Connecticut deputy police chief arrested, placed on leave as department stays silent on charges
Naugatuck Deputy Police Chief Daniel Norck was arrested Friday by police in a neighboring Connecticut town and placed on administrative leave, but neither department has said why. Thomaston police took Norck into custody on Friday, and the Naugatuck Police Department confirmed the arrest the same da...
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Michigan man sentenced to at least 47 years for shooting Kalamazoo Township police officer
A 25-year-old man who shot a Kalamazoo Township police officer during a foot chase in 2025 will spend a minimum of 47 years behind bars, a sentence the department's chief called overdue justice for a crime that permanently altered the officer's life. Circuit Court Judge Pamela L. Lightvoet handed do...
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North Carolina deputy shot during traffic stop; suspect captured after 11-hour manhunt
A 48-year-old man accused of shooting a Columbus County, N.C., deputy during a failed traffic stop now faces attempted murder charges after 75 officers hunted him for eleven hours across rural southeastern North Carolina. William Robert Smith Jr. fled a traffic stop just before 8 a.m. Wednesday in t...
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San Diego police fatally shoot man who set K-9 Ryder on fire during North Park standoff
San Diego officers shot and killed a man who ignited a police K-9 with a flammable device during a standoff at a North Park business, leaving three officers burned and the dog hospitalized with facial injuries. The confrontation began Monday morning around 9 a.m. when San Diego police responded to r...
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Kennedy Center "demolition" poster spotted on Air Force One as Democrats rush to federal court
A photograph of President Trump holding a poster reading "Kennedy Center DEMOLITION" aboard Air Force One has landed in a federal judge's inbox, filed as evidence by a Democratic congresswoman fighting to block the building's closure. Rep. Joyce Beatty, an Ohio Democrat and Kennedy Center trustee, f...
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Trump signals new U.S. Army base in Poland as $4 billion weapons deal takes shape
President Trump announced that the United States and Poland are making "major progress" toward establishing a permanent U.S. Army base on Polish soil, a move that would mark a historic expansion of America's military footprint in Eastern Europe. Trump made the announcement Thursday in a post on Trut...
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Cellphone data leads searchers to body of missing hiker in Olympic National Park
Search teams recovered the body of 26-year-old hiker Neil Gehring on a remote Washington mountainside nearly two weeks after he vanished on a backcountry trek, a breakthrough made possible only after investigators analyzed cellphone location data. Gehring left the Madison Falls Trailhead in Olympic ...
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Texas Air National Guard F-16 crashes in rural Michigan during training mission; pilot ejects safely
A Texas Air National Guard F-16 crashed and burst into flames in northern Michigan on Thursday afternoon during a routine training exercise, forcing residents within a mile of the wreckage to evacuate, though the pilot ejected safely and was reported awake and alert at a local hospital. The fighter ...
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Suspected serial killer in Brazil confesses to 80 murders after botched escape in women's disguise
A 33-year-old suspected serial killer in Brazil reportedly confessed to 80 murders spanning two decades after police caught him fleeing a checkpoint disguised as a woman, and investigators say the staggering number may be close to accurate. Jorlan Alves da Silva was carrying a two-year-old boy who i...
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Mexico sends 1,800 troops to Sinaloa as cartel turf war leaves thousands dead
Mexico's government is deploying more than 1,800 federal troops to the cartel-ravaged state of Sinaloa after two years of factional warfare that has killed at least 3,100 people and left 5,000 more missing, and the real toll is likely far higher. Omar García Harfuch, Mexico's top security official,...
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