Three Riverside, California, patrol officers, all military veterans, lost their jobs Tuesday over disabled veteran license plates registered to their personal vehicles. Police Chief Larry Gonzalez announced the firings Wednesday, offering little public explanation beyond a single cryptic statement a...

A Dane County circuit judge has ordered the Wisconsin Department of Justice to release the names of every certified law enforcement officer in the state, a ruling that state Attorney General Josh Kaul called "reckless" and that the state's largest police union warned could endanger officers and crip...

A 56-year-old man on felony probation was caught on a Ring doorbell camera brandishing a knife and making stabbing motions on a Sacramento homeowner's porch, and was back on the street within hours of his arrest, only to be picked up again the same day for yet another trespassing incident. Brian Mat...

A 16-year-old student now faces four counts of first-degree assault with a deadly weapon after a stabbing at Foss High School in Tacoma, Washington, sent four students and a security guard to the hospital, several in critical condition, in a dispute that court documents trace back to a stolen vape p...

Tara Baker was 23 years old, a day short of her 24th birthday, when firefighters pulled her body from a burning apartment in Athens, Georgia, on the morning of January 19, 2001. She had been sexually assaulted, strangled, and stabbed. Someone had turned on the stove and set the bed ablaze to destroy...

The Pentagon announced Friday that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has ordered 5,000 American soldiers removed from Germany, the most concrete step yet in a broader push by the Trump administration to force European allies to shoulder more of their own defense burden. The withdrawal is expected to tak...

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd announced 266 arrests Friday after a multi-day undercover operation in central Florida that targeted human trafficking, prostitution, and suspects attempting to meet children for sex. Among those swept up: a pardoned Jan. 6 Capitol riot participant, a self-described "M...

James Burke, the disgraced former Suffolk County police chief who once ran the Gilgo Beach serial killer investigation and later went to federal prison for beating a handcuffed man, walked out of a Central Islip courtroom Wednesday with his latest criminal charges on track to vanish. A judge granted...

FBI Director Kash Patel announced that federal prosecutors have charged four noncitizens in New Jersey with illegally casting ballots in the 2020, 2022, and 2024 federal elections, and then lying about it on their applications for U.S. citizenship. The charges, filed in separate criminal complaints ...

Former FBI Director James Comey walked into a federal courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia, on Wednesday, surrendering to law enforcement after a grand jury indicted him on two counts tied to what prosecutors say was a threat against President Donald Trump. The hearing lasted less than ten minutes. Co...