Crime and Incidents

HOOD RIVER, Ore.—Gunshots broke out as police in Hood River, Oregon, responded to a call at a home in the scenic vacation town, prompting an hourslong lockdown of schools and ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn.—A shooting at a Tennessee library on Thursday left one person dead and a police officer critically ...

With the GOP-controlled U.S. House of Representatives yet to take up a list of issues ignored by the ...

Australia's government-funded public broadcaster is facing tough criticism for framing a town hall meeting in Alice Springs—hosted by ...

Illegally trafficked firearms are getting from legitimate dealers to crime scenes faster than they have in the past, ...

Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.) has introduced a bill that would classify those who died from illicit fentanyl poisoning ...

MINNEAPOLIS—The attorney for a former Minneapolis police officer who held back bystanders while his colleagues restrained a dying ...

Eunice Dwumfour, a 30-year-old New Jersey councilwoman, was found dead outside her Sayreville home Wednesday evening in what ...

A man who identifies as a female has been charged with public indecency for allegedly being naked while ...

BATTLE CREEK, Mich.—A man who previously admitted killing two women in Pennsylvania pleaded guilty Wednesday to killing a ...

KENOSHA, Wis.—A jury found a Wisconsin man guilty Wednesday in a second trial for killing his wife with ...

CAMBRIDGE, Ohio—Josh Sills, a reserve offensive lineman for the NFC champion Philadelphia Eagles, has been indicted on rape ...

Later this month, the Supreme Court will consider a case arising out of a botched sex-trafficking investigation about ...

A lawsuit filed by the Alabama attorney general on Monday has reduced the number of inmates being immediately ...

A man armed with an AR-15-style rifle and more than a dozen loaded magazines was shot dead by ...

After increased security and a change to school administration, children at the Virginia elementary school where a first ...

A Texas family has demanded that the Galveston Police Department issue a public apology after a SWAT team ...

A former investigative reporter for ABC News has been arrested and charged with transportation of child pornography. Federal ...

NORTH LAS VEGAS—Las Vegas police on Tuesday arrested and raided the home of a former “Dances With Wolves” ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—The driver of a car that plunged off a treacherous cliff in northern California, seriously injuring ...

Vice President Kamala Harris will on Feb. 1 attend the funeral of Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-old Fed Ex ...

The murder trial of Alex Murdaugh, the South Carolina lawyer accused of killing his wife and youngest son ...

GRANTS PASS, Ore.—A suspect in a violent kidnapping in Oregon died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Tuesday night ...

DETROIT—A Detroit-area man who was captured on a Syrian battlefield in 2018 has been convicted on charges of ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—A political newcomer who lost his bid for the New Mexico statehouse has been indicted on charges ...

LAKELAND, Fla.—The four-door sedan pulled up near an intersection in a central Florida city where people were milling ...

ST. LOUIS—The attorney for a Missouri man facing lethal injection next week said Tuesday that he will ask ...