A 41-year-old registered sex offender who took 10 school employees hostage inside a downtown Bakersfield, California, office building, and claimed he had strapped explosives to himself and some of his captives, was shot and killed by the FBI early Wednesday after a nearly 16-hour standoff. All 10 ho...

A Reeves County district attorney reached across state lines last week to arrest a New York-based oilfield executive she says stole more than $300,000 in services from workers in the Permian Basin, and she isn't done looking. Josh Cohen of Vision Oil & Gas was taken into custody Friday in Nassau Cou...

A cadaver dog from Florida's Broward County Sheriff's Office hit the beach in Hope Town, Bahamas, on Wednesday as U.S. and Bahamian investigators renewed the search for Lynette Hooker, the American woman who disappeared during a boating trip with her husband in early April. The joint operation, span...

A federal immigration officer says San Diego police knocked him unconscious, arrested him on a fabricated felony charge, and orchestrated a department-wide cover-up, all to shield an off-duty sergeant who allegedly hurled a racial slur and body-slammed him in a Costco parking lot. The allegations co...

A welfare check at a home in Doral, Florida, on Tuesday night ended with police discovering the bodies of a Miami real estate agent, her estranged ex, and their two young daughters, all four dead from stab wounds in what investigators now believe was a murder-suicide. Melanie Hyer, 46, her daughters...

The Department of War has officially dropped 180 faiths from the military's recognized religions list, reducing the total number of faith codes available to servicemembers from more than 200 to just 31. The sweeping change, carried out through a memo from Undersecretary of Defense Anthony Tata, foll...

An 18-year-old is dead and three others, including an 11-year-old child, are hospitalized after a shooting erupted in the parking lot of a high school graduation ceremony in Fairfield, California, Wednesday night. No suspect description has been released, and no arrests have been announced. The gunf...

Newly released police bodycam footage shows officers apprehending a 22-year-old Texas man inside a Fort Lauderdale, Florida, home belonging to model and content creator Sophie Rain, after the intruder refused to leave, told her he had bought the place, and gave police a false name that combined his ...

A former Arkansas state trooper resigned from his position on May 15 after his estranged wife filed court documents in their divorce case that included roughly 30 screenshots of text messages he allegedly sent her, messages filled with racial slurs, homophobic language, and what she described as whi...

Four months after 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie vanished from her Arizona home, a retired detective says the break investigators need may already be sitting in digital records, car-tracking data, address lookups, and the mountain of tips that have poured in since February. Jon Buehler, a retired detecti...