A U.S. government employee assigned to the American Embassy in Yangon, Myanmar, was found dead at a hotel roughly a mile from the embassy compound, and local police have detained a Thai woman in connection with what members of the diplomatic community describe as a possible homicide investigation. T...

A 25-year-old man walked out of a Livonia, Michigan, home with his hands raised Tuesday evening and told arriving officers he had shot his family. Inside and behind the house, police found four people dead, his parents, his brother, and his brother's girlfriend, in what Livonia Police Chief Thomas G...

Purported ransom notes demanding bitcoin surfaced just as Savannah Guthrie returned to NBC's "Today" show, and a former FBI agent says the timing was no accident. The notes, sent to TMZ by an anonymous source, claim knowledge of who kidnapped 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie from her Tucson, Arizona, home ...

A 30-year-old Sudanese asylum seeker appeared in a Belfast courtroom Wednesday on attempted murder charges after allegedly trying to behead a man on a Northern Ireland street late Monday night, an attack caught on video that left the victim blind in one eye and triggered anti-immigration riots acros...

The man charged with fatally stabbing a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee aboard a Charlotte light-rail train last August will not face trial any time soon. A federal judge found Decarlos Brown Jr. incompetent to stand trial after a mental evaluation, pausing a case that could carry the death penalty. T...

Seaman Jermiah Copeland pleaded guilty Monday at Naval Station Norfolk to the unpremeditated murder of 21-year-old Petty Officer 3rd Class Angelina Resendiz, a culinary specialist he strangled in his barracks room after a night of drinking. Under the terms of a plea agreement, Copeland faces no fewe...

Jeffrey Clark spent more than 22 years in a Kentucky prison for a murder he says he did not commit. Now a jury has awarded him more than $24 million, and the real killer of 19-year-old Rhonda Sue Warford has never been identified. Clark was just 21 when he and his friend Keith Hardin were […]...

The Pima County Sheriff's Department warned the public over the weekend to watch for a 40-year-old kidnapping suspect wanted in connection with a violent incident that occurred less than seven miles from the Catalina Foothills home where 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie was abducted in February. Authoritie...

Three days after gunfire tore through an annual neighborhood festival in Toledo, Ohio, police had still not made a single arrest, and had not even released descriptions of the suspects believed to have opened fire on a crowd that included a 14-year-old. Officers responded around 5:37 p.m. Saturday t...

The White House may be shifting its territorial ambitions from the Arctic to the Indian Ocean. After President Donald Trump's effort to acquire Greenland failed to gain traction, the administration is now reportedly exploring the possibility of buying the Chagos Islands from Mauritius, a move that w...