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A Leavenworth, Kansas man is in custody after allegedly killing his two sons and abducting his two young daughters. KSHB’s Rae Daniel reports.

New Haven police have partnered with Yale for decades to help children who may be exposed to violence or scary situations involving officers and others.

Denver’s STAR pilot program recognizes that a mental health worker and a paramedic may be better suited to respond to some 911 calls than police.

Just days before he was supposed to start playing professional basketball overseas, Aswad Thomas was shot twice in his back, ending his career. Today, he is managing director of Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice, and working to mobilize other crime victims to use their votes this November to push for services like trauma recovery centers and criminal justice reforms.

Backing a car into a store door to steal thousands of dollars of cigarettes. Police are investigating a couple of very similar burglaries that played out like this in Litchfield County. “I came down here and found a disaster basically,” said Mark Greenberg, the owner of the Village Market in Goshen. The store shared their surveillance video of the incident…

Police say two people rammed a car into the front door of a Goshen store and then ransacked the place, stealing thoursands of dollars worth of cigarettes.

Police in New York City are searching for a suspect who beat a 66-year-old man with a bottle last weekend. The random attack occurred on Aug. 23 in the middle of the streets in broad daylight at West 129th Street and Convent Avenue, according to police. Surveillance video released by police shows the suspect running behind the victim with a…

President Trump announced a surge of federal law enforcement into American communities “plagued” by violent crime. But many who fear to call the cops during these times ask, does this initiative work? Dominique Johnson, the Senior Director of Community Engagement at the Center for Policing Equity joins LX News to break down her findings on city crimes and if this...

A DNA match has solved the strangulation murder of a teenager in southeast Alaska, a case that was cold for 24 years and saw another man acquitted of the crime after confessing, Alaska State Troopers said Tuesday. DNA obtained from Steve Branch, 66, of Austin, Arkansas, at an autopsy matched that of a sample left at the scene where Jessica…

A 19-year-old man was stabbed in the back by a group of people in Queens last month after he went to meet up with someone who wanted to buy his Yeezy sneakers. Police say the victim arranged to sell shoes, which normally cost a few hundred dollars, to a buyer name “Kenziedaghost” on Snapchat. When the 19-year-old arrived at the…

“Park Predators” is a new podcast that takes a closer look at true crime cases from national parks in Canada and the U.S. Investigative journalist and host Delia D’Ambra joined LX News for #TrueCrimeTuesday to discuss the new series.

President Donald Trump is painting a dystopian portrait of what Joe Biden’s America might look like, asserting crime and chaos would swallow communities should the former vice president win the White House in November

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he is sending federal law enforcement agents to Chicago and Albuquerque to combat violent crime. The agents will come from several agencies, including the FBI, DEA and DHS, to help execute “Operation Legend.” Agents have already been sent to Kansas City.

A Pennsylvania man who said he fatally beat his 92-year-old father in their home because he believed his father was a vampire has been sentenced to 10 to 30 years in prison. Douglas Novak pleaded guilty but mentally ill last November to murder, arson, reckless endangerment and risking a catastrophe charges. Authorities have said he fatally beat Frank Novak with…

Prosecutors accused a man of conspiring with his new wife to keep the bodies of her children hidden on his rural Idaho property

Cyntoia Brown Long says sex trafficking is often not “black and white” and there is no “perfect victim,” as evidenced by her own case and the ongoing case of Chrystul Kizer, a teenager who is accused of killing her alleged sex trafficker and was released on bond last week.

The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office had been looking for a 26-year-old Mason James Lira, who allegedly shot a deputy and killed a homeless man Wednesday.

Relatives say the two bodies found on an Idaho man’s property are those of two children who have been missing since last year. The remains were discovered on the property of Chad Daybell, who married the children’s mother.

New Haven police have arrested a man facing gun and trespassing charges after he was found hiding on the roof of a garage Saturday. Police said they first responded to calls that a man was running through backyards in the East Rock area. Multiple callers told police the man asked for help and that someone was after him. According to…

Police have made an arrest in a fatal shooting on Wethersfield Avenue in Hartford. The shooting took place on just before 3 p.m. on May 26 near 530 Wethersfield Avenue. Officers were notified by Shot Spotter and when the arrived at the scene, they found a victim suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, according to police. The victim later died at…