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A California Highway Patrol pursuit that started in Orange County Wednesday featured high speeds and eventually came to a crashing halt on the 57 Freeway in Diamond Bar, before a woman exited the vehicle and took off running through a nearby neighborhood and even entered a home.

A heart-pumping pursuit Tuesday left at least three people hospitalized after a driver in a large motorhome with two dogs inside stormed through San Fernando Valley neighborhoods, crashing into cars and tearing off one side of the stolen vehicle when she hit a tree.

Missouri can execute an inmate who argued his rare medical condition will result in severe pain if he is put to death by lethal injection, the Supreme Court ruled Monday. The justices split along ideological lines in ruling 5-4 against inmate Russell Bucklew, who is on death row for a 1996 murder.

A driver busted out some dance moves before he was arrested at the end of a chase Tuesday night on several Southern California freeways.

A police pursuit of an SUV carrying an armed robbery suspect ended in a crash and an attempted carjacking in Echo Park after traveling through Glendale, La Cañada Flintridge and downtown LA Tuesday afternoon.

Almost a year has passed since the Nov. 5, 2017, shooting in this town southeast of San Antonio, a rural place anchored by the small church. The congregation, led by pastor Frank Pomeroy, 52, and his wife, Sherri, 49, has turned the sanctuary into a memorial while a larger church is being built next door.

Mosquitos drove a man out of the Wisconsin cornfield he was hiding in after police say he swiped more than $500 in liquor from a Piggly Wiggly supermarket and led authorities on a chase.

Police are working Sunday to determine what prompted a man to shoot his grandmother and wound another woman before he crashed his car and ran into a busy supermarket, where he held dozens of people hostage in a tense standoff with scores of heavily armed officers outside.

Sean Gerace was working in the backroom of a Trader Joe’s in Silver Lake Saturday afternoon when he heard screaming and gunfire.

An actor who had gone shopping with his girlfriend asserts that racial profiling led law enforcement to mistake him for a fleeing burglary suspect, and that it should not have taken several hours before the error was acknowledged and he was released.

Authorities say two dead bodies have been found at the Massachusetts home of a man charged with kidnapping, sexually assaulting and torturing a woman.

Four Jersey City police officers suspended after shocking video emerged showing them kicking and dragging a flaming bystander following a car chase and fiery crash have had their jobs reinstated.

Multiple southwest suburban schools were placed on soft lockdown Thursday afternoon for police activity in the area.

We are just getting word that all of the suspects involved in this police pursuit have been taken into custody. Schools in the area were on a soft lockdown while police looked for the suspects.

The Port of Los Angeles said Thursday it is reviewing security measures after a man fell from a crane and died following a high-speed chase and an hourslong standoff that was caught on camera.

An innocent man was beaten by cops after a police chase and shooting that ended in a fiery crash in Jersey City Sunday night, prosecutors say. Warning: The video is disturbing. (Credit: Erik Roberto).

The driver of a stolen big rig was taken into custody after leading California Highway Patrol officers on hourslong pursuit on Riverside County freeways Tuesday morning.

An emergency medical services supervisor has been fired for a Facebook post saying he was glad a 12-year-old black boy fatally shot by a white Cleveland officer was dead.

The three fugitives who broke out of their maximum security jail dorm early Friday in an elaborate escape that could be ripped from the pages of a Hollywood script were considered armed and dangerous as their criminal histories began to emerge.

Despite the grand jury decision not to charge a white patrolman in the killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, the case is far from over for the city of Cleveland, the officers involved in the shooting, or the black boy’s grief-stricken family. The family is suing the city, federal prosecutors are looking into possible civil rights charges against Timothy Loehmann and...