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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Rex Heuermann stood in Suffolk County Court on Wednesday and admitted to what investigators spent more than a decade trying to prove, that he strangled eight women and dumped their bodies along Long Island's Gilgo Beach. The guilty plea, covering seven counts of murder spanning a 17-year period, bri...

Tampa police deployed a bomb squad unit to an intersection near the city's airport on Wednesday afternoon after a passerby reported a suspicious object that appeared to be a pressure cooker. By 3:15 p.m., authorities said they had identified the item as an empty pressure cooker and declared no threa...