A Raleigh, North Carolina, police officer on Monday killed a man who was fleeing arrest, authorities said, and a local TV station reported protesters chanting “black lives matter” gathered at the scene.
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A police department in a Washington suburb is mourning an officer who was killed during her first day on the job.
Four people were stabbed on Saturday, one of whom was critically wounded in a scuffle between members of the Ku Klux Klan and counter-protesters near a planned KKK rally at a park in Anaheim, California, police said.
The wife of the Uber driver charged with murdering six people as he drove through Kalamazoo, Michigan, last week has filed for divorce, her attorney said on Saturday.
Cedric Ford “never came off as a bad guy,” according to a co-worker. But his run-ins with the law dated back more than a decade.
It was a regular Saturday night out in Kalamazoo. A father and son looking at cars. A group of friends ready to go home after a night out. All of them had their lives cut short over the weekend by a shooting rampage in the Michigan city. Each one was cut down in by a person who fired indiscriminately while driving from location to location.
Members of the U.S. Supreme Court paid their respects to their late colleague Antonin Scalia during a brief but somber ceremony at the court on Friday.
Maryland’s highest court agreed to hear the appeals of several officers charged in connection with the death of Freddie Gray, halting all lower court proceedings for the time being, court filings showed on Thursday.
Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, his sons Ammon and Ryan, and two others were indicted by a federal grand jury in Las Vegas on Wednesday in connection with the April 2014 armed standoff with law enforcement in Bunkerville.
Opening statements were due to begin on Tuesday in the trial of a former sanitation worker accused of being the “Grim Sleeper” serial killer, charged with slaying nine women and one girl in a Los Angeles crime spree that spanned more than two decades.
Turkey on Monday accused Russia of an “obvious war crime” after missile attacks in northern Syria killed scores of people, and warned Kurdish militia fighters there they would face the “harshest reaction” if they tried to capture a town near the Turkish border.
The death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has jarred Washington. It has also left the court with one fewer member as it works through dozens of cases on its plate.
President Barack Obama has a number of likely options as he looks for a nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, who died on Saturday.
Conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has died, setting up a major political showdown between President Barack Obama and the Republican-controlled Senate over who will replace him just months before a presidential election.
Two 15-year-old girls died on Friday in a shooting at a high school in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale and were found with a gun beside them, police said.