CRIME

Gerardo Martinez of Miracle Christian Church accused of two counts of sexual battery following "heinous" attacks on 17-year-old.

Dean Hilpipre, the victim's paternal grandfather, pleaded guilty but could only get probation because of a reduction in the charges based on a plea deal.

Court papers show the flight from the Dominican Republic to New York had to be diverted to Washington for safety reasons.

A 16-year-old boy and an 18-year-old woman arrested by Hampshire Police following death of new-born baby.

Madeleine McCann was three years old when she went missing from a tourist resort in Portugal in May 2007.

Hallie Lauren Pate and Jordan Alexis Ruiz had also sprayed blood of the dead pets all over the kitchen cabinets.

The family of the girl was also ordered to organise a feast with meat and drinks as part of the cleansing ritual.

Gloria Williams had allegedly posed as a nurse at University Medical Center in Jacksonville on 10 July, 1998, and kidnapped the child.

Hannah Turtle from Shotton, Wales is accused of murdering her seven-week-old son; she told the jury she had heard voices telling her that she did not deserve her son James Hughes.

Ben Walsh was arrested after he stabbed his parents at a restaurant and murdered his live-in girlfriend Olivia Bergstrom at their apartment earlier that day.

Juanita Gomez had killed her daughter, Geneva, in August 2016 thinking she was possessed by the devil.

Dominic Wallis and Elizabeth Ellis, from Nuneaton, have been jailed for the murder of Dionne Clark, who was left with 69 separate injuries after the attack in June last year.

Stephen Mader won $175,000 in a settlement after suing the city of Weirton for wrongly termination. In 2016 he was fired after not shooting a black man he believed was suicidal.

Police say they recovered a syringe and a bottle after the victim's father was hoodwinked into believing gang were officials carrying out medical study in the city of Hafizabad.

Former Melbourne school principal Malka Leifer was arrested in Israel after fleeing Australia. Leifer, who is in her 50's, faces 74 allegations of rape and sexual abuse of children

Mark Woolley, 52, from Hackney, east London, was jailed for the murder a BBC costume designer Liz Sherlock, 42, after he run her over after his girlfriend snatched her handbag.

The daughter-in-law of US President Donald Trump was taken to hospital after police say she opened a letter filled with white powder. Authorities think it was nonhazardous.

Authorities released a picture of a man brushing his teeth while at the wheel to highlight to dangers of distracted driving.

Spanish police made a second huge drugs haul in under a week on the Costa del Sol, in a raid which netted 3,500 kilos of cocaine worth around €120m.

Deividas Subacius filmed himself punching a toddler and then sent the video to the girl's grandparents threatening to hurt the child more if they did not send money.

Judge calls Garfield White "an intelligent man from a good home" who is also "an aggressive, violent, dishonest and scheming thug".

Clydesdale Bank employee denied having sex with the female involved in the incident, who was also fired in the aftermath.

A former senior UN official has suggested that Oxfam workers involved in the Haitian prostitution scandal could face prosecution for sex crimes in British courts.

Melbourne surgeon Patrick Pritzwald-Stegmann was killed by a single punch after he told Joseph Esmaili he could not smoke in a specific area outside a hospital.

The girl is in hospital with extensive burn injuries, while the police are searching for the boy.

Soham murderer Ian Huntley, serving a life sentence for killing schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2002, has spoken of his remorse in a tape leaked to the Sun.

Delroy Forrester, the uncle of 11-year-old Jasmine, will appear in court on Monday charged with her murder.

Islington police shared a photo, which had been submitted by a member of public, showing three teenagers clinging onto the back of a moving bus.

David Bryant, 67, spent three years in prison before he was released and a High Court judge is questioning police failures.