Chicago police asked the public for help Tuesday in finding three more people believed connected to last week’s videotaped fatal beating of 16-year-old Derrion Albert. Four teens already have been arrested and charged with murder. Investigators are trying to enhance the video to identify the assailants.

A New York appeals court on Tuesday dismissed Dan Rather’s million lawsuit against CBS, in which the television news anchor accused his former employer of breach of contract.

Samantha Geimer says that that a plea bargain intended to spare her pain has caused her more grief than what Roman Polanski did to her in 1977. Polanski pleaded guilty to having sex with Geimer when she was 13, but fled the U.S.before he was sentenced.

Filmmaker Roman Polanski has been arrested on a warrant from a decades-old California sex case. Polanski pleaded guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl, but left for Europe before sentencing. Earlier attempts to resolve the case failed when a judge insisted Polanski return to the U.S., where he faced certain arrest.

A stranger crept into Jennifer Schuett’s bedroom when she was 8, raped her in a field by her elementary school, slashed her throat and left her for dead. Doctors doubted she’d ever speak again. Nearly 20 years later, Schuett has regained her voice and is using it to help authorities catch her assailant.

Criminal charges will not be filed against the 18-year-old college freshman who falsely accused five men of raping her in a dormitory bathroom at Hofstra University, an official said Friday.

An Afghan native facing terrorism charges planned to bomb a target in New York on the anniversary of the terrorists attacks of September 11, 2001, a federal prosecutor said Friday.

A Florida man admitted to reporters that he killed his wife and five “innocent” children, adding that he wants to be executed “right away” so he can be buried with them. Mesac Damas, 32, said he wanted to take his own life, but did not have the courage “because if you kill yourself, you’re not [...]

Police in Irving, Texas, captured a convicted burglar Wednesday who escaped from a medical facility last weekend by rappelling off the building using a string of bedsheets, a department spokeswoman said.

A man accused of screaming racial slurs while beating an Army reservist in front of her daughter outside a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Georgia has been indicted on felony charges. Troy Dale West Jr., faces assault, battery and other felony charges. He was ordered held without bond.