The second-degree manslaughter trial of a former Oklahoma volunteer deputy charged with killing an unarmed man is set for closing arguments and jury deliberations starting Wednesday.
A day after the charges against Leslie Merritt Jr. has been dropped, attorneys are seeking to unseal the records in Phoenix freeway shooting. Opening the documents will reportedly prove that their client is not guilty.
Samaria Rice, the mother of a 12-year old Tamir Rice, who was shot death by police in 2014, will receive $6 million from Cleveland. The police shot Tamir for holding a plastic-pellet gun, leading to disputes across the city over his death.
A typical Sunday Service was turned into a shocking shooting incident that left one church member of the Keystone Fellowship Church dead. Another member of the church is cooperating with the police as they continue their investigation on the incident.
Prosecutors handling the case of the San Bernardino shootings took unconventional ways in enlisting victims of the attack over the government's battle with Apple Inc.
Officer Peter Liang and his partner have been fired from the force. On Friday, a police officer from New York City was fired a day after a jury convicted his partner for manslaughter.
The Shelby County district attorney's office filed on Monday thd notice of its intent to seek death in the trial of 30-year-old Tremaine Wilbourn, an ex-convict accused of killing Officer Sean Bolton.
A suspended New Jersey police officer pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges he chased and gunned down his ex-wife last year while their 7-year-old daughter was in his car.
Rapper Future’s ex-bodyguard Michael Phillips, whose wife is 9 months pregnant, was shot and killed in his home. Future refuses to talk to cops for any information about the incident.
A $500,000 bond was granted by a judge for former South Carolina officer Michael Slager, who was charged with murder for shooting dead Walter Scott, an unarmed black man.
Governor John Kasich of Ohio expressed his thoughts regarding the 12-year old Tamir Rice who was shot dead in November 22, 2014. The governor called the Ohio grand jury's decision 'controversial.'
A grand jury declined to indict white officer Timothy Loehmann and his partner from the November 2014 shooting that killed 12-year-old, African-American Tamir Rice, for lack of evidence.
A white Chicago policeman who shot a black teenager to death was charged with murder on Tuesday in a prosecution hastened in hopes of averting renewed racial turmoil over the use of lethal police force that has shaken the United States for more than a year.
An Ohio prosecutor handling the fatal shooting by police of a 12-year-old boy while he played with a replica pistol was criticized by activists on Sunday for releasing two reports that called the shooting "reasonable" before any grand jury decision on charges had been announced.
St. Louis police fatally shot a black teenager on Wednesday who they say pointed a gun at them, and later faced angry crowds, reigniting racial tensions first sparked by the killing of an unarmed black teen in another Missouri town a year ago.
St. Louis County on Friday ended the state of emergency it had put in effect earlier this week for Ferguson, Missouri, and surrounding areas due to Sunday's violent street protests.
A former University of Cincinnati police officer charged with murder in the shooting death of an unarmed black man he had stopped for a missing license plate was released from jail on bond hours after an initial court appearance on Thursday.
