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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.

A 31-year-old man has been arrested in connection with an apparently random attack on a 92-year-old woman in Manhattan four days ago, authorities say. Rana Novini reports.

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.

The coronavirus hasn’t been kind to car owners

Some privacy advocates are concerned that police are inadvertently helping Ring build a massive crime database.

A prominent Massachusetts doctor has been arrested after his wife was found dead near their Dover home on Saturday night.

There’s a troubling new reality for law enforcement in the age of the coronavirus

Outrage is spreading over a shooting of a black man that led to murder charges more than two months later against a white father and son, but “all that matters is what the facts tell us,” Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Vic Reynolds said Friday.

Two 911 calls made just before the February shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery were released. Gregory McMichael and Travis McMichael were arrested and charged with the murder of Arbery on Thursday.

Although, major crimes in New York City saw a whopping decrease for the month of April compared to 2019, the city has seen an uptick in murders and burglaries, according to the latest NYPD statistics. According to the data released Monday, major index crimes decreased 28.5 percent for the month of April when compared to the same period last year….

The NYPD reports crime is down compared to the same time last year.

Two women have been charged with stealing items from a Walgreens in San Francisco and escaping by coughing at employees and claiming to have the coronavirus

The coronavirus pandemic and its social repercussions are fueling violence, both by frustrated individuals and domestic terrorists, according to a new intelligence report by the Department of Homeland Security obtained by NBC News.

Federal prosecutors in New York City have hit R Kelly with more criminal charges

The thieves didn’t get the cash from the machines themselves, however, but rather from the owner and operators of the ATMs. NBC New York’s Myles Miller reports.

A UPS worker suspected of threatening a mass shooting at the company’s facility in Silicon Valley has been arrested after investigators found numerous firearms and ammunition at his home, police said Monday.

The father accused of starting a sex cult from his daughter’s New York dorm room appeared in court to face charges including sex exploitation, prostitution and forced labor. He was found in bed with one of his victims when he was taken into custody in February. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.