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LAPD investigates officer's actions in Costco shooting

The Los Angeles Police Department is gathering evidence and video footage in an administrative investigation into an off-duty ...

Police: Off-duty officer shot man who hit him in Costco

An off-duty police officer opened fire inside a Costco Wholesale warehouse store, killing a man who had attacked him and ...

Authorities: Man offered money to 'rape and murder' Alaskan

An Indiana man implicated in the murder of an Alaska teenager had allegedly promised millions of dollars to the teens who ...

Family of slain ex-Arkansas lawmaker "sickened" by arrest

The family of a former Arkansas state senator who was found dead outside of her home says they are "sickened and upset" by ...

Rash of child killings angers, frustrates St. Louis leaders

The gunfire that has long haunted St. Louis streets has taken an even more disturbing turn, with a rash of shootings ...

Jurors listen to suspect say he killed scholar from China

Jurors in a federal death-penalty trial heard secretly recorded audio Friday in which a former University of Illinois ...

Family: Baby cut from slain Chicago woman's womb dies

An infant boy who was cut from a Chicago woman's womb with a butcher knife died Friday at a hospital where he had been in ...

Trial begins in case of young Canadian couple killed in 1987

Jurors in Washington state on Friday heard about the mysterious final days of a young Canadian couple killed in 1987 — as ...

Man sentenced in deaths of 2 girls found on Colorado farm

A man was sentenced to 24 years in prison in the 2017 deaths of two sisters who were banished to a car without food or water ...

Man accused in New Zealand mosque killings pleads not guilty

The man accused of the New Zealand mosque attacks smirked as his lawyer entered not guilty pleas to terrorism, murder and ...

Prosecutors drop Flint water charges, promise fresh probe

Prosecutors dropped all criminal charges Thursday against eight people in the Flint water crisis and pledged to start from ...

Memphis police appeal for calm after marshals kill black man

Police appealed for calm Thursday in a tense Memphis neighborhood where a rock-throwing crowd gathered after federal marshals ...

Testimony: Suspect bought Drano after Chinese scholar death

A former University of Illinois doctoral student on trial in the killing of a visiting scholar from China bought Drano and ...

The Latest: Death sentence for father who killed his 5 kids

The Latest on a death penalty trial for a South Carolina father (all times local): 3:10 p.m. A jury says a South Carolina ...

Jury sentences father to death for killing his 5 children

A South Carolina father was sentenced to death Thursday for killing his five children with his own hands. After they were ...

Testimony resumes in murdered Chinese scholar case

The second day of testimony in the death-penalty trial of the man his own defense attorney admits is guilty of killing ...

Acquitted Knox back in Italy for wrongful conviction talk

Amanda Knox, a former American exchange student who became the focus of a sensational murder case, arrived in Italy Thursday ...

Kendrell Lavar Lyles

Man arrested in deaths of Dallas transgender woman, 2 others

A 33-year-old man has been arrested in the slayings of three women in Dallas, including a transgender woman whose death ...

Man on trial in killings arrested through genetic genealogy

A man charged with murder in the 1987 killings of a young Canadian couple is facing trial in Washington state beginning this ...

Namee Barakat

3 life sentences without parole for man who killed 3 Muslims

Moments after a North Carolina man pleaded guilty to gunning down three Muslim university students, a prosecutor played a ...