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Oct. 19—A 44-year-old Rochester man's Southwest Rochester home was the target of a "swatting" incident Monday night. Rochester police received a call about 10:20 p.m. that a man in the 3500 block of Birchwood Lane Southwest had shot his uncle. The caller reported that his uncle was not breathing. The caller also said he had an AR 15-style rifle and would shoot police if they showed up, ...

Police fatally shoot a Florida teen who was walking around a busy street pointing air rifle at people and cars. He was reported to police pointing what appeared to be an assault-style weapon

The family of a 23-year-old woman who was murdered after making a complaint against her stalker, say she was "let down" by police.

Authorities in Florida say police fatally shot a Florida teenager who pointed what turned out to be an air rifle at officers

Those charged are: Domanic Reshawn Bellard, 31, of Fairfield; Romeo Bruce Bankhead, 19, of Pleasant Grove; and Bernard Lavar Lewis, 33, of Fairfield. The charge is capital because police said they were robbing the victim.

A suspect in Florida who was killed Saturday for waving a "military-style rifle" at cars and officers was actually a teenage student brandishing an Airsoft pellet rifle.

Authorities in Florida say police fatally shot a Florida teenager who pointed what turned out to be an air rifle at officers

Florida police shot and killed a teen Saturday who they thought was holding a "military-style rifle" that was actually an airsoft gun, according to reports.

Police now say illness is the likely motive after calling it an apparent terrorist act.

A man was wounded during a dinnertime shooting in Hartford’s Northeast neighborhood Monday, police said. The man, who is in his 50s, survived, they said. Officers were dispatched to the area of 131 Martin St. shortly about 6:30 p.m. after getting a ShotSpotter alert, police said. They found the man suffering from a gunshot wound. He was taken to the hospital, where he is listed in stable ...

Authorities in Pennsylvania are working to determine if passengers who witnessed an alleged rape on a suburban Philadelphia train line not only didn't call 911 but may have filmed the incident.

Major Harris' mother was found killed in Milwaukee on Thursday, and on Sunday, the suspect apparently died by suicide as officers were outside a home.

Iraq and Egypt show how hard it is to get rid of a militarized security force.

Days after being fired from his job as Miami's police chief, ex-HPD Chief Art Acevedo...

The driver of the van, a young woman, fled the scene, police say.

When told that she was being arrested for murder, Penelope Jackson replied oh good and asked for her slippers

Three men left the 18-year-old victim scarred and clinging to life...

Stepping before a judge is something that Jason Banegas, the teen charged in the shooting death of a Hollywood police officer, has done before. It was just 30 days ago that the 18-year-old was freed from jail in Miami-Dade County on burglary, trespassing and cocaine charges. Now Banegas faces the prospect of never being a free man again. Banegas walked to the lectern and lowered his head ...

A federal judge in Minnesota sentenced an alleged member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club to 14 years in prison Monday for selling high-powered methamphetamine to an undercover cop. Last year, Justin Steven Schmitz, 39, pleaded guilty to selling a pound of meth for $6,000 to an officer posing as a dealer in a parking lot in Oakdale, Minn. The meth tested at 94% purity, indicative of the ...

Rep. Jeff Fortenberry said he anticipates that the federal government will charge him with lying to the FBI in the course of its investigation into campaign contributions from a Nigerian billionaire.

Surveillance video shows two shooters running toward the parked car from behind.

A judge has ordered an 18-year-old man to be held without bond in the fatal shooting of a South Florida police officer

A judge has ordered an 18-year-old man to be held without bond in the fatal shooting of a South Florida police officer.

A judge has ordered an 18-year-old man to be held without bond in the fatal shooting of a South Florida police officer

DNA evidence from decades-old unsolved child murder cases in Atlanta are heading across the country to a private lab.

Investigation Discovery’s ‘Murder Comes to Town: Horror in the Heartland’ delves into the tragic murder of 58-year-old Patricia Kimmi. Authorities believed that she was taken from her home and then killed in November 2009. Taking their acrimonious divorce into account, Patricia’s ex-husband, Eugene, was initially considered a person of interest. When Roger Hollister was convicted […]

Spoiler alert! Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez wrap up their case in the finale of Hulu's "Only Murders in the Building." Or do they?

