Police and firefighters in New Hampshire have responded to an unusual call — a moose trapped in a backyard swimming pool.

A convicted murderer who was released early from a Texas prison in 1993 and now faces two new murder charges has offered to enter a plea and to return to prison for 50 years in exchange for avoiding going to trial and facing a possible death sentence.

Brett Cross stayed outside the Uvalde Police Department headquarters to demand accountability for those responding to the May 24, 2022, shooting at Robb Elementary.

Lack of action from Uvalde City Council against city police department prompts protests outside PD headquarters

Vigils took place across the nation for Oklahoma teenager Nex Benedict, who died the day after a fight in a high school bathroom.

Police say an inert Cold War-era rocket of the type used to carry a nuclear warhead has been found in the garage of a home of a deceased resident in Washington state.

Authorities say the 21-year-old girlfriend of a man suspected of fatally shooting seven relatives and an eighth person last weekend in a Chicago suburb has been charged with obstruction for allegedly trying to prevent her boyfriend’s apprehension.

A New York police sergeant is believed to have fatally shot his wife and two sons before taking his own life inside their suburban home.

The police department in the small north woods Minnesota town of Ely faces the same challenges of recruiting and keeping officers as countless other law enforcement agencies across the country.

A New Jersey elementary school had an unexpected visitor over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

A fifth former Memphis police officer has pleaded not guilty to federal civil rights charges in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols after a traffic stop.

A Virginia town is settling a lawsuit that sprang from a Black and Latino Army lieutenant being pepper sprayed during a traffic stop.

Police who found a kitten in a stolen car say they have ascertained that the animal belongs to a juvenile suspect who was arrested after the car crashed.

Police who were examining a stolen car for evidence made a surprising find: a kitten.

A man who set a fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Illinois has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.

A Michigan police department says a white officer handcuffed a Black child who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

A Black woman from Arkansas who was held at gunpoint along with three family members when Texas police wrongly suspected their car was stolen says she decided to speak out after seeing video from a passerby and realizing two officers had aimed firearms at her 13-year-old son while his hands were up.

The former Uvalde Police Department lieutenant Mariano Pargas' discharge status hearing has been abated pending an investigation.

Authorities say a suspect has been arrested in connection with five separate shootings in the Phoenix metro area that left four people dead and a woman wounded.

A Tennessee man and his mother have been convicted of charges that they stormed the Capitol and brought plastic handcuffs into the Senate gallery during a mob's attack.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is seeking to pardon a U.S. Army sergeant who was convicted of murder in the 2020 fatal shooting of an armed protester during nationwide protests against police violence and racial injustice.

A Texas jury has convicted a U.S. Army sergeant of murder for fatally shooting an armed protester in 2020 during nationwide protests against police violence and racial injustice.

A Texas jury has convicted a U.S. Army sergeant of murder for fatally shooting an armed protester in 2020 during nationwide protests against police violence and racial injustice.

The Justice Department announced Wednesday that it will review the Memphis police department policies on use of force, de-escalation strategies and specialized units in response to the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols during an arrest.

Police say the man who was fatally shot by police after entering a Target store in Omaha, Nebraska, armed with an AR-15-style rifle had obtained the weapon just four days earlier at a sporting goods store.

A central Illinois man has been charged with setting fire to a Planned Parenthood clinic earlier this month.

The new head of Uvalde CISD police is focused on rebuilding the department after all of the officers were suspended in October.

A man suspected of opening fire inside a grocery store in Washington state, killing one person and injuring another, was a suspected shoplifter who appeared to be battling mental illness.

Police in Texas have arrested a man who was accused of stabbing a restaurant manager with a pocketknife after being told he needed to wear a mask to protect against the spread of the coronavirus.

A Texas man linked to the “boogaloo” movement who livestreamed threats to kill police was sentenced Friday to 50 years in prison after being convicted of attempted murder of a peace officer.

Investigators are looking into whether a Texas man was inspired by foreign terrorists when he fatally shot a Lyft driver in a Dallas suburb and opened fire in the police station of another suburb where officers shot him.

Police in west Michigan handcuffed a real estate agent, his client and that man’s 15-year-old son after a neighbor wrongly reported that the three Black people were breaking into a home.

