Reviled “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli left a Brooklyn bond hearing Wednesday in the custody of two deputy U.S. Marshals, after a federal judge said his Facebook posts indicated he was a danger and risk to the community.
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An Iowa Republican Party leader who is running for state treasurer has been ordered to stay away from his ex-fiancée after allegedly threatening her and admittedly using her iTunes account’s “Find iPhone” app to track her whereabouts.
Read moreIssuing a new threat to North Korea, President Donald Trump tweeted Friday that the United States is prepared to take military action if the country should “act unwisely.”
Read moreIn opening statements of the union members’ extortion trial, prosecutors said Tuesday that a quintet of Boston Teamsters terrified Top Chef star host Padma Lakshmi with a threat to “smash your pretty little face.”
Read moreA woman exonerated after being falsely accused of posting “rape fantasy” posts on Craigslist has sued the city of Anaheim and her accusers on claims of false imprisonment.
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A 12-year-old claims he was arrested during school, suspended for 10 days, and recommended for expulsion because of two Instagram posts related to the “scary clown craze” that made headlines in fall 2016.
Read moreA South Florida man has been indicted on hate crime charges after a grand jury concluded he’d called a Miami Islamic Center and threatened to shoot its congregants.
Read moreAttorney Marc Kasowitz, now serving as President Donald Trump’s personal counsel for the Russian campaign meddling investigation, is demanding “extreme sanctions” against opposing counsel in an unrelated Palm Beach case over vicious hate mail that accused a Kasowitz client of sexually assaulting a child.
Read moreBritain’s defense minister has praised Romanian and British pilots for protecting the Black Sea region from “the threat of Russian aggression.”
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A disgraced former Intercept reporter faces up to 10 years in prison after admitting Tuesday that his stalking of an ex led him to join a wave of anti-Semitic hoax bomb threats.
Read moreThe head of the Marvel comic-book empire claims in court that a lawsuit accusing him of sending vicious hate mail is nothing more than an attempt to extort him out of millions of dollars.
Read moreA tense legislative session in Texas came to a head on its final day Monday with a scuffle on the House floor, after a representative called immigration officers on protesters and threatened to shoot one of his colleagues.
Read moreThreats and violence against Texas judges and police will be prosecuted as hate crimes under legislation passed this week, making good on the governor’s promise of “severe justice” for people who target law enforcement.
Read moreGroans filled the courtroom Thursday during the fourth day of trial for a white former Tulsa police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black man, when her attorney implied that a screwdriver in the man’s SUV could be considered a weapon.
Read moreA defendant in a high-profile financial fraud case had his bail revoked during a hearing Thursday because he sent a threatening email to officers of the court involved in his case.
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Israeli police on Thursday arrested a 19-year-old Israeli Jewish man as the primary suspect in a string of bomb threats targeting Jewish community centers and other institutions in the U.S., marking a potential breakthrough in the case after an international manhunt with the FBI.
Read moreA disgraced reporter trying to frame his ex-girlfriend is behind a string of bomb threats against at least eight Jewish targets across the country, federal prosecutors said Friday.
Read moreA federal jury convicted a Tennessee man Thursday of trying to hire someone else to burn down a mosque in New York.
Read moreA Connecticut man on Friday admitted threatening an Oklahoma judge, prosecutor and police involved in the criminal case against a white policewoman who shot and killed unarmed Terence Crutcher in a viral video last year.
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