The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against private companies that use armed bounty hunters to capture people who jump bail, claiming they did not have authority to drag a Montana man who missed a court hearing out of bed at gunpoint.
Read moreIt’s a sign of how violent Alabama prisons for men have become: Makeshift knives and other homemade weapons are everywhere. Inmates scrounge metal from dish racks, light fixtures and yard fences and fashion them into long knives. Many keep more than one.
Read moreCalling his “life changed forever,” a Polish immigrant who says he was clobbered in broad daylight by Alec Baldwin has sued the actor for assault, battery and slander.
Read moreA former Pennsylvania pediatrician was sentenced Monday to at least 79 years in prison for sexually assaulting 31 children, most of them patients, as his now-adult victims blasted their abuser and the system that let him get away with it for so long.
Read moreA grand jury in Chicago indicted “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett on 16 felony counts related to making a false report that he was attacked by two men who shouted racial and homophobic slurs.
Read moreWill Ray Donovan be able to fix this one? Photographer Sherwood Martinelli sued “Ray Donovan” star Liev Schreiber, claiming the actor hit him and broke his camera.
Read more“Empire” actor Jussie Smollett turned himself in early Thursday to face accusations that he filed a police report when he told authorities he was attacked in Chicago by two men who hurled racist and anti-gay slurs and looped a rope around his neck, police said.
Read moreA Maryland woman faces charges that she assaulted White House counselor Kellyanne Conway in front of her teenage daughter during a confrontation last year at a restaurant in a Washington suburb.
Read moreDays after appearing as President Donald Trump in a “Deal or No Deal” parody on “Saturday Night Live,” Alec Baldwin took a deal of his own Wednesday that resolves a criminal case stemming from a skirmish over a New York City parking spot.
Read moreA mother and daughter claim in a federal complaint that when they ordered French fries with no extra salt at a McDonald’s in Englewood, Colo., the manager called them whores, sluts and bitches and assaulted the mother — apparently because they are Latina.
Read moreSouth African authorities issued an arrest warrant for Grace Mugabe, the wife of Zimbabwe’s former leader who was accused of assaulting a woman in Johannesburg last year, South African police said Wednesday.
Read moreA class of former and current juvenile inmates housed with adults who say they are exposed to an increased risk of sexual and physical assaults argued before the Sixth Circuit on Thursday to revive their civil rights claims.
Read moreDisgraced former Cuyahoga County Judge Lance Mason pleaded not guilty Tuesday to the murder of his estranged ex-wife, three years after he went to prison for beating her in front of their two children.
Read moreJane Doe claims in court that she was sexually assaulted at a party for the Nebraska Lambda Pi Chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity at the nonparty University of Nebraska while incapacitated by alcohol.
Read moreFour St. Louis police officers were suspended without pay after being indicted by a federal grand jury on charges stemming from the arrest and assault of a protester — who happened to be an undercover officer.
Read moreA man claims in court that he was assaulted and battered by his Uber driver in a dispute over tips, and that the driver was later convicted of the same.
Read moreCharged with assault and harassment after allegedly punching a man in the face over a parking space, the actor Alec Baldwin pleaded not guilty Monday at a New York arraignment.
Read moreA woman claims in court she had to jump out of a car to fend off an Uber driver’s sexual predations, and that Uber has withheld the results of its alleged “investigation” into her complaint.
Read moreThe Dominican music producer Sosobrita claims in court that reggaeton El Mayor Clasico hit him in the face on Sept. 20 while they were attending the Urban Awards Gala at the United Palace Theater.
Read moreNew York City police arrested two members of the far-right Proud Boys on Friday, a week after videos captured members of the group beating up protesters outside the official Manhattan club of the Republican Party.
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