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...

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...

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 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...

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...

A Columbus, Ohio, jury convicted former Franklin County sheriff's deputy Jason Meade of reckless homicide on Thursday for the 2020 shooting death of 23-year-old Casey Goodson Jr., but deadlocked on the more serious murder charge, forcing the judge to declare a mistrial on that count and leaving the ...

U.S. Central Command said Friday that American forces disabled two more Iranian tankers attempting to breach the naval blockade, the latest escalation in a fast-moving confrontation that now spans the Strait of Hormuz, the Gulf of Oman, the skies over the United Arab Emirates, and, if satellite imag...

Human remains discovered in a Tucson wash less than five miles from the home of missing 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie briefly raised hopes, and fears, before police ruled them prehistoric and entirely unconnected to her case. Tucson Police confirmed the bone found near Craycroft and River was human but ...

Thirteen Washington, D.C., police officers, including at least two high-ranking officials, were placed on administrative leave this week after an internal investigation found evidence of alleged misconduct tied to how the Metropolitan Police Department reported crime data. The move follows months of...