CRIME

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) LaKesha Womack, the Democratic candidate to challenge Republican Rep. Tim Moore for his congressional seat in North Carolina, was recently discovered to have a pending felony charge on her record. According to court records, Womack’s charge stems from her failing to return a rental car in...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Justice Department is reportedly seeking a criminal indictment against Cassidy Hutchinson, who was the Democrat-controlled January 6th Commission’s “star witness” in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protest. The Washington Post and several other outlets have reported over the last few days that the...

(Headline USA) Jury selection is set to begin Tuesday in the federal trial in which Payton Gendron faces a potential death penalty for his alleged attack at the Tops Friendly Market in 2022, which killed 10 people and is believed to be the deadliest shooting targeting black people by a...

(José Niño, Headline USA) On Monday, the Justice Department announced charges involving 16 people in election related cases across the country, including alleged illegal voting by noncitizens, fraudulent voter registration, multiple voting, and an alleged attempt to cast a deceased person’s ballot. The cases span at least 10 federal districts...

(Headline USA) Federal agents searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home on Monday as part of a criminal investigation, according to public reports. The search was conducted by Homeland Security Investigations agents. More details about the investigation and its focus were not immediately clear, though Vice President JD Vance last May...

(Headline USA) A man whose toddler was among eight people killed in a mass shooting in Erie, Pennsylvania, said Sunday that the gunman was a grandfather who never seemed distressed or out of the ordinary. “I think that was a front for him,” Julius Windham said as he stood at a...

(Headline USA) A businessman wanted for years in the U.S. for allegedly paying bribes to top Venezuelan officials in exchange for lucrative state contracts in Venezuela has been taken into custody. Alvaro Pulido was indicted in Miami federal court in 2019 and again in 2021 as part of an investigation into...

(Headline USA) Authorities are charging Eric Lewis, 35, with homicide for the alleged killing of a police officer early Saturday morning, according to Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner. Shane Seiber, 40, was shot and killed in west Philadelphia after responding to a report of a man with a gun, police said....

(Headline USA) Four victims and the shooter have died following a potential murder-suicide in a rural Georgia home late Friday night. Officials say those involved were adult family members of the shooter, who died by suicide. They were found in the family's home on the outskirts of Douglas, a small city...

(Headline USA) An Anthropic artificial intelligence model submitted a false tip to a Philadelphia police website about an unsolved homicide case, authorities and Anthropic said. It's the latest example of AI models acting in unintended ways and manipulating government and other websites during tests. In a report Friday, Anthropic also disclosed...

(Headline USA) Christa Pike, who survived Tennessee’s attempt to execute her by lethal injection, has been moved back to prison, her attorneys said Saturday. Pike, 50, was discharged from the hospital and is back at the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center, the women’s prison where she was housed for 30 years,...

(Headline USA) Eight people were killed Friday in a shooting in Erie, Pennsylvania, police said. The shooter was also dead, and there was no threat to the public, the city said. Authorities didn't provide more details. “I have not seen anything like this in my 28-plus years,” Erie Police Chief Rick Lorah...