A grand jury decision not to indict a New York policeman over a fatal chokehold underscores how difficult it is to charge an officer in the United States, even when the tactic appears to contradict police department policy and is caught on video.
After the explosive ending of Season 9, "Bones" will return on-screen three months after the events of the previous season. Booth is still in jail and is awaiting trial of the murders of the FBI agents who attacked his home.
Indian officials said an American tourist was gang -raped by a group of men in a hill resort in the northern part of the country. The woman was picked up by three men in a truck on Monday night while hitchhiking back to her guest house in Manali, a town in Himachal Pradesh state, police said. She had been visiting friends, and reportedly was unable to find a taxi cab home.
A man fatally shot another man, then killed himself at a day care center in Gatineau, Quebec on Friday. All 53 children were safe and unharmed, and police would not say whether any had witnessed the killings, Gatineau Police Chief Mario Haren said.
Javaris Crittenton, a former Georgia Tech stand-out guard, who was drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers, was indicted Tuesday on charges of murder and gang activity in Atlanta.
John Hileman, a Houston-based assistant U.S. attorney, has reportedly left a case involving memebers of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, citing "security concerns,"
The authorities in Texas have launched a massive manhunt, using helicopters and dogs in hopes of finding two inmates, who escaped from jail Tuesday morning. Brian Allen Tucker and John Martin King, who escaped from Hopkins County Jail in Sulphur Springs, Texas, at around 8:30 a.m.
Ohio police said that Reshad Riddle killed his father, Richard with a single shot from a handgun on Sunday afternoon at the Hawatha Church of God in Crist in the city of Ashtabula after an Easter service on Sunday. The 25-year-old son reportedly was yelling about God and Allah after the killing.
Mark Miscavish, who retired from the Pennsylvania state police in 2011, killed his estranged wife Traci Miscavish on Thursday morning at the County Market where she worked.
Police have arrested the gunman who killed one man and shot three other people in a Coney Island housing project on Friday, reported by New York Post. The cops took gunman Joseph Brown into custody at his friend's apartment at about 6 a.m. Saturday morning. His specific charges were pending, as of Saturday afternoon, according to the Associated Press.
The exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky has been found dead at his home in Surrey on Saturday, the BBC News reported,and his family has confirmed. It is not yet known how the 67-year-old has died, though suicide is what has been first suspected as the cause. He has been a wanted man in Russia for quite some time. In the past years, he survived numerous assassination attempts.
The Philadelphia Police Department released dramatic video of a gunman firing repeatedly into a Philadelphia Chinese restaurant and the ensuing struggle that left three people injured.
Prosecutor Juan Martinez has spent the better part of the last two trial days going after key witness, Richard Samuels who is the psychologist who diagnosed the defendant, Jodi Arias with post-traumatic stress disorder. While Samuels diagnosed Arias with post-traumatic stress disorder, he also said he failed to re-administer his test after Arias admitted she lied during her first examination.
In the early hours of Friday morning, a gunman opened fire on police officers in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles before barricading himself in his house, shooting his wife and then killing himself.
The Garland, Texas police department fired officer Patrick Tuter for killing an unarmed suspect, shooting at him 41 times following a car chase last summer. Tuter claims that he feared for his life while pursuing Michael Vincent Allen.
Angela Nolen, the Virginia kindergarten teacher hired inadvertently an undercover police, believing he was a hitman, in a plot to kill her ex-husband, Paul Strickler. Nolen was busted along with her friend, Cathy Bennett, a 37-year-old nurse at her school, in a scheme worth about $8,500 to knock off her ex-beau
Jodi Arias, the woman accused of the brutal stabbing, shooting and killing of her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander, resumed on Tuesday after a 5-day absence. On Wednesday, for the first time, she began describing the day she killed him, claiming it was out of self-defense.
Just a month after winning NCAA football's national championship game, four members of the University of Alabama's team have been arrested after a pair of campus robberies. All of the accused are freshman.
