Crime and Courts

A lawsuit was filed alleging the sexual abuse of a minor and safety failures on the campus of Perkiomen School in Pennsburg.

The woman accused of being a stowaway on a flight bound for Paris was arrested again trying to leave the country, this time headed for Canada. Federal authorities prohibited Svetlana Dali from leaving the Philadelphia area while she awaited trail. NBC10’s Brian Sheehan has the details.

A lawsuit was filed with accusations of sexual abuse between minors on the campus of Perkiomen School, an elite private school in Montgomery County. Now lawyers are detailing an alleged system of safety and security failures. NBC10’s Aaron Baskerville has more on the lawsuit.

Several men involved in a multimillion-dollar catalytic converter theft ring out of Bucks County were sentenced to jail on Monday.

The accused stowaway on a flight from New York to Paris in November has been arrested again, this time caught at the U.S.-Canada border after ditching her ankle bracelet monitor, according to a senior official briefed on the matter.

Jay-Z’s lawyer expects the hip-hop mogul, whose real name is Shawn Carter, to soon be “cleared” from a lawsuit that accuses him and rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs of raping a minor in 2000, he told NBC News on Monday. 

Police spent eight months investigating a car parts theft ring that was busted and those involved faced a judge on Monday. Evidence showed the theft ring’s leader paid out millions while running the operation which preyed on drug users. NBC10’s Deanna Durante has the details.

A California man has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for running a business to help pregnant Chinese women travel to the United States to deliver babies who would automatically have American citizenship.

Police in Florida are trying to find the rightful owner of over 55 pounds of cocaine, worth an estimated $1.7 million, that were found along the Atlantic coastline.

An American couple were shot to death while visiting the western Mexico state of Michoacan. Officials confirmed their nationalities on Saturday.

The suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO has added a prominent defense lawyer to his legal team as Manhattan prosecutors work to return him from Pennsylvania to face a murder charge. Luigi Mangione will be represented by Karen Friedman Agnifilo, who was a high-ranking deputy in the Manhattan district attorney’s office for years before entering private practice. Friedman Agnifilo’s...

From Utah to the U.K., authorities set on a worldwide chase to find the man, once praised for his work as a child advocate, behind a fake death and years of rape and fraud allegations.

Paula Abdul and former “American Idol” producer Nigel Lythgoe have agreed to settle a lawsuit in which she alleged he sexually assaulted her in the early 2000s when she was a judge on the show.

Police in California gave the FBI a tip about alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione a number of days before he was finally tracked down and captured, according to two senior officials.

The leader of UnitedHealth Group wrote that the health insurance executive gunned down on a Manhattan sidewalk last week cared about consumers and was working to make the system better.

An incoming West Virginia state lawmaker was arrested Thursday after he allegedly threatened to kill other state lawmakers.

The woman who in 2006 falsely accused three Duke University lacrosse players of raping her has admitted publicly for the first time that she made up the story.

Officials announced that two cousins — who own pawn shops in the Philadelphia region — have been charged for buying and selling millions of dollars of stolen goods.

Daniel Penny was acquitted of the charges he faced in New York over the 2023 chokehold death of homeless man Jordan Neely.

Oren and Alon Alexander, granted pre-trial release from Miami’s state cases, remain in custody before a federal hearing next week. The brothers are accused in a sexual assault investigation involving dozens in South Florida and New York.