Crime and Courts

After her release from prison, Gypsy Rose Blanchard is opening up about the abuse she endured at the hands of her mom Dee Dee Blanchard, exclusively revealing her lowest moment to E! News.

He was apparently knocked unconscious after falling trying to get out of the aquarium in Leeds, Alabama, and was quickly arrested.

Casey Anthony’s dad, George, took a polygraph test in a new TV special after his daughter made a series of allegations against him.

Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius was released from prison, 10 years after the murder of his girlfriend.

Authorities in Mississippi say a sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed during a traffic stop by a suspect who was killed by police following a car chase.

Kimberlee Singler had been expected to turn over their three kids to her ex-husband, Kevin Wentz, on Dec. 16. Two of the youngsters were found dead on Dec. 19.

Police identified the shooter as a 17-year-old classmate and the student killed as an 11-year-old student.

The suspect in a New Year’s Eve homicide fired the fatal shots through a hotel room door, according to court documents. That suspect, 18-year-old Jelani Cousin of Northeast D.C., pleaded not guilty Wednesday to second-degree murder while armed in the death of 18-year-old Ashlei Hinds. Cousin was drunk and arguing at a party at the Embassy Suites Hotel on...

An oral surgeon in Montgomery County, Maryland, was sentenced to 45 years in prison, with credit for time served, for his girlfriend’s overdose death in 2022.

Several family members told the judge they feel as if Sarah Harris had never met Dr. James Ryan that she would still be alive. News4’s Aimee Cho reports.

The suspect in a New Year’s Eve homicide fired the fatal shots through a hotel room door, according to court documents. News4’s Mark Segraves reports.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the woman who persuaded an online boyfriend to kill her mother after being forced to pretend for years that she was suffering from serious illnesses, has been at the center of headlines since her prison release last week — and much has happened since.

A federal judge ordered the identities of more than 150 people mentioned in court documents related to Jeffrey Epstein be made public. Here’s what you need to know.

The 84-year-old Girardi is the estranged husband of Erika Jayne, star of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.”

Months after Damion Myer’s father and grandfather made a painful plea for answers in his disappearance, police announced they arrested his friend after he confessed to the crime. News4’s Walter Morris reports. 

Family members of Ashlei Hinds, who was shot to death at what was believed to be a New Year’s Eve party, are remembering her as goal-oriented, loving and thoughtful. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports. 

Police arrested a suspect in the shooting death of an 18-year-old woman at a hotel in Friendship Heights — Washington, D.C.’s first reported homicide of 2024.

The missing 20-year-old’s family said the last few months have been agony and are far from closure, even with updates in the case.

Traffic deaths and homicides were both way up in D.C. in 2023 over previous years, but more people died from overdoses than from both combined. News4’s Mark Segraves looks at the numbers.

Former world champion cyclist Rohan Dennis was reported to have been charged in connection with the death of his wife, Olympic cyclist Melissa Hoskins.