Jakhi Lodgson-McCray, a 22-year-old Brooklyn activist, stood in federal court Wednesday and admitted he scaled a fence into a locked police parking lot in Bushwick and set fire to 11 NYPD vehicles, an act that caused more than $800,000 in damage and now carries a mandatory minimum of five years in f...

A Tulare County Sheriff's Office deputy was shot and killed Thursday morning in Porterville, California, after a 60-year-old man allegedly opened fire with a high-powered rifle as deputies arrived to serve a final eviction notice, a routine civil action that Sheriff Mike Boudreaux said turned into a...

A neighbor heard two loud thuds, looked outside, and saw Kristin Ramsey standing at the front door of the model home where Iowa real estate agent Ashley Okland lay dying. That witness account, now detailed in newly filed court documents, places the 53-year-old murder suspect at the scene of a 2011 c...

Five people are in custody and 21 face charges in what California Attorney General Rob Bonta called a "brazen, calculated criminal scheme" that allegedly drained more than $267 million from the state's Medi-Cal program through fraudulent hospice billing, stolen identities, and a web of more than 130...

Rex Heuermann, the Long Island architect who led a double life as a serial killer for nearly two decades, pleaded guilty on April 8 to seven counts of murder and admitted to an eighth uncharged killing, then agreed to sit down with the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit and let federal profilers pick ap...

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba pulled more than 4,510 pounds of cocaine out of the Eastern Pacific Ocean on Easter Sunday, a single-patrol haul the Department of Homeland Security valued at $33.9 million. The seizure, part of the ongoing Operation Pacific Viper, marks another major interdictio...

The woman known among her customers as the "Ketamine Queen" will spend 15 years in federal prison for selling the drugs that killed actor Matthew Perry. Jasveen Sangha received the sentence, plus three years of supervised release, after pleading guilty to five federal charges connected to the Friend...

More than thirty years after Kurt Cobain was found dead in his Seattle home, an unnamed former Seattle police detective has come forward to claim the investigation into the Nirvana frontman's death was botched, and that the evidence never supported a straightforward suicide ruling. The claims appear...

A gunman armed with an automatic rifle was killed Tuesday in a shootout with police outside the Israeli consulate in Istanbul, Turkish officials said, in an attack that wounded two other assailants and two police officers and drew swift condemnation from Ankara, Jerusalem, and Washington. The firefi...

Rex Heuermann stood in Suffolk County Court on Wednesday and admitted to what investigators spent more than a decade trying to prove, that he strangled eight women and dumped their bodies along Long Island's Gilgo Beach. The guilty plea, covering seven counts of murder spanning a 17-year period, bri...