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On the second day of Derek Chauvin's murder trial, a firefighter who was off-duty when she witnessed George Floyd's death said she begged to help him.

During Derek Chauvin's murder trial, a 9-year-old bystander to George Floyd's murder gave heartbreaking testimony on Tuesday.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Police said Wednesday that they arrested a man who repeatedly...

The 17-year-old boy was charged with aiding and abetting and assault by means of a dangerous weapon, police said.

SAN FRANCISCO - Police said Wednesday that they arrested a man who repeatedly threatened an Asian American woman inside a San Francisco bakery and in ...

The United States has overpaid more than $3.6 billion in government-funded unemployment benefits from the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 through February this year, a government watchdog said on Wednesday. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in its latest report that it continues to have concerns about overpayments and potential fraud in the unemployment insurance (UI) system. The government expanded unemployment benefit eligibility to people who did not qualify for r

CHICAGO — Federal authorities are investigating a shooting last year of an unarmed man by Chicago police at a busy downtown transit train station that was captured on cellphone video by a rider, federal documents show. The alleged victim, Ariel Roman, received a subpoena to testify before a federal grand jury in January about the shooting, according to a copy of the subpoena reviewed by the ...

Mar. 31—Former Chattanooga police Sgt. Jonathan Watkins was demoted earlier this year after getting on the dispatch radio to call Rossville, Georgia, police "too chicken" to handle what Watkins believed was a burglary in progress within Chattanooga city limits last year. Watkins continued to curse at the reporting officer while telling him to go back to Georgia "and be a security guard," ...

Body camera videos from two recent Los Angeles police shootings show officers pleading with armed suspects to put down their weapons.

Officers James Blassingame and Sidney Hemby were punched, pummeled and threatened by insurrections who broke through police barricades and stormed the Capitol at the behest of the former president, according to the suit filed Tuesday in Washington, D.C. federal court.

A jury will decide the guilt of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in the death last May of George Floyd. But the second day of Chauvin’s trial on Tuesday was remarkable for the searing experience that Floyd’s death had on those who watched it happen. It captured the helplessness and frustration that many Americans struggle with in their dealings with law ...

To the prosecution, the witnesses who watched George Floyd’s body go still were regular people — a firefighter, a mixed martial arts fighter, a high school student and her 9-year-old cousin in a T-shirt emblazoned with the word “Love” — going about their daily lives when they happened upon the ghastly scene of an officer kneeling on a man’s neck. “Normal folks, the bystanders,” prosecutor Jerry Blackwell called them in his opening stateme

Mar. 31—A man charged with the March 2017 death of his girlfriend was set for jury trial in August. Jeffrey Scott Taylor, 51, of Sasser Road in London, appeared before Laurel Circuit Judge Michael Caperton on March 17, a date in which a trial date was set. Taylor is charged with hitting Shannon Vaughn Saylor in the head with a rock at his home during an argument, causing her death. He and ...

Female remains discovered in 1976 along the Lehigh River have been identified as those of a 15-year-old girl from New Jersey.

A Browning man has pleaded guilty to a murder on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation last year, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

Investigation Discovery’s ‘Murder in the Heartland: Money Can’t Buy You Love’ chronicles the killing of Cliff Carden in the small county of Sequatchie, Tennessee. The episode interweaves dramatic re-enactments of what happened in the case with accounts of witnesses, family members, and law enforcement who helped solve the case. The murder of Cliff Carden in […]

The former student at Middle Creek High School in Cary and Clayton High School was previously charged with the statutory rape of a 12-year-old.

A man convicted of murder was arrested and charged with beating an elderly Asian-American woman to the ground in a brutal video, police said.

Monster husband Thomas McCann, 49, admitted strangling his childhood sweetheart Yvonne, 46, at their Stockport home in May 2020, the BBC reported.

Dr. Brian Nadler was charged with first-degree murder by Ontario Provincial Police on Friday

While there are no eyewitnesses to the murder, the police have claimed in their nearly 500-page chargesheet that there is circumstancial evidence, including statements of others present at the party.

At first, she told investigators she had woken up to find her husband shot.

ATLANTA (AP) New drivers in Georgia could soon be required to receive training on how...

With less than two weeks left in the General Assembly session, questions remain over what the new bill of rights will ultimately look like.

/PRNewswire/ -- Defund the police or defund the fear? The blunt comments of Los Angeles Police Dept. Chief Michel Moore will chum the waters of the debate on...

A man accused of crimes spanning four states that culminated with an attempted murder in Oregon has been sentenced to 30 years in prison and will be extradited to Colorado to face a murder charge there, authorities said.

The nomination of Contee, now the acting chief, will now move to the full Council for a vote to make his selection permanent.

Police patrols will take place through the weekend after the incident in Sheffield's Endcliffe Park.

Mar. 31—SUNBURY — A Northumberland County senior judge on Tuesday ordered that a doctor's note be turned over to the commonwealth in the case against a former county correctional officer charged with lying under oath during an August summary trial. Assistant District Attorney Robyn Zenzinger successfully petitioned Senior Judge Harold Woelfel Jr. to have defense attorney Michael Rudinski, of ...

Police are searching for a pair of women after an altercation with a skateboarder in Maryland. A woman pulled a gun on a skateboarder.

