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...

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...

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...

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...

A stabbing suspect in Twin Falls, Idaho, is dead after law enforcement officers opened fire while attempting to execute a search warrant Wednesday evening, the Twin Falls Police Department confirmed. No officers were injured in the confrontation, which capped a hours-long standoff that shut down a r...

FBI Director Kash Patel announced that federal prosecutors have charged four noncitizens in New Jersey with illegally casting ballots in the 2020, 2022, and 2024 federal elections, and then lying about it on their applications for U.S. citizenship. The charges, filed in separate criminal complaints ...

Former FBI Director James Comey walked into a federal courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia, on Wednesday, surrendering to law enforcement after a grand jury indicted him on two counts tied to what prosecutors say was a threat against President Donald Trump. The hearing lasted less than ten minutes. Co...

Solano County sheriff's deputies arrived at a home on the 200 block of Howard Avenue to serve a search warrant on April 30, and heard the sound of metal grinding before they even knocked on the door. Inside, investigators say they found the remnants of bronze memorial stars and plaques torn from sit...

Federal investigators fanned out across the Twin Cities metro on Tuesday, executing search warrants at more than 20 locations in what officials called an ongoing fraud investigation, hitting sites that included an empty lot, a shuttered day care, and businesses that bill the state for autism service...

A three-family home in the Ozone Park section of Queens erupted in a fireball early Thursday morning as NYPD officers stood at the front door, hurling them off their feet and into metal gates, fifteen minutes after they had arrived to help a family trapped inside with an intoxicated, knife-wielding ...