Public Safety

A Florida police officer was shot in the head while escorting a man out of a car — sparking a frantic manhunt and putting an entire county on lockdown, authorities said. The 26-year-old officer, who was not immediately identified, was shot late Wednesday in Daytona Beach while conducting a “proactive patrol,” where he encountered Othal Wallace, 29, sitting in a 2016 Honda with California tags.

A Louisiana woman allegedly recruited a crew of teenage boys to whack her ex-girlfriend’s new beau — but the plot failed after one of the would-be hitmen bailed, authorities said. Mykia Tyson, 20, and the four boys she is said to have solicited, were all arrested this month in connection...

John McAfee, the tech innovator whose name is synonymous with antivirus software, died by suicide on Wednesday hours after a court approved his extradition from Spain to face U.S. tax evasion charges, officials said. McAfee was found dead in his cell in Barcelona, following the Spanish High Court's preliminary ruling...

Mark Redwine, 59, allegedly killed his 13-year-old son, Dylan, over "compromising" photos of the former. His defense dismissed the claim, saying evidence showed the two had discussed the photos before without any harm. Dylan's friends testified Tuesday and said the boy did not want to go to his father's home.

A Black Oklahoma man said he was scared for his life after police detained him at gunpoint and handcuffed him when they responded to a purported false 911 call alleging he brandished a gun in a road rage incident. The Norman, Oklahoma, Police Department released body-camera footage this week of...

A man was arrested after he stole a $1.2 million yacht and took it for a joy ride from upstate New York to Vermont over one of the Great Lakes, reports said. And when 56-year-old Robert Morris was busted by police he made the outrageous claim he was only giving it a test drive, according to local reports.

Nicholas Balboa was walking his dog near his home when he “felt the ground shake, felt like an earthquake” — then rushed to the partially collapsed Miami condo tower, where he heard a boy crying for help. He told CNN that the first thoughts that came to his mind when...

A man in Virginia suspected of murdering his girlfriend and her two children before jumping to his death was a convicted MS-13 gang member who had been living in the U.S. illegally, according to a report. Records obtained by Fox 5 DC show that 37-year-old Jose Iraheta Palacios – nicknamed...

LISTEN LIVE. LIKE US ON FACEBOOK. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER. Derek Chauvin on Friday will learn how long a judge sentences him to prison, but corrections experts say the real moment of truth for the ex-cop convicted of murdering George Floyd by brutally kneeling on the unarmed, handcuffed Black man’s neck for more than nine minutes will likely come behind bars when his fellow inmates “kill him.”

President Biden unveiled his anti-crime plan Wednesday following a surge in violent crime across the country — particularly in big cities. Why it matters: Part of the administration's plan involves cracking down on gun dealers. The U.S. has witnessed mass shootings on a weekly basis this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

Two women have been arrested after stealing more than $100,000 worth of merchandise from several Walmart stores, according to police. Mary Garcia, 47, and Melinda Rodriguez, 38, were arrested on June 17 for using the Walmart app to steal items from stores in five states, police said. The two women...

A state trooper in Florida profiled and then used excessive force when he fired a stun gun at a teenager who was in his girlfriend’s backyard waiting to see her, the boy's mother said Wednesday. Kristina Rodeman's son, Jack, 16, who she specified is biracial, was in his girlfriend’s backyard...

Police in Lauderhill, Florida have identified the two girls who were found dead in a canal on Tuesday hours apart. Lauderhill Police Department Lt. Mike Bigwood revealed during a press conference on Monday that the two girls are sisters: Daysha Hogan, 7, and Destiny Hogan, 9. Officials also showed photos of Daysha and Destiny.

She had a (bar)tender reunion with her hero. The Florida woman saved from a lecherous creep by a quick-thinking bartender who passed her a note disguised as a receipt reunited with her now-viral white knight — and gave him a big hug. “Reunited w/ the legend himself #maxthebartender back @...

In the wake of Donald Trump's defeat last fall, Republicans launched a desperate search for illegally cast ballots to help justify the GOP's conspiracy theories. But as regular readers know, despite all the hysterical rhetoric, only a handful of legitimate allegations have been raised -- and some of the most notable examples involve Republicans casting illegal ballots on behalf of dead relatives.

The antivirus software entrepreneur John McAfee has been found dead in his cell in Spain from an apparent suicide, hours after the country’s highest court approved his extradition to the United States, where he was wanted on tax-related criminal charges that carry a prison sentence of up to 30 years.