With Tuesday’s release of the dashcam video of the death of Chicago teen Laquan McDonald, some are asking if the video was held back to help Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s reelection campaign earlier this year.
Protests have broken out all over Chicago as people gather to express outrage over the police shooting of an African American teenager, Laquon McDonald. The shooting happened in October 2014, but video of the incident was only released Tuesday evening.
A murder that shocked Indiana may be closer to a resolution with a Monday announcement by Indianapolis police that two men were arrested for the brutal murder of the pregnant wife of a local Christian pastor.
A Florida man filed a police report claiming that a nude dancer at a strip club struck him in the face four times after he told her she had a “muffin top” and needed to lose weight.
Schools went on lockdown Monday as police searched for a man suspected of attempting to kill a local police officer on Sunday night in Manchester Township, a northern suburb of York, Pennsylvania.
Police are searching for a hoodie-wearing man who tried to kidnap a woman off the street New Orleans, then shot a Tulane medical student who tried to intervene to save her.
Police are now searching for Euric Cain, a black gunman who allegedly attempted to kidnap a woman in New Orleans but was stopped by a heroic medical student. Before the suspect was identified by police, media had provided little help by avoiding the description of the suspect due to politically correct fears about race.
A Utah man was arrested and is now facing possible federal charges of terrorism after phoning in a bomb threat to a hospital where his wife was giving birth.
Five Hispanic teens were arrested and charged with rape after a 17-year-old North Carolina girl was found beaten and brutally raped in a field, authorities report.
The City of Brotherly Love experienced an “exceptionally violent” night on Friday, with four citizens shot and one killed in four separate shooting incidents, reports say. Gunfire erupted early on Friday morning when a man in his 20s was killed
When police officer Benjamin Deen was killed in the line of duty earlier this year, his fellow deputies promised to watch after his family. Fulfilling that final request, deputies stood watch over the casket of Deen’s daughter who died this month of a vial infection.
America is again engulfed in a barrage of grievance-driven tumult brought to us by victim-focused racial identity demagogues, who have long-preferred theatricality over reality. Although the flood of media attention on purported incidences of racism at the University of Missouri has forced the school’s president to resign, it also overshadowed another vexing social malady.
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has robustly defended his backing of trans-Tasman neighbour Australia’s deportation of Kiwi nationals for crimes they have committed abroad, saying his parliamentary critics instead support rapists over the rule of law. He says he does not need
An Alabama woman stands charged with manslaughter after her one-year-old daughter was beaten to death by an eight-year-old boy who was forced to babysit the child while the woman went out nightclubbing, police say.
People discovered vandalized gravestones and urns of veterans at a cemetery in West Bridgewater, MA, only days before Veterans Day.
As of last weekend, there are now 294 recorded homicides in Baltimore this year, up from the 211 murdered during all of 2014.
Despite being arrested on drug and murder charges, an East Chicago city councilman was re-elected to his office in Tuesday’s elections.
A jury in Cook County convicted a suburban Chicago man of robbing and murdering an elderly Bridgeport woman in order to take her set of wedding rings to propose to his girlfriend.
Chicago Police are now saying that the 9-year-old boy killed near his grandmother’s home on Monday afternoon was specifically targeted for death by gang members.
Sometimes, victims were forced to live in attics naked. Mentally disabled adults were fed a diet of Ramen noodles, beans or stew just once a day. Several victims said they were forced to drink their own urine and eat human waste. Some were encouraged to have children in order to collect more benefits.
Police arrested a Nashville woman on charges of filing a false rape report in order to keep an affair secret from her fiancé.
Police say that a man in North Carolina broke into an empty shed near a vacant mobile home and started cooking meth but blew himself up in the process.
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, L.A. County Sheriff Jim McDonnell says much of the blame for the rise in crime in California can be directly attributed to the passage of Proposition 47.
A 9-year-old boy, who was shot and killed in Chicago’s Gresham neighborhood, may have been targeted, Chicago Police say.
Burmese immigrant Paw Eh, 31, force-fed her four-year-old son ant poison and tried to get her other two children to eat the poison, according to police documents.
