Crime and Incidents

NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.—Five people are dead after a single-engine plane crashed over the weekend in a South Carolina coastal resort town. Officials said Sunday’s fiery wreck near a golf ...

CRANDON, Wis.—State officials are investigating how eight people became trapped upside down on a roller coaster—some of them ...

LANSING, Mich.—A missing 2-year-old girl was found dead in Detroit on Wednesday, authorities announced, three days after her ...

CORDELE, Ga.—A sheriff’s deputy in Georgia was shot and killed Wednesday and the suspect tried to flee in ...

NEWARK, N.J.—Two firefighters were killed battling a blaze that began when cars caught fire deep inside a cargo ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.—Strong rip currents prompted lifeguards to pull about 200 swimmers from the Atlantic Ocean in Virginia ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md.—A Maryland board approved $2.9 million in compensation Wednesday for a man who was wrongly imprisoned for ...

EL PASO, Texas—A brother who traveled more than 1,000 miles to confront his sister's killer. An uncle of ...

An illegal immigrant has been handed a life sentence after admitting to the rape and impregnation of a ...

The suspect in the July 3 mass shooting in Philadelphia that left five people dead has been charged with murder, prosecutors ...

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner holds a news conference at 1:00 p.m. ET on July 5 after the ...

SALISBURY, Md.—A 14-year-old boy was killed and six other people were injured in a shooting at a Fourth ...

WASHINGTON—Nine people were shot and wounded, including two juveniles, early Wednesday in Washington, D.C., police said. Shortly before ...

EASTON, Mass.—A Massachusetts woman who went missing last week has been found alive in a swampy area of ...

PHILADELPHIA—A 40-year-old man with a rifle, a pistol, extra magazines, a police scanner, and a bulletproof vest fatally ...

PARK TOWNSHIP, Mich.—Fireworks explosions in adjacent counties in western Michigan left at least one woman dead and nine ...

ST. ANN, Mo.—A woman and two children died in a shooting inside a Missouri home. The shooting happened ...

DALLAS—Three people were killed and eight others injured when shots were fired into a crowd of hundreds following ...

ALLEN, Texas—Police have released video footage of an officer killing a neo-Nazi gunman, quickly ending a mass shooting ...

HARTFORD, Conn.—A Connecticut state lawmaker was attacked as she left a Muslim prayer service, and a fellow worshiper ...

GREEN POND, S.C.—A man has been charged with murder in the killings of his sister-in-law and daughter after ...

TELL CITY, Ind.—A man suspected of domestic violence fatally shot a police officer in a southern Indiana hospital ...

CARY, Ill.—A powerful firework exploded in an Illinois man's face, critically injuring him, as he was trying to ...

A suspect is in custody after five people were killed and two more were injured in a mass shooting ...

Authorities in Washington, D.C. are seeking public assistance in locating the suspects behind three bombing attacks on Sunday morning. ...

A California woman and Instagram “mom influencer” has been sentenced to 90 days in jail after lying to ...

LACONIA, N.H.—A car crashed into a busy restaurant and injured several patrons in a lakeside town in New ...