Crime

A Hawaii man who spent 30 years in prison for a murder he long denied committing declared the day “Freedom Friday” and said he was eager to visit his mother...

Grindr, the dating app that caters to gay men, cannot be held responsible for the rape of a 15-year-old boy who the company matched with sexual predators, the U.S. 9th...

Sitting outside his Anaheim Hills home with his hands cuffed behind his back, Jeffrey Ferguson muttered and raged and sobbed. He bragged of past glories, of putting outlaws behind bars,...

A South Carolina death row inmate has chosen to be executed by a firing squad, which would make him only the fourth inmate in the U.S. to die by this...

Hadi Matar, the man who stabbed and partially blinded prize-winning novelist Salman Rushdie at an event in New York, has been found guilty of attempted murder. Jurors delivered the verdict...

Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman announced Friday that he’s opposing a petition by attorneys for Erik and Lyle Menendez asking the court to take another look at their...

A probation officer caught on camera bending a teenager in half, who was charged with excessive force after The Times published footage of the incident, will receive no jail time...

An Illinois man is accused of inflicting prolonged abuse and torture on his 16-year-old stepson — who died a week after he was found unresponsive, brutally beaten, covered in burns...

At least 20 L.A. County probation officers face criminal indictments after an investigation by the California Attorney General’s office into their work with youth in the county’s beleaguered juvenile halls,...

Colorado lawmakers spent hours Friday afternoon considering a Democrat-led resolution to condemn President Donald Trump’s pardons of Jan. 6 prisoners while the state grapples with an estimated $1.2 billion budget...