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A new analysis by the moderate Democratic group Third Way runs counter to popular perceptions of rising crime nationwide.

A father from Santa Barbara, California, was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday for taking his two young children to Rosarito, Mexico, and killing them with a fishing spear last month.

The Essex County Sheriff’s Crime Stoppers Program has increased its reward to $25,000 in the case of a Newark grandmother who was shot to death on her own front porch as she celebrated her birthday and that of her late twin’s in March. Debra Derrick, 63, had gathered with her grandchildren and other family members around 8 p.m. March 11…

A Pennsylvania man who claimed he stabbed a “cadaver doll” in his father’s bedroom is charged with homicide after the head in the freezer he showed police turned out to belong to a person.

A U.S. citizen has been arrested in connection with the death of his two children, ages 1 and 3, whose bodies were found on a ranch in Rosarito, Mexico, the Baja California Attorney General’s Office said Tuesday.

A 38-year-old woman was found stabbed to death Wednesday morning in the staircase of a public housing complex in East Harlem, police said. Police responded, shortly after 6 a.m., to a 911 call of a woman inside the Wagner Houses and found her with multiple stab wounds, unconscious and unresponsive. EMS also responded to the location and transported the female…

A woman arrested on suspicion of murder after shooting her husband to death in their Lemon Grove backyard — San Diego deputies say the woman told 911 dispatchers she had shot her husband on accident — was released from custody Thursday after the District Attorney’s Office declined to file charges against her.

Police are looking to question three women and two men in connection with a deadly shooting at a Bronx nightclub earlier this month that apparently stemmed from an argument over whose turn it was to use the bathroom. The 30-year-old victim got into an argument with an unidentified man at a bar on Third Avenue shortly before 4 a.m. on…

Investigators were preparing to seek an arrest warrant for a defrocked Roman Catholic priest long considered a suspect in the 1972 killing of a western Massachusetts altar boy shortly before his death last week, a prosecutor said Monday. Incriminating admissions Richard Lavigne made in a series of recent interviews while in a medical facility further implicated the longtime suspect in…

A mother of five found stabbed to death on Mother’s Day was the daughter of a woman who also was stabbed to death 16 years ago.

Prosecutors in Hudson County are asking for help finding a 29-year-old Jersey City man they allege murdered his own mother in a possible arson case early Thursday. Police and firefighters were called to a single-family home on Virginia Avenue just before 1 a.m. for a report of a disturbance and found a small fire, as well as 60-year-old Jacquelin Nelson…

A 37-year-old man was found dead inside a plastic bag in a Manhattan apartment late last week, and police said Tuesday they’re investigating the case as a homicide. No details on the autopsy report were immediately available. Police have not released the victim’s name either. He was found around 3 p.m. Friday in an apartment at a seven-story building...

A homeless man stabbed to death on a subway platform is fueling more calls for addition police to be stationed to protect riders. NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

Police are investigating the stabbing death of a man who was found gashed in the chest on a southbound subway platform in Queens early Friday. Cops responding to a 911 call of an unconscious man on the platform of the M/R line at the Grand Avenue station in Elmhurst discovered the victim around 5:45 a.m. He was taken to a…

A suspect has been arrested in the deadly stabbing of a Yonkers fashion store owner, law enforcement officials confirmed to News 4 Thursday. Detectives tracked him to Elmsford, where he was cuffed without incident a day ago. Authorities quickly developed a person of interest after the New Main Street stabbing of 47-year-old Ruben Martinez-Campos at his Premiere Fashion clothing store…

Evelyn Colon’s mother imagined her daughter living happily surrounded by her own family and children. She was spared the heartbreaking news that her beautiful, green-eyed daughter never lived to see her 16th birthday or the birth of her own baby girl, who shared her mother’s tragic fate. Colon, who was known for more than four decades in Northeast Pennsylvania...

A New York man has been arrested in the cold-case slaying of a pregnant New Jersey teenager whose remains were found on a riverbank in eastern Pennsylvania more than four decades ago, authorities said. NBC New York’s Chris Glorioso reports.

A man is facing a murder charge for allegedly choking a woman to death at a midtown Manhattan hotel, police said Thursday. Officers responded to a 911 call at 1 a.m. Wednesday and found Kayla Estevez, 26, lying face up on the floor at the Citizen Times Square Hotel, a police spokesperson said. She was pronounced dead at the scene….

Authorities said Lannon was on the run and is connected to the murders of a man in East Greenwich, New Jersey, and of four people, including his ex-wife, in New Mexico.

Sean Lannon is behind bars after he was arrested in St. Louis, Missouri. The 47-year-old man was wanted in connection to the murders of five people in New Jersey and New Mexico, including his ex-wife. NBC10’s Danny Freeman has the details.