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Two Aurora police officers have returned to full duty nearly nine months after being wounded in a mass shooting at the Henry Pratt Company. Officer Adam Miller reported to the midnight shift Tuesday for the first time since being shot in the face during the Feb. 15 incident, which left six people dead and six more injured, Aurora police said.

If you woke up to a weird text that seemed totally out of place, you aren’t alone. A mysterious wave of missives swept America’s phones overnight, delivering confusing messages from friends, family and the occasional ex. Friends who hadn’t talked to each other in months were jolted into chatting. Others briefly panicked. A telecom vendor called Syniverse said a server...

A woman accused of hacking Capital One and at least 30 other organizations is a flight risk, a threat and should be kept locked up until her trial, U.S. prosecutors said in court documents filed ahead of a Friday detention hearing in Seattle. Paige Thompson, a former Amazon software engineer who goes by the online alias “erratic,” has a history...

A Honduran-born U.S. citizen says in a federal lawsuit that he was illegally held in a Louisiana jail for days because a sheriff’s office wrongly suspected he was in the country illegally. Lawyers for the New Orleans-based American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana filed the suit Wednesday in Baton Rouge on behalf of Ramon Torres. It says Torres was jailed...

A former Chicago police officer has been awarded nearly $2 million in her lawsuit alleging that the city retaliated against her for reporting a co-worker’s misconduct.

A suburban community grieves the loss of one recent graduate from Wauconda High School who was killed in an accident that also injured another woman Wednesday morning, officials said.

A suburban community grieves the loss of one recent graduate from Wauconda High School who was killed in an accident that also injured another woman Wednesday morning, officials said. NBC 5’s Dick Johnson reports.

A suspect in a jewelry store robbery is in federal custody thanks to the quick thinking of a good Samaritan.

A carnival worker is accused of killing two women in Tennessee whom he met through his job and the teenage daughter of a co-worker in Georgia, NBC News reported. James Michael Wright faces three capital murder charges, according to a statement from the Washington County, Virginia, Sheriff’s Office. The women were reported missing earlier this year and are said to...

The gunman who opened fire at a suburban Chicago manufacturing plant in February, killing five colleagues before he was killed by police, told a co-worker the morning of the shooting that if he was fired he was going to kill every other employee and “blow police up,” prosecutors said in a report released Monday.

The gunman who opened fire at a suburban Chicago manufacturing plant in February, killing five colleagues before he was killed by police, told a co-worker the morning of the shooting that if he was fired he was going to kill every other employee and “blow police up,” prosecutors said in a report released Monday. NBC 5’s Phil Rogers Investigates.

A man has been sentenced to more than 2 years in prison after pleading guilty to fatally stabbing a co-worker at a meat plant in northwest suburban Hampshire.

Jorge Rios, 33, of Jersey City, was arrested and charged with murder, kidnapping and aggravated sexual assault, officials say. Wale Aliyu reports.

Carolina Cano, 45, was found dead in the lake in Lincoln Park. Checkey Beckford reports.

Enhanced security is expected to continue around the New Jersey park where a nanny was found dead in a lake last week, apparently kidnapped and strangled by a stranger when she left home to exercise two weekends ago. Calling the death of 45-year-old Carolina Cano a “stranger on stranger attack,” Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop reaffirmed Monday the increased security...

Chicago police shared a heartfelt and emotional note Thursday from the partner of a recently slain officer.

An Amtrak worker killed himself in a Cadillac SUV after shooting his supervisor at the railroad’s Sunnyside Yard in Queens and fleeing the scene Thursday, officials say.

A genealogy database used to match a family’s DNA with evidence found at a 1973 crime scene has led investigators to identify the long-dead suspect in the strangulation killing of a young married couple, a Montana sheriff said Monday. Linda and Clifford Bernhardt, both 24, were killed at their Billings-area home in a case that would stymie investigators for decades.