Crime and Public Safety

A Michigan police department has launched an investigation into an incident on Monday at a local daycare where a toddler had a loaded firearm.

Prosecutors in New York reopened a criminal investigation into an alleged 2024 gang rape at Cornell after the victim filed a new lawsuit.

An alleged drug lord and terrorist was extradited to California on Monday and faces several charges tied to his involvement with a Columbian paramilitary organization.

The 40-year-old man killed near a Dublin park, allegedly by his in-laws – who witnesses said took turns shooting at him – was a New York Times games engineer who had previously been charged with child abuse. 

A motorist in Pennsylvania took an unusual and dangerous path to maneuver past a stopped school bus. 

A Tennessee sheriff said internal and criminal investigations are underway in the death of a K-9 officer who died after being left in an outdoor kennel with no access to water for 36 hours. 

Authorities in California are searching for a convicted child sex offender who allegedly removed his GPS monitor and disappeared while on conditional release.

A Texas man is accused of stealing millions of taxpayer dollars from a military health care program.

A driver intentionally traveling the wrong-way on an Arizona interstate told police he was the “supervisor" of a dangerous highway game.

Five men were arrested near RAF Fairford, a U.K.-owned air base operated by the United States, and are being held on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act involving three trucks.

Police in Mississippi say they’re still investigating after two University of Mississippi students were found dead in separate locations, with kratom found at both scenes.

An 18-year-old Smyrna man faces a malice murder charge after detectives searching a vehicle Friday evening discovered human remains believed to be missing woman Shanteria "KT" Mosley, according to the Smyrna Police Department.

A 17-year-old student was killed in a shooting near Houston ISD's Westbury High School on Friday morning, police say. A suspect has also been arrested in connection to the shooting.

"Pioneer Woman" Ree Drummond's foster son is facing legal trouble after getting arrested in Alabama.

A Mississippi detective testified that Tasia Fortune was killed during a drug dispute before her body was placed in a tree in what authorities described as a staged hanging.

A Georgia man has been charged in connection with a $105 million Ponzi scheme that defrauded more than 500 investors nationwide.

Toxicology reports in the suspicious deaths of two University of Mississippi students are expected to be completed as early as next week, according to the state's commissioner of public safety, and Oxford police have separately announced arrests in connection with a raid on a tobacco shop accused of trafficking narcotics.

Sentencing for a convicted killer turned chaotic inside a courtroom when a father saw the man who murdered his son-in-law laughing while he read his victim impact statement. What happened next turned the courtroom into a melee. 

A former Secret Service cybercrime expert says the incident does not appear to have compromised Flock's broader cloud network.