Crime and Public Safety

From an injured police officer to rubbish fires set, the Philadelphia Police Department is cracking down on illegal street racing and reckless driving after a series of ‘dangerous’ incidents across the city over the weekend.

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Violent crime in the U.S. dropped in 2023, according to FBI statistics that show a continued trend downward after a coronavirus pandemic-era crime spike.

A Tennessee woman attempted to hire an online hitman for close to $10,000 to kill the wife of a man she met on the dating website Match.com, according to prosecutors.

Ryan Routh, the man accused in the apparent assassination attempt of Donald Trump at a golf course, allegedly left behind a note saying that he intended to kill the former president.

A road-rage incident ends with a man going on a racial tirade at an older man on the side of the 405 Freeway in West Los Angeles.

Freddie Trone, the 42-year-old man convicted in the robbery and shooting death of rapper PnB Rock at a South Los Angeles restaurant, was sentenced Monday.

A father and son were killed after a reported shootout between family members in Val Verde, a community in the Santa Clarita Valley.

Jonathan Gonzalez, 31, was Rollerblading in West LA on Friday night when he was struck by a hit-and-run driver, the LAPD said.

Luis Armando Albino was 6 years old in 1951 when he was abducted while playing at an Oakland park. Now, more than seven decades later, Albino has been found thanks to help from an online ancestry test, old photos and newspaper clippings.