Supreme Court sides with D.C. officer, rebukes lower court's piecemeal approach to Fourth Amendment stops
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 ...
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L.A. woman arrested at LAX for allegedly trafficking Iranian weapons to Sudan
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...
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DC police lieutenant charged with soliciting sex from 15-year-old in undercover sting
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...
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San Diego woman arrested after racist tirade and biting officer at recreation center
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...
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Jurors broke down in tears as courtroom recordings revealed Athena Strand's final hour
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...
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California fire captain sentenced to life without parole for killing fiancée and her 7-year-old son
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...
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Colerain Township man arrested after alleged hostage standoff lasting more than six hours
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...
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Daughter of missing American woman arrives in Bahamas, calls out stepfather who fled after vowing to stay
Karli Aylesworth landed on Great Abaco Island Thursday to search for her missing mother, one day after her stepfather, Brian Hooker, broke his public promise to remain in the Bahamas and instead boarded a flight to the United States. Fox News Digital reported that Aylesworth arrived at Leonard Thomp...
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Sheriff Nanos flatly denies reports of new detention in Nancy Guthrie disappearance
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos shut down late-Friday speculation about a new break in the Nancy Guthrie case with a single word: "Nope." The denial, relayed by Fox News Digital reporter Michael Ruiz on X, came after claims spread online and across cable-crime media that another person of interest h...
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Gunman kills six in Kyiv before police storm supermarket and shoot him dead
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...
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