Authorities on Thursday filed four additional murder charges against the suspected Golden State Killer over killings that took place in 1979 and 1981 in Santa Barbara County, bringing the total charges he faces to 12.
Read moreAttorneys for Wisconsin filed a brief Thursday with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the justices not to hear “Making a Murderer” subject Brendan Dassey’s appeal of his rape and murder charges at the center of the Netflix documentary series.
Read moreNYPD officer Raul Olmeda’s indictment accuses him of raping an underage teenager, but a civil complaint filed Wednesday against the Bronx cop identifies the victim as a 6-year-old.
Read moreA Spanish court has sentenced five Spanish men to nine years each in prison for a gang rape during the 2016 running of the bulls festival in Pamplona, a case that drew controversy for the way the victim was treated during the trial.
Read moreCompleting a 40-year manhunt for a serial killer and rapist who terrorized California in the 1970s and 1980s, officials on Wednesday arrested a 72-year-old former police officer they believe is the notorious East Area Rapist, linked to dozens of rapes and at least 12 homicides.
Read moreTwo women whose assault claims against Bill Cosby are too old to prosecute took the stand Wednesday to testify that the comedian was drugging and abusing victims decades before he did the same to Andrea Constand.
Read moreFocusing on the revelations that Bill Cosby paid Andrea Constand $3.4 million settle civil rape claims, the comedian’s defense attorney pushed the narrative in his opening statement Tuesday that Constand is a con artist.
Read moreA Michigan State University student filed a sex-discrimination lawsuit claiming school counselors actively discouraged her from contacting police to report an alleged off-campus rape by three Spartans basketball players.
Read moreBefore opening statements in the retrial of Bill Cosby on Monday, police arrested a topless protester who jumped a barricade and ran toward the 80-year-old comedian.
Read moreA woman who says Bill Cosby’s sexual assault accuser confided in her about a plan to fabricate such allegations can testify at the comedian’s retrial, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Read moreVisibly emotional as he delivered his ruling, the judge overseeing Bill Cosby’s sexual-assault prosecution refused to step aside Thursday based on bias claims over his wife’s work.
Read moreAfter implicating Turkey’s powerful in a multibillion-dollar money laundering scheme late last year in New York, gold trader Reza Zarrab had a fellow inmate here accuse him of prison rape – allegations he labeled “fiction” on Friday.
Read moreA defamation lawsuit filed by model Janice Dickinson against Bill Cosby can proceed after the California Supreme Court declined to review his appeal on Thursday.
Read moreA man accused of sexually assaulting seven women he picked up while posing as a ride-hail driver pleaded not guilty in a Los Angeles County courtroom on Thursday.
Read moreCounting 11 sexual assault and harassment suits against Harvey Weinstein, Chubb Indemnity Insurance and four affiliates asked a Manhattan judge Wednesday to confirm that they have no obligations to defend or indemnify the disgraced Hollywood producer.
Read moreA court has rejected a release request by a prominent Islamic scholar incarcerated this month on preliminary rape charges.
Read moreBritain’s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police can be held liable for failing to bring serious criminals to justice — a judgment that could open U.K. forces to a wave of lawsuits from victims.
Read moreTexas Governor Greg Abbott unveiled a plan to ask the Legislature for more than $35 million to crack down on sex traffickers, beef up investigations into state lawmakers accused of sexual harassment, and create a do-not-hire registry for teachers convicted of preying on students.
Read moreA rape victim on Monday settled her lawsuit against Uber and two former top executives for allegedly stealing her medical records to discredit her traumatic story.
Read moreThe San Diego police chief told the City Council on Tuesday that her department is wading through a backlog of 558 untested rape kits but will not test every kit in its crime lab, eschewing national standards.
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