A 76-year-old retired special education teacher was killed Thursday afternoon when a man walked up behind him at a Manhattan subway entrance and shoved him down a flight of concrete stairs, an attack captured on surveillance video that prosecutors called "completely unprovoked." The suspect had been...

A person who scaled a perimeter fence at Denver International Airport was struck and killed by a Frontier Airlines jet during takeoff Saturday night, and newly released security footage from the City and County of Denver captures the fatal moment on the runway. The individual hopped the fence and re...

A retired Arizona Department of Public Safety lieutenant says investigators may have minimized the possibility that 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie was taken across the Mexican border, and that doing so conveniently kept federal agents on the sideline during the most critical hours of the case. Dave Smith...

Militants detonated an explosives-laden car at a police post on the outskirts of Bannu in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least three officers and then ambushing the law enforcement personnel who rushed to help. By the time hospitals in the city declared a state of emergency, police of...

San Luis Obispo County Sheriff Ian Parkinson said Friday that scientific evidence points to the presence of human remains at the Arroyo Grande, California, home of Susan Flores, the mother of Paul Flores, the man convicted of killing 19-year-old college student Kristin Smart nearly three decades ago...

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., fired off a letter to Secret Service Director Sean Curran demanding an immediate, agency-wide audit of every employee on the payroll, a direct response to the armed breach at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner on April 25, where a suspect allegedly car...

The Marine Corps is pulling the plug on one of the most recognizable fighter jets in American military history. An internal administrative message issued this week confirmed that the F/A-18 Hornet will be retired from Marine service by 2030, and every maintenance specialty tied to the aircraft will ...

Federal agents boarded eight cruise ships docked in San Diego over five days late last month and took 28 crew members into custody as part of a child sexual exploitation material enforcement operation, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said. Among those arrested were staffers employed by Disney Cru...

A 13-year-old boy from Santa Ana died Thursday night after crashing an electric motorcycle into a center median on a Garden Grove street, the Garden Grove Police Department said in a news release. Officers arrived to find the child already being loaded into an ambulance. He never regained consciousn...

The tiny north Georgia town of Cohutta got its police department back Friday, two days after Mayor Ron Shinnick fired every officer on the force in a move the town's own attorney said violated the local charter. The Cohutta Town Council passed an ordinance at a standing-room-only special meeting rei...