CRIME

(Elyse Apel, The Center Square) Multiple law enforcement agencies joined together to execute warrants across the Twin Cities, raiding several locations Thursday. This comes as fraud investigations are ongoing throughout taxpayer-funded programs in Minnesota. “#FBIMinneapolis with federal and state partners conducted court-authorized investigative activity at multiple sites in ongoing efforts to...

(Headline USA) An experienced pilot was on a test run in a helicopter and a 22-year-old flight instructor with a student pilot from the United Kingdom were on another chopper when their two aircraft collided midair in Oregon and crashed into a farm field, killing all three. Details about the...

(Headline USA) Citing “new and developing evidence,” a prosecutor in Ohio dropped charges Friday against a man arrested in a shooting that wounded 12 people at a crowded neighborhood street festival in June. Eljay Crisp-Carr, 20, had been arrested and accused of multiple counts of attempted murder, felonious assault, gang...

(Headline USA) Four more people have been charged with participating in a criminal intimidation campaign against University of Michigan officials to try to force the school to cut financial ties to Israel, federal authorities said Friday. The new indictment comes nearly five months after eight pro-Palestinian activists were charged with...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Jack Teixeira, the former Massachusetts Air National Guard member who caused an international uproar when he leaked highly classified documents about the war in Ukraine, is suing the U.S. government for transferring him to the supermax prison in Florence, Colorado—widely considered the harshest detention center...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Police body camera footage has emerged of police serving a felony warrant on LaKesha Womack, the Democratic candidate to challenge Republican Rep. Tim Moore for his congressional seat in North Carolina. The body cam footage, obtained and published by Charlotte news station WSOC-TV, shows that police...

(Headline USA) A federal judge on Thursday set a September 2027 trial date for a man charged with attempting to kill President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner earlier this year. Cole Tomas Allen's trial is scheduled to start with jury selection on Sept. 7 in Washington,...

(Headline USA) An Egyptian man faces an additional life sentence after pleading guilty Thursday to federal hate crime and other charges for a deadly firebombing attack on demonstrators in Boulder, Colorado, last year. Mohamed Soliman is already serving life in prison plus hundreds of years of additional time after pleading...

(Headline USA) There was a shooting Thursday just outside the Republican Party of Virginia offices in Richmond. But it had nothing to do with the upcoming midterm elections, police said. The party said in a statement posted online that a woman was shot around 1:45 p.m. directly in front of the...

(José Niño, Headline USA) A breach of Department of Homeland Security records has exposed information concerning nearly 42,000 employees, revealing personnel assignments across immigration enforcement and other federal agencies. In a Wednesday report, Mikael Thalen of Straight Arrow said the disclosure included names, telephone numbers, email addresses, and job...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) On July 12, 2024, the FBI arrested a man for participating in an Iranian plot to purportedly assassinate U.S. officials, including Donald Trump. The man, Asif Merchant, had earlier in the year met with two undercover FBI agents, and tried hiring them as “hitmen.” At first,...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The New York Times reported Thursday that the FBI has had evidence for over 10 years that Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., likely married her brother to obtain a green card. “The F.B.I. and Department of Homeland Security investigated the marriage in summer 2016, during the Obama...