An American and a Lebanese man wounded in the ISIS-claimed shooting at a nightclub in Istanbul early on New Year’s Day describe the attack that left 39 people dead and scores injured.
Over Memorial Day weekend, when The New York Times tracked every shooting in Chicago, the largest concentration of them was in the city’s 11th police district. But why?
A man charged in the kidnapping of a woman found alive confessed to the unsolved killings of four people in 2003, and may be linked to a total of seven deaths, the authorities said.
A gunman’s fatal shooting of two officers near Des Moines on Wednesday has police officials trying to deal with another tragedy.
The sergeant, who was responding to a call of a woman acting irrationally, fired twice after she picked up a baseball bat and tried to strike him, the police said.
A jury has been seated for the retrial of Pedro Hernandez, who is accused of kidnapping the killing 6-year-old Etan in 1979. Opening statements are scheduled for Wednesday.
A third officer was injured after they responded to a domestic disturbance call, and dozens of officers later converged to search for the gunman.
The city has an enviable record for clearing cases, but is fighting to keep up with the pace. “I’ve got a lot of tired people,” one officer said.
In Brentwood, N.Y., MS-13, a gang with roots in Los Angeles and El Salvador, is suspected in the killings of four teenagers in two weeks.
Mr. Hillary had been charged with second-degree murder in the strangling of Garrett Phillips in 2011, but a judge found no credible evidence to convict him.
The decline in homicide has been so significant that sudden increases in just a few cities can skew the national picture, criminologists and police officials say.
In his debate with Hillary Clinton, Mr. Trump uttered elaborate fiction about tactics still used by the New York Police Department.
The gunman was a lawyer who had issues with his law firm, the police said at a news conference. Nine other people were injured.
The 10.8 percent increase in the rate of murders from 2014 to 2015 was the largest year-to-year increase in at least 20 years, a report from the bureau said.
The families of 43 kidnapped college students continue to lobby the government for justice — accompanied by students who lived through the 2014 attack.
City government officials previously contended that disclosing the recordings so soon after the fatal encounter could undermine a criminal inquiry.
The police said they suspected Arcan Cetin of Oak Harbor, Wash., in the killing of four women and a man at the Cascade Mall in Burlington, north of Seattle.
Police were still searching Saturday morning for a man who they said had killed four women and a man at the Cascade Mall in Burlington, about 65 miles north of Seattle.
The officer, Betty Shelby, was charged with first-degree manslaughter in the death of Terence Crutcher, who was unarmed.
A new play relives the career of Mary Shanley, a pioneering policewoman and detective who once made headlines for her gun-toting arrests.
Reeling from the rising toll of gun violence, the city is expected to announce plans to hire perhaps more than 500 new officers.