CRIME

(Alan Wooten, The Center Square) “No serious dispute” is possible against an arrangement of seashells spelling out 86 47 on a North Carolina beach as a potential threat against President Donald Trump, says the U.S. Department of Justice. Former FBI Director James Comey posted a photograph from the Outer Banks...

(Headline USA) Five news reporters and two members of the military who were invited to an event at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California were briefly detained at gunpoint by security officers who thought they were gate crashers, according to local news reports. The incident happened Monday ahead of an...

(Headline USA) An airplane pilot died Wednesday after a violent collision with a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter near a runway at a small airport, but both state troopers aboard the helicopter survived, authorities said. The plane was coming down on the runway and veered into the helicopter that was near...

(Headline USA)  Hundreds of Lindsay Clancy supporters, many wearing pink clothing emblazoned with phrases such as “Believe,” “She Needed Help” and “Peace For Lindsay,” gathered Thursday outside the courthouse where she is on trial in the killings of her three children. Several of the 300 women, and a few men,...

(Headline USA) Federal agents seized electronic devices from former Rep. Eric Swalwell and searched his Washington home as part of an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct by the ex-Democratic congressman from California, according to The Associated Press. Swalwell’s devices were reportedly seized at the San Francisco airport on Saturday and...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Michael Caruso, the suspended clerk of courts for Palm Beach County, remained behind bars for another night after authorities charged him with sexually abusing a young relative, according to a CBS News report. Caruso, who previously oversaw the county's clerk's office, appeared in court restrained...

(José Niño, Headline USA) A Texas federal judge has struck down the Biden administration's signature restriction on untraceable firearms, finding the regulation violates two separate constitutional guarantees roughly 17 months after the Supreme Court let it stand on narrower grounds. Chief U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor of Fort Worth ruled...

(Headline USA) The judge who presided over Texas teenager Karmelo Anthony's murder conviction was removed from the case Wednesday ahead of a key hearing to decide whether to grant a new trial in the fatal stabbing of a 17-year-old athlete at a high school track meet. The removal was a...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) A hurdle to adding the final country to the list of temporary protected status terminations has been eliminated as the Trump administration continues to crack down on immigration, with refugee numbers at a record low. A Boston judge, Brian Murphy, lifted a final administrative stay,...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Gov. Greg Abbott is pushing back against a request to extradite a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in custody in Texas, saying he doesn’t trust Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. Abbott has been critical of Walz over the past year in response to extensive welfare...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Law enforcement found possible pipe bomb parts when searching the residence of Tyler Robinson and his roommate, Lance Twiggs, two days after Robinson allegedly shot conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10, according to newly publicized records. The previously unpublicized information about the possible explosives components...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The DOJ Inspector General released a report Wednesday about a retired FBI special agent in charge who accepted a gift in violation of bureau policies, and who also pointed a gun at a colleague. According to the DOJ Inspector General's report, the special agent in charge...