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A judge has ruled the man accused of fatally stabbing a jogger in D.C. is now competent to stand trial, reversing an earlier ruling.

A helpful neighbor or an outright scammer? A woman in Euless said a man is preying on seniors, promising to do yardwork and running off with their cash.

A helpful neighbor or an outright scammer? A woman in Euless said a man is preying on seniors, promising to do yardwork and running off with their cash.

A theft ring in Washington state sold millions of dollars’ worth of stolen goods on Amazon.com in the past six years, and a pair of Amazon delivery drivers was involved, recently unsealed federal court documents show. According to a search warrant affidavit unsealed in U.S. District Court in Seattle and reviewed by The Associated Press, two storefront businesses posing as...

Former Disney Channel actor Stoney Westmoreland has been charged with six felony counts after authorities said he tried to have sex with a 13-year-old boy.

McDormand won the award for best actress in “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” and lost the statuette after having it engraved at the post-ceremony Governors Ball.

How are they getting away with having secret digital lives in 2018? In a world where the words “cyberbullying” and “predator” have been etched on the collective parental psyche for some time? Well, for one, devices have gotten smaller and the kids receiving them — phones, tablets and iPods — are getting younger and, thus, savvier sooner. The number of...

A water park company co-owner accused of rushing the world’s tallest waterslide into service and a designer accused of shoddy planning were charged Tuesday in the decapitation of a 10-year-old boy on the ride in 2016. With the latest charges, three men connected with Texas-based Schlitterbahn Waterparks and Resorts and its park in Kansas City, Kansas, have been indicted by...

A Kansas waterslide hyped as the world’s highest was a “deadly weapon” that had already injured more than a dozen people before a 10-year-old boy was decapitated on it in 2016, according to a grand jury indictment unsealed Friday that charges the water park operator and an executive with involuntary manslaughter.

The NYPD’s top detective says the department has gathered considerable evidence in the rape investigation of Harvey Weinstein. But it’s up to the district attorney whether the case makes it to a grand jury.

Medical City Denton honored Little Elm Police Detective Jerry Walker a year after his murder by naming a room in the Emergency Department in his honor.

Austin police say a man dressed as Santa Claus is in custody after shooting at four people at a Halloween party.

A hospital patient who a Utah nurse said she was protecting when she refused to allow police to draw his blood has died. William Gray, a commercial truck driver and reserve police officer, died late Monday of the injuries he suffered when a fiery July 26 crash left him with burns over nearly half his body, University of Utah Health...

Police say the body of a man who likely was killed three days earlier has been found in a home in southwest Houston.

The new owners of a Houston bungalow have discovered human remains in an attic wall that may belong to the previous owner who went missing at least two years ago.

Police in El Paso arrested a police detective on charges of sexual abuse of a child.

Investigators determine that a man who fatally shot a police detective during a standoff last month at a suburban Dallas home died in an exchange of gunfire with officers.

U.S. employers added a healthy 255,000 jobs in July, a sign of confidence amid sluggish economic growth that points to a resilient economy. At the same time, the unemployment rate remained a low 4.9 percent, the Labor Department said Friday in its monthly jobs report. More Americans launched job searches, and nearly all were hired. But the influx of job...

Richardson police say “a distinct smell of decayed flesh,” blood and a bullet hole led detectives to arrest and charge 27-year-old Jason Michael Lowe with the murder of his girlfriend, 27-year-old Jessie Bardwell, a native of Pascagoula, Miss.

A man who witnesses said went on a tirade after rescheduling a mental health clinic appointment was shot dead by the owner of a neighboring business in Houston.