The Dallas-area police officer seen in a viral video throwing a bathing suit-clad teenage girl to the ground has resigned, local media quoted his lawyer as saying.
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday vowed to push reforms at the city’s troubled Rikers Island prison complex after the reported weekend suicide of a 22-year-old man who had been held there for three years without being convicted of a crime.
Three jurors were dismissed Tuesday afternoon by the judge presiding over the James Holmes murder trial after they reportedly discussed media stories about the case.
A series of security threats closed portions of the White House and Capitol Hill on Tuesday. In the middle of White House press secretary Josh Earnest’s daily briefing, officials told all repeaters to evacuate the briefing room. The North Lawn of the White House was also cleared.
Vincent Bugliosi, the Los Angeles prosecutor who became a best-selling author with “Helter Skelter” — his true-crime account of the Manson Family killings — has died at the age of 80, his wife confirmed Tuesday. He died Saturday of cancer.
A Boston man was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday after he was convicted of snatching a 24-year-old woman from her apartment in 2013 and stabbing her to death.
A high-profile Washington, D.C., defense attorney will represent former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Dennis Hastert on criminal charges he tried to hide $3.5 million in payments he was making to conceal past misconduct, the attorney’s law firm confirmed on Monday.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing in Texas after it was struck by gunfire from the Mexican side of the border Friday.
A jury was chosen on Monday for the rape trial of a Virginia man also charged with the high-profile murder of college student Hannah Graham.
Houston-area prosecutors on Monday dropped charges against Alfred Brown, a man whose murder conviction and death sentence were overturned last year after a court determined evidence that was beneficial to his case has been wrongfully withheld.
More than one in four U.S. children are exposed to weapon violence before their eighteenth birthday, either as victims or witnesses, a large study suggests.
An employee at the Clinton Correctional Facility in New York is being questioned as a possible accomplice in the escape of two convicted killers over the weekend, a law enforcement source briefed on the investigation confirmed to CNN.
A white former police officer accused of fatally shooting a black man in the back as he ran from a traffic stop in South Carolina was indicted by a grand jury on a murder charge on Monday, a prosecutor said.
A married mother of two young children said she mainly remembers Izabel Laxamana’s hair after the teen jumped from an overpass onto her car in Tacoma, Wash.
A dump truck crammed with dozens of school children dropped from a cliff in the Peruvian Andes as it returned from festivities in a highland province, killing 17 people – mostly children – and injuring 54, a local governor said.
