Crime

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland has ended a Trump-era restriction on investigations into police departments and issued a memo to all U.S. attorneys and other relevant staff outlining policies to address law enforcement.

The gunman in the deadly FedEx mass shooting in Indianapolis has been identified as Brandon Scott Hole, 19, but officials said his motive remained unclear even at least half of the eight victims were confirmed as members of the Sikh community.

Shane Belleville was charged with racist hate crimes for allegedly calling a group of children racist slurs while trying to run them over with his pickup truck in Holbrook, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston.

Alleah Taylor, the ex-girlfriend of former NFL player Chad Wheeler who claims he physically abused her, opened up about her allegations of brutal domestic violence in an interview on the "Tamron Hall" show.

A white driver attacked a Minnesota cop with his car and a hammer and lived to tell about it four days after Daunte Wright, who is Black, was gunned down during a traffic stop for having too many air fresheners in his car.

The gunman who killed five people, including a prominent doctor in South Carolina, his wife, and two grandchildren, was former NFL player Phillip Adams, according to the AP.

As if the allegations about a Trump-sympathizing Republican Congressman from Florida about trafficking at least one underage girl weren't bad enough, a new report says he also used drugs and paid women for sex.

The firing of seven detention officers involved in the in-custody death of Marvin Scott III is seen as "a good first step," but they were neither charged nor arrested for their roles at the Collin County jail in McKinney, Texas.

White supremacist Lee Mouat pleaded guilty to beating Devin Freelon Jr., a Black 18-year-old, in his mouth with a bicycle lock stemming from a racist encounter at a Michigan beach last June.

The eyewitness testimony of Donald Williams was at once confident, emotional and unflappable as Derek Chauvin's defense lawyer tried in vain to discredit him and get under his skin.

Black and Latino youth populations in detention centers grew while white non-Latino youth decreased during the pandemic, a new survey has found.

An attempted carjacking that led to the death of the driver has resulted in two teenage girls being charged with murder, sparking a larger discussion about characterizing the episode as an "accident."