Crime

A Hawaii man has been arrested after DNA technology helped investigators identify him as a suspect in the 1992 slaying of a 15-year-old girl who was abducted in Northern California from a bus stop, raped and killed, authorities said. Karen Stitt was waiting for a bus in Sunnyvale when she …

A man accused of fatally shooting an Indiana police officer during a traffic stop had made a song about killing an officer, investigators said Monday. Carl Boards II was charged with murder and other crimes, a day after Elwood Officer Noah Shahnavaz was gunned down in the wee hours Sunday …

A 6-year-old girl was among three Iowa family members fatally shot while camping in a state park, apparently killed by a man from Nebraska who later turned the gun on himself, police said. The victims from Cedar Falls, Iowa — identified in a statement by the Iowa Department of Public Safety as …

A man who brutally killed an Arizona elementary school teacher after she bailed him out of jail will spend the rest of his life prison, a judge said Tuesday. Charlie Malzahn, 32, was given a life sentence with no chance of parole in Coconino County Superior Court. For family members …

Three officers were killed when a man opened fire on police attempting to serve a warrant at a home in Kentucky on Thursday night, authorities said. Four other people were injured at the scene in the rural area in a mountainous part of eastern Kentucky. The Floyd County Sheriff’s Office …

Police in central Alabama are searching for an escaped jail inmate who they say is still on the run after evading custody on Wednesday afternoon. The man, identified as 45-year-old Phillip Shane Bradford, was able to overpower a deputy overseeing his transfer to UAB hospital in Birmingham before fleeing the …

The remains of a teenager who went missing nearly 50 years ago have been identified through advanced DNA technology, and detectives believe she may have been slain by a police officer who was also a serial killer. Susan Poole, 15, was a high school dropout whose family reported her missing …

Fayetteville, Ark. — Former reality TV star Josh Duggar was sentenced Wednesday to 151 months in prison, more than 12 years. Duggar, who was convicted in December on federal charges of receiving and possessing child pornography, had faced up to 20 years. Prosecutors had sought maximum sentence for Duggar, whose large …

Seven people were wounded when shots were fired in multiple locations Sunday night in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, police said. Authorities first responded around 7:50 p.m. to a scene near a park and found more than 50 empty shell casings, according to CBS affiliate WNCN. Two gunshot victims were then found nearby. …

Investigators say they have arrested a mother and are charging her in the death of a baby who was found in Lake Pepin almost 20 years ago, CBS Minnesota reports. The charging documents allege Jennifer Matter was also the mother of another baby found in the Mississippi River in 1999. …