Crime & Courts from Newser

Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton —who boasted of killing nearly 50 women—is hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after an assault at a Quebec prison, authorities said Tuesday. The...

https://www.newser.com/story/350625/serial-killer-robert-pickton-nearly-killed-in-prison-assault.html

A New Jersey businessman rescued the home of Sen. Bob Menendez's wife from foreclosure at the same time the Democrat is accused of helping him secure a lucrative business relationship with Egypt,...

https://www.newser.com/story/350587/lawyer-testifies-nadine-menendez-had-help-avoiding-foreclosure-suit.html

Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Austin Maddox was one of 27 men arrested in a sting operation targeting sexual predators, Jacksonville Sheriff TK Waters announced Monday. The sheriff said Maddox an...

https://www.newser.com/story/350581/former-red-sox-pitcher-arrested-in-child-sex-sting.html

After an investigation that started with a tip about "unsafe practices" at a home day care in Manchester, New Hampshire, the owner and three of her employees have been arrested. In a statement , ...

https://www.newser.com/story/350566/4-day-care-workers-accused-of-giving-kids-melatonin.html

Had Monday's hearing not gone his way, Julian Assange might be on his way to the US right now to face espionage charges. Instead, a London court agreed to allow him to appeal the extradition orde...

https://www.newser.com/story/350548/julian-assange-scores-big-win-in-extradition-fight.html

Canadian police announced Friday they have linked the deaths of four young women nearly 50 years ago to a now-deceased US fugitive who hid in Canada from the mid-1970s to the late 1990s, the AP r...

https://www.newser.com/story/350509/4-women-killed-in-canada-in-70s-likely-victims-of-us-fugitive.html

A 17-year-old girl saved herself from an alleged sex trafficking scheme by texting 911 for help, southern California authorities say. The girl sent the text asking for help, in Spanish, on May 9,...

https://www.newser.com/story/350520/girl-17-rescued-after-texting-911-for-help.html

An argument between two women led to a gunfight that left 11 people hurt in a busy tourist area of Savannah, Georgia, late Saturday, one of five weekend shootings in the city, two of which were f...

https://www.newser.com/story/350538/11-hurt-in-mass-shooting-in-savannahs-historic-district.html

Armed robbers who used a motorbike as a battering ram made off with several million dollars' worth of valuables from a luxury jewelry boutique in Paris, prosecutors said. Having declined Saturday...

https://www.newser.com/story/350533/robbers-take-jewels-worth-millions-in-paris.html