The verdict has been used in criminal trials for hundreds of years but campaigners had called for it to be abolished.

A former senior police officer has warned of a violent new power struggle following the arrest in Dubai of crime bosses Ross ...

A FORMER Scottish professional footballer caught carrying out a £400,000 laundering handover was jailed on Friday. James Keatings, 33, transported heavy boxes of crime cash in a white Transit van ...

Scottish international crime writing festival Bloody Scotland has announced this year’s winners of the McIlvanney Prize and ...

Steven Lyons, Ross McGill, Stephen Jamieson and Steven Larwood were taken into custody following a co-ordinated operation.

With a three-hour “happy hour” and four big-screen TVs, Monaghans Bar in the Spanish resort of Fuengirola is a popular spot for those who like a night of soccer after a day of sun and sand. But on ...

Two men have been charged in connection with an alleged hate crime following a protest outside accommodation for asylum ...

Tariq Ashkanani scooped the McIlvanney Prize with his novel, The Midnight King, three years after he won the debut award.

A debate of more than 160 amendments began at Holyrood on Tuesday, with the final Stage 3 vote expected later today.

A recent study named the cities in the country that are the safest to stay in or travel to - and this one took the number one ...

Scottish retailers are demanding the next government does more to tackle shoplifting, improve public transport and simplify ...