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Washington, D.C., police chief Pamela Smith is resigning her position after just two and a half years on the job, she announced Monday.Smith has faced intense pressure from President Donald Trump's administration, which took over the Metropolitan Police Department earlier this year and deployed federal law enforcement throughout the city."There comes a time when you just know it's time," Smith told Axios, which first reported her resignation."I am deeply humbled, […]

Federal agents searching the Virginia home of Brian Cole Jr., accused of planting pipe bombs in Washington on Jan. 5, 2021, carried out a step-by-step operation this week that indicated investigators have re-energized a case that had seen little movement for years.Cole was arrested in Woodbridge, Virginia, last week after federal investigators identified him as the suspect accused of planting the pipe bombs on Jan. 5, 2021, near the Capitol […]

The Marine Corps revealed Friday that the Marine who died Wednesday in a Southern California training accident was 21-year-old Tanner F. Rubio. Rubio, a private first class, was killed in a "tactical vehicle mishap" in the afternoon at Camp Pendleton in San Diego County, according to officials. He served with the I Marine Expeditionary Force (I MEF), the largest Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) in the Corps. Rubio was a native of Dixon, California, […]

The armed suspect accused of wounding multiple officers in a gas station shootout after allegedly firing on a 61-year-old man in an earlier, seemingly random shooting has been identified as an illegal immigrant and convicted felon, authorities revealed Thursday. Officials said Salvadoran national Juan Melgar-Ayala, 28, injured four officers at a QuikTrip in Omaha, Nebraska, on Wednesday before being killed at the scene by responding officers. Melgar-Ayala was reportedly on the […]

A law enforcement officer's routine day on patrol recently turned unforgettable when he helped deliver a baby boy on the side of a highway.Oklahoma Highway Patrol (OHP) Trooper Tyler Shelby was patrolling in southwest Oklahoma on Nov. 22 when he was called to assist with traffic control for an ambulance responding to a woman in active labor. Just a mile away, he rushed to the scene, according to OHP.Dashcam video shows […]

The University of Colorado Boulder has suspended its Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity chapter after receiving what officials describe as a "credible report" of hazing, prompting an immediate halt to all chapter activities.According to the university, the initial report was received on Dec. 1 and formally logged with campus officials the next day. Since then, at least two additional anonymous reports alleging "extreme or severe hazing" have surfaced, CU Boulder said […]

A series of sprawling fraud schemes involving hundreds of millions of dollars stolen from Minnesota taxpayers — from COVID-relief programs to housing and autism services — have placed the state’s Somali community under a renewed, intense spotlight, raising uncomfortable questions about whether some who found refuge here are robbing their new neighbors blind.These swirling fraud cases — and claims that some ill-gotten gains were diverted to the Somali terrorist organization […]

New York City prosecutors have released new evidence photos showing what accused killer Luigi Mangione carried when he was arrested for the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.The exhibits shared Saturday night included a picture of the USB on a chain that Mangione was wearing around his neck when he was arrested, a bus ticket to Pittsburgh, a handwritten note with a Best Buy list and "to-do" list, and a […]

Five decades after Martha Moxley, the daughter of an affluent Connecticut family, was found murdered outside her home, the Kennedy cousin formerly at the center of the case is speaking out for the first time.Michael Skakel, cousin of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., spent 11 years behind bars for the 1975 murder of Moxley. Despite being released from prison in 2013 and later having his conviction vacated, Skakel is still looking […]