Crime and Courts

A Tarrant County jury says a man who killed and dismembered three people in 2021, should get the death penalty. That verdict came down Wednesday afternoon for Jason Thornburg. NBC 5’s Tahera Rahman reports from outside the courtroom.

Three U.S. Army soldiers at Fort Cavazos, Texas, have been arrested on human smuggling charges, U.S. Attorney Jaime Esparza for the Western District of Texas said Thursday.

A suspected gunman is dead and two students are injured following a shooting Wednesday afternoon at a school in Butte County, according to the sheriff’s office.

A good Samaritan who went outside to grab a delivery found two infant girls who were dumped in a ditch near his Indiana home after the car they were in was stolen.

Trump’s attorneys said President Biden’s statement that his son had been “selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted” also applies to the president-elect.

Six former Apple employees are facing fraud charges in a scam that targeted the tech giant’s program for matching workers’ charitable donations, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office.

Benefield, 33, was convicted of manslaughter in July for a killing that she said was self-defense. Florida prosecutors had charged her with murder.

A man concealed items inside shipping containers in Long Beach that were bound for North Korea, federal authorities say.

A 47-year-oldFlorida woman has been sentenced to life in prison for zipping her boyfriend into a suitcase and leaving him to die of suffocation amid a history of domestic and alcohol abuse.

Jamie Lee Komoroski pleaded guilty Monday to reckless homicide and three felony driving under the influence charges.

The Los Angeles Police Department said Monday it had video that showed Hannah Kobayashi, the woman from Hawaii who vanished last month after landing at LAX, crossing the border into Mexico, and said there was no evidence of foul play in her disappearance.

The body of a 7-year-old boy has been recovered after he went missing over the weekend in Two Rivers, Wisconsin.

“I never went a day without worrying or thinking about if they had a terrible ending to their life,” Christine Heller Seaman said about her grandparents Charles and Catherine Romer, who were reported missing in April 1980.

Sean “Diddy” Combs has been denied bail as he awaits a May sex trafficking trial.

Police in Boulder, Colorado, are refuting assertions that there is viable evidence and leads about the 1996 killing of JonBenet Ramsey that they are not pursuing.

After a judge on Tuesday said Rudy Giuliani was not complying with court orders to surrender his assets to the two Georgia election workers he falsely accused of election fraud during the 2020 election, former New York City Mayor said that he’s struggling to make ends meet.

Two companies have cut ties with Conor McGregor after a civil court jury in Ireland ruled that he must pay a woman who accused him of raping her more than $250,000.

A Massachusetts man who spent 27 years in jail for a murder he claims that he didn’t commit has been awarded $13 million by a jury.

Families who have suffered from some of Fort Worth’s most heinous and mysterious unsolved crimes say a lack of staff in the Fort Worth Police Department’s Cold Case Unit has left Justice Shelved in their decades-long struggles for answers.

Marlena Velez, 22, is alleged to have stolen items from a Target in Cape Coral, Florida, by scanning false bar codes with cheaper prices, police said.