As U.S. police departments release preliminary or finalized 2024 crime numbers, many are reporting historic declines in homicides and drops in other violent crimes compared to 2023

Shahzad, who works for the Nature Conservancy, said he spent almost every free moment last year looking for birds. The 27-year-old ended up logging 294 birds, a new record for Cook County, which is a hot spot for bird-watching in the Midwest.

President Trump said he told King Abdullah II of Jordan during a phone call Saturday that he would like Jordan and Egypt to take in more Palestinians from Gaza, an idea that is likely to reignite debate about the future of nearly two million Palestinians.

Dexter: Original Sin episode 7 drops a huge bombshell (and two Easter eggs) as Dexter works out how to dispose of future bodies and Deb compromises her future in the new episode on Paramount+ and Showtime.

The Latent Fingerprint Unit of D.C.’s long-troubled crime lab regained its accreditation, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Friