Chad Essert, the police chief of Bethel, Ohio, resigned Friday rather than face a village hearing that could have removed him from office, weeks after a Clermont County grand jury handed down a 70-count indictment charging him with sexual battery and unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. Essert's re...

Army Gen. Christopher Donahue, the decorated combat veteran known as the last American soldier to leave Afghanistan, formally relinquished command of U.S. Army Europe and Africa on Thursday in a ceremony at Wiesbaden, Germany. The 56-year-old four-star general departed after just 18 months in the ro...

Capitol Police arrested an active-duty Air Force major on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday after he refused orders to stop demonstrating against President Trump and Vice President JD Vance, raising immediate questions about military discipline, the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and wha...

An explosive device discovered inside the garage of a St. Petersburg, Florida, home proved too dangerous to move, so the Tampa Bomb Squad buried it in the backyard and blew it up. No one was hurt, but residents of nearby mobile homes had to evacuate while the ordnance burned underground for roughly ...

A former police chief in a Louisiana hamlet of barely 600 people admitted in federal court Tuesday that he churned out dozens of fabricated police reports, naming immigrants as violent crime victims who never existed, so they could apply for visas meant to protect real victims. Former Forest Hills P...

Javier Lorenzano Nunez spent close to a year locked up, first in a Mexican prison, then in Maricopa County Jail, for a 1998 Phoenix murder he says he did not commit. The arrest hinged on a facial recognition hit. The case fell apart after DNA and fingerprint evidence excluded him. Now he is suing th...

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill announced the arrest of 21 people in a sweeping Medicaid fraud enforcement operation, targeting caregivers, business owners, and service workers accused of stealing from a program meant to help the state's most vulnerable residents. The charges range from Medic...

A U.S. Navy MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the USS George H.W. Bush made an emergency water landing in the Arabian Sea early Wednesday, and one of the four crew members aboard remains missing as search and rescue operations continue. Three crew members were recovered and returned to the carr...

A Ridgewood, New Jersey, police officer pulled over former NFL reporter Dianna Russini on a Sunday morning in January for using her cell phone behind the wheel. She walked away without a ticket. Months later, bodycam footage tells a different story than the one Russini told publicly, and the local p...

A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday barring Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth from enforcing the Pentagon's escort policy for credentialed reporters, the latest in a string of courtroom setbacks for the Department of Defense's effort to tighten control over media access at the build...