A zookeeper is on trial in Potsdam accused of attempting to murder his 8-month-old daughter, feeding her poison until her condition was so severe she fell into a coma.
A court has decided to fine former MP Sebastian Edathy €5,000 after he admitted on Monday to downloading child pornography images and video onto his official parliamentary laptop.
Judges in Gelsenkirchen have decided that police were right to confiscate a man's driving license when he was found driving under the influence of cannabis, even though he claimed he hadn't been smoking himself.
After an alleged robber fell from the seventh floor of a courthouse, his enraged family members tried to storm the clinic in Hamelin where he was being treated for his injuries, wounding 14 police officers.
A tenant must pay more than €3,000 for failing to follow German etiquette and repaint the walls of his apartment white after moving out, a Munich court has ruled.
A mother and her “guru” partner were sentenced to three years in prison in Bavaria on Monday for trying to cure the woman’s seriously-ill son with meditation and diets instead of medicine.
UPDATE: A German student, accused of being the ringleader of far-left demonstrators who protested at Vienna’s far-right Akademikerball, has been jailed, despite questionable evidence of his involvement.
Tantric massages provide sexual pleasure and are subject to the same tax levied on brothels and swinger clubs in a German city, a court ruled on Monday.
A mother who left her baby to starve to death while she partied and took ecstasy was given a life prison sentence by a court in western Germany on Wednesday.
A 28-year-old man was jailed for life on Wednesday after being found guilty of stabbing a young mother 145 times, killing her in front of her two-year-old daughter.
A fraudster posing as a doctor treated children with life-threatening conditions in a hospice he set up in central Germany. He was jailed on Wednesday for just under three years.
UPDATE: A job centre employee has admitted demanding sex from unemployed former prostitutes in exchange for work, prosecutors in Stuttgart said on Tuesday. He is now facing sexual assault and bribery charges.
A sales agent who chopped up a bank clerk and cooked his head after killing him in a bizarre sex game was jailed for less than four years by a Berlin court on Thursday.
