Crime and Courts

A 12-year-old boy is dead after playing Russian Roulette in Jackson, Mississippi. Police identified the boy as Markell Noah, WLBT-TV reports. Officers arrested two juveniles and one adult Friday after the death. Police say the two juveniles are being charged with murder and the adult is being charged with accessory after the fact of murder. The investigation is ongoing.

Police say a drive-by shooting in Nashville has injured two people as they and others left church from the funeral of a woman who was fatally shot earlier this month.

Police officers found a girl shot dead after her alleged 16-year-old killer confessed to the crime over an Instagram video chat, police say.

Austin Harrouff has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to two counts of first-degree murder and other charges for his August 2016 slayings of John and Michelle Stevens.

The prime suspect in the mass shooting that left six people dead at a Walmart Supercenter in Chesapeake, Virginia, left a “death note” addressed to God on his phone, police said Friday. 

A teenager was arrested after he installed a hidden camera inside a bathroom at the high school he graduated from, according to police.

For this trio, it appears robbery just made scents for them. Three men stole an estimated $16,000 worth of fragrances from a beauty store on Long Island, according to police.

A former elementary school principal in New York was sentenced to 63 years in prison for sexually abusing 21 students over several years.

Captain Roger Lanier of the Moscow Police Department provided updates Wednesday on the fatal stabbing of four University of Idaho students, and asked anyone with tips to call 208-883-7180.

A Staten Island man pleaded guilty after committing a series of antisemitic assaults, including beating a man draped in an Israeli flag, attacking a man wearing a yarmulke and assaulting a person wearing a Star of David necklace the month before.

Ten days after four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death in their rooms, police said Wednesday they still have not identified a suspect or found a murder weapon, and they continued asking for tips and surveillance video. Moscow Police Capt. Roger Lanier told a news conference his department is putting all of its resources into solving the case…

A New York City man was arrested after he harassed a mother and her young daughter at a Long Island bus stop, police said, and he tried to take a chunk out of an officer’s arm, too.

U.S. Army veteran Richard Fierro spoke during a news conference outside his Colorado home about his efforts to subdue the gunman in Saturday’s shooting at Club Q.

A teenage student was arrested after he made repeated threats against a Long Island high school that he would detonate an explosive device on school grounds, according to police.

A suspect remains at large, authorities said. Officers found one other injured person at the site but gave no details about their condition.

Prosecutors said the couple engaged in a bank fraud scheme and then hid their wealth from tax authorities while flaunting a lavish lifestyle.

The Supreme Court says it will hear a dispute over a dog toy that got whiskey maker Jack Daniel’s barking mad.

Thousands of people have joined Virginia’s football team, coaches and staff in honoring three players who were shot dead as they returned from a field trip last weekend. Lavel Davis Jr., D’Sean Perry and Devin Chandler were remembered during a Saturday memorial service in Charlottesville as great teammates who wore constant smiles and sought to brighten the lives of those...

Police say a vehicle towing a float for a holiday parade in North Carolina crashed, killing a girl participating in the event. A Raleigh Police Department news release says the driver who lost control of the vehicle and struck the child was charged with reckless driving and other offenses. Witnesses told WTVD-TV that people attending the Raleigh Christmas Parade heard...

A man suspected of being behind the slayings of at least three women is thought to be somewhere in San Diego.