Crime, Law and Justice

A 1-year-old boy died and five other people were injured after an SUV crashed off a bridge and landed on a Twin Cities freeway early Sunday.

As a landmark federal opioid trial nears completion, West Virginia communities are demanding $2.5 billion in compensation. Drug firms say they acted responsibly in shipping millions of pills.

Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who was defrocked after a Vatican investigation confirmed he had sexually molested adults as well as children, has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenage boy during a wedding reception in Massachusetts in 1974, court records show.

A man accused of killing eight people, mostly women of Asian descent, at Atlanta-area massage businesses pleaded guilty to murder Tuesday in four of the killings and was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison.

The suspect who is charged in the killing of Red Lake tribal police officer Ryan Bialke made his first appearance in federal court Wednesday afternoon. 

A Wisconsin judge on Wednesday found probable cause to charge a police officer in the slaying of a Black man who was sitting in a parked car. Prosecutors had declined to charge the officer.

The family of the then five-year-old boy says the Mall of America should have done more to keep track of the assailant that day.

Council members will ask to have the attorney general take up the case for potential hate crime charges and establish a committee to address racism.

The Wisconsin Court of Appeal has rejected a request by "Making a Murderer" subject Steven Avery for a new trial. Avery is serving a life sentence for the 2005 killing of photographer Teresa Halbach.

Violent crime surged nearly 17 percent across Minnesota last year, including a record number of murders, according to data released Tuesday by the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.