Portland police K-9 Kylo was killed on his last shift before retirement during a murder-suspect arrest that also left the wanted man dead. On Thursday afternoon, officers from multiple agencies moved to take a wanted man into custody at the Chestnut Tree Inn in the 9600 block of Southeast Stark Stre...

A retired Florida police sergeant was fatally shot by his wife before she killed herself in what Broward officials describe as an apparent murder-suicide after the couple’s bodies were found. John Baker and his wife, Joanne Baker, were discovered dead in Pembroke Pines, Fla., on Sept. 21. A prelim...

An independent review of Utah Valley University found serious security gaps at the outdoor Charlie Kirk event where a rooftop sniper killed the conservative speaker, leaving officials facing blame and a looming lawsuit. Utah Valley University released an external after-action report that faulted pla...

A U.S. Army soldier with a secret clearance was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison for hacking telecom firms and stealing call and text metadata for more than 100 million AT&T customers, an insider case that pulled in multiple federal agencies. Cameron John Wagenius, 22, was sentenced in Seatt...

Two University of Mississippi undergraduates were found dead on the same day in separate locations across Oxford, Mississippi, with packaged kratom discovered at both scenes, and investigators have not ruled out foul play. Authorities identified the students Thursday as Robert Strang, a 20-year-old ...

South Carolina's highest court unanimously threw out Alex Murdaugh's double murder convictions after finding that a county clerk tampered with the jury, but the disgraced attorney will stay behind bars on separate fraud sentences. The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled 5-0 that Colleton County Clerk...

American troops and DEA agents joined roughly 320 Ecuadoran police officers in early-morning raids across several cities, arresting more than 30 suspects tied to one of the Western Hemisphere's most dangerous drug cartels, the latest result of a broader U.S. crackdown on organized crime across Latin...

A 31-year-old homeless man opened fire near an occupied terminal at Miami International Airport, sending three rounds into a trash can feet from travelers, and deputies say he still had two loaded magazines when they arrested him on a nearby bench. Francisco Ivan Mendiola fired four shots from the s...

Two former Mississippi Capitol police officers are on trial for manslaughter after fatally shooting a man during a 2022 vehicle pursuit, and key testimony is already raising questions about whether the officers had any lawful reason to fire. A jury in Jackson, Mississippi, continued hearing testimon...

Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao confirmed that eight sailors assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group attempted suicide during a deployment that stretched past 250 days at sea, a disclosure that raises hard questions about the cost of extended combat operations on the men and women wh...