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Detectives are struggling to connect with victims through thick masks, and investigators accustomed to wearing plainclothes are digging out their dusty uniforms for patrol duty as the coronavirus pandemic rages

The husband of a woman who vanished in 1981 has been charged with the woman’s murder 38 years later.

Human remains discovered in a wooded area have been confirmed as belonging to a missing college student who was the stepdaughter of a well-known UFC fighter, Alabama authorities announced Wednesday. The Auburn Police Department said the Department of Forensic Sciences confirmed the remains belong to Aniah Blanchard, 19. She was the stepdaughter of UFC fighter Walt Harris.

A judge has ruled the man accused of fatally stabbing a jogger in D.C. is now competent to stand trial, reversing an earlier ruling.

Three Chicago police officers were found not guilty Thursday of covering up the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.

“Don’t protest. Don’t take to the streets,” said William Calloway, who fought to get video of Laquan McDonald’s shooting released. “It’s time that we take to the polls.”

The two inmates charged with murder who broke out of a California jail over the weekend are back in custody, the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday.

A Chicago Board of Trade trader has been sentenced to 55 years in prison for the killing of a friend he’d known since childhood. A Cook County judge sentenced 38-year-old Michael Pelko on Friday for 37-year-old Izat Morrar’s July 2017 slaying.

An Elgin man is accused of distributing multiple videos of children being sexually abused and tortured.

A St. Charles man is accused of going to a home with plans to have sex with a 15-year-old girl he met online in the west suburb.

Five men found guilty of murdering a 15-year-old boy in a shocking and violent 2018 machete attack in a Bronx bodega that was captured on video received their lengthy sentences on Friday.

The city of Chicago on Wednesday released more than 6,500 pages of a long-secret Inspector General’s report on the 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald, making public for the first time hundreds of pages detailing the investigation into the shooting that rocked the city.