An Essex man who was convicted of child abuse in the death of his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son in 2019 has been sentenced to life in prison, authorities say. David Marvin Haas Jr., 31, was sentenced on Monday for the first-degree abuse of a child under 13 and assault convictions. He pleaded not guilty but in July was convicted by a jury in Baltimore County Circuit Court. Judge Keith Truffer ...

An ex-con has been charged with stabbing a woman to death in Brooklyn in retaliation for her stealing his car, police said Tuesday. Antoine Thompson, 43, was charged Monday with murder and weapon possession for the slaying near a homeless encampment by Belmont and Georgia Aves. in East New York. Cops on Tuesday identified the victim as 27-year-old Jennifer Rodriguez of Wyandanch, LI. She was ...

Ali Harbi Ali was captured in the footage wearing a green parka and a backpack slung across his shoulder as he was walking near his North London home.

In January 2003, a wellness check on businesswoman Anna Mae Branson led the authorities to discover her badly beaten and stabbed body at her home. Soon, they realized that the killer was someone Anna knew very well. Investigation Discovery’s ‘Murder Comes to Town: Coal Miner’s Slaughter’ chronicles how a compulsive gambler viciously attacked Anna and […]

After two young girls were found shot to death on the side of a road, the residents of Weleetka, Oklahoma, were shocked to their core. But the murders remained unsolved until the disappearance of another woman brought forward a confession. Investigation Discovery’s ‘Murder Comes to Town: Last Week to Bad Creek’ delves into Skyla Whitaker […]

Oct. 19—A Falls man who is no stranger to Cataract City cops is being held without bail on murder and weapons charges in connection with the slaying of another man on 18th Street. Antonio Carr, 28, pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon during a Monday morning arraignment in Niagara Falls City Court. He was ordered held without ...

Oct. 19—LOCKPORT — Jury selection began Monday in the trial of a North Tonawanda man, accused of the 1993 murder of Mandy Steingasser. The trial of Joseph Belstadt had been derailed by the COVID-19 pandemic, just as it was starting in March 2020. Since that time, the case has taken on two new judges, lost its lead prosecutor and at least one prosecution witness has passed away. The case will ...

'You' explores the dark side of tech surveillance and influencer culture

Oliver was right, that was an amazing ending for a podcast!

A central Florida defense attorney who briefly represented George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin case is accused of witness tampering in a juvenile rape case

In the coming days, a dozen jurors in the small coastal city of Brunswick, Ga., will be called on to judge the actions of the three suspects: Gregory McMichael, 67; his 35-year-old son, Travis McMichael, and their neighbor William Bryan, 52.

ATLANTA — The three white Georgia men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery have already come in for harsh judgment from the highest of places. Donald Trump called the slaying of Arbery, an unarmed Black man, “disturbing.” Barack Obama described it as an example of enduring racial injustice. Brian Kemp, Georgia’s Republican governor, called it “absolutely horrific.” In the coming days, a dozen jurors in the small coastal city of Brunswick, Georgia, will be

As three white men prepare to stand trial in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, many in the slain Black mans Georgia hometown see the case as a reckoning for the...

“None of that makes sense and it’s not right. This kid should not walk away free,” a relative of one of the victims said.

The father of a two-year-old boy in Florida who investigators say fatally shot his mother in the head in August was arrested and charged with negligent manslaughter and unsafe storage of a firearm, local police announced Tuesday.

Monday marks the start of jury selection in the murder trial of Gregory and Travis McMichael and William Roddie Bryan, the three white men who should rot under the jail after "allegedly" causing the death of Ahmaud Arbery

Jury selection could take more than two weeks as attorneys work to seat a panel of 12 jurors and four alternates.

Martinez was shot at least five times; a man she believed was stealing from her is charged in her death.

Oct. 19—SUNBURY — Two Sunbury men were jailed by Sunbury Police on Monday following a reported dispute with weapons over loud music Sunday night. Julio Seda-Miranda, 22, of Seventh Street, and Irizarry Perez, 42, of Pennsylvania Avenue, appeared before Sunbury District Judge Mike Toomey on Monday on charges ranging from aggravated assault to reckless endangerment and simple assault. They are ...

Oct. 19—LEWISBURG — State police at Milton arrested a Lock Haven man accused of using a rock to break a glass window at Weis Markets on Route 15, Kelly Township, climbing through and stealing a jacket and cap. The incident occurred about 2:30 a.m. Sunday. Cody J. Stern, 33, was taken into custody later that morning following a report of a man with a pellet gun along Verna Road in East Buffalo ...

