Surveillance images capture women who, police believe, used checks stolen during a fatal shooting.

Twenty-nine bars and restaurants, nearly half of them TGI Fridays, filled premium brand liquor bottles with lower-quality booze and sold it to patrons who thought they were buying the good stuff, authorities said Wednesday.

A businessman was yanked off the streets in Queens and held captive for a month, while being mercilessly tortured and even burned with acid.

It was a happy milestone for Cal State Long Beach student Marissa Ayala. She graduated Wednesday and has big plans for the future. But getting here hasn’t been easy.

A reserve sergeant with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department was found beaten in his Rancho Santa Margarita home Wednesday, and neighbors say his teenage son is responsible.

Obstruction, retaliation, abuse of power and official oppression — those are the charges against a Galveston County court at-law judge. There is an effort under way right now by the state attorney general to remove the judge from his bench.

A man was murdered overnight in southwest Houston while behind the wheel of a car and now the search is on to find his killer or killers.

When Pierre Scarbrough realized his 11-year-old daughter had eaten his ice cream, prosecutors say the South Side man and his girlfriend plotted for hours to beat the little girl with an electrical cord when she came home from school.

Just minutes before his trial was about to start, Nehemiah Johnson, 29, plead guilty to malice murder in the January 2012 strangling of Rochelle Thomas, 30.

Internet celebrity “Kai the Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker” has been arrested in the murder of a Clark, New Jersey man.