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14 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: October 30, 2026.
Jacksonville, St. Louis, Baton Rouge and Jackson won the Model Cities Initiative out of about 50 applicants. Attorney General Todd Blanche will visit each over the next 10 days.
Police Chief Todd Bettison said the Sunday morning shooting on the city's west side grew out of a fight, and that officers had been called to the same address seven times this year.
Terrebonne Parish deputies say Kaegan Jude Solet, 47, was taken into custody near the neighborhood early Sunday after a weekend manhunt. Investigators say the killings were not random and that Solet has 'a link' to the victims.
Duane Davis rested his defense after two hours and three witnesses. Closing arguments in the 30-year-old Las Vegas case are set for Monday.
Three people were killed and seven wounded at a Twin Falls, Idaho, restaurant on Saturday. The 24-year-old suspect died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after two bystanders returned fire.
Nearly 5,150 troops will stay in the capital at a cost of more than $3 million a day, even as studies find the deployment has had little to no effect on violent crime.
Illinois State Police say five relatives were gunned down across three scenes over the weekend and two other family members were critically wounded. Two teenagers are in custody.
WatchProsecutors began laying out DNA and rifle evidence against Tyler Robinson on Monday, with Kirk's widow and parents in the courtroom for the first time as a five-day preliminary hearing gets underway.
A 17-year-old opened fire on a crowd near Broadway on Thursday afternoon as revelers packed Midtown Manhattan; police say no one was struck by bullets, but a man was slashed in the neck.
A Long Island judge condemned the architect as 'a disgusting and small man' as the families of eight murdered women confronted him at an emotional sentencing hearing.
A Niskanen Center analysis concludes Trump's troop deployment trimmed petty property crime but left violent crime essentially unchanged — an expensive tool aimed at the wrong problem.
The rush for critical minerals used in drones and electric cars is triggering a new wave of illegal mining in the world's largest rainforest.
The victim was shot near the Pyramid of the Sun while on a guided tour with his family. Mexican police made an arrest within two hours.
With Keiko Fujimori leading at just 18.5% and crime dominating voter concerns, Sunday's chaotic Peruvian election is almost certain to produce a June runoff — and possibly another chapter of the country's chronic political dysfunction.