Highland Park police blotter.

Jack Woodley died in hospital after being stabbed in Houghton-le-Spring on Saturday evening.

A former “Survivor” contestant was stabbed and beaten with a metal baton inside her California pilates studio in a terrifying attack that she believes may have been racially motivated. Michelle Yi, who is Asian American and appeared in the “Fiji” edition of the reality show in 2007, said she was one of three people of color assaulted by the same homeless woman early Thursday morning in Santa ...

Danielle Dauphinais and Joseph Stapf were arrested on witness tampering and child endangerment charges, authorities said.

Oct. 19—ADAMS TOWNSHIP — A Summerhill woman has been charged with homicide by vehicle while DUI, accused of being intoxicated when her truck slammed into a house, killing a 68-year-old man on Oct. 8, authorities said. Cambria County District Attorney Gregory J. Neugebauer announced the arrest of Carly A. Croyle, 23, in a news release Monday. Police said Croyle was driving a pickup truck that ...

Oct. 19—Two Philadelphia men were jailed Monday, accused of dealing drugs from the Econo Lodge on Napoleon Street in downtown Johnstown, authorities said. City police arrested Blessen Sesay, 20, and Emmanuel Samuel, 21, both of Philadelphia, in Room 301, and seized suspected cocaine, marijuana and drug money. According to a criminal complaint, the two men allegedly checked in around midnight. ...

Oct. 19—ASOTIN — A 61-year-old Clarkston man is behind bars at the Asotin County Jail for allegedly trying to burn down the Hacienda Lodge on Bridge Street twice last week. Thomas L. Austin was arrested Saturday on first-degree arson charges. His bond was set at $50,000 on Monday, and he will be arraigned Nov. 1 in Asotin County Superior Court. Austin, who told the judge he'll be hiring a ...

Two men have been arrested in connection to a large explosion that rocked a neighborhood in Georgia this month, authorities said Friday.

Damien Lawson faces attempted murder charges after shooting a man in a confrontation in Scottsdale. The man is in life-threatening condition.

Shortly after 11 a.m., Birmingham police received calls of multiple shots fired in the public housing complex. When they arrived on the scene, they found a wounded victim in a vehicle in the 6700 block of Kimberly Avenue.

Police fatally shot a Florida teenager after he pointed what turned out to be an air rifle at people, cars and officers, a police chief said. Police identified him as Alexander King, a 17-year-old junior at Tarpon Springs High School who had 22 previous encounters with law enforcement. Officers responded Saturday night to reports of a white male in a black T-shirt walking around a busy street pointing what appeared to be an assault-style weapon at people and cars.

An Altoona man is accused of an assault that left a Hartselle-area man with multiple skull fractures, a broken jaw and partially torn-off ear.

The Jefferson County Coroner's Office on Tuesday identified the victims as Antwaun Demaun Horn, 18, and Deonta Sewayne Pickett, 40.

A 17-year-old Florida boy was shot and killed by police after he turned what witnesses called a “military-style rifle” on officers. Alexander King, a junior at Tarpon Springs High School, was identified at a press conference Monday, two days after he was fatally shot around 9:30 p.m. Saturday. Tarpon Springs Police Chief Jeffrey Young said officers received 911 calls Saturday night about ...

Teen mother is believed to have died 10 days before her body was recovered

The shooting happened about 3:30 p.m. Monday in the 300 block of Valley Road in Fairfield.

There were 21 shootings, including one involving an 11-year-old boy, and four murders reported over the weekend in Chicago, police said Monday.

Oct. 18—The woman who was shot and killed during a drug deal turned robbery last week has been identified at Allyson Davis in court documents. Davis was taken to Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center with multiple gunshot wounds on the afternoon of Oct. 11. She died a short time later at the hospital. The man who dropped off Davis, Joel Simpson, was arrested on a fugitive warrant out of ...

A Chicago police officer was shot in the Goose Island neighborhood Monday afternoon, authorities said. Paramedics were called to the 1000 block of West North Avenue about 3:30 p.m., Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford said. They transported a male officer to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, he said. The officer had injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening and his ...

While officers continued to gather information, they received a second call about a car that had crashed into a building at Gostlin Street and State Line Avenue where they found a Buick Rendezvous that had been struck several times with bullets and two badly wounded adults, Kellogg said.