Crime and Public Safety

The Monterey County Sheriff said they are investigating the circumstances of two deaths and two injuries in a shooting that occurred shortly after midnight on Monday in a rare situation that shut down Moss State Landing Beach.

The Department of Homeland Security says an illegal immigrant that was involved in a fatal crash that killed a Connecticut college hockey player, should not have been in the country after being deported twice from the United States. 

Lindsay Clancy returned to court Monday morning for a hearing that could help determine the future of her criminal case following a September mistrial, when jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict.

Bailee Rios, the woman charged with two counts of second-degree murder in a fatal Metro bus crash, appeared in court Monday to set a date for her preliminary hearing. She remains behind bars on a $4.1 million bail.

Savannah Guthrie shared an emotional plea marking nine months since her mother, Nancy Guthrie, was taken from her Tucson-area home.

An early morning fire damaged the headquarters of a Mississippi police department that has faced months of public outrage after an officer shot and killed a 1-year-old boy. 

Fairfield, California Police confirmed on Saturday that a 31-year-old woman was killed in a shooting that injured six others at a Halloween-themed store in Northern California that happened just hours before the holiday. 

California doctor Violetta Mailyan was sentenced to 15 years in prison for running what federal officials call the largest Medicare Botox fraud scheme in U.S. history.

75-year-old Hanh Nguyen faces felony animal cruelty charges after surveillance video allegedly caught her luring her own puppy under a minivan before running it over in Santa Ana.

A massive, multi-agency undercover operation in Polk County led to the arrest of 281 people facing nearly 500 new criminal charges targeting online child predators and human trafficking operations.

The U.S. Embassy in Moscow issued a security alert Saturday warning people of a potential "mass casualty event" at the Tsaritsyno Museum Reserve in Moscow.

Two suspects, including the victim's boyfriend, are in custody on suspicion of murder in connection with the death of 38-year-old Christina Downer, the sister of former 'SNL' writer Jimmy Fowlie, authorities announced.

Frustrated neighbors said this is the third time the property has caught fire and are demanding the city step in to force its demolition.

A mother fighting off an intruder near Southern Avenue and Miller Road led Buckeye Police to uncover an alleged online conspiracy between her fiancé and the suspect.

An Egyptian national pleaded guilty to an antisemitic Molotov cocktail attack in Boulder that killed one person and injured seven others.

A police chase in Iowa ended in a violent crash early Wednesday, when a fleeing SUV slammed into the cab of a FedEx truck at an intersection.

A month after surviving a botched execution attempt in Tennessee, Christa Pike is speaking out from prison.