Crime and Public Safety

Authorities say the woman grabbed an ice climbing axe, tripped and strangled her father with the tool, before attacking him with it.

A Spirit Airlines flight out of Florida was struck by gunfire on Monday while making a landing in Port-au-Prince in Haiti on Monday.

A jury in the small Indiana town of Delphi convicted a man of murder on Monday in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls who vanished during an afternoon hike.

A man was stabbed to death at a lounge in Queens overnight, police said.

A Homecoming Week shooting at Tuskegee University in Alabama left one person dead and 16 others injured, 12 of them by gunfire, school officials said.

A man has been arrested for allegedly grabbing a young boy and trying to separate him from his father while walking in Brooklyn, police said.

Three people were injured when a bus crashed after an MTA driver suffered a medical episode in Queens on Sunday morning, MTA officials said.

Hungarian officials have a 37-year-old suspect in custody, who is said to have divulged details of the Oregon woman's death.

Oklahoma City police have released bodycam footage of an October 17 incident in which an officer tackled a 70-year-old man during a dispute over a traffic violation.

Officials say one of 43 monkeys bred for medical research that escaped a compound in South Carolina has been recovered unharmed.

Long Island police are intensifying efforts against illegal street racing after a weekend of chaotic car "takeovers" in Suffolk County.

A Brooklyn man has been charged with staging a car accident for insurance fraud purposes last month in a case that received wide publicity after the victim shared dashboard camera footage of the crash on the Belt Parkway.

A suspect has been arrested and charged in connection with Thursday’s shooting on the Upper West Side, according to police.

A suspect is in custody after 10 people were stabbed in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District in the last 36 hours.

On Wednesday, 43 monkeys escaped from a primate research facility in South Carolina.

The Justice Department on Friday disclosed an Iranian murder-for-hire plot to kill Donald Trump, charging a man who said he had been tasked by a government official before this week’s election with assassinating the Republican president-elect.

Maccabi Tel Aviv fans were assaulted by attackers after a soccer match in Amsterdam, leaving five people hospitalized and dozens arrested, Dutch authorities said.