Top New York City Police Department leaders highlighted in a press conference Wednesday that murders and shootings in the city fell over the summer months, but condemned how repeat offenders have driven much of the crime.  “One of the things …

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The U.S. Marshals Service has announced a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of an “armed and dangerous” suspect accused of being involved in the shooting of a California police officer.  Jose Ortega, 25, is being sought after …

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Dallas police are looking for someone who allegedly sexually assaulted a student walking to school. The student reported the attack happened about five blocks away from the K. B. Polk Center for Academically Talented and Gifted. The school is part …

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The Connecticut defense attorney representing the former MIT researcher from China charged in the murder of a Yale graduate student more than a year and a half ago said during a hearing Tuesday that his client refuses to talk, prompting …

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The man accused of shooting his neighbors last month, killing one, has died of a self-inflicted gunshot, the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office confirms. Milwaukee police had been searching for Leslie Bost for weeks. Officers “were checking for a wanted …

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A Texas man and a juvenile were arrested over Labor Day weekend in connection to a drive-by shooting that left a 5-year-old boy and a 17-year-old dead in a northern Fort Worth neighborhood on Aug. 28, police said.  Anthony Ray …

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Cleotha Abston-Henderson, the 38-year-old Memphis, Tennessee, man accused in the kidnapping and murder of Eliza Fletcher, a teacher and mother of two, was only 16 when he began a 20-year prison term for kidnapping another victim at gunpoint. Abston-Henderson’s criminal …

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The Texas Inspector General’s Office will investigate five Department of Public Safety officers for their actions during the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, which left 19 children and two teachers dead on May 24, the Austin-American Statesman reports.  …

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