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A Marine deserter, accused of gunning down his mother’s boyfriend, was captured Wednesday in Virginia — at the scene of the alleged slaying — following a two-week, multi-state search, authorities said. Cpl. Michael Alexander Brown, 22, was safely taken into custody at his mother’s house in Hardy, Virginia, about 8 a.m. ET, Franklin County Sheriff W. Q. “Bill” Overton Jr....

Newly released Dallas Police Department video shows the final moments of 34-year-old Diamond Ross, who died last year in police custody.

A wedding photo depicting a scene from the Hulu series “The Handmaid’s Tale” has triggered backlash online from some who say the image is insensitive and misses the point of the show. However, the photographer said that’s the point. The image, taken in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, shows newlyweds Kendra and Torsten in front of the filming location for the “hanging...

A Georgia triplet accused of fatally stabbing one of his brothers says the stabbing was a mistake and he only meant to hug his brother. News outlets report 36-year-old Kenneth Jernigan made his first court appearance Thursday after telling police he accidentally killed his brother, Kevin Jernigan. Jernigan was charged last week with murder and possession of a knife during...

A group of officers turned a car into a delivery room to help a couple deliver a baby in Prince George’s County Friday evening.

It was a parent’s worst nightmare. In 1997, newborn Stewart Rembert was abducted from the hospital by a woman impersonating a nurse. The police and FBI were called in and a massive search began. But the story had a happy ending. Rembert was found 19 hours later in a box next to a restaurant dumpster in Tacoma, Washington, by a...

Bill and Peggy Cruse of Ellisville, Missouri nearly lost their lives December 9 when toasting a Pop-Tart went horribly wrong. Corporal Travis Detring of Ellisville Police was the first on the scene. His body camera captured the dramatic rescue.

Two Missouri officers saved the life of a 6-month-old girl whose father walked into their police station and said he had just drowned his daughter, authorities say. Greenwood police Chief Greg Hallgrimson and Cpl. Tom Calhoun rushed to a pond where the man said he had drowned his daughter Monday and pulled her out, performed CPR and warmed her up...

Child abuse increases the day after school report cards are released — but only when kids get their grades on a Friday, a study in Florida suggests. The curious finding startled researchers, who had figured abuse might go up regardless of the specific day kids got their grades. But their study of reports to a child abuse hotline that included...

Neighbors of Ian David Long described the man who shot and killed 12 people at a country music bar as distant in public but combative with his mother inside the suburban Los Angeles home the two shared. One ruckus in April was so extreme that they called law enforcement. Authorities brought in a mental health specialist who concluded that Long...

Two police officers were shot and killed following an early Saturday morning confrontation in Mississippi, authorities said. Warren Strain of the Mississippi Department of Public Safety said at a news conference that the officers were called to a house in the city of Brookhaven at about 5 a.m. for a report of shots fired. Amid an exchange of gunfire, both...

Paddling students is now a disciplinary policy at a Georgia charter school and parents who don’t consent have to agree to up to five days of suspension for their children instead. WRDW-TV reports the Georgia School for Innovation and the Classics sent parents a letter last week asking permission to hit children with a wooden paddle. Superintendent Jody Boulineau says...

Since the passing of Arizona Sen. John McCain, there has been an outpouring of support from people around the world about how he impacted their lives. One of those people is a New Hampshire woman who left a lasting impression on the senator.

A lemur that was let out of its cage along with several monkeys at the Santa Ana Zoo was left in a crate outside a Newport Beach hotel, but who pulled off the caper is a mystery, a Santa Ana police spokesman said Tuesday.

Police have accused a man of peering at a 12-year-old girl at an outlet store dressing room in New Hampshire.

One American service member was killed in combat in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, the U.S. military said. The service member’s identity was being withheld pending notification of family members, and the U.S. command in Kabul released no details about the incident. In addition to their support for Afghan forces fighting the Taliban, U.S. forces are combatting extremist groups in eastern...

A minivan carrying a family of six, including four daughters, crashed head-on with a work truck that veered into opposite traffic along a busy Delaware highway Friday afternoon. The crash killed the four children and their father.

A teenager who was shoved to the ground by a McKinney police officer has settled a lawsuit against the officer and the city for almost $150,000.

A small neighborhood in Hamden known as Honor Hill has streets that act as memorials every day of the year for some of the town’s sons who were killed in Vietnam.

Soldiers placed nearly a quarter-million U.S. flags at Arlington National Cemetery Thursday as part of a Memorial Day tradition.