Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin stayed the execution of inmate Richard Glossip on Wednesday while the state reviews protocol questions, her office said.
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Las Vegas police are asking the public to help identify a man and a woman they say were involved in a beating death at a Wal-Mart parking lot.
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker announced major reforms to the state’s child protection agency Monday after recent tragedies, including the case of Baby Bella, the toddler whose body washed up on the shore of Boston Harbor.
The Las Vegas Valley has seen an uptick in gun thefts this year, many of which could have been prevented by proper storage, police said Wednesday.
A man being served with a domestic violence injunction opened fire outside an attorney’s office in Shalimar, Florida, on Tuesday, killing a sheriff’s deputy, before being shot to death by officers after a standoff at a hotel, police said.
The unsettling details of 2-year-old Bella Bond’s death have trickled out in the four days since her mother and mother’s boyfriend were charged in her June slaying.
A suburban Atlanta police officer was shot in the shoulder late Friday afternoon after confronting a pair of robbery suspects, a law enforcement official said.
Massachusetts officials believe that the 2-1/2-year-old girl whose remains were found on a Boston Harbor beach three months ago was murdered and on Friday arrested her mother and her mother’s 35-year-old boyfriend, a county prosecutor said.
The Army general who led the investigation into Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s actions in Afghanistan testified Friday that jail time would be “inappropriate” for the soldier captured and held five years by the Taliban.
A Phoenix police officer was shot and seriously injured early Wednesday while making a traffic stop, and the shooter or shooters are on the loose, city police said.
Three young brothers were identified Thursday one day after they were found fatally stabbed in the back of an SUV in Los Angeles.
Chicago police have released a sketch of the toddler whose body parts were found in a lagoon next to a park in the city’s West Side.
Even though four of his officers have been shot this year, Sheriff Joe Lombardo doesn’t believe Las Vegas is seeing a “war on cops.”
Three young boys were found dead and a man was found with stab wounds inside a silver Nissan SUV Wednesday morning near an elementary school in South-Central L.A., police told KTLA.
Baltimore officials approved a $6.4 million deal Wednesday to settle all civil claims tied to the death of Freddie Gray.