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The 28-year-old graduate student accused of killing four Idaho college students was denied bail in his first court appearance Thursday.

A new report shared with a state commission today shows violent crime is down in Connecticut overall, but some areas have seen an increase as well.

Waterbury’s police chief is highlighting the seven homicide arrests that have been made in the city just the last few days.

A fast food worker said she is going to lose an eye after she was attacked in Antioch.

With six weeks left in the year, Hartford has already hit a grim milestone: 36 homicides so far in 2022. The only time the city had thirty or more homicides was in 2003 and 2015.

With six weeks left in the year, Hartford has already hit a grim milestone: 36 homicides so far in 2022. The only time the city had 30 or more homicides was in 2003 and 2015. “She was fun, liked to laugh. Everybody knew her,” Diazsha Heaven said, describing her sister Jayla. “Yeah, she was just full of energy.” She was…

Waterbury Police are on two major cases that reflect a crime trend: a repeat offender is at the center of each. The Crime Prevention Unit made an arrest Wednesday night and separately, police have identified a suspect in a homicide that happened on Halloween. “We’re seeing that the people that are committing acts of violence here in the city...

Decades-old crimes are being solved using genetic genealogy. Here’s what you need to know.

Police say they have identified the boy whose body was found in April in a Las Vegas-themed suitcase in rural Indiana, as well as two suspects in his death.

A Georgia toddler reported missing by his mother last week is believed to be dead, according to police, and his mother has been named a suspect in the boy’s death.

New data shows crime is down over the last decade in Connecticut. “I guess I haven’t noticed much crime,” Eric McCorey of Windsor said. A report released on Monday by the Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection (DESPP) shows that during the last ten years, overall crime was down 30%, including a 43% reduction in violent crime, and…

While a new report shows overall crime was down last year in Connecticut, some say the report does not tell the whole story.

When police officers in Philadelphia made a typo or were unable to record the precise location for a crime committed in the city, the department would mark the incident with Disney World’s coordinates. After analyzing crime data from Philadelphia police, NBC10 Investigators found that more than 5,000 crimes were plotted at the vacation destination, including one that killed Shineka Crawford’s...

New Mexico officials say a drunk man barreled an SUV through a parade that celebrates Native American culture and that least 15 people were injured, including two Gallup police officers. The state police agency said Friday they have no reason to suspect the crime was motivated by hate. The incident stoked fear in the crowd of thousands who lined the...

Treason, sedition, insurrection and coups are terms used to describe crimes and rebellions against the government. These are how they are defined according to The Marshall Project and the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Researchers who have studied the patterns and typologies of serial killers are now turning their attention to identifying mass shooters before they act. One common trait among modern mass shooters is their familiarity with the “dark web,” a less-accessible corner of the internet not indexed by search engines, with several hidden communities that promote and display violent behavior and imagery....

A California man has admitted plotting to firebomb the state Democratic Party’s headquarters.

San Jose police have arrested two more family members of a young girl killed during an apparent exorcism inside a small San Jose church.

Investigators say a 60-year-old man who strangled his girlfriend died of a heart attack while burying her body in their South Carolina backyard.

A woman speaking in a video posted to YouTube is the mother of the girl who died inside a back-room San Jose church in September, NBC Bay Area sources confirmed Tuesday.