Multiple high-ranking officials in the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department face firing or other serious disciplinary action, four officials told the Washington Post on Monday. The shakeup comes as the department confronts intense scrutiny from federal officials, a collision of accountability pressur...

More than a year after a Jeep Grand Cherokee plowed into three Palm Beach County sheriff's deputies on a roadside in November 2024, a 31-year-old nurse has been arrested and charged with three counts of vehicular homicide. Corrine Blue was taken into custody on April 30, the Palm Beach County State ...

A 16-year-old student now faces four counts of first-degree assault with a deadly weapon after a stabbing at Foss High School in Tacoma, Washington, sent four students and a security guard to the hospital, several in critical condition, in a dispute that court documents trace back to a stolen vape p...

Three Riverside, California, patrol officers, all military veterans, lost their jobs Tuesday over disabled veteran license plates registered to their personal vehicles. Police Chief Larry Gonzalez announced the firings Wednesday, offering little public explanation beyond a single cryptic statement a...

A 56-year-old man on felony probation was caught on a Ring doorbell camera brandishing a knife and making stabbing motions on a Sacramento homeowner's porch, and was back on the street within hours of his arrest, only to be picked up again the same day for yet another trespassing incident. Brian Mat...

A Dane County circuit judge has ordered the Wisconsin Department of Justice to release the names of every certified law enforcement officer in the state, a ruling that state Attorney General Josh Kaul called "reckless" and that the state's largest police union warned could endanger officers and crip...

The Pentagon announced Friday that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has ordered 5,000 American soldiers removed from Germany, the most concrete step yet in a broader push by the Trump administration to force European allies to shoulder more of their own defense burden. The withdrawal is expected to tak...

Tara Baker was 23 years old, a day short of her 24th birthday, when firefighters pulled her body from a burning apartment in Athens, Georgia, on the morning of January 19, 2001. She had been sexually assaulted, strangled, and stabbed. Someone had turned on the stove and set the bed ablaze to destroy...

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd announced 266 arrests Friday after a multi-day undercover operation in central Florida that targeted human trafficking, prostitution, and suspects attempting to meet children for sex. Among those swept up: a pardoned Jan. 6 Capitol riot participant, a self-described "M...

James Burke, the disgraced former Suffolk County police chief who once ran the Gilgo Beach serial killer investigation and later went to federal prison for beating a handcuffed man, walked out of a Central Islip courtroom Wednesday with his latest criminal charges on track to vanish. A judge granted...