How one city’s officials are reducing violent crime – CBS News Watch CBS News Violent crime is dropping in the United States, according to a new report. That includes a 23% decline in murders in Baltimore, a city that has long struggled with violent crime. The city’s leaders are addressing the root causes of crime…
Nearly 60 felony cases will be dropped in a small Alabama town because they were compromised by what a grand jury called a “rampant culture of corruption” in the local police department, according to a statement on Wednesday. The grand jury determined that 58 felony criminal cases had been tainted by corruption in the Hanceville…
A joint operation with Davidson County deputes and ICE led to nearly 100 people detained in the Nashville area over the weekend, including an alleged gang member. The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County has released a full timeline of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation that led to the arrest of dozens…
A man who hit and killed a county deputy with his car on Friday is the father of a teenager who was shot and killed by a Cincinnati police officer a day earlier, police said. Authorities said the crash appeared to be intentional. The driver of the car, 38-year-old Rodney Hinton Jr., was charged with…
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – U.S. Olympic sprinter Fred Kerley walked out of the Broward County Main Jail on Friday night while he had two pending cases in Miami-Dade County court. Leer en español Records show Kerley, 29 — who won silver at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and bronze at the 2024 Games in Paris —…
An Army combat veteran whose Gulf War experience triggered severe mental problems was executed Thursday evening in Florida for the 1998 shotgun slayings of his girlfriend and her three young children. Jeffrey Hutchinson, 62, was pronounced dead at 8:15 p.m. following a lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke. He was the fourth person…
Ayla Gonzalez Salinas, 20, was charged with having had sex with a child aged between 12 and 16 after they reportedly met one another at a funeral in November last year Ayla Gonzalez Salinas was charged following the alleged incident(Image: PBSO) A woman is alleged to have raped an underage boy multiple times after she…
Those involved in an apparent hazing scheme in upstate New York have been given a few days to turn themselves in, or face kidnapping charges for the incident that authorities say targeted younger members of the Westhill High School boys lacrosse team. Eleven students who allegedly played a part in the event were given 48…
Idaho prison officials must let media witnesses at executions watch as lethal injection drugs are prepared and administered to a condemned person, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Debora K. Grasham ordered the Idaho Department of Correction to provide the audio and visual access for any executions that occur while a First…
An attempt to transport a shipment of counterfeit cigarettes valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars was smoked out in Texas over the weekend. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Laredo Port of Entry intercepted and seized the shipment, which would have been valued at more than $729,000 if the cigarettes were sold…