Crime

When Kaylin Gillis and her friends took a wrong turn into an upstate New York driveway last weekend, they couldn’t have known the property was owned by a man who, according to a neighbor, had grown increasingly bitter over the years at people driving onto his land by mistake. This …

A student at a private southeastern Minnesota college faces multiple counts after authorities found several items in his dorm room that school officials believed posed a threat — including knives, a tactical vest and empty ammunition and magazine boxes, according to charges filed Monday. St. Olaf College student Waylon Kurts, …

Ohio-based rap artist Joseph Edgar Foreman, known by the name Afroman, is being sued by seven officers with the Adams County Sheriff’s Office for using footage of their 2022 search on his home to make and promote new music. The officers accused Foreman’s use of their images and likeness as …

A driver was arrested for allegedly running into a bicyclist and then fatally stabbing him on a Southern California roadway, authorities said. Vanroy Evan Smith, 39, of Long Beach was taken into custody Wednesday on suspicion of murder for the attack Wednesday in Dana Point. “When deputies arrived, Smith was …

Residents in the community of Westmont in southern Los Angeles County were stunned when they saw their neighbor go on a rampage, destroying his own home, neighbors’ yards, cars and anything in his way on Saturday afternoon, CBS Los Angeles reports.  “He first came with like a while Impala and …

Richmond, Va. — The Virginia teacher who authorities say was shot by a 6-year-old student is known as a hard-working educator who’s devoted to her students and enthusiastic about the profession that runs in her family, according to fellow teachers and city officials. John Eley III, a former member of …

The mother of Kaylee Goncalves, one of the college students who was fatally stabbed in a chilling quadruple homicide at the University of Idaho last month, has voiced her concerns about whether authorities will solve the case as their investigation presses on without a suspect or an arrest. In an …

A fugitive wanted for his involvement in a criminal drug enterprise has been extradited from Mexico and returned to Tucson, but his wife and another co-conspirator remain at large, the FBI said Monday.    Authorities said 45-year-old Manuel Gortari-Redondo was involved in a Tucson-based interstate drug smuggling organization that trafficked …

Police killed a man in Southern California late last week after he opened fire on a SWAT team that had been dispatched to chase down his car on an eastbound freeway, authorities said.  The man, identified as 28-year-old Austin Lee Edwards, was wanted in connection with a triple homicide in …

Miami — Federal prosecutors have charged eight people with smuggling endangered monkeys, including a Cambodian wildlife official who was arrested in the U.S. while traveling to a conference on protecting endangered species. The official, plus a colleague in that country’s wildlife agency and six people connected to a Hong Kong-based …