National Crime

Everyday, routine activities – like going to the ATM or getting gas – can become crime scenes of low-level offenses that create major headaches and financial loss. Someone watches a bank or mall customer with their head in their phone. Read more...

Benton County, Minnesota, Sheriff Troy Heck posted a letter to Facebook over the weekend expressing his conviction that violent criminals will ignore new gun controls in much the same way as they ignore the old ones. MN Gun Owners Caucus tweeted about Heck’s letter, written in response to questions about gun controls being pushed by [...]

New York City police are looking for a gunman they said walked up on a 17-year-old male and shot him in the chest in broad daylight on a Brooklyn sidewalk Wednesday afternoon, authorities told WNBC-TV. Graig Bassett was pronounced dead at a hospital, the NYPD added to the station. Read more...

A 21-year-old soldier was found dead in a burning car in Honolulu, Hawaii. The boyfriend of the victim has been charged with murder. Police say he stabbed Spc. Laau Jordan Laulusa, a member of the Hawaii National Guard, in the neck before lighting a car on fire with her inside the vehicle. Read more...

In Oregon, charges against hundreds of alleged criminals, including those accused of violent crimes, have been dropped due to a shortage of public defenders. Oregon currently has just 31% of the public defenders it requires. As a result, nearly 800 individuals are waiting to be assigned public defenders for their cases, according to Oregon Judicial [...]

Portland, Oregon, residents are sounding the alarm on the city's crime crisis after more than 300 criminal cases in the area were dismissed, including some related to felony theft, possession of a stolen vehicle, gun charges and more. As Oregon faces a public defender shortage, residents say they wish they were surprised by the news, [...]

A 15-year-old boy with autism was dragged off a Manhattan subway train last week during the afternoon rush as youths ganged up and repeatedly punched him in the face while commuters watched. Read more...

A Philadelphia man who was killed in a shooting Saturday night was struck by about 70 bullets outside a home, according to a local report. The shooting happened just before midnight in the 3400 block of North 16 Street in the city’s Tioga neighborhood, Philadelphia police said. Read more...

A Texas woman was left paralyzed after a robbery suspect attacked her at a Houston-area shopping center last month. Nhung Truong, 44, was in the process of making a withdrawal for a large sum of cash from her bank when the observing suspect reportedly followed her for 24 miles to a shopping center where he [...]

Editor's Note: This story has been updated to say that the incident took place in Cape Coral, Florida. The original story said that it occurred in Coral Springs. A Florida man was arrested over a shooting that erupted after he found his drunken roommate in his teenage daughter's bed... The incident unfolded on Wednesday morning [...]