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A family of five, including three children, was found fatally shot in their Culpeper, Virginia, home in what appears to be a murder-suicide.

On Election Day, a young lieutenant in the Strafford County Sheriff’s Office made history, becoming the first Black person ever elected sheriff in New Hampshire. “I’m so excited, I really am,” said Lt. Mark Brave. “That says that New Hampshire is open to progress, they’re open to new ideas.” The 35-year-old Dover resident ran on a platform of transparency,...

A sheriff’s deputy used Narcan to revive a woman’s beloved pet after the dog ate her legally prescribed pain medication.

Firefighters have rescued a kitten that was trapped inside the wall of a South Florida home, bringing an end to a family’s confusion about where a certain meowing sound was coming from.

The 41-year-old tortoise named Dino ambled away after a storm blew open the latch on its outdoor enclosure in Red Bluff.

A kitten that was found encased in hardened spray foam is expected to make a full recovery after being rescued from a garbage can by an Oregon sanitation worker, authorities said Thursday. The sanitation worker was using a hydraulic arm to empty a trash can near Hillsboro, Oregon, but the can wouldn’t empty, said Washington County sheriff’s Deputy Brian van...

All kinds walk through the security checkpoints at the Frederick County Courthouse on any given day, but few manage to turn heads like Giuseppe, Welton, Zeke and Zoey. “We’re just the handlers. They call us ‘the dopes on the ends of the ropes,'” said Francina Baldi with a smile as she led Giuseppe, a 3-year-old mini goldendoodle, toward the stairwell...

Hundreds of flights were canceled and thousands delayed for travelers heading home after the Thanksgiving holiday as a deadly winter storm moved to the Northeast on Sunday, packing one last punch of snow and ice. The National Weather Service predicted more than a foot (0.3 meters) of snow in swaths of upstate New York and New England, as well as...

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....

Authorities say feral hogs attacked and killed a woman outside a Southeast Texas home where she worked as a caretaker.

A group of thieves rammed a stolen pickup truck through the front door of a Florida gun shop and stole firearms and ammunition.

The niece and supervisor of a murder suspect were arrested for allegedly helping him evade capture before the fatal shooting of an Orlando police officer. Online court records show that 27-year-old Lakensha Smith-Loyd was arrested on an accessory charge Wednesday, a day after the fugitive’s supervisor at a fried chicken restaurant, Zarghee Mayan, was arrested on the same charge.

An emergency call a 911 dispatcher in Texas recently answered turned out to be from the dispatcher’s daughter who was reporting that their house was burning.

Sheriff’s deputies seized a duffel bag filled with cocaine that washed up on a northeast Florida beach.

Authorities in southeastern Wisconsin say they now know the identity of a woman found fatally beaten near a cornfield in 1999 and have made an arrest in her death.

An Oklahoma police chief was killed during an altercation with one of his own officers while at a conference in Florida Sunday, NBC News reports. Escambia County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of a physical altercation at the Hilton Garden Inn in Pensacola Beach Sunday evening and found Mannford Police Chief Lucky Miller dead, according to NBC affiliate KJRH....

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission on Sunday said 46-year-old James G. Boyce, of Palm Beach Gardens, suffered a “substantial” bite to his leg while hunting on Saturday.

The man arrested in connection to the deadly shooting in Greenville Oct. 26 was released from jail Tuesday, the Hunt County Sheriff’s Office says.

Nashville’s sheriff has presented the Johnny Cash Museum proof that the late musician who famously cultivated an image as an outlaw was actually granted law enforcement authority four decades ago. This week, Nashville Sheriff Daron Hall gave a blown-up image of Cash’s September 1979 deputy sheriff commission card. It was issued by then-Davidson County Sheriff Fate Thomas and features Cash’s...

A skeleton recently found on California’s second-highest mountain could be the remains of a Japanese-American man who disappeared from an internment camp during the waning days of World War II.