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Byline: Samantha Schmidt A man was fatally stabbed in Rockville on Saturday afternoon, Montgomery County police said. Authorities have taken an adult male suspect into custody in connection with the [...]

Byline: Dana Hedgpeth A 31-year-old Baltimore man has been charged with negligent homicide and other charges in connection with a chase with another driver, who later died, and state police [...]

Byline: Hannah Sampson A man who was holding his granddaughter when she fell to her death from an open window in a cruise ship in Puerto Rico has agreed to [...]

Byline: Hannah Sampson Authorities in Puerto Rico have charged the grandfather of a toddler who fell to her death from an open cruise ship window with negligent homicide. On July [...]

Byline: Meagan Flynn The log seemed to fall from nowhere, plummeting from the sky to the exact spot where Victoria Schafer was at work with her camera, shooting pictures. Sitting [...]

Byline: Keith L. Alexander The driver of a tour bus who in December made an illegal left turn and struck two tourists in a downtown Washington crosswalk pleaded guilty Tuesday [...]

FLORIDA 2 more deputies fired for neglect in Parkland Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony said Wednesday that two more deputies were fired this week over their performance during last year's [...]

Byline: Timothy Bella The three children chasing their mother's SUV as it reversed through the pool parking lot weren't running to tell her they loved her or that she had [...]

Byline: Justin Wm. Moyer A Virginia woman was charged this week with negligent homicide after she allegedly struck and killed a District restaurateur with a vehicle in 2016. Armin Amin, [...]

Byline: Editorial Board IT'S HARD to know how much credibility to accord the remarks made in court the other day by a lawyer representing one of the two U.S. Park [...]

Byline: Martin Weil Police on Tuesday said arrests have been made in two of the three homicides that occurred in the District during and immediately after a particularly violent Memorial [...]

MICHIGAN Adoption agencies that reject gays lose funding Michigan will no longer fund adoption agencies that turn away parents who are LGBT because of religious objections, a move that was [...]

Byline: Kyle Swenson It was reportedly not a happy home. The couple lived on a tree-shaded street in Silver Spring Township, Pa. The house overlooked a creek that corkscrewed all [...]

TEXASChildren found locked in barn and dog cageDeputies on Tuesday discovered two malnourished children crammed into a locked dog cage and two more smeared with feces and urine in a [...]

Byline: Alex HortonThe group sat inside a stolen Chevrolet pickup when they spotted musician Kyle Yorlets outside his home in Nashville.They approached Yorlets, 24, and he gave up his wallet, [...]

Byline: Michael Brice-Saddler;Katie MettlerAuthorities have arrested a 21-year-old woman accused of running over a nail salon owner in an attempt to flee without paying for her $35 manicure, Las Vegas [...]

Byline: Isaac Stanley-Becker;Lindsey Bever;Eli RosenbergTeacher Kristin Kasinskas was at her home, in Gordon, Wis., on Thursday afternoon when a neighbor started frantically knocking on her door.The neighbor had been walking [...]

Byline: Kyle SwensonWhen the police officer sped into the small-coin laundromat located on a quiet intersection in Wausau, Wis., the mother's worst nightmare was already unfolding inside.According to a criminal [...]

Byline: Michael Brice-SaddlerThe arrest Friday of a man in the shooting death of a California police officer has renewed criticism of sanctuary laws, with a local sheriff suggesting that the [...]

Byline: Clarence Williams;Martin WeilA man has been arrested in the killing of a woman outside a Catholic church Friday in Montgomery County, county police said.Montgomery County police said they arrested [...]

Byline: Allyson Chiu Tammy Fox was driving along Pine Street, a quiet tree-lined road in Scranton, Pa., when suddenly her car started picking up speed. Zipping by cars parked along [...]

Byline: Alex Horton Maria del Carmen Venegas was on her way to deliver a baby boy, her fifth child, by Caesarean section in a planned operation Wednesday afternoon. Her husband, [...]

Byline: Meagan Flynn Updated The police found Israel Valles Flores bleeding on the roof and a bloodstained circular saw on the ground. The 37-year-old roofer was only supposed to be [...]

Byline: Meagan Flynn Chad Merrill, 25, the brand new father of a 5-month-old baby, was fatally shot in the parking lot of his favorite bar in York County, Pa., early [...]

Byline: Allyson Chiu It was 3 a.m. and Samantha Whitney Jones's 11-week-old son was crying. So, Jones did what many mothers would do: She sat down and tried to breastfeed [...]

