National Crime

Officials have arrested a young man accused of planning to attack churches in his hometown of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, for the Islamic terrorist group ISIS. Eighteen-year-old Alexander Scott Mercurio was taken into custody on Saturday as authorities with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force investigated the case, NBC News reported Tuesday.

Las Vegas police said a gunman opened fire inside a law firm near the Red Rock resort Monday morning, killing a man and a woman, then turned the gun on himself. FOX5 has learned that the victims of the shooting at the Summerlin law firm were Dennis Prince and his wife, Ashley Prince.

CHICAGO - A 16-year-old boy is accused of carjacking and robbing a man at gunpoint on Chicago's Far South Side this week.  The juvenile is accused of one felony count of aggravated vehicular hijacking with a firearm, one felony count of armed robbery with a firearm, one felony count of unlawful restraint, one felony count [...]

CHICAGO - A man is dead after he was found with a gunshot wound to his eye in Gage Park early Thursday. At about 12:07 a.m., officers responded to a report of a person shot in the 5700 block of South Christiana.

At about 8:20 p.m., Oak Forest police responded to the 15000 block of Parkside Avenue for a call of a person shot. When officers arrived, they located a man in his early 20s inside his residence. The victim provided police with limited information, but officers were able to determine that the victim entered a vehicle, [...]

A camouflaged man seemingly fired an unloaded gun at a North Carolina couple while intruding on their back porch, surveillance video showed. A McDowell County couple shared surveillance footage with local news outlets and authorities after a man identified as Tyler Messer stood on their back porch wielding a rifle.

Four people were killed and several others injured in a violent stabbing attack in Rockford, Illinois, on Wednesday that left neighbors reeling. Local police said one victim was in critical condition and several others were in stable condition after the suspect allegedly stabbed them, NBC News reported Wednesday. The suspect in the case has been identified as [...]

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — A man is accused of killing four, including a teen girl and postal worker, and injuring several others, in a violent rampage that spanned multiple neighborhoods in Rockford Wednesday afternoon. Police identified Christian Soto, 22, as the suspect in the attack.

One person was killed and five others wounded in a shooting in Indianapolis early Sunday, police said. One of the wounded survivors was an off-duty cop who was working security at a bar, according to authorities. The officer was in stable condition Sunday afternoon and expected to be released from a local hospital.

New Yorkers’ views on public safety and quality of life in the city dimmed dramatically between 2017 and 2023, with 78% saying last year that they did not feel safe riding the subway at night, according to a poll published Tuesday. Overall, 30% of New Yorkers graded the quality of life in the city positively, down [...]