The police department initially wouldn’t confirm 19-year-old Joshua Farmer was the person killed, despite the SBI releasing ...

Understaffing, aging infrastructure, and more inmate assaults are all issues plaguing the Durham County Detention Center.

Nicole Bullock was killed in a Durham hotel room in 2023 by her ex-boyfriend, who has a long history of abusing her.

I got arrested. For exactly what you’d think I did.”That’s what Giovanni Petruzziello wrote on Instagram just hours after ...

A prison officer has been stabbed by a prisoner with a knife feared to have been brought into the high-security jail by a ...

Prison officers need to have stronger protection against attacks by inmates, their union has demanded after four assaults in ...

Alexander James Glenn is accused of fatally attacking his mother, Stephanie Donita McCoy, in her home last week.

Linda Calvey, known as the Black Widow, has lifted the lid on what it was like to be in prison with some of the UK's most ...

Police have appealed to the public for help to locate a missing man from County Durham. James Allen, 25, was last seen in the ...

A Chester-le-Street man has avoided immediate jail after admitting to assaulting a police officer and committing two separate shop thefts involving hundreds of pounds' worth of alcohol.

Depraved serial killer Rosemary West is one of only four women in Britain to be given a whole life order. Amid new reports of ...

A suspect who shot himself in the custody of the Durham police was connected to the death of a teen in early May. Another juvenile was also taken into custody in connection with this incident.