Byline: Kyle Swenson The deputy medical examiner knew before knocking on the door. There was a grim scene waiting for Eric Tonsfeldt inside the single-story house set among the pine [...]

Byline: Kristine Phillips A fistfight among neighborhood gang members during an arts festival in Trenton, N.J., escalated into a mass shooting Sunday, leaving 22 people, including a 13-year-old boy, injured, [...]

Byline: Meagan Flynn When police arrived at the West Valley City, Utah, home of Tasman Maile in late May, they found his 2-year-old son on the floor of his bedroom, [...]

Byline: Meagan Flynn Matthew Haverly was incredulous. Passersby and a UPS driver just pulled a woman's body out of the creek across the street from his house -- a shocking [...]

CALIFORNIA Police halt marathon while chasing suspect A woman wielding a pellet gun prompted police to briefly shut down San Diego's Rock 'n' Roll Marathon on Sunday and halt thousands [...]

THE DISTRICT Death of 1-year-old ruled a homicide The death of a 1-year-old boy in Southeast on Wednesday was ruled a homicide Thursday, D.C. police said. Detectives are investigating the [...]

Byline: Mark Berman The 29-year-old charged with killing four people at a Waffle House in Nashville over the weekend left behind considerable evidence linking him to the violence, authorities said [...]

Byline: Peter Hermann;Paul Duggan More than three decades after investigators concluded a fire that killed a couple inside their Eckington rowhouse was an accident caused by a carelessly discarded cigarette, [...]

Byline: Marwa Eltagouri The second Wisconsin teenager who repeatedly stabbed a classmate to impress a mythical online character named 'Slender Man' was committed to 40 years in a mental hospital [...]

Byline: Marwa Eltagouri The Danish inventor at the center of the mysterious death of Swedish freelance journalist Kim Wall, whose dismembered body was found off the coast of Copenhagen in [...]

Byline: Dan Lamothe Five Navy officers involved in deadly ship collisions that killed a combined 17 sailors last year will face a variety of criminal charges, including negligent homicide, the [...]

Byline: Avi Selk A 28-year-old man playing a video game in his bedroom threw a fit, broke his headset, then picked up a gun and killed his mother, according to [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews Police arrested a Tennessee man after a 3-year-old allegedly used the man's gun to fatally shoot his 1-year-old daughter. Details were not immediately clear. The shooting [...]

Byline: Susan Svrluga;Lori Rozsa GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Three men were charged with attempted homicide after they argued with a group of people protesting a white nationalist's speech and fired a [...]

Byline: Avi Selk While Harleen Grewel burned in the passenger seat of a destroyed Infiniti on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, early-morning traffic inched through the single lane not engulfed in flames. [...]

Byline: Robert Barnes The lawyer told the Louisiana jury that the state would prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Robert McCoy had committed a gruesome triple homicide in 2008, murdering [...]

Byline: Dan Morse Authorities in Anne Arundel County, Md., said Friday they have found the bodies of three people killed in what they called gang-related homicides. Police Chief Timothy J. [...]

Byline: Peter Hermann Zion Kelly was walking home Wednesday when a man asked to use his cellphone. When the 16-year-old said no, the man flashed a gun and turned the [...]

Byline: Lindsey Bever There had been no formal reports of missing people -- not from family or friends or neighbors -- during the weeks, or even months, that police believe [...]

Byline: Martin Weil In several Washington-area jurisdictions, the annual number of homicides often runs into the double figures. But in Arlington County, Va., in a display of the differences that [...]

Byline: Hugh Hewitt All law students taking a First Amendment course, or even a constitutional law survey course, learn the rule of Brandenburg v. Ohio, a case that grew out [...]

Byline: Martin Weil A gang member and homicide suspect who the FBI placed on its list of Ten Most Wanted fugitives was arrested Friday in Northern Virginia, authorities said. The [...]

Byline: Rachel Siegel A 39-year-old Maryland man has been charged with negligent homicide in connection with a fatal car crash left one person dead in a fiery blaze Saturday. D.C. [...]

Byline: Martin Weil An MS-13 gang member wanted in connection with two homicides in Texas was captured Saturday in Arlington, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said. They said Douglas Alexander [...]

Virginia Wanted gang member arrested in Arlington An MS-13 gang member wanted in connection with two homicides in Texas was captured Saturday in Arlington, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said. [...]