Crime

Police have arrested a Southern California woman for allegedly poisoning her husband. Police in the Orange County city of Irvine say a man reported Thursday that he believed he was being poisoned by his wife of 10 years after he grew ill over the course of a month. The man …

Authorities investigating the deaths of three children who were shot by their 15-year-old brother have not found any evidence that the shootings were planned, an Alaska State Troopers spokesperson said Thursday. There also were “no obvious reasons for why he shot three siblings and took his own life,” troopers spokesperson …

A crew member was fatally shot on a “Law & Order” set in Brooklyn Tuesday, the New York Police Department confirmed to CBS News.  The 31-year-old man was working for the parking detail of “Law & Order: Organized Crime,” a spin-off of the original “Law & Order” show starring actor …

Leaving no stone unturned at a 52-year-old, once-and-former crime scene isn’t easy. Not when investigators have to do their digging mainly by hand, so as not to disturb any evidence that still may be lurking in the soil. Armed with garden trowels and toothbrushes, West Virginia State Police forensic investigators …

A fast-food restaurant employee in Oklahoma was arrested after a customer found a small baggy of drugs in their order, the Skiatook Police Department said. A crystalline substance inside the bag field-tested positive for methamphetamine, according to a police Facebook post. The officers went to the restaurant to speak with employees …

A weapons cache that included three pipe bombs and 32 firearms — some of which were military-grade weapons — was found at a home in Maryland, authorities said.  The Maryland State Police announced the stockpile also included four improvised hand grenades and other bomb-making materials. The cache took bomb technicians …

The U.S. Marshals Service on Thursday released images of tattoos on the body of a fugitive murder suspect whose escape was aided by an Alabama corrections official. Casey White “has numerous tattoos, including some affiliated with the Alabama-based white supremacist prison gang Southern Brotherhood,” the Marshals Service said Thursday, posting several …

A former University of Virginia lacrosse player serving time for the murder of his ex-girlfriend testified Wednesday in a wrongful death lawsuit that the only mental image he has of her death was of blood coming out of her nose, and that he doesn’t remember breaking into her room and …

U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska was convicted Thursday of charges that he lied to federal authorities about an illegal $30,000 contribution to his campaign from a foreign billionaire at a 2016 Los Angeles fundraiser. A federal jury in California found the nine-term Republican guilty of one count of falsifying …

A New York police officer entered a guilty plea Thursday to charges stemming from a series of incidents in 2019 and 2020 in which he entered a woman’s home, while claiming to be investigating her for a crime, and then sexually abused her.  Michael Agovino, 35, was on duty during …