Crime

A woman abducted from New York on her birthday was shot and killed in Northern Virginia following a shootout between her alleged kidnapper and police, police said.  At 9:40 p.m. on Wednesday, a Virginia State Police trooper spotted a Jeep Cherokee headed south on I-95 in Fairfax County with the …

Three children and three adults were killed following a mass shooting at Covenant School in Nashville’s Green Hills neighborhood on Monday morning, officials said. The shooter, who was fatally shot by police, was identified as 28-year-old Audrey Hale from Nashville, authorities said. Authorities released body camera footage Tuesday of police officers responding …

A Massachusetts man who tried to hire a contract killer to kill his wife after she sought a restraining order against him instead asked an undercover federal agent to do the job, authorities said. Massimo Marenghi, 56, faces up to 10 years in prison at sentencing after pleading guilty on …

A New Jersey man faces multiple federal criminal charges after he allegedly attempted to board an airplane with firearms, ammunition, a bulletproof vest and fraudulent law enforcement credentials, authorities said this week. Two semi-automatic rifles were among the weapons found inside the man’s checked baggage at Newark Liberty International Airport …

The University of Texas at Dallas has banned a student from attending classes on campus while she serves house arrest in Texas ahead of trial in a Las Vegas-area stabbing that drew international attention, a campus official said Wednesday. Authorities in Nevada have said Nika Nikoubin, 22, attacked her date …

The third trial of Dana Chandler, a Kansas woman accused of the 2002 murders of her ex-husband and his fiancée, has been postponed until fall. The case had previously been scheduled for Feb. 6, but the judge set a new date of Oct. 16.   In Chandler’s first trial in …

As authorities continue to investigate the grisly stabbings that left four University of Idaho students dead inside their home earlier this month, police said that detectives have now moved five vehicles from the crime scene to a storage location where they will continue to examine them and process evidence. “Today, as part …

An Idaho judge has postponed the trial of a woman charged with conspiring to kill her two youngest children and her fifth husband’s wife until officials can determine if she’s mentally competent. Seventh District Judge Steven Boyce ruled Thursday, a few days after Lori Vallow Daybell’s defense attorneys asked that …

A California man who threatened violence against Merriam-Webster, Inc. for its gender definitions pleaded guilty in a Massachusetts federal court, the Justice Department said in a press release. Jeremy David Hanson, of Rossmoor, was charged with one count of interstate communication of threatening communications to commit violence. The 34-year-old sent …

More than half a century after Captain James Tappen Hall was fatally shot in Rockville, Maryland, in 1971, police have located and arrested a suspect who confessed to the murder earlier this month, they announced on Wednesday. During a news conference, where some of Hall’s loved ones also appeared, officers …