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A Leavenworth, Kansas man is in custody after allegedly killing his two sons and abducting his two young daughters. KSHB’s Rae Daniel reports.

Denver’s STAR pilot program recognizes that a mental health worker and a paramedic may be better suited to respond to some 911 calls than police.

Violent crime is still up this year in Dallas. The mayor says the murder rate is the highest of big texas cities. So he was happy to announce action on his safer communities plan Monday, after January recommendations from a task force. NBC 5’s Ken Kalthoff reports it was emotional for one task force member.

Just days before he was supposed to start playing professional basketball overseas, Aswad Thomas was shot twice in his back, ending his career. Today, he is managing director of Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice, and working to mobilize other crime victims to use their votes this November to push for services like trauma recovery centers and criminal justice reforms.

A North Texas fourth grader’s bike was stolen this week, while he was at school. It’s a misdemeanor crime that had a big impact on the boy. But, it’s what happened next that caught our attention. NBC 5’s Diana Zoga reports.

President Trump announced a surge of federal law enforcement into American communities “plagued” by violent crime. But many who fear to call the cops during these times ask, does this initiative work? Dominique Johnson, the Senior Director of Community Engagement at the Center for Policing Equity joins LX News to break down her findings on city crimes and if this...

A man was fatally shot while trying to enter an apartment early Sunday morning in northeast Dallas, police say. Officers responded at 1:18 a.m. to the Villas Del Solamar Apartments in the 8300 block of Park Lane, where 19-year-old Darwin Chavarria had been fatally shot. Police said it is thought that Chavarria tried to enter an apartment without consent and…

A DNA match has solved the strangulation murder of a teenager in southeast Alaska, a case that was cold for 24 years and saw another man acquitted of the crime after confessing, Alaska State Troopers said Tuesday. DNA obtained from Steve Branch, 66, of Austin, Arkansas, at an autopsy matched that of a sample left at the scene where Jessica…

Dallas police are under pressure to show more results in a fight against violent crime. NBC 5’s Ken Kalthoff reports some city council members say the police chief’s plan is a failure.

From evictions to the 2020 census and violent crime, there are several topics to cover at different meetings taking place throughout the day.

Many important conversations will be happening within Dallas’s leadership on Monday, NBC 5’s Alanna Quillen reports.

“Park Predators” is a new podcast that takes a closer look at true crime cases from national parks in Canada and the U.S. Investigative journalist and host Delia D’Ambra joined LX News for #TrueCrimeTuesday to discuss the new series.

President Donald Trump is painting a dystopian portrait of what Joe Biden’s America might look like, asserting crime and chaos would swallow communities should the former vice president win the White House in November

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he is sending federal law enforcement agents to Chicago and Albuquerque to combat violent crime. The agents will come from several agencies, including the FBI, DEA and DHS, to help execute “Operation Legend.” Agents have already been sent to Kansas City.

A Pennsylvania man who said he fatally beat his 92-year-old father in their home because he believed his father was a vampire has been sentenced to 10 to 30 years in prison. Douglas Novak pleaded guilty but mentally ill last November to murder, arson, reckless endangerment and risking a catastrophe charges. Authorities have said he fatally beat Frank Novak with…

Prosecutors accused a man of conspiring with his new wife to keep the bodies of her children hidden on his rural Idaho property

Cyntoia Brown Long says sex trafficking is often not “black and white” and there is no “perfect victim,” as evidenced by her own case and the ongoing case of Chrystul Kizer, a teenager who is accused of killing her alleged sex trafficker and was released on bond last week.

The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office had been looking for a 26-year-old Mason James Lira, who allegedly shot a deputy and killed a homeless man Wednesday.

Relatives say the two bodies found on an Idaho man’s property are those of two children who have been missing since last year. The remains were discovered on the property of Chad Daybell, who married the children’s mother.