degree rape.
The guy who killed two U.S. airmen and wounded two others in a shooting spree at the Frankfurt Airport in Germany will spend his life in prison, a German court decided on Friday.
The Egyptian prime minister says the government's going ahead with prosecutions against American and other foreign and local NGO workers, despite threats from the U.S. government that it stands to lose $1.3 billion in annual military aid and $250 million in economic aid from the United States.
Fox 5 TV anchor Greg Kelly, son of NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, will not be charged with rape. His lawyer told the Daily News, "They are not pressing charges."
As federal investigators probe News Corporation over allegations its employees hacked into 9/11 victims phones, it's starting to look like they won't find anything, but the FBI thinks it's got a good case to make in regards to bribery charges instead, Reuters reports.
Perhaps worried Norway had momentarily forgotten about how much it hated him, Anders Breivik put on a show of being a hero in his court appearance Monday, demanding a medal and saying he acted to prevent "cultural destruction."
Malcolm Harris, a 23-year-old writer and editor, was informed by Twitter early this week that his account had been subpoenaed by the office of Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance. He's concerned about law enforcement's reach into the newfangled social platform and is seeking to quash the subpoena, calling out, among other things, the method by which it was delivered.
Whatever you think of the two Occupy Wall Street demonstrators who became famous for getting pepper sprayed and beaten by police, you have to admit their lawyer is pretty funny.
The head of the East Haven, Conn., police department will step down instead of face firing after four of his officers got arrested by the F.B.I. for harassing Latinos.
The rape accusation against Greg Kelly, local Fox anchor and son of the New York police commissioner, is getting more complicated with the accuser saying she got pregnant from the alleged attack.
Occupy Wall Street protesters get arrested a lot, and for many different charges. Sometimes those charges are just plain silly.
Just a few years ago he was one of the nation's financial heavy hitters, but former A.F.G. chief executive Aaron Hand has solidified his role as criminal, pleading guilty on Monday to trying to arrange a hit on a witness with his parents' unwitting help.
Let us all hope that this is the weirdest arrest of the weekend: authorities in Peru have arrested Johnny D. Guillen, aka the Corta Nalgas, wanted for slashing the buttocks of women in shopping malls in Virginia.
The top suspect in the disappearance of an American teenager seven years ago has just confessed to murdering a 21-year-old woman in Peru five years to the day after the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba.
New York police are questioning one man in the New Year's Day firebombing attacks in Queens, but they've also released a sketch of their suspect and a video of someone throwing a Molotov cocktail at a house, just in case the public happens to know something they don't.
It's got all the hallmarks of a Sherlock Holmes book: A body found in a remote woodland, a connection to the halls of power, a small pastoral community shocked by the ghoulish discovery.
Benjamin Colton Barnes, the "person of interest" suspected of shooting a Mount Rainier park ranger Sunday, was found dead "in a ditch," reports King 5 News.
A series of arson attacks in Queens on Sunday night used Molotov cocktails made from Starbucks bottles to target Muslims, police said.
The man who allegedly burned a woman to death in her apartment elevator Saturday night told police in Brooklyn on Sunday that he had killed his 73-year-old neighbor in an arson attack because she owed him about $2,000 for odd jobs.
The story about punk rockers getting arrested in Indonesia's Aceh province and the police shaving off their mohawks to try to rehabilitate them is ridiculous. It's also very punk rock.
Back in October, protesters arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge and other early Occupy Wall Street marches promised to clog up Manhattan's court system rather than take any kind of deal if their charges weren't fully dismissed, but only 40 percent are sticking to that plan.
Police just released the identity of the man who killed a Virginia Tech Police officer and then shot himself on Thursday as 22-year-old Ross Truett Ashley, a student at nearby Radford University.
Rod Blagojevich, who's managed to avoid jail time since infamously trying to sell then-congressman Obama's Senate seat, was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Wednesday.
After decades of protests, marches and public appeals, prosecutors in Philadelphia announced on Wednesday they are dropping their pursuit of the death penalty for Mumia Abu Jamal, who was sentenced to death for killing a Philadelphia police officer in 1981.
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