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The coronavirus hasn’t been kind to car owners

Some privacy advocates are concerned that police are inadvertently helping Ring build a massive crime database.

A prominent Massachusetts doctor has been arrested after his wife was found dead near their Dover home on Saturday night.

There’s a troubling new reality for law enforcement in the age of the coronavirus

Outrage is spreading over a shooting of a black man that led to murder charges more than two months later against a white father and son, but “all that matters is what the facts tell us,” Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Vic Reynolds said Friday.

Two 911 calls made just before the February shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery were released. Gregory McMichael and Travis McMichael were arrested and charged with the murder of Arbery on Thursday.

Two women have been charged with stealing items from a Walgreens in San Francisco and escaping by coughing at employees and claiming to have the coronavirus

The coronavirus pandemic and its social repercussions are fueling violence, both by frustrated individuals and domestic terrorists, according to a new intelligence report by the Department of Homeland Security obtained by NBC News.

In Chicago, one of America’s most violent cities, drug arrests have plummeted 42% in the weeks since the city shut down, compared with the same period last year. Part of that decrease, some criminal lawyers say, is that drug dealers have no choice but to wait out the economic slump. “The feedback I’m getting is that they aren’t able to...

As Norwegian American Hospital, a safety-net facility in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood, treats coronavirus, the CEO said his biggest worry is not capacity, but staffing. NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup reports on several nurses leaving for positions at McCormick Place for more money.

Through their union, Teamsters Local 700, employees of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County say they are working without enough sanitizer, supplies and effective leadership during the coronavirus pandemic. In a statement, the teamsters’ said Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown is to blame for a lack of leadership. “At the very least, Brown could provide all her…

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot addressed Chicago residents after Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced a statewide stay-at-home order to stop the spread of coronavirus.

At least one person has died and 17 others have been injured in weekend shootings across the city of Chicago, police said. In the city’s only fatal shooting of the weekend, a 21-year-old man was shot at approximately 2:35 p.m. in the 1800 block of North Mobile, police said. The victim sustained one gunshot wound to the side and transported…

Federal prosecutors in New York City have hit R Kelly with more criminal charges

Nine people have sustained injuries in shootings across the city of Chicago this weekend, police said. In one incident, six people were shot early Saturday morning in the Grand Crossing neighborhood on the city’s South Side. The shooting was reported at 4:37 a.m. in the 900 block of East 79th Street, according to preliminary information from Chicago police. After an…

A UPS worker suspected of threatening a mass shooting at the company’s facility in Silicon Valley has been arrested after investigators found numerous firearms and ammunition at his home, police said Monday.

Overall crime in Chicago decreased in February 2020 compared to the same month last year despite an eruption of gun violence, according to statistics released by Chicago police.

Kenneth Paterimos was killed outside a bar in River West Friday. Police have not charged the man for the attack, but told Block Club Chicago that witnesses reported seeing the man yell homophobic slurs at Paterimos.

In the wake of a midday stabbing Monday on Chicago’s 606 pedestrian trial, NBC 5 Investigates along with Telemundo Investiga,analyzed all crime data reported by the Chicago Police Department since 2016 – the first full year that the 606 trail was open. We found that in 2016 police reported 28 total criminal incidents on the trail – to date, an…

A Maryland woman will spend 180 days in jail for keeping 66 dogs in deplorable conditions in her home.