Attempted stick-ups turning into fatal shootings. Robbers ambushing victims on sidewalks. Small-time crooks making their first foray into felony crime with violent thefts.
A U.S. Army soldier stationed in Hawaii received the military's highest noncombat award for heroism Wednesday after he saved a woman from being beaten by a man last year in Wahiawa.
Police arrested a Baltimore man and accused him of beating and killing a father who was intervening in a confrontation that started between his teen son and another middle school student.
An 11-year-old D.C. boy whose robbery charges were dropped in June was arrested again on violent crime charges less than two weeks later, according to a news report.
Shoppers in San Francisco have seen convenience store products locked behind plastic cases, but now one Walgreens has gone as far as chaining its freezer doors shut.
The man known as the Sticky Note Bandit has now pulled off three heists in less than two weeks throughout the Houston area, according to federal authorities.
The Illinois Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the state's move to cashless bail is constitutional, clearing the way for a sweeping criminal justice law to take effect.
A man was shot and killed Monday night just outside the District of Columbia's Catholic University amid a rash of violent crimes by the college this month.
Pamela Smith was named Monday as the acting head of the Metropolitan Police Department by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, making her the District's first Black woman to serve as chief of police.
Two teenagers were caught separately defacing Rome's Colosseum in the past week, less than a month after a British tourist was detained for doing the same.