A Jasper County jury needed just one hour to convict Aaron Malone of first-degree murder in the death of his 24-year-old girlfriend, Aspen Lewis, after a three-day trial laid bare a trail of blood, surveillance footage, and a story that fell apart under questioning. Malone, 24, had told police he be...

The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 Monday in favor of a Washington, D.C., police officer who arrested a minor during a 2 a.m. vehicle stop, rejecting a lower court's decision to throw out the evidence by picking apart the officer's reasons for suspicion one at a time instead of weighing them together. The ...

Federal agents arrested a Woodland Hills, California, woman at Los Angeles International Airport on Saturday night as she prepared to board a flight to Turkey, and the charges filed against her read like a plot from a spy thriller. Shamim Mafi, 44, an Iranian national and lawful permanent U.S. resid...

U.S. Marines rappelled from a helicopter onto an Iranian-flagged cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman on April 19 after the vessel refused to comply with six hours of warnings and a Navy destroyer disabled its engine, marking the first forcible interception since the American naval blockade of Iran began ...

A San Diego police officer needed hospital treatment after a woman bit his hand during a confrontation at a local recreation center, an encounter that began, police said, with her hurling racist remarks at adults and children near a skate park. Officers from the San Diego Police Department responded...

A 23-year veteran of the Metropolitan Police Department, once celebrated as the first openly gay leader of the DC Police Union, is sitting in a Maryland jail without bond after authorities say he drove to meet a teenage boy who turned out to be an undercover detective. Lt. Matthew Mahl, 47, faces ch...

Jurors in a Tarrant County, Texas, courtroom sobbed openly on Thursday after hearing more than an hour of audio and watching video recordings that captured the abduction and killing of seven-year-old Athena Strand by former FedEx driver Tanner Horner. The recordings, played during the sentencing pha...

A California fire captain who shot his fiancée and her young son after a dispute over a firefighter movie will spend the rest of his life behind bars. Darin McFarlin, 47, was sentenced Monday to life without parole for the murders of Marissa Divodi-Lessa Herzog, 29, and her 7-year-old son Josiah, t...

A gunman armed with a legally registered carbine killed at least six people on the streets and inside a supermarket in Kyiv on Saturday before Ukrainian special tactical police stormed the building and shot him dead, officials said. The rampage in the capital's Holosiivskyi district included a hosta...

A 67-year-old man faces felonious assault and domestic violence charges after police say he held a woman at gunpoint inside an Ohio home Friday night, triggering a standoff with a SWAT team that stretched past midnight and into Saturday morning. Abdullah Mustafa was booked into the Hamilton County J...