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Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said Latocha Muckleroy, accused of fatally shooting the owner of the bar, had a previous dating ...

Geneva police are asking women who may have interacted with a man accused of filming unauthorized upskirt videos to come ...

The findings reveal the depth of a crisis that WIZO says now begins in adolescence and extends into adulthood, while policymakers remain largely in the dark.

At the time, the victim told police she was being forced to perform commercial sex acts and was expected to make $1,000 a day ...

A mother of two tells the BBC she felt "embarrassed" and "stupid" after giving her savings away to a fraudster she met online ...

The man who was shot on Sunday, November 9, 2025 by a Magnolia Police Department officer has died. Michael Andre Greene, 53, ...

Chicago transit attack suspect Lawrence Reed faces a federal terrorism charge after allegedly setting a woman on fire on the ...

An Indianapolis woman is going to prison after pulling off a foodaid scam that lasted more than two years and drained more than $330,000 from taxpayers.

One local mother says the woman who crashed into her daughter years ago has received punishments that are too lenient despite ...

The crazed boyfriend who fatally stabbed his Queens bartender gal pal was sentenced Friday — as the victim’s family ripped ...

Anitra Burks, 34, was convicted in October of first-degree reckless homicide and other charges in the death of 6-year-old ...