Crime and Public Safety

Mesa Police are investigating theft of services and a hit-and-run after a couple took their cat from an animal hospital and hit an employee with a vehicle.

The foster mother of the 10-year-old Philadelphia girl whose body was found Wednesday night in Lindenwold, New Jersey, has now been charged in the child's murder, authorities announced Thursday. 

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) said that a total of eight people are in custody in connection with the deadly Oct. 4 homecoming block party mass shooting in Vienna.

Apache Junction police are releasing new images in the search for more possible victims after investigators say an 18-year-old escaped a kidnapping by Pedro Espinoza Torres.

A Kingman school janitor allegedly swapped vape pens and alcohol for nude photos of girls as young as 14, a scheme deputies say spread from one victim to her friends.

The Camp Verde Marshal's Office says it arrested a woman for animal cruelty after horses were trapped in rising floodwaters on Nov. 1.

A gunman enraged over a $2,500 debt killed a female worker at Citibank Center on Wednesday morning before an armed security guard fatally shot him, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. 

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday announced he's commuting all death sentences in California, changing the state's 548 death row inmates' sentences to life without the possibility of parole.

A 27-year-old man died after being hit by at least one car upon leaving a Halloween party in Chandler. Police are now asking for the public's help in the case.

A Mexican judge was arrested after federal prosecutors accused him of taking a $2 million bribe to order the release of convicted drug trafficker Ryan Wedding's top lieutenant.

A 36-year-old man was stabbed nearly 180 times at a California state prison and someone inside captured video of the gruesome death before leaking it to the outside, where it went viral on social media.

The family of Sade Robinson, the Milwaukee woman killed and dismembered in 2024, said additional remains were found last week.

A postal worker has been arrested following a shooting that injured three of her co-workers at a Des Moines post office on Thursday.

The U.S. Embassy in France warned Americans to prepare for transportation disruptions, possible curfews and violence as a nationwide strike threatens to affect public services.

A Florida man was arrested in Germany and extradited to the United States to face fraud charges in connection with a fake psychic scheme that prosecutors say collected millions of dollars from vulnerable victims.

Separate overnight house fires in New York and Illinois killed 10 people and displaced several others.

A London jury on Thursday found British actor and comedian Russell Brand guilty of rape and sexual assault after three weeks of testimony and arguments.