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An 18-year-old Twin Cities resident was arrested at gunpoint in Richfield, Minnesota, after allegedly planning a mass casualty attack at the Mall of America and pledging allegiance to ISIS.
Alabama is scheduled to execute Jeffery Lee for a 1998 double murder at a rural pawn shop, months after a judicial ruling blocked the state from using nitrogen gas.
Northern Territory Police have arrested three men in Wadeye after a vehicle was stolen from RAAF Base Darwin, triggering an alleged crime spree across the Greater Darwin region.
An 18-year-old man accused of assaulting two young boys at Belconnen Mall has accumulated 40 police involvements over two years, prosecutors told the ACT Magistrates Court.
Law enforcement officials in Philadelphia are actively investigating a residential property in the Olney neighborhood tied to five missing women and a father-son duo.
Newly released footage and transcripts from Minneapolis detail the Sept. 2 shooting that left two residents dead and five others injured, including two police officers.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent accused of shooting a Venezuelan national in Minneapolis during an operation has been arrested after an eight-month delay involving state and federal authorities.
Shabtay Yaacoby, 56, has been handed the longest money laundering sentence in Australian history after a New South Wales District Court trial linked him to fraudulent digital currency schemes.
A New South Wales woman who fatally stabbed her two young sons in their Blue Mountains home has been found not criminally responsible due to severe mental health impairment.
A series of overnight explosions damaged small businesses in Frankfurt, adding to regional security concerns as Germany also grapples with record-high diesel prices and critical upcoming state elections.
South African law enforcement are investigating whether the discovery of a ninth body in the Ekurhuleni municipality is connected to a series of recent killings.
New South Wales Police have arrested a 24-year-old woman believed to be the mother of an infant found dead in an Auburn bin last month.
A U.S. court has sentenced Samir Ousman Alsheikh, a former high-ranking Syrian official under ousted President Bashar al-Assad, to 60 years in prison for torture and immigration fraud.
A 73-year-old California resident operating an unlicensed practice from his Selma home faces four felony counts of sexual assault involving separate clients.
A 17-year-old boy charged with murder in Tennant Creek faces a three-month delay as the Northern Territory's permanent forensic pathologist takes leave.
Eighteen suspects arrested in the July 2021 killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse were extradited from Haiti to the United States on Sunday, concluding a stalled local judicial process and shifting the remaining prosecutions to Florida.
British prosecutors and London police have charged a 65-year-old man with genocide-related offenses stemming from the 1994 mass killings in Rwanda, marking a significant first-of-its-kind arrest for the UK.
Spanish and French customs authorities have intercepted a yacht carrying over two tonnes of cocaine off the coast of Galicia, resulting in five arrests and dismantling a logistics network linked to Balkan drug cartels.
A dangerous driver who fled to Ireland after crashing into a car in Wrexham and killing 47-year-old Lydia La Polla has been sentenced to 13 years in prison.
South African police have charged two women with premeditated murder following the discovery of Jabulile Ntimba's body east of Johannesburg, as investigators probe a total of nine recent killings that have reignited national outrage over gender-based violence.
Following a major fire at the Grand Burstin Hotel in Folkestone that forced hundreds to evacuate, two individuals have been arrested on suspicion of arson and later released as inquiries continue.
A University of Massachusetts Dartmouth freshman football player was killed and another wounded during a weekend stabbing in Providence, Rhode Island. Another student has been arrested and charged with murder.
Michael Desronvil, the lone holdout juror in the high-profile Lindsay Clancy murder trial in Massachusetts, said in a statement that he had no doubts about her criminal responsibility during deliberations.
Trinidad and Tobago has concluded its state of emergency, which granted sweeping powers to detain individuals without charge, following intense criticism from legal experts and human rights concerns over mass arrests.
The murder trial of former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon has begun in Sydney, with the Crown alleging he developed an obsessive infatuation before fatally shooting television presenter Jesse Baird and his boyfriend Luke Davies in February 2024.
Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia has publicly disclosed that she was raped in August while repairing a campaign sign in Arizona.
A Vermont jury has found Jason Eaton guilty of attempted murder for shooting three Palestinian college students in 2023, rejecting his insanity defence.
South African police are investigating potential connections after the bodies of nine women were discovered in the Ekurhuleni municipality over a two-month period, sparking widespread fear and anger.
A motorist in Rhondda Cynon Taf assisted a police officer pursuing a fleeing suspect by telling him to "get in" her red Nissan Micra, leading to the arrest and subsequent jailing of the driver.
A Northern California Sikh truck driver survived being stabbed 17 times during an unprovoked attack at a Wyoming rest stop, prompting concern from community advocates and lawmakers over potential bias and rising rhetoric.
A British auditor and mother of two kidnapped in Malawi has been rescued by police following a shootout that left four alleged abductors dead and a senior officer wounded.
Australian national Simon Peter Carman has pleaded not guilty in a Thai court to charges including intentional murder and concealing a body following the death of 17-year-old Tunchanok Donhomla in Pattaya.
Illia Bilyk, a 21-year-old Ukrainian national, has pleaded guilty at Thames Magistrates' Court to five counts of racially and religiously aggravated criminal damage for spraying abusive graffiti on east London mosques. According to BBC reporting and police findings, the acts are tied to a broader Russian state-backed sabotage and provocation network that also directed arson attacks connected to former Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.
A Florida woman accused of driving across the country to fire a rifle at the Beverly Hills-area home of music superstars Rihanna and A$AP Rocky has been indicted on 14 felony counts, including attempted murder.
South African police have recovered the body of a woman near an airport east of Johannesburg, marking the ninth such discovery in the area over a two-month period and intensifying fears of a serial killer.
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