Crime and Courts

A loyal dog that refused to leave his dead owner’s side helped solve the case of her murder by allowing detectives to identify her body, prosecutors said.

A man accused of murder after a 911 call about a fake bear attack in the mountains of Tennessee led authorities to a dead man in October has been found and arrested, police said Sunday, NBC News reported.

The jury, which has been requested for 26 days, deliberated for 19.5 hours, WTHR said. Allen is expected to be sentenced Dec. 20.

The jury in the trial of an Indiana man charged with murder in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls who vanished during an afternoon hike near their small hometown of Delphi has reached a verdict after days of deliberations.

A 37-year-old Irish man was arrested in connection with the murder of an American woman vacationing in Budapest, local police said.

Will JonBenét Ramsey’s killer finally be brought to justice 28 years after her murder? The upcoming Netflix docuseries “Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey” claims that authorities continue to mishandle the case of the death of the 6-year-old in 1996, including the not-so-subtle blame they placed on the family.

With the future of the Menendez brothers, who are being held in prison in San Diego, still up in the air, Dateline digs into the notorious duo’s past and their possible chance at freedom. NBC’s Keith Morrison shared a preview.

Before the fatal incident, Brandon Janik drank in bars in Hillcrest throughout the day and was found by bystanders passed out behind the wheel of a car stopped in the middle of University Avenue.

Iran’s government directed three people to “target our citizens, including President-elect Trump, on U.S. soil and abroad,” the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York alleged.

Zachary Alam was one of the first rioters sentenced since this week’s electoral victory by President-elect Donald Trump.

The deadline to submit bids and nondisclosure agreements on the Infowars assets is Friday afternoon.

Both the defendant and his cousin were 22-year-old Poway residents at the time of the deadly stabbing, reports NBC 7’s Dana Williams.

San Diego police are looking for a person they say targeted 13 Trader Joe’s customers at six local stores and pickpocketed their phones.

A man who fatally stabbed his cousin at a Sabre Springs park was sentenced Thursday to 25 years to life in state prison.

Germany’s federal prosecutor office said it arrested an American citizen on Thursday who allegedly spied for China.

Detectives believe the suspect began his spree in Riverside County TJ’s, then headed south, hitting at least nine of the grocery stores in a single day

Celebrity chef Tobias Dorzon was shot then apparently robbed in Hyattsville, Maryland, shocking surveillance video shows.

Two former Georgia election workers who were awarded the massive judgment reported to the court that they went to Giuliani’s Manhattan apartment last week to see what assets were there, but that it had been cleared out.

A former Granite Hills High School teacher convicted of charges related to sexual misconduct involving an underage former female student was sentenced to six months in county jail, though he will remain free pending an appeal of his case.

Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine struck a deal to end his current jail stint, agreeing to serve a month behind bars for violating the terms of his release after a felony conviction, prosecutors said Wednesday.