A uniformed U.S. Park Police officer was involved in a shooting Wednesday afternoon at 12th and M Street in Northwest D.C., authorities say.  DC Fire and EMS spokesperson Vito Maggiolo said a call came in around 2:30 p.m. for two people shot.  Both were being transported to local hospitals. Their […]

The man who killed five people at a Louisville, Kentucky, bank in April was motivated by his outrage over the nation’s gun laws, which he considered lax and hoped a bloody rampage of white victims would spur politicians into action, according to a police report released Tuesday that contained excerpts […]

Philadelphia Mayor-elect Cherelle Parker, who won her post by promising gun-violence-weary residents to get tough on crime, on Wednesday selected longtime police official Kevin J. Bethel to become the next police commissioner of the nation’s sixth most populous city. The move is Parker’s first major personnel decision in a heavily […]

An escaped inmate accused of raping and sexually assaulting multiple victims in Tennessee has been captured in Florida after being on the run for over a month, authorities said. Sean Williams, 52, was arrested without incident Tuesday in Pinellas County after being spotted in the area and tracked down by […]

The man who fatally shot five coworkers at a Louisville bank in April wrote in his journal that he wasn’t sure if his mental health struggles would preclude him from purchasing a gun and then later, after acquiring one just days before carrying out the mass shooting, remarked on how […]

Israelis are desperate to find out whether their loved ones will be among the 50 women and children to be released by Hamas following a Tuesday deal that ushered in a temporary cease-fire and agreement to swap Palestinian prisoners for the hostages at a 3-to-1 ratio. “We do not fully […]

Former Democratic Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill declared Donald Trump was “more dangerous” than Adolf Hitler or Benito Mussolini on Tuesday during an interview on MSNBC. MSNBC’s Alicia Menendez asked McCaskill about Trump “stoking violence” around the country.  “A lot of people have tried to draw similarities between Mussolini and Hitler […]

A Madison man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for killing his former girlfriend, who suffocated after he buried her beneath a pile of furniture, clothing and other items inside her home. A Dane County judge sentenced Gregg Raether, 58, on Tuesday for the death of Patricia McCullough, […]

An American man convicted of child sex crimes in Kenya nine years ago was denied bail on new charges of defilement, months after he was mysteriously released from prison where he was serving a 50-year sentence. Terry Ray Krieger, 68, was arraigned on Tuesday evening in court in Mavoko County […]

The historic South Carolina city of Charleston has elected its first Republican mayor since the Reconstruction Era. William Cogswell, formerly a Republican state lawmaker, defeated incumbent Democratic Mayor John Tecklenburg by about 2 percentage points in Tuesday’s runoff, according to the South Carolina Election Commission. Results posted online by the […]