Waterloo region police issued an apology Monday, March 29, to the family of Kathleen Kraehling after prematurely calling them to say she had been fo...

The girl was taken to a hospital with serious injuries, police say

Mar. 31—A police chase that ended in a double-fatal crash in Miami County Tuesday morning stemmed from a warrant for a suspect wanted for felonious assault and child abuse/endangering, according to Troy police. The driver of a fleeing car, identified by Troy police as Jalen Alexander, 19, and the driver of the other vehicle struck, identified as Chelsey Vollmer, 32, were both pronounced dead ...

Attorney Tony Buzbee has said that he intends to provide evidence regarding his clients’ claims of sexual assault against Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson to the Houston Police Department. He hasn’t. In a social-media post made on Tuesday night, Buzbee explains the decision not to do so. “Our team has been roundly criticized because these numerous [more]

Virus restrictions are being lifted, but recent shootings in Georgia and Colorado may spur anxiety about reentering public spaces. Here are some safety tips.

Active shooter drills are associated with increases in depression and anxiety among students, teachers and parents.

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Shannon Watts, the founder of Moms Demand Action, writes about the Boulder and Atlanta shootings.

We must confront our biases in covering mass shootings in the U.S., because they happen all the timeand many are overlooked.

The father of seven was the first officer to run into the neighborhood store and almost immediately confronted the gunman.

The criminal legal system can help provide a sense of closure and answer victims’ questions, but it can also force the survivors to repeatedly re-live their trauma.

Two mass shootings in a week brings into focus gun violence in America. An expert digs into gun laws, challenges facing police, and what will stem the tide.

As the pandemic spread across the country, students were swept from their classrooms and isolated in their homes, raising concern that the instability could result in devastating emotional health implications and widespread learning loss. But it also came with an unsettling silver lining: A year without a single mass school shooting. The trend wasn’t unique […]

A report by the Secret Service studied 67 thwarted school violence plots and 100 plotters to come up with a framework to further prevent school attacks.

A man was arrested Friday after complaining to an Iowa gun shop owner over the fact that nobody had called him to find out if he was the Boulder shooter.

He's only KIND OF trolling.

Attorneys for the family of a 19-year-old man who was shot and killed by state police on an overpass said Wednesday that troopers did not have to use lethal force.

The role of youth in the Black Lives Matter movement

South Africans deserve a fuller picture of the extent of police brutality, and the level of accountability, especially when people die at the hands of police.

Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo spoke Tuesday during a news conference on police reform, a day after the trial began for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, charged with killing George Floyd last May.

Chauvin faces charges of murder and manslaughter for the death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man.

No convictions were returned for three white St. Louis police officers accused of beating a Black undercover colleague so severely during a protest over another officers acquittal that he had to undergo multiple surgeries.

ST. LOUIS - No convictions were returned for three white St. Louis police officers accused of beating a Black undercover colleague so severely during ...

A professional mixed martial arts fighter who witnessed the deadly arrest of George Floyd in Minneapolis last May is due to return to the stand on Tuesday for the second day of testimony in the murder trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin.

The criminal trial of three white police officers charged with beating a handcuffed undercover Black detective during the 2017 protests in St. Louis is testing the so-called Blue Wall of Silence as officers have begun turning on one another.

Mar. 30—Two visitors from the East Coast are being held today by Hawaii Island police in connection with the death of their roommate at a vacation rental in Kailua-Kona. The men in custody were identified as Alexander Germany-Wald, 31, of Boston and Benjamin Fleming, 37, of Pittsburgh. Both were arrested for manslaughter and were being held at the Kealakehe Police Station cellblock pending ...

A bill that would ban police chokeholds in Missouri and allow Kansas City police to live outside the city passed the state Senate on Monday.

ATLANTA (AP) Georgia lawmakers took another step Monday to repeal a citizen's arrest...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) A judge Wednesday ordered the detention of a Colorado firearms...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) A judge Wednesday ordered the detention of a Colorado firearms enthusiast who raised alarm at an Iowa gun store last week when he said he...

Lawmakers ask President Joe Biden to take executive action and regulate the Ruger AR-556, the pistol used in a recent shooting in Boulder, Colorado.

/PRNewswire/ - Canada Border Services Agency The Government of Canada is committed to keeping illicit firearms from crossing our border and entering our...

/PRNewswire/ -- Online firearms sales in the United States are skyrocketing, and a new entrant to the firearms processing space, Blue Payment Agency, wants to...

Shane Powell and Tim Fox turned in over 23 pounds of largemouths to win the ABT event last weekend on Lake Eufaula.

Democratic lawmakers in Delaware are aiming to ram through two gun-control bills outlawing high-capacity magazines and banning the purchase of handguns unless the buyer first takes a firearms training course, gets fingerprinted and obtains a state permit.

Democratic lawmakers in Delaware are aiming to ram two gun-control bills through the state Senate

Maryland legislators have introduced a bill that would expand prohibitions and penalties in an effort to prevent an unsupervised minor from accessing a firearm

DOVER, Del. (AP) Democratic lawmakers in Delaware are aiming to ram through two...

Sen. Schumer said, the evil gun dealers, pushed by the NRA, have used gun shows as a major way to get guns into the hands of people without a background check.