A city commissioner was arrested nearly three weeks after police say he shot and killed a man who tried to shoplift a small ax from a military store, authorities said.
A police officer in Gwinnett County, Georgia, was shot and killed while answering a call about a suspicious vehicle on Saturday afternoon, according to a department spokesman.
Tanzanian billionaire Mohammed Dewji, who was seized by gunmen outside a luxury hotel nine days ago, is home safe after his kidnappers freed him, police said.
A Russian who allegedly worked on funding online propaganda efforts to manipulate voters in the 2016 and 2018 elections was charged with a federal crime Friday as part of a wider conspiracy to hurt American democracy.
President Donald Trump, asked about the Russian national charged with attempting to interfere in the 2018 midterm elections Friday, was quick to defend himself and repeat that there was "no collusion" with his campaign.
Volunteers and law enforcement combed the side of a highway on Thursday looking for evidence in the disappearance of a missing Wisconsin teenager whose parents were found dead in their home this week.
The powerful police chief of Kandahar province in Afghanistan was killed Thursday in an attack following a security meeting with the top US commander in the city, three Afghan officials told CNN.
Two days have passed since Jayme Closs' parents were found dead and the 13-year-old girl vanished. But as investigators scramble to find her, few answers have emerged.
For the first time in at least a quarter-century, New York City made it through a weekend without anyone getting shot.
For the first time in at least a quarter-century, New York City made it through a weekend without anyone getting shot.
A gunman who opened fire Wednesday at a municipal building in a small Pennsylvania town was shot dead by a police officer responding to the incident in which four people were wounded, state police said.
Nashville police were holding two men Monday night who were wanted for questioning in shootings that left three people dead.
In this city, someone gets shot an average of about once per hour.
Stung by the level of violence last weekend, Chicago officials pledged Tuesday to deploy more officers in neighborhoods that have seen a surge in shootings.
During the weekend in Chicago, 66 people were shot, 12 of them fatally, between Friday at 6 p.m. and Sunday at 11:59 p.m.
A policeman near Boston was fatally shot with his own service weapon Sunday morning by a man who used the same gun to kill a female bystander in her home, authorities said.
On Monday, at least 21 people were shot in Chicago. Two of them -- including a teenager -- were killed.
Before he killed himself, Dwight Lamon Jones fatally shot six people, with some of them having a connection to his acrimonious divorce, authorities in Arizona said Monday.
Chicago's decline in killings and shootings continued for the 14th consecutive month, according to crime figures released Tuesday.
Killings and shootings continue to dip in Chicago, a city long plagued by gun violence, according to crime figures released Sunday.
Two people were left dead in the wake of Thursday's shooting at Virginia Tech, but since the deadly massacre at that school back in 2007, universities across the United States, including here in the Inland Northwest, having been bolstering their security systems to prevent an active shooter situation from happening again.
