A former police chief in a Louisiana hamlet of barely 600 people admitted in federal court Tuesday that he churned out dozens of fabricated police reports, naming immigrants as violent crime victims who never existed, so they could apply for visas meant to protect real victims. Former Forest Hills P...

An explosive device discovered inside the garage of a St. Petersburg, Florida, home proved too dangerous to move, so the Tampa Bomb Squad buried it in the backyard and blew it up. No one was hurt, but residents of nearby mobile homes had to evacuate while the ordnance burned underground for roughly ...

A Ridgewood, New Jersey, police officer pulled over former NFL reporter Dianna Russini on a Sunday morning in January for using her cell phone behind the wheel. She walked away without a ticket. Months later, bodycam footage tells a different story than the one Russini told publicly, and the local p...

A U.S. Navy MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the USS George H.W. Bush made an emergency water landing in the Arabian Sea early Wednesday, and one of the four crew members aboard remains missing as search and rescue operations continue. Three crew members were recovered and returned to the carr...

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill announced the arrest of 21 people in a sweeping Medicaid fraud enforcement operation, targeting caregivers, business owners, and service workers accused of stealing from a program meant to help the state's most vulnerable residents. The charges range from Medic...

A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday barring Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth from enforcing the Pentagon's escort policy for credentialed reporters, the latest in a string of courtroom setbacks for the Department of Defense's effort to tighten control over media access at the build...

Five months after 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie vanished from her Tucson home, the volunteer organization that deploys K-9 units and drones to disaster zones across the country says Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos refused its help, and never explained why. Brian Trascher, vice president of the United Ca...

A 21-year-old U.S. Marine who disappeared from the USS Anchorage during a training exercise off the coast of Southern California has been declared dead. The I Marine Expeditionary Force announced on June 27 that Lance Cpl. Armando Ortiz Canseco was lost at sea, ending a search that spanned days and ...

A Japanese submarine put a torpedo into the hull of a decommissioned U.S. Navy warship on June 27, sending the former USS Juneau to the bottom of the Philippine Sea more than 200 nautical miles off the coast of Guam. The deliberate sinking capped a coordinated, multi-domain strike during Valiant Shi...

An exterminator called to investigate a foul odor at a Queens public school opened an ash dump, found a shoe, and then felt a human foot. What followed was a 911 call, a police response, and a grim discovery that has left an entire school community shaken: a rotting corpse wedged inside the chimney ...