After 11 months on the run, an American minister accused of molesting girls as young as 12 has been captured in Brazil, NBC News reports. According to authorities, 53-year-old Victor Arden Barnard was arrested in his apartment late Friday near one of the country's white sand beaches.

Police in Massachusetts have charged an 18-year-old honor student with involuntary manslaughter for her alleged role in the death of classmate Conrad Roy, 18, who took his own life last July.

A couple in Bayside, Queens is accused of kidnapping their housekeeper at knifepoint, allegedly burning her body with a plumber's torch while questioning her about missing cash and jewelry, WCBS reports.

When 19-year-old Juanye Jones visited a Daytona Beach hospital Wednesday night, his chief concern was his nagging headache. Doctors ended up finding something a bit more serious, however: a fragmented bullet lodged in his head.

We periodically run letters from death row inmates. Today's is from Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip, who came within one day of being executed last month before being (temporarily) spared by the Supreme Court.

With limited evidence and few witnesses, it's often difficult to make arrests in arson cases. Other times, however, there's a guy with a burnt-up face, as there was after a house fire in Cottage Grove, Wisconsin this week.

Mirjana Puhar, a 19-year-old Serbian-born model who competed on America's Next Top Model, was found dead Tuesday in an apparent triple murder, TMZ reports. Police arrested alleged killer Emmanuel Jesus Rangel on murder charges today.

The owner of a Brooklyn-based maraschino cherry company killed himself Tuesday during a drug raid on his Red Hook factory. After watching law enforcement agents discover a fake wall, Dell's Maraschino Cherries owner Arthur Mondella reportedly locked himself in his private bathroom, yelled "take care of my kids" to his sister, and then shot himself in the head.

Authorities say the retired Westchester, N.Y., police officer who killed himself early Saturday morning after fatally shooting his two teenage daughters left a suicide note behind.

An ex-police officer in Georgia was found dead Sunday night after he allegedly killed his wife and wounded two law enforcement agents.

At the Oscars last night, several celebrities admirably used their time on stage to speak about issues like equality, discrimination, and poverty. This would have been a good time to rob their houses.

A former financial aid officer was arrested in Idaho this week after police say he solicited college students for sex through Craigslist, promising them grant money in return, The Spokesman-Review reports.

A criminally thirsty Tulsa woman was arrested on Thursday after allegedly trying to bite off her boyfriend's penis in his sleep, KOTV reports.

In a video released Tuesday, a California man who accused Oregon police of giving him two black eyes is shown to have beaten himself instead, The Register-Guard reports.

TMZ reports that rapper Afroman—famous for sporting an afro and having gotten high—was arrested in Biloxi, Mississippi Tuesday night after laying out a female fan who snuck on stage.

This week, a Mississippi grand jury indicted Justice Court Judge Bill Weisenberger for felony assault on a vulnerable adult after he allegedly struck a mentally disabled black man and yelled, "Run, nigger, run."

In an effort to avoid paying his traffic tickets that worked for a lot longer than it probably should have, Olawale Agoro of Hackensack, New Jersey appeared in court several times while posing as his made-up twin brother "Tony," the Bergen Record reports. Also, he pretended to be blind.

A 28-year-old Queens man died yesterday from gunshot wounds he sustained on Friday, the New York Times reports. So ends New York City's longest stretch without a new homicide—12 days—since the police department began tracking such data in 1994.

For snake dealer Mark Haas, the plan was simple: he'd bring the long ones and the other guy would bring the big ones—12,600 simoleons, to be exact. But until this week, all Haas got was a Beretta slug and a bad taste in his mouth.

It has become increasingly clear to mainstream America that our nation's decades-long experiment with mass incarceration is fundamentally a bad idea. And though state prisons loom large in the public mind, it's actually local jails where most of the (bad) action happens.