Crime

The Dallas Police Department is downplaying the possibility that tens of thousands of missing video files will jeopardize recent or future criminal convictions, CBS Texas’ J.D. Miles reports. The problem has already delayed one murder trial but there’s disagreement over what the overall impact will be.  A judge’s decision to …

Lansing, Mich. — Although neighbors in Lansing describe the man police say was the Michigan State University gunman as generally quiet, they told CBS Detroit’s Andres Gutierrez gunfire was a common occurrence in the backyard of his father’s home. Authorities say Anthony McRae killed three students and wounded five others Monday …

“I did him so bad.” That’s what a South Carolina investigator on Monday testified that Alex Murdaugh had uttered between sobs during a recorded interview three days after Murdaugh’s wife and son were killed. But to others inside and outside the courtroom, it sounded like Murdaugh said, “They did him …

Honolulu — – A judge on Tuesday ordered a man released from prison immediately after his attorneys presented new evidence and argued that he didn’t commit the crimes he was convicted of and spent more than 20 years locked up for: the 1991 murder, kidnapping and sexual assault of a …

The man accused of attacking three NYPD officers with a machete on New Year’s Eve is facing federal charges, prosecutors announced. Trevor Bickford, 19, has been charged with attempting to kill officers and employees of the U.S. government, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New …

More than six decades after a young boy was found dead inside a bassinet box that had been abandoned on a road in Philadelphia, police have publicly identified his remains.  During a news conference held on Thursday morning, authorities announced that the child, who over the years came to be …

A wealthy Connecticut woman whose criminal case file was sealed from public view was sentenced Tuesday to one year in jail for secretly recording three people, including a minor, in a manner involving sexual desire.  Hadley Palmer, 54, of Greenwich, was led out of the state courtroom in Stamford in …

A University of Virginia football player who was seriously wounded in a shooting that killed three of his teammates has been released from the hospital. Brenda Hollins, the mother of running back Mike Hollins, tweeted early Monday: “Mike has been discharged!!! HALLELUJAH.” She asked for continued prayers “as he recovers …

A man fatally shot two Dallas hospital employees over the weekend after accusing his girlfriend who had just given birth of infidelity, authorities said. Jacqueline Pokuaa, a 45-year-old social worker, and Katie Annette Flowers, a 63-year-old nurse, were killed in Saturday’s shooting at Methodist Dallas Medical Center, according to police …

Several guns were recovered and three people were detained when authorities investigated a suspicious vehicle near the Capitol, U.S. Capitol Police said Wednesday. The three told officers they were there to deliver documents to the Supreme Court, Capitol Police said.  Tony H. Payne, 80, of Tunnel Hill, Georgia, was later …