Three Alabama prison inmates featured in an Oscar-nominated documentary have filed a federal lawsuit alleging their abrupt transfer to isolated cells came in retaliation for exposing what they ...

NEW HANOVER COUNTY (WWAY) — On Monday, a man pleaded guilty in court following a hit-and-run that killed a Wilmington teen ...

Beijing hails punishment as a ‘powerful declaration’ against those who dare challenge the city’s national security law.

Some North Carolina Republicans say that the man accused of killing a woman on a Charlotte commuter train last year was released from prison early as part of a 2021 COVID-era settlement between civil ...

Churches in Coral Gables and across Florida protested the state’s surge in executions, urging restorative justice and tolling bells ahead of 2026 death sentences.

Reports of crime and violence in North Carolina public schools decreased during the 2024-25 school year for the second ...

Lawmakers’ remarks today, suggesting Maxwell invoked the Fifth Amendment because she hopes for a Trump pardon, highlight how ...

Mario Payne was sentenced on Feb. 9 after being found guilty at trial of shooting and killing the mother of his two children.

The coroner has released the identity of an 8-year-old boy who authorities say was punched, beaten with a belt, malnourished and put in a cold shower in Round Lake Beach before he died Friday.

Also: Dyson Daniels’ shooting woes are problem for Hawks, and Giannis Antetokounmpo gets in bed with sports prediction markets ...

The fierce critic of Beijing was among the most prominent people prosecuted under a China-imposed national security law.

A Hong Kong court sentenced pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison on Feb. 9 for national security crimes, ...