Law, Crime and Justice

The US Marshals Service confirmed Hannah Dugan, a Milwaukee County circuit judge, was arrested at the courthouse where she works. 

Less than nine months ago, David Speirs held one of South Australia's most prominent and important jobs: the state's alternative premier and leader of the Liberal Party. Now, those titles have been replaced by "convicted drug supplier".

A French high school student has killed one of his classmates and wounded three others, the latest in a spate of school incidents in the European country.

NT Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro has promised new laws that would require judges to give community safety the greatest priority in bail decisions after Linford Feick’s stabbing.

Emergency services found Ekampreet Sahni Singh, 18, with a gunshot wound after they were called to Bar Beach car park.

Eileen Bonney did not think she would live to see her people's land returned but after more than four decades, the Wakaya-Alyawarre traditional owner is celebrating.

NSW Crime Commissioner Michael Barnes says the decision not to confiscate the money was one he did not want to make.

Police bodyworn footage capturers the rider speeding past.

Police examine the scene where a man was shot dead at Bar Beach car park in Newcastle.

The haul of Giant African harvester ants could have been worth more than $1 million, and has drawn attention to wildlife trafficking of smaller animals.

A Tesla dealership in the Soho area of Manhattan has been vandalised by members of climate protest group Extinction Rebellion NYC. 

Victoria Police have arrested five men in connection to ram raids of luxury stores in Melbourne's CBD.

A largely peaceful vigil has turned violent over the deadly police shooting of 35-year-old Abdifatah Ahmed in Footscray.

Police say a woman was kidnapped and murdered because of her partner's links to organised drug crime.

Former Australian Test cricketer and television host Michael Slater has been sentenced to four years in prison yet has walked free after already serving more than a year in custody.

41-year-old Bradley Donald Towle is accused of crashing his red Porsche on the Bruce Highway, killing a woman, before allegedly carjacking

NSW Police allege that a dispute between a man and a drug syndicate may have been the motive for the kidnap and killing of a 45-year-old woman and the violent assault of a boy known to her.

Victoria police’s Detective Acting Inspector Chris Ellway says up to six people are suspected of being involved in an altercation before the Mickleham man was found with stab wounds

A 30-year-old man from Mickleham has died after a stabbing attack in the early hours of Easter Sunday morning.

Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union had filed urgent requests in multiple courts, after reports some men had already been loaded onto buses and were told they were to be deported.