A grand jury has charged a North Carolina State Highway Patrol sergeant with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a Cumberland County sheriff's captain, a killing investigators say grew out of years of jealousy over a woman both officers had dated. Sgt. Nekime Matu Oxendine, 44, was indicted...

A Los Angeles federal jury acquitted Chicago rapper Lil Durk on all charges in a murder-for-hire plot targeting rival Quando Rondo, but two co-defendants were convicted, and prosecutors say a second trial awaits. Durk Banks, the 33-year-old Grammy winner known as Lil Durk, walked away from conspirac...

Jackson, Mississippi, police arrested a 51-year-old man on a murder charge in the death of Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old Black mother of four whose body was found hanging from a tree in early August, and the police chief says more arrests are coming. Jarques Ratliff was taken into custody Friday afte...

A San Jose police officer used the department's license plate reader network to help a domestic violence suspect track down a victim, and the chief who fired him says the case exposed a gap in how the city controls access to powerful surveillance tools. San Jose Police Chief Paul Joseph announced th...

Three people died and three more were severely wounded in separate Seattle shootings over Labor Day weekend, but the city's interim police chief grabbed national attention for what he called the suspects, "trigger pullers." Interim Chief Andre Sayles held a public briefing on Monday, September 7, to...

A juror from the Lindsay Clancy murder trial in Massachusetts says she believes the jury "let down Lindsay" after a single holdout prevented a unanimous verdict, and now Clancy's defense team is asking a judge to block any retrial. The juror, identified only as Paula, 65, told WCVB that the panel's ...

A Thursday morning 911 call led police to four gunshot victims inside a suburban North Carolina home, two of them already dead, and investigators now say all parties involved knew each other. Gaston County Police rushed to a single-family home at 2661 Forbes Road in Gastonia after a caller reported ...

Iran launched a barrage of strikes on a key American air base in Jordan, damaging nine U.S. aircraft and costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars, just hours after President Trump publicly warned Tehran against provocative activity at a suspected nuclear site. The attack hit Muwaffaq Salti Air ...

The U.S. Air Force is soliciting small businesses to develop AI-controlled drone swarms deployable from cargo aircraft, a capability born from hard lessons learned when Iranian strikes destroyed American planes parked at Persian Gulf bases. The Air Force issued a Small Business Innovation Research s...

A Pentagon finance official with a 22-year career at one of the world's largest accounting firms is quietly building support for the Army's top civilian job, and his backers are making their case in public, an unusual move that signals how unsettled Army leadership has become. Marc Andersen, the ass...