Crime and Public Safety

A man accused of murder, attempted murder and a hate crime in an attack on a Palestinian American woman and her young son pleaded not guilty Monday following his indictment by an Illinois grand jury.

As the U.S. reels from a mass shooting in Maine that killed 18 people, a violent Halloween weekend across the nation left at least 11 more dead.

A California inmate accused of attacking Paul Flores this summer, shortly after Flores reported to prison to serve his conviction for murdering college student Kristin Smart, strangled his serial killer cellmate two years ago, officials said.

A shooting in Ybor City left two people dead and 16 injured early on Sunday morning, according to Tampa police.

An overnight shooting at an Indianapolis house party left one person dead and 9 others injured, police said Sunday.

Hundreds of revelers on street of Tampa neighborhood when shooting happened, police say.

A suspect is in custody following a mass shooting at a Halloween party that left 15 people wounded in Chicago's North Lawndale neighborhood early Sunday morning.

Two local law enforcement chiefs said a statewide alert was sent in mid-September to be on the lookout for the Maine mass shooting suspect. But after authorities couldn't find him, they moved on.

The body of Ben Kerbs, a 52-year-old Utah man who went missing, was discovered on a Puerto Rican beach, as reported by the U.S. Coast Guard.

"Why the bowling alley? Why us? Why good people? And that’s what we don’t know."

Maine’s governor says the suspect wanted for killing 18 people at a bowling alley and bar has been found dead in Lisbon, Maine.

Hundreds of law enforcement officers descended on southern Maine this week, searching for a military-trained outdoorsman who vanished after police say he killed 18 people in two separate shootings Wednesday.

A nurse suffered crushing injuries after she became pinned between a hospital bed and an MRI machine at Kaiser Permanente's Redwood City hospital.

The victims include 76-year-old Robert Violette, a retiree who was coaching a youth bowling league, and Joe Walker, a manager at the bar and grille who died going after the shooter with a butcher knife.

A former model for Abercrombie & Fitch has sued the fashion retailer, alleging it allowed its former CEO Mike Jeffries to run a sex-trafficking organization during his 22-year tenure.