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Surveillance video caught the moment a New York City pedestrian — whom the U.S. Department of Justice dubbed a "good Samaritan" — bravely body-blocked a gun-toting suspect running from NYPD officers last week, which led to the suspect's arrest. Read more...

A security guard is being hailed as a hero who possibly thwarted a mass shooting after he tackled an armed man in a devil mask about to enter a famous strip club in Tampa, Florida. The incident unfolded on Sunday morning at about 1:15 a.m. at the Mons Venus adult entertainment club when police said [...]

A 25-year-old man was ordered held on a $3 million bond after he was charged with sexually assaulting a woman at gunpoint in Riverwoods and later allegedly threatening her mother. Matthew R. Aronson, 25, of Palatine, was charged with three counts of criminal sexual assault, two counts of aggravated domestic battery, cyberstalking and electronic harassment [...]

Prosecutors say a 42-year-old man threw a child into a wall and then pushed another child down concrete steps at a residence in Round Lake Beach. Jason D. Stackhouse, 42, of Round Lake Beach, was charged with two counts of domestic battery causing bodily harm and two counts of domestic battery physical contact. Read more...

Mexico’s government has embarked on a spirited campaign to enlist Caribbean nations in a joint effort to sue American gun manufacturers, blaming them for crime and security problems affecting the two intended litigants. The unusual but ambitious move is already gaining some level of traction, with at least three of the 15-regional member states in [...]

A SWAT team found a gunman dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after the man allegedly pointed a rifle at officers, leading to a barricade situation in Antioch. The incident began around 6:40 p.m. Friday in the 600 block of Hillside Avenue in Antioch. Read more...

A Wisconsin man caused an officer to suffer injuries after he fled from police and resisted arrest before biting a second officer in Waukegan, prosecutors said. Demetreon Akbar, 26, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was charged with two counts of aggravated battery to a peace officer, two counts of resisting a peace officer causing injury and domestic [...]

Federal authorities have charged three suspects suspected of committing armed robberies in the Chicago area, including one where a gunman beat and injured a clerk during a robbery in Lake Villa. Ricky Taylor-Alexander, Keion Feazell and Dajion Ward were charged earlier this month in the U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois with interference with [...]

During a Tuesday gun control announcement, President Joe Biden asked Attorney General Merrick Garland to act where Congress has not and take the U.S. “as close as possible” to universal background checks. The Guardian reported that Biden continues to call on Congress to pass universal background check legislation but noted that he is not waiting [...]