Crime & Public Safety

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 ...

One person has died and two others were transported to hospital after two grain elevators collapsed in Tynan, ...

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

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) on July 5 pressed the U.S. Secret Service for details regarding its ongoing investigation ...

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 ...

Actress Allison Mack, who starred in the television series "Smallville," has been released from prison early, government records ...

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

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has launched an investigation after "disturbing" video footage was captured showing deputies appearing to ...

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

Anne Milgram, head of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), has said that social media companies haven't been as ...

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 ...

The Indian Consulate in San Francisco was allegedly set ablaze by Sikh separatists—who sought an independent Sikh homeland ...

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 ...