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A Leavenworth, Kansas man is in custody after allegedly killing his two sons and abducting his two young daughters. KSHB’s Rae Daniel reports.

Denver’s STAR pilot program recognizes that a mental health worker and a paramedic may be better suited to respond to some 911 calls than police.

Just days before he was supposed to start playing professional basketball overseas, Aswad Thomas was shot twice in his back, ending his career. Today, he is managing director of Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice, and working to mobilize other crime victims to use their votes this November to push for services like trauma recovery centers and criminal justice reforms.

Police are searching for suspects after the shooting behind a spa. Derrick Ward reports.

The search continues for the person who shot a postal worker delivering mail in Woodbridge.
Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder explains what happened and why postal police officers were told not to respond the shooting.

A violent week in Baltimore has ended with at least 45 people shot, 11 of them fatally, according to police data. Shootings between Sept. 6 and Sept. 13 came during the end of a summer when violence in the city fluctuated, The Baltimore Sun reported. On Friday, local elected officials and community members of the Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello neighborhood were stunned following…

Maryland football coach Mike Locksley is pleading with the Howard County community to help find his son’s killer. Three years after his death News4’s Chris Gordon reports for Locksley the unsolved murder feels like an open wound.

President Trump announced a surge of federal law enforcement into American communities “plagued” by violent crime. But many who fear to call the cops during these times ask, does this initiative work? Dominique Johnson, the Senior Director of Community Engagement at the Center for Policing Equity joins LX News to break down her findings on city crimes and if this...

“Park Predators” is a new podcast that takes a closer look at true crime cases from national parks in Canada and the U.S. Investigative journalist and host Delia D’Ambra joined LX News for #TrueCrimeTuesday to discuss the new series.

President Donald Trump is painting a dystopian portrait of what Joe Biden’s America might look like, asserting crime and chaos would swallow communities should the former vice president win the White House in November

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he is sending federal law enforcement agents to Chicago and Albuquerque to combat violent crime. The agents will come from several agencies, including the FBI, DEA and DHS, to help execute “Operation Legend.” Agents have already been sent to Kansas City.

A Pennsylvania man who said he fatally beat his 92-year-old father in their home because he believed his father was a vampire has been sentenced to 10 to 30 years in prison. Douglas Novak pleaded guilty but mentally ill last November to murder, arson, reckless endangerment and risking a catastrophe charges. Authorities have said he fatally beat Frank Novak with…

Prosecutors accused a man of conspiring with his new wife to keep the bodies of her children hidden on his rural Idaho property

Cyntoia Brown Long says sex trafficking is often not “black and white” and there is no “perfect victim,” as evidenced by her own case and the ongoing case of Chrystul Kizer, a teenager who is accused of killing her alleged sex trafficker and was released on bond last week.

A 16-year-old has been charged with four murders and a number of attempted murders. DC Police say they don’t see many cases like this. News4’s Pat Collins reports.

The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office had been looking for a 26-year-old Mason James Lira, who allegedly shot a deputy and killed a homeless man Wednesday.

Relatives say the two bodies found on an Idaho man’s property are those of two children who have been missing since last year. The remains were discovered on the property of Chad Daybell, who married the children’s mother.

The coronavirus hasn’t been kind to car owners

Some privacy advocates are concerned that police are inadvertently helping Ring build a massive crime database.