Crime and Public Safety

Amanda Wallace, one of the suspects connected to the body parts that were scattered across Long Island, pleaded guilty to five felony counts on Tuesday.

Marcellus Williams, 55, was put to death on Tuesday, becoming the third Missouri inmate to be put to death this year.

Ryan Wesley Routh has been indicted on charges of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump after allegedly staking out the former president for 12 hours at his Florida golf course.

A woman was arrested in Florida after striking Deputy Bruce Fowler with her car outside the Lee County Sheriff’s Office headquarters in Fort Myers.

Thousands of crime victims and their families took to Capitol Hill on Tuesday, demanding that lawmakers focus more on the impact violent crime has on victims and their communities. 

Oran Routh was arrested this week after authorities seized multiple electronic devices and found hundreds of files of child sexual abuse in his home, according to court documents.

From an injured police officer to rubbish fires set, the Philadelphia Police Department is cracking down on illegal street racing and reckless driving after a series of ‘dangerous’ incidents across the city over the weekend.

A 45-year-old man was stabbed on a moving NYC subway train in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx, the NYPD said.

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Violent crime in the U.S. dropped in 2023, according to FBI statistics that show a continued trend downward after a coronavirus pandemic-era crime spike.

Police are searching for the driver of a tow truck that struck and killed a 65-year-old man in the Bronx on Monday afternoon.

A Tennessee woman attempted to hire an online hitman for close to $10,000 to kill the wife of a man she met on the dating website Match.com, according to prosecutors.

A jury found Ahmad Alissa guilty of 55 counts, including 10 counts of first-degree murder, in the 2021 King Soopers supermarket shooting in Boulder, Colorado.

It has been one week since Sean "Diddy" Combs was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges. FOX 5 takes a closer look inside Brooklyn's notorious MDC, revealing the harsh conditions he's facing.

A veteran Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer who used his position to drug and sexually assault more than two dozen women while posted around the world was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison on Wednesday.

Luis Armando Albino was 6 years old in 1951 when he was abducted while playing at an Oakland park. Now, more than seven decades later, Albino has been found thanks to help from an online ancestry test, old photos and newspaper clippings.

The agent, who was on duty, was handling his service weapon when the firearm discharged.