Rachel Jeantel, the girl Trayvon Martin had been speaking to on the phone immediately before George Zimmerman killed him, told a court this afternoon that Martin had grown worried when someone began following him. He described the person as a "creepy-ass cracker."

Here's a crazy idea: A Michigan man convicted of having a large quantity of pot—a plant that everyone smokes to get a little high now and again—was recently given probation by a judge who thought it stupid to send a guy to jail for years just because he got busted growing weed. Wow. Can America survive this kind of insanely rational justice?

The criminal justice system in the state of California is operating perfectly, excepting the small matter of the looming and inevitable infectious disease race war.

A reward of $5,000 has been offered by authorities in New Jersey for information leading to the arrest of a man who forced his way into the Millburn home, and brutally assaulted the occupant in front of her three-year-old daughter.

A shipment of $93 million in cash, traveling from Zurich to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, arrived with $1.2 million missing, according to ABC News. The shortage wasn't noticed till the Fed counted the money, which had left Switzerland on Saturday in three sealed crates bound for JFK Airport.

Fat Joe has been sentenced to four months in prison for failing to pay taxes. Can accountants save hip hop?

A 46-year-old man was arrested Friday for assaulting a college security guard, after the guard had to gall to interrupt the man, who was dressed as a woman, from snapping pictures inside a student-only area in a female dorm.

Between the child-shoving Cookie Monster and the alleged mom-punching Spider-Man, Times Square has seen its fair share of recent drama. And now this: On Friday, Times Square's "Weed Man" was arrested for allegedly stabbing Times Square's "Beer Man." And, of course, Alien and Predator witnessed the whole thing.

An undercover cop has been exposed as one of the authors of a libelous anti-McDonald's leaflet that ended up resulting in the longest civil or criminal trial in English history.

A business that "ostensibly lured clients who want to star in their own adult films" turns out to be a brothel. Is nothing sacred?

For decades now, politicians— particularly those in conservative districts— have galloped into office with promises of being tougher on crime than the next guy. All this has gotten us is the world's highest incarceration rate. And it won't last forever. We can't afford it.

A Florida teen foiled his own attempt to steal a car at gunpoint when he realized he didn't know how to drive a vehicle with standard transmission.

Ricardo Woods, who was convicted of murder on the strength of six eye-blinks, was sentenced to 36 years in prison today.

The latest California crime wave: widespread theft of Tide Detergent, which is being traded for crack. "Money laundering" joke goes here.

Chris Simcox, the co-founder of the border control militia Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, was arrested Wednesday on charges of child molestation. The 52-year-old former kindergarten teacher is accused of having sexual contact with three young girls, all of them under the age of 10.

A Florida man's first date with a woman he met at a Daytona Beach convenience store ended with the man naked, bloodied, and cashless in an empty cow field.

The owners of 14 7-Eleven stores in New York and Virginia were charged on Monday by federal authorities with fraud, identity theft, and concealing undocumented immigrants. Authorities said conditions for undocumented employees at the stores were like a “modern day plantation system."

Police in Maryland are seeking the public's assistance in tracking down a group of teen criminal masterminds who allegedly stole a Crofton woman's credit card and then proceeded to take incriminating photo booth photos of themselves holding the card.

Reports surfaced over the weekend of a recent public altercation between TV chef Nigella Lawson and her ad mogul/art collector husband Charles Saatchi, and now Scotland Yard is said to be investigating whether there was a violent physical component to the incident.

This weekend in Chicago at least 41 people were shot, seven of them fatally. The youngest victim was 16 years old.