The Department of Justice filed motions Tuesday to vacate the convictions of several high-profile defendants tied to the January 6, 2021, Capitol breach, a sweeping legal action that would permanently dismiss the most serious cases brought against members of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys organizat...

Prosecutors in Washington, D.C., told a judge Friday that DNA testing on shell casings recovered from the scene of a fatal shooting last summer produced an "overwhelming statistical match" to one of the teenagers charged with murdering Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, a 21-year-old congressional intern and Un...

Two people were found fatally shot in the parking lot of an event hall in Longview, Washington, on Saturday night while roughly 200 people were gathered inside the venue, and police arrested a 49-year-old Kelso man on two counts of first-degree murder after a vehicle pursuit and foot chase, the Long...

Robert William McCaffrey Jr. was arrested Friday evening in Manteo, North Carolina, and charged with first-degree murder, first-degree kidnapping, and second-degree burglary in the 1990 killing of 27-year-old Lisa Marie McBride, a cold case that went unsolved for more than three decades before advan...

A 40-year-old Florida woman and her 44-year-old husband were found dead in a bedroom of their Wewahitchka home on Monday, April 6, after a concerned caller requested a welfare check because the woman had not shown up for work. The Gulf Coast Sheriff's Department said the medical examiner's office in...

Flagler County deputies drew their weapons and ordered a Florida gubernatorial candidate to the ground after two elderly people were found hiding in a bedroom, accused of being beaten by the man who wants to lead the state. Kevin Cichowski, 46, now faces a stack of felony charges, and it is not his ...

Donald Eugene Fields II, a 61-year-old man who spent nearly two years on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, pleaded guilty on Thursday to one count of child sex trafficking. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Missouri announced the plea, which carries a minimum sentence of...

A veteran California political journalist who has covered Rep. Eric Swalwell since his days on the Dublin City Council says the congressman's alleged behavior toward women "was known by all levels of our local government and the Alameda County Democratic Party", and has been since shortly after Swal...

A Catholic religious order that has spent more than a century providing free hospice care to the dying poor filed a federal lawsuit this week against New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, charging that a state transgender-rights law forces the sisters to choose between their faith and their mission, or face f...

A 14-year-old boy in Atlanta now sits in juvenile detention, charged with murder after a 12-year-old was shot and killed inside a southeast Atlanta home Saturday afternoon. The shooting happened, police told local media, while the two boys were playing with guns in a bedroom. Atlanta Police Departme...