Crime and Public Safety

A former bank manager pleaded guilty to charges of bank fraud and aggravated identity theft for embezzling more than $1 million primarily from elderly and vulnerable customers at Wells Fargo.

Amidst the efforts on Capitol Hill to nominate a new speaker of the House, embattled Rep. George Santos attracted attention with a profanity-laced tirade directed at a man he called a "terrorist sympathizer" who was later arrested.

Two Corrections Officers admitted to being asleep when an inmate escaped from a Virginia hospital in August, according to an investigation into the incident. 

Vernikov was seen in several photos with the end of a firearm sticking out from her pants. After she left the rally, police contacted Vernikov and told her to turn herself in. 

A mother and daughter who own and operated a San Jose day care where two young children drowned to death have been arrested and charged.

A Philadelphia police officer was killed late Thursday night and another was injured after a shooting inside a parking garage at the Philadelphia International Airport.

California officials say the law will 'raise public awareness about the disproportionate numbers of Black missing persons.'

Joseph Harrell, 18, pleaded guilty to aggravated robbery causing serious bodily injury for a midday February 13 attack on Nhung Troung that left the 41-year-old woman in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the waist down.

The man accused of stealing Judy Garland’s famous ruby slippers from the classic film "The Wizard of Oz" pleaded guilty in federal court Friday. 

A leading doctors group formally withdrew its approval of a 2009 paper on “excited delirium,” a document that critics say has been used to justify excessive force by police.

Five officers were shot in Glendorado Township, near Princeton, while executing a search warrant Thursday morning. A 64-year-old suspect has been arrested.

Jurors have convicted a Denver-area police officer and acquitted another of charges in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a Black man whose name became a rallying cry in protests over racial injustice in policing.

Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz announced Wednesday the arrests of five people suspected in a series of home invasion robberies targeting Asian victims in South Seattle.

A woman armed with a knife was tackled and arrested after stabbing three people at Atlanta's airport on Wednesday.

Christopher Michael Pruitt, 39, remained in custody this week after being indicted on multiple sex abuse charges in Washington County, Oregon, police said.