A man charged with fatally shooting two young people inside a Southern California movie theater was accompanied by three friends who told investigators they were alarmed because they believed he had brought a gun into the cinema.

A young TikTok star who had been on life support after being shot inside a Southern California movie theater has died.

A young man who had been on life support after being shot inside a Southern California movie theater has died.

Police say they have arrested a man in connection with a shooting that killed an 18-year-old woman and seriously wounded a 19-year-old social media influencer as they watched “The Forever Purge” at a Southern California movie theater.

The former host of the “To Catch a Predator” TV series turned himself in Friday after a Michigan judge issued a warrant for his arrest for no-showing at a court hearing to explain why he had not given a defense lawyer more footage of a police sting operation.

Police say a deadly weekend mass shooting in Austin's famed entertainment district arose from a feud between two groups of Central Texas teenagers.

According to an arrest warrant in Austin, Texas, the son of former cyclist Lance Armstrong has been charged with sexual assault from 2018 when he was 18.

In this Thursday, March 11, 2021, photo provided by the Austin (Texas) Police Department is Christopher Taylor. Taylor, an Austin police officer charged with murder in the fatal shooting last year of an unarmed Austin man was booked into jail and released on bond Thursday, March 11, 2021. (Austin Police Department via AP)AUSTIN, Texas – A Texas police officer charged with murder in the fatal shooting last year of an unarmed Austin man was booked into jail and released on bond Thursday, authorities said. The officer fatally shot him with a rifle in April as he drove away after another officer shot him with a beanbag gun. After asking him repeatedly to step away from the vehicle, an officer shot Ramos with a beanbag bullet.

A Rochester police officer has been placed on administrative duty after using pepper spray on the woman, authorities said Friday. Ad“Both incidents involved Black mothers. Both involved Black children. Both involved Black people obviously in crisis. Both involved officers using pepper spray on or around a Black child,” PAB Chair Shani Wilson said during a video news conference Friday.

The Aurora Civil Service Commission issued a decision Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, upholding the firings of officers Marrero, Dittrich and Jason Rosenblatt over this and similar photos. Police Chief Vanessa Wilson fired the three officers last year over two photos taken at a memorial to McClain two months after his death. AdDittrich texted the photos to two officers who stopped McClain — Rosenblatt and Nathan Woodyard — to try to cheer up Woodyard, authorities said. Besides the neckhold, McClain was injected with the sedative ketamine. Rosenblatt initially tried to put McClain in the neckhold but couldn’t because of his position, so Woodyard did, authorities said.

A man wears a protective mask during the coronavirus pandemic in Times Square Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020, in New York. Small groups of revelers, some wearing glittery hats, filmed their distant view of Times Square on their phones and broke out in cheers at midnight. Preparing for the worst, the New York Police Department deployed its bomb-sniffing dogs and sand-filled sanitation trucks intended to guard against explosions. “It’s dead,” said Ali Jameel early Thursday, who owns a store a block from Times Square. “Coming to Times Square is a family tradition for some.

This undated photo provided by the Long Beach, Calif., Police Department shows one of two unique Australian monitor lizards that were stolen from a reptile shop in November 2019. (Long Beach Police Department via AP)LOS ANGELES – Police in California announced two arrests and the return of a pair of unique lizards that were stolen from a reptile shop last year. The Long Beach Police Department said Friday that the two Australian lace monitor lizards were stolen from JTK Reptiles in Long Beach in November, The Los Angeles Times reports. Three people entered the store, broke into the cages holding the lizards and escaped to a waiting car, authorities said. Animal control handlers were called to recover the lizards before being returned to their owner, Long Beach Police Department spokesman Brandon Fahey said.

This undated photo provided by the Cape Girardeau, Mo., Police Department shows Nicholas Proffitt. Prosecutors have charged the 42-year-old man accused of setting fire to a Missouri mosque last week with a hate crime and other counts. (Cape Girardeau Police Department via AP)O'FALLON, Mo. – Prosecutors have charged a 42-year-old man accused of setting fire to a Missouri mosque last week with a hate crime and other counts. Proffitt, who is from Cape Girardeau, a city in southeastern Missouri across the border from southern Illinois, does not have a listed attorney.