Oklahoma state trooper killed in head-on crash on I-35 that also claimed mother and child
An Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper, a 36-year-old woman, and a 4-year-old child are dead after a vehicle crossed the center cable barrier on Interstate 35 in Oklahoma City and slammed head-on into the trooper's northbound patrol unit Wednesday morning. Investigators are now asking the public to help...
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Tulare County deputy shot and killed serving eviction notice in Porterville ambush
A Tulare County Sheriff's Office deputy was shot and killed Thursday morning in Porterville, California, after a 60-year-old man allegedly opened fire with a high-powered rifle as deputies arrived to serve a final eviction notice, a routine civil action that Sheriff Mike Boudreaux said turned into a...
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Brooklyn protester pleads guilty to torching 11 NYPD vehicles in predawn arson spree
Jakhi Lodgson-McCray, a 22-year-old Brooklyn activist, stood in federal court Wednesday and admitted he scaled a fence into a locked police parking lot in Bushwick and set fire to 11 NYPD vehicles, an act that caused more than $800,000 in damage and now carries a mandatory minimum of five years in f...
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Ohio Supreme Court backs police: Traffic stops don't end just because the original reason was wrong
The Ohio Supreme Court handed law enforcement a significant win, ruling that police officers who pull over a driver based on a mistaken belief, say, a headlight that turns out to be working, do not have to cut the stop short the moment that mistake becomes clear. The decision reversed an appellate c...
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Coast Guard seizes $33.9 million in cocaine in Easter Sunday bust off Ecuador
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba pulled more than 4,510 pounds of cocaine out of the Eastern Pacific Ocean on Easter Sunday, a single-patrol haul the Department of Homeland Security valued at $33.9 million. The seizure, part of the ongoing Operation Pacific Viper, marks another major interdictio...
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Gilgo Beach killer Rex Heuermann agrees to FBI behavioral study as part of plea deal
Rex Heuermann, the Long Island architect who led a double life as a serial killer for nearly two decades, pleaded guilty on April 8 to seven counts of murder and admitted to an eighth uncharged killing, then agreed to sit down with the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit and let federal profilers pick ap...
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Federal and state investigators arrest five in alleged $267 million hospice fraud ring targeting California's Medi-Cal system
Five people are in custody and 21 face charges in what California Attorney General Rob Bonta called a "brazen, calculated criminal scheme" that allegedly drained more than $267 million from the state's Medi-Cal program through fraudulent hospice billing, stolen identities, and a web of more than 130...
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Court documents reveal witness saw murder suspect outside Iowa model home moments after fatal shots
A neighbor heard two loud thuds, looked outside, and saw Kristin Ramsey standing at the front door of the model home where Iowa real estate agent Ashley Okland lay dying. That witness account, now detailed in newly filed court documents, places the 53-year-old murder suspect at the scene of a 2011 c...
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Former Seattle detective claims Kurt Cobain death investigation was mishandled, reigniting decades-old debate
More than thirty years after Kurt Cobain was found dead in his Seattle home, an unnamed former Seattle police detective has come forward to claim the investigation into the Nirvana frontman's death was botched, and that the evidence never supported a straightforward suicide ruling. The claims appear...
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Jasveen Sangha sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for ketamine sales tied to Matthew Perry's death
The woman known among her customers as the "Ketamine Queen" will spend 15 years in federal prison for selling the drugs that killed actor Matthew Perry. Jasveen Sangha received the sentence, plus three years of supervised release, after pleading guilty to five federal charges connected to the Friend...
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