A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent charged with running over a Mexican man in Houston will turn himself in on Monday, according to his attorney, David Lindenmuth. Mario Alberto Morales struck Miguel Parra Hernandez, a 48-year-old construction worker, with his unmarked SUV on Oct. 10 as Parra Hernandez fled through a parking lot. A grand jury indicted Morales on Friday on a felony charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Parra Hernandez broke his leg and is recovering in a rehabilitation facility while in federal custody, according to Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare. ICE has said Parra Hernandez ran in front of Morales' car, an account Teare said video evidence contradicts.

A judge has ordered Meta to pay New Mexico $25 billion after a jury found the company liable for deceiving users about privacy and content moderation on Facebook. At a news conference Wednesday, state Attorney General Raúl Torrez described it as “one of the largest, if not the single largest state verdict against a company in American history,” The ruling follows a September decision in which jurors found Meta responsible for over 43 million violations of state consumer protection laws. The violations stem from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, where user data was harvested for political ads in the 2016 election. New Mexico pursued the case independently after 48 other states settled. Meta plans to appeal.

Prosecutors say a visitor from Canada maliciously harmed a flamingo at an iconic Las Vegas hotel when he removed the bird from its enclosure earlier this year and brought it to his room. The man's defense attorney told jurors at trial Monday that it was a drunken act and that he never intended any harm to the flamingo. Mitchell Fairbarn of Ontario, Canada, is charged with two counts of animal cruelty in a Nevada court. Authorities allege he entered the flamingo habitat at the Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel and Casino on March 3 and took a bird named Peachy.

Prosecutors and lawyers for Alex Murdaugh have returned to court to dispute evidence for his retrial on murder charges next year. The hearing is Friday in South Carolina. Murdaugh faces another trial in April over the 2021 shooting deaths of his wife and son. The state Supreme Court overturned his convictions earlier this year, saying a court clerk influenced jurors to find him guilty. Friday's arguments focus on DNA testing and whether authorities must share ballistics evidence. Defense lawyers also want to know if a grand jury is investigating a police officer friend of Murdaugh as a possible accomplice. Murdaugh remains in prison serving decades for financial crimes

The holdout juror who blocked Lindsay Clancy from being acquitted says he was influenced by how “methodical” he thought she was in killing her three children. Michael Desronvil said in his first interview since the trial ended with a deadlocked jury that he didn’t have any doubt Clancy was guilty. He told Fox News in an interview broadcast Thursday that he was struck by her “thought process.” Clancy’s trial ended in early September after the 12 jurors couldn’t agree whether she was criminally responsible in the deaths of her three young children. Prosecutors have yet to decide whether they will retry the case.

A British prosecutor has accused Russell Brand of being a “ruthless” sexual predator who assaulted six women over the course of a decade. The 51-year-old Brand has pleaded not guilty to multiple charges including rape and sexual assault. The alleged offenses occurred between 1999 and 2009. Prosecutor Riel Karmy-Jones told jurors on Wednesday that the women were assaulted in various locations including a hotel room and Brand's home. Brand is known for his risque stand-up routines and battles with drugs and alcohol. He has shifted away from mainstream media and has built a large online following.

A Miami jury has found Tyreek Hill liable for two counts of battery but not liable for the eight remaining claims made by his estranged wife, Lakeeta Vaccaro. The verdict ends the high-profile civil trial involving the NFL wide receiver. Hill, who has played for the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs and Miami Dolphins, was found liable for two counts of battery. One stemmed from an incident in January 2024, and another from April 2025. The jury awarded Vaccaro $500,000 in compensatory damages but did not award her punitive damages. The jury found Hill not liable for eight other counts.

Jury selection is set to begin Tuesday in the trial that could see the white supremacist who killed 10 people in a 2022 Buffalo supermarket get the death penalty. The attack is believed to be the deadliest shooting targeting Black people in modern history. Payton Gendron is facing over two dozen federal hate crime charges and more than a dozen firearms charges. He is already spending life in prison on state murder charges. Families of the victims and survivors differ on whether Gendron should be sentenced to death. His defense team is not going to dispute his guilt. Their objective is to ensure he is spared from execution.

Duane “Keffe D” Davis is set to be sentenced Tuesday for orchestrating the murder of rap icon Tupac Shakur. Jurors convicted Davis of first-degree murder with a deadly weapon in late August. Davis is facing 40 years to life in prison. Shakur was struck in a drive-by shooting off the Las Vegas Strip in September 1996. The case went unsolved for decades. It was revived as Davis gave interviews and wrote a tell-all memoir about his role in the shooting. He later denied playing a part in it. Shakur died at age 25 as his popularity was peaking.

Curtis Flowers, a Black man who spent more than 22 years in prison and was on death row in Mississippi before the U.S. Supreme Court threw out his conviction and death sentence, has died. He was 56. Attorney Rob McDuff tells The Associated Press Thursday that Flowers’ family confirmed he died Wednesday at his home in Mississippi. No cause of death was given. Flowers was 26 when he was arrested after the 1996 shooting deaths of four people inside a Winona, Mississippi, furniture store. Flowers was tried in the killings six times. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in the high court’s 7-2 decision in 2019 that the removal of Black prospective jurors deprived Flowers of a fair trial.