David Vander Meer, a 49-year-old former youth pastor charged with murdering his wife nearly twenty years ago, died from what Las Vegas police called "self-sustained injuries" at the Clark County Detention Center on the same day he was scheduled to appear before a judge. The Las Vegas judge handling ...

A U.S. Marine went missing from the amphibious transport dock USS Anchorage during a training exercise off the Southern California coast, triggering a massive search that spanned roughly 2,400 square miles before the Navy shifted the operation from rescue to recovery, a grim signal that officials no...

A new ransom note sent to TMZ claims to include video of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie alongside the person who allegedly abducted her from her Arizona home nearly five months ago, the latest in a string of disturbing communications that have kept her family in torment and investigators publicly silent....

Search and rescue crews from California, Virginia, and Florida are fanning out across earthquake-shattered Venezuela, racing against a closing survival window after twin quakes killed at least 1,430 people and left nearly 69,000 missing. The two earthquakes, magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5, among the stronge...

A 67-year-old convicted sex offender's federal lawsuit demanding more than $200 million from Sioux City, Iowa, police officers was tossed by a federal judge who noted the claims arrived "more than 20 years too late." U.S. District Judge Leonard Strand dismissed the complaint on statute-of-limitation...

Titusville, Florida, police officers responding to a vehicle crash on a Tuesday night found a familiar face in the front seat of the wrecked city-owned SUV: their own chief of police, John Lau, sitting beside a large bottle of vodka. Lau was off duty at the time. He refused alcohol testing. A sergea...

A Hunterdon County grand jury has indicted Franklin Township police Sergeant Kevin Bollaro on charges of official misconduct and tampering with public records for what prosecutors describe as a breathtaking failure to respond the night two people were shot and killed near his patrol area. Three 911 ...

A tattoo shop in Largo, Florida, posted a public notice on Facebook telling active-duty service members and veterans they are not welcome, and will be turned away at the door. Revival Tattoo Collective published the declaration on June 23, calling the U.S. military "a bunch of war criminals" and acc...

St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Randy Smith pleaded guilty to felony battery and a misdemeanor count of disturbing the peace on Wednesday morning, then resigned from the office he held for nearly a decade. The plea deal, entered before 22nd Judicial District Judge Reginal Badeaux at the courthouse in Cov...

Seven crew members suffered minor injuries Wednesday when a fire broke out aboard the USS Indianapolis while the ship sat moored at Naval Station Mayport in Florida, the Navy confirmed. All seven were taken to local hospitals, treated, and released the same day, cleared to return to the ship before ...