Crime and Public Safety

Two people are dead after a planned fight near a North Carolina middle school escalated “significantly" and led to multiple people exchanging gunfire, local police said.

Authorities say the teen’s dismembered, decomposed body was found in the entertainer’s Tesla in September 2025.

The collection, valued at nearly $3 million, was recovered after rare book dealers flagged the items as stolen and alerted authorities.

The shooting happened near Merrick and Baisley boulevards, and investigators say no arrests have been made as the motive remains unclear.

Duran, who is serving a three- to nine-year sentence for manslaughter, secured the bond in a Bronx courthouse after an appellate court ruled Friday that he could be freed pending appeal.

Officials and relatives say a man killed eight children and shot two women in two homes in Shreveport, Louisiana. The violence early Sunday was one of the nation’s deadliest recent mass shootings.

Some of those who survived a mass domestic violence incident in Shreveport, Louisiana, escaped via the roof and called 911, police said.

Monday marks Day 79 in the search for Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of NBC "Today" show host Savannah Guthrie.

Police are asking for the public's help to identify several suspects after a chaotic, illegal street takeover plagued a neighborhood in Queens this past weekend.

A bus carrying passengers from multiple Bronx schools crashed Sunday morning in Diamond Point, New York, according to the Warren County Sheriff’s Office.

Eight children, ranging in age from 1 to 14 years old, were killed overnight in a mass domestic shooting spree in Louisiana, police said Sunday.

The tragic deaths of eight children in Shreveport, Louisiana, were the latest in the line of mass killings across the United States. Less than four months into 2026, there have already been seven shootings in which four or more people were killed, new data from the Gun Violence Archive showed.

The FBI is offering a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to the arrest of a former North Texas resident wanted for his alleged role in a prolific online network that exploited children.

A shooting in downtown Iowa City injured five people, one critically, after a large fight broke out near the University of Iowa campus.

Police say a suspect is in custody after three people were killed in a shooting outside a Detroit gas station early Sunday morning, following an altercation tied to a prior crash.

Four people were shot in Paterson, New Jersey, leaving one dead and two in critical condition, according to prosecutors.

A Chinese crackdown on fentanyl-making ingredients could be fueling the resurgence of carfentanil, a chemical so powerful, a dose smaller than a poppy seed can kill a human.