California governor Jerry Brown has signed legislation for a new law designed to guard people of color against racial profiling at the hands of police…

The Department of Justice is preparing to release about 6,000 nonviolent inmates from federal prison at the end of the month.

A Maryland woman’s death after a botched butt surgery in a New York basement has been labeled a homicide, The New York Daily News reports.…

UPDATED: Thursday, October 1, 2015 3:00 PM EST   The shooter has been taken into custody, a Douglas County commissioner confirmed to CNN. The number…

A block of shootings in Chicago left six people dead and eight others injured earlier this week, including an 11-month-old baby and a 2-year-old boy,…

Despite what appears to be an increase in violent crime and murder in major U.S. cities, the FBI reports that those rates have dropped since last year.

Romechia Simms, the Maryland mother who was found pushing her dead son on a swing for two days earlier this year, has been charged with…

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Violence erupted early Monday ahead of New York City’s West Indian Parade, claiming the life of a 24-year-old male and critically injuring a lawyer appointed…

A Confederate flag supporter ran over a boy with his car, causing many to believe the beating the man got from witnesses was race-related.