A conviction could send Cosby, 79, to prison for the rest of his life.

Bill Cosby acknowledged to police more than a decade ago that he fondled Andrea Constand after giving her what he said were cold-and-allergy pills meant to help her relax, his sexual assault trial has heard.

Prosecutors say a Texas nurse who is in prison for the 1984 killing of a toddler and faces new charges over the 1981 death of an infant is suspected of killing as many as 60 children who were in her care around that time.

Heartbreaking reports have emerged of the last moments of some of the victims of the Oakland warehouse fire.

US authorities have discovered a cross-border tunnel that ran half a mile from Mexico, seizing more than a ton of cocaine and seven tons of marijuana.

A judge refused to throw out the sexual assault case against Bill Cosby last night, sweeping aside claims that a previous district attorney had granted the comedian immunity from prosecution a decade ago.

The former district attorney who declined a decade ago to bring sex-crime charges against Bill Cosby has testified that he believes his decision is binding on his successors and forever closes the door on prosecuting the comedian.

Some parishioners at a New York City church where a newborn was left in a Christmas manger are interested in adopting the baby boy.

The owners and others responsible for the the building in Berkeley, California, where six Irish students died could face manslaughter charges, the local District Attorney indicated yesterday.

Items found in a remote hunting cabin have been sent to labs for DNA testing to determine if they are linked to a pair of convicted killers who escaped from a nearby prison more than two weeks ago, US authorities have said.

Residents in rural New York, unaccustomed to locking their doors, day or night, were on edge as the manhunt for two killers who cut themselves free from a maximum-security prison with power tools stretched into a ninth day yesterday.

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The Long Island judge who acquitted Jason Lee of raping an Irish J1 student in the summer of 2013 said the court was "deprived" of hearing from the brother of the young woman at the centre of the three-week trial.

A prosecutor says James Holmes considered other locations and methods for his attack, including biological warfare, before deciding on a mass shooting at a suburban Denver movie theatre.

A duffel bag containing human remains was found outside a US biotechnology building in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Saturday morning, and one person was later arrested in connection with the grisly discovery, authorities said.

A 34-year-old woman stabbed a pregnant woman in the stomach and removed her baby as the expectant mother visited her home to buy baby clothes, Colorado authorities have said.

Eccentric linked to three killings made admission in HBO show.

The search is intensifying for a man suspected of going to three houses and shooting dead six people, including his ex-wife and her 14-year-old niece.

Six people are dead and one has been wounded in shootings in several homes and the suspect remains on the loose, officials in the US say.

Ryle Dwyer examines the Warren Report into Kennedy’s assassination 50 years after publication and finds its failure to examine all the evidence undermined its conclusions

A child crying on the television show Game of Thrones jogged a foster parent’s memory that he had left a 10-month-old girl inside a sweltering car while he and his partner smoked marijuana at their house, a police affidavit says.

There is a scene towards the end of Oliver Stone’s movie JFK where Kevin Costner, playing the role of District Attorney Jim Garrison, walks, defeated, out of the courthouse, telling his son that he will have to wait at least 30 years before finding out if his theory about the pPresident’s assassination was correct.

USA: Divorce, it seems, has turned into a party — special cakes and all.

Lawyers for an Irish nanny accused of killing a baby in the US said medical experts hired by prosecutors have concluded that the child suffered bone fractures weeks before her death when she was not in the nanny’s care.

Scores of retired New York City police officers, firefighters and prison guards have been charged with faking psychiatric problems to get disability benefits.

A Maine man, who claims to have spent 27 years living in the woods as a hermit, pleaded guilty to burglary and theft in a deal in which he will receive counselling to re-enter society.

A British poker champion has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for the murder of his wife in America 16 years ago.

Those who took one look at Brittany Ozarowski had no doubt she was battling cancer.

Cavan-born nanny Aisling McCarthy Brady was last night indicted in Boston on charges of first-degree murder in connection with the death of one-year-old Rehma Sabir.

Detectives across the US are scouring cold case files for possible ties to a man arrested on suspicion of killing three women — fearing he may have killed scores of people.

Lindsay Lohan won't face charges for allegedly punching a psychic in a New York nightclub.

A lawyer for an Irish nanny charged in the US with beating an infant who later died has won a request to preserve evidence in the case, including the baby’s travel records and a list of people who had access to her.

An Irish nanny living in the US, who has been charged with violently assaulting a baby who later died, may yet face a murder charge, the district attorney’s office has said.

An Irish nanny living illegally in America has been charged with violently assaulting a baby who later died, US authorities said.

The US premiere of ‘Jack Reacher’, an explosive action thriller based on the book ‘One Shot’ by Lee Child, was postponed in the wake of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The decision was understandable.

Parting is such sweet sorrow. Director Christopher Nolan completes his dark and brooding trilogy based on the DC Comics crime-fighter in suitably grandiose fashion, delivering not only the longest film in the series but also the most brutal, violent and satisfying.

A nurse shot dead a mother while abducting her newborn baby outside a US maternity clinic.

Michael Jackson's mother claims Dr. Conrad Murray's four-year prison sentence for the involuntary manslaughter of her son is "not enough".

An “al-Qaida sympathiser” accused of plotting to bomb police and post offices in New York City as well as US troops returning home has been arrested on numerous terrorism-related charges.

THE single word, “guilty,” brought a muffled shriek in the gallery of the packed courtroom and tears from Michael Jackson’s family, but no reaction from the doctor convicted of supplying the King of Pop with the drug he craved for sleep.

Michael Jackson’s personal physician Dr Conrad Murray faces up to four years in prison after he was convicted of the involuntary manslaughter of the star.

Supporters of American death row inmate Troy Davis in the US and Europe tried just about anything to spare him from lethal injection tonight for killing a Georgia policeman, a crime he and others have insisted for years that he did not commit.

Prosecutors sought to dismiss the criminal charges in a sexual-assault case against former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn, saying persistent lying by the hotel maid who accused him of trying to rape her in his suite made it impossible for them to determine what really happened.