CRIME

(Jim Talamonti, The Center Square) Federal and state officials are questioning Illinois sanctuary policies after a Jordanian national charged with illegal possession of Molotov cocktails was released on electronic monitoring while he was unlawfully present in the United States. Hamed Alsaidi, 31, was arrested in Mokena on August 1 and...

(Headline USA) The defense rested its case Friday in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial after eliciting several days of testimony about her mental state before and after she strangled her three young children. Prosecutors then began calling rebuttal witnesses in the trial, which is likely entering its final days. Closing...

(Headline USA) The former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch is mentally competent to stand trial as he faces sex trafficking charges after being hospitalized for months for dementia and Alzheimer’s symptoms, a federal judge ruled. U.S. District Court Judge Nusrat Choudhury, in her Thursday decision, concluded that Michael Jeffries “clearly possesses...

(Headline USA) The Texas prosecutor who oversaw Karmelo Anthony's conviction in a deadly stabbing at a high school track meet said Thursday that both sides had agreed to hold back evidence that risked further inflaming a case already boiling with racial tensions and death threats. That agreement is at the...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) Flock, a video surveillance company, is working to build privacy legislation in the United States based on the company’s policies. An emerging license-plate-reading camera company, Flock has faced intense scrutiny from lawmakers and the public in recent years over its tactics to monitor law enforcement...

(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...