Thinkstock Images/Getty Images(MEMPHIS) — The five Memphis police officers who were fired in connection with the death of Tyre Nichols after a Jan. 7 traffic stop have each been charged with murder and were taken into custody on Thursday, according to…

Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — An Illinois man has been arrested and charged for allegedly setting fire to a Planned Parenthood clinic, federal authorities said Wednesday.

Tyler W. Massengill, 32, of Chillicoth, Illinois, is faci…

mbbirdy/Getty Images(MONTEREY PARK, Calif.) — The suspect involved in the Monterey Park shooting had no known connection to any of the victims that were killed in the shooting, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

Police also con…

Mint Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Jury deliberations resume Thursday in the trial of Sayfullo Saipov, the Uzbek native who took inspiration from the Islamic State group and drove a truck down the West Side Highway bike path, killing eight on Hallow…

kali9/Getty Images(DUXBURY, Mass.) — A Massachusetts woman is facing charges in the deaths of her two young children and the injury of her baby, authorities said Wednesday.

Police received a 911 call on Tuesday evening, just after 6 p.m. ET, from a m…

Stella/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Several Florida students say they plan to sue the state and Gov. Ron DeSantis over the state’s rejection of the Advanced Placement African American studies course in state schools.

“If he does not negotiate with the Co…

WIN-Initiative/Neleman/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Nearly 27% of all inmates held in the custody of the Louisiana Department of Corrections were held past their release dates over a four-month period, according to a Justice Department report.

The Just…

Thinkstock Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Tyre Nichols, the Black man whose death this month at the hands of five Memphis, Tennessee, police officers has triggered national outrage, suffered from “extensive bleeding caused by a severe beating,” accor…

Nathan Griffith/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Nearly a year after Jared Bridegan, a Microsoft executive and father of four, was gunned down on a Florida road in what authorities called a targeted ambush, a suspect has been arrested in connection with his m…

Maskot/Getty Images, FILE(BALTIMORE) — Baltimore County Public Schools failed to act on several state recommendations to help mitigate cyber attacks before a hack disrupted school operations and cost the school system millions of dollars in damages an…

Oliver Helbig/Getty Images(NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.) — A 29-year-old New Jersey woman fraudulently posed as a high school student for several days after allegedly filing false documents, school officials and police said.

The incident was announced during …

US Attorney’s Office(NEW YORK) — A Florida woman was arrested Wednesday for orchestrating a yearslong romance scam that defrauded an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor.

Peaches Stergo began her alleged scheme in May 2017 and bilked the victim out of $2.8…

Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images(SAN FRANCISCO) — The seven farmworkers killed in a workplace mass shooting Monday in Northern California, allegedly by a colleague, were migrants toiling at a mushroom growing operation, all…

Peter Dazeley/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — A massive, coordinated scheme to sell false and fraudulent nursing degree credentials has been brought down by a joint federal law enforcement operation, Justice Department officials said Wednesday.

As first rep…

Kali9/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — A 72-year-old man died by suicide after he allegedly killed 11 people in a mass shooting at a Monterey Park, California, dance studio on Saturday night. Two days later, a 67-year-old man was taken into custody for allege…

amphotora/Getty Images(HALF MOON BAY, Calif.) — The suspect in a deadly mass shooting at two Northern California farms will be charged with seven counts of murder, the local district attorney said.

The alleged gunman, 66-year-old Chunli Zhao, is sche…

Jay Paul/Getty Images(NEWPORT NEWS, Va.) — Abigail Zwerner, the teacher who was shot by a student in a classroom in Newport News, Virginia, earlier this month intends to file a lawsuit against the school board, her lawyer said Wednesday, alleging the …

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — In a lawsuit that could impact abortion access nationwide, a North Carolina doctor on Wednesday asked a federal district court to strike down the state’s restrictions on the abortion drug mifepristone.

The comp…

Gaj Rudolf / EyeEm/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — A hiker who had been reported missing in the mountains of Southern California was found alive on Tuesday afternoon, authorities said.

Jin Chung, a 75-year-old resident of Los Angeles, disappeared on Sunday …

makenoodle/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — A gun was used for nearly three-quarters of the mass attacks carried out in the United States from 2016 to 2020, and often acquired illegally to carry out the attack, a newly released U.S. Secret Service report foun…

amphotora/Getty Images(BLOOMINGTON, Ind.) — A white woman charged with stabbing an Asian Indiana University student seven times in the head on a public bus in Bloomington, Indiana, had been scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday.

The suspect, Bill…

PBNJ Productions/Getty Images(FORT HALL, Idaho) — A young boy has died and his mother has been hospitalized after being attacked by a pack of dogs over the weekend.

The incident occurred late Saturday afternoon at approximately 5:51 p.m. when officer…

Gary S Chapman/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — A 4.2-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Malibu, California, at about 2 a.m. on Wednesday, U.S. Geological Survey officials said.

Good morning Southern California! Did you feel the magnitude 4.2 eart…

Thinkstock/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Two people were charged on Tuesday with threatening reproductive health service facilities clinics in Florida, the Justice Department announced.

Caleb Freestone, 27, and Amber Smith-Stewart, 23, were indicted by …

Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The alleged criminal behavior of former FBI agent Charles McGonigal does not represent the actions of the rest of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI Director Christopher Wray told employees in an inte…

Digital Vision./Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Howard University has become the first Historically Black College or University (HBCU) to partner with the Pentagon for military technology research featuring a five-year, $90 million contract.

The research …

Emily Fennick / EyeEm/Getty Images(AUSTIN, Texas) — After multiple mass shootings across the country this week, Uvalde families gathered Tuesday as Texas legislators introduced four new bills that would tighten gun laws in the wake of the Robb Element…

ftwitty/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — In federal court this week, a former Proud Boy who flipped on his alleged co-conspirators testified to increasingly violent conversations among the far-right group’s members leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S…

Courtesy Foltz family(NEW YORK) — The parents of a 20-year-old Bowling Green State University student who died from alcohol poisoning while pledging a fraternity say they are on a mission to end hazing in colleges across the country.

Cory and Shari F…

Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Robert Hadden, a former Columbia University gynecologist, was convicted Tuesday on four counts for sexually abusing women during a Manhattan, New York federal court trial.

Hadden, 64, of Tenafly, New Jerse…