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A massive search continues in Fort Lauderdale after a murder suspect escaped police custody at the Broward County Courthouse Friday morning.

A former co-owner of Presidente Supermarkets who went on the run after his wife’s lover was found murdered in South Florida made his first appearance in a Miami courtroom Friday since his arrest in Spain.

A woman abducted from North Las Vegas and held for several days was rescued earlier this week from the Antelope Valley desert – where she had been beaten, bound with duct tape, and left to die, several law enforcement sources told NBC4. Detectives from the LA County Sheriff’s Department and FBI agents have arrested a father and daughter suspected of...

Surveillance footage from a parking lot in Hialeah shows the moments before a driver reversed her van into a woman, pinning her against a metal gate.

All 39 people found dead in a refrigerated container truck in England last week were Vietnamese nationals, British police said, as three more people were arrested in Ireland and Vietnam in the sprawling international investigation into what appears to be a people-smuggling tragedy. British detectives initially said the victims discovered near the southeast port of Purfleet on Oct. 23 were...

A judge will halt lawsuits against Purdue Pharma and its owners for six months in hopes of finalizing a settlement over the OxyContin maker’s role in the national opioid crisis, he said Friday.

A federal control board that oversees Puerto Rico’s finances filed in court Friday a long-awaited plan that it says would reduce the U.S. territory’s debt by more than 60 percent and pull the island out of bankruptcy in what government officials called a historic moment. The plan comes three years after U.S. Congress created the board and would reduce $35...

The arrest of a Lubbock man who allegedly confided in his grandmother a plot to carry out a mass shooting is “a tragedy averted,” according to U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.

A YouTube and Instagram influencer with hundreds of thousands of social media followers is facing identity theft and fraud charges after being indicted Friday in Suffolk County.

Documents reveal what led up to the shooting of Red Sox legend David Ortiz. He is not specifically mentioned, but the shooter was handed a photo of Ortiz.

A man nicknamed “Bone” was ordered Monday to spend one year in preventive prison as Dominican authorities said they were closing in on the mastermind and motive behind the attempted killing of baseball great David Ortiz, who is recovering at a hospital in Boston. The hearing was closed to the public and officials did not release details, but according to...

There are still suspects that have not been arrested, according to officials.

Authorities are continuing to investigate a shooting that injured former Red Sox slugger David Ortiz in the Dominican Republic. So far ten suspects have been arrested.

A self-described gang member took the stand Monday, at one point wiping away tears, as he described what happened in the case of a teen who was dragged out of bodega and murdered in a machete attack last summer by a group of alleged Trinitarios gang members.

A man who told detectives he killed six people before he was arrested in New York for the murder of a Miami Beach man told reporters he killed the man “with my bare hands.”

The teenage parents and grandmother of a newborn baby thought to have been abandoned in a Chicago alley were charged early Friday, according to police.

A few months after he turned 17 — and more than two years before he was arrested — Vincent Vetromile recast himself as an online revolutionary. Offline, in this suburb of Rochester, New York, Vetromile was finishing requirements for promotion to Eagle Scout in a troop that met at a local church. He enrolled at Monroe Community College, taking classes...

A Broward County teacher accused of grooming a student for a sexual relationship has been arrested and is facing a charge, authorities said.