Crime and Courts

Saturday in Deep Ellum brought out people just looking for a good time on a hot day. “I feel pretty safe,” said Haley Wolken. “There’s a bunch of new restaurants and stuff going on so just checking those out.” But safety remained top of mind for some patrons returning to the area after a shooting two nights before. “It’s...

Dallas police are investigating three shootings in one week in Deep Ellum. NBC 5’s Katy Blakey has the latest on the crimes and the response from the Deep Ellum Foundation.

With Sean “Diddy” Combs, Lyle Menendez and Erik Menendez, as well as Luigi Mangione navigating their legal battles, all three cases have an interesting connection through their lawyers.

An ex-Syracuse basketball player has told the jury at Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial that the music mogul got “extremely creative” when he was on drugs.

Sherri Papini is saying she was indeed kidnapped after all. This time, she’s claiming that she was kidnapped by her ex-boyfriend, James Reyes.

Memphis police and the mayor said security video shows the man scaling a wall to a subdivision and then walking directly to the mayor’s home.

Michael Proctor is breaking his silence on the Karen Read murder case following the verdict in her second trial, giving an interview to “Dateline.”

Nearly 3,000 Nintendo Switch 2 consoles were stolen en route to North Texas.

The jury in Karen Read’s retrial reached a verdict on Wednesday, finding her guilty on a charge of operating under the influence but not guilty on the murder charges. The verdict was greeted with cheers outside court.

A verdict has been reached in the second murder trial of Karen Read, who is charged with killing her Boston police officer boyfriend in a case that has generated over three years of heated debate.

The jury found Karen Read guilty on a lesser charge but not guilty on the charges of second-degree murder and leaving the scene in John O’Keefe’s death.

The undercover effort involving several law enforcement agencies ran from early April through the end of May and was dubbed “Operation Showdown.”

Law enforcement officials announced the results of a major, two-month operation aimed at reducing violent crime in Fort Worth. They say nearly 80 people are in custody and hundreds of drugs and guns have been taken off city streets.

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial has been underway for weeks, but that doesn’t mean is close to wrapping. Trial attorney and legal analyst Misty Marris breaks down the trial’s most explosive developments and how she believes the prosecution and defense are faring thus far, including which witness testimony she thinks “fell apart” during cross-examination.

All 50 U.S. states have agreed to the OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s latest plan to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids.

Suspects have been charged in a historic $100 million Brinks truck heist at a freeway rest stop north of Los Angeles.

Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez is going to prison for taking bribes of gold and cash and acting as an agent of Egypt.

Arthur Folasa Ah Loo was killed when a man who was believed to be part of a peacekeeping team for the protest shot at a person brandishing a rifle at demonstrators, accidentally striking Ah Loo.

Minnesota officials announced that they will be charging 57-year-old Vance Boelter with first-degree murder for the shooting deaths of State Senator Melissa Hortman and her husband.

The judge in the Sean “Diddy” Combs sex trafficking trail removed a juror and will have him replaced with an alternate after prosecutors found inconsistencies in his answers about where he lives.