Crime

The gunman who killed five people, including a prominent doctor in South Carolina, his wife, and two grandchildren, was former NFL player Phillip Adams, according to the AP.

A Dallas County judge ordered the release of Bryan Riser, a former Dallas cop accused of capital murder.

As if the allegations about a Trump-sympathizing Republican Congressman from Florida about trafficking at least one underage girl weren't bad enough, a new report says he also used drugs and paid women for sex.

The firing of seven detention officers involved in the in-custody death of Marvin Scott III is seen as "a good first step," but they were neither charged nor arrested for their roles at the Collin County jail in McKinney, Texas.

White supremacist Lee Mouat pleaded guilty to beating Devin Freelon Jr., a Black 18-year-old, in his mouth with a bicycle lock stemming from a racist encounter at a Michigan beach last June.

The eyewitness testimony of Donald Williams was at once confident, emotional and unflappable as Derek Chauvin's defense lawyer tried in vain to discredit him and get under his skin.

Black and Latino youth populations in detention centers grew while white non-Latino youth decreased during the pandemic, a new survey has found.

The criminal trial of three white police officers charged with beating a handcuffed undercover Black detective during the 2017 protests in St. Louis is testing the so-called Blue Wall of Silence as officers have begun turning on one another.

An attempted carjacking that led to the death of the driver has resulted in two teenage girls being charged with murder, sparking a larger discussion about characterizing the episode as an "accident."

The Minnesota Supreme Court's unanimous decision to overturn a conviction of a man who raped an unconscious woman has exposed a loophole in state law.

Announcing a “new progressive direction” on handling arrests and prosecutions, Mosby said the city would no longer spend limited resources on “low-level crimes” including drug possession and prostitution.

Georgia police forcibly arrested Democratic State Rep. Park Cannon for peacefully and nonviolently protesting the governor signing a new law increasing voting restrictions expected to disproportionately affect Black people.