Crime & Courts

The infusion of money for the FBI’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Program comes after ProPublica reported on shortcomings in the use of a database meant to assist in capturing serial killers and rapists.

Jimmy Smith-Kramer, a basketball legend on the Quinault Nation reservation, was 20 when he was mowed down by a white man in a pickup truck. The decision not to charge a hate crime, and recent talk of a plea deal, has re-opened ancient…

Officials say becoming informed about risky behaviors and what to do with that information is key for students, parents, and teachers. 

(NEWSORIA) - A state senator from Michigan faces a decade behind bars after pleading guilty to conspiracy and theft crimes earlier this month. Bertram Johnson Jr., 44, of Highland Park pleaded guilty March 2. According to court…

BLOOMINGTON - A Midwest man who has served nearly 20 years of a 100-year prison term for killing his daughter maintains that police did not spend enough time linking his girlfriend to the crime. Bart McNeil told police he found the body…

(NEWSORIA) - "Making a Murder" lawyer Jerry Buting gave Manitowoc County Sheriff's Lt. Andrew Colborn a snarky retirement sendoff on Twitter. Buting, who, at trial, strongly suggested that Colborn and Manitowoc Lt. Detective James Lenk…

LOS ANGELES -- A security guard is being credited with stopping what police say could have been a student's plot to carry out a shooting at a southern California high school. According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, the…

ROCKFORD, Ill. -- Police say a nationally renowned political science professor allegedly killed his two sons before taking his own life inside their suburban Illinois home. Winnebago County, officials, police were called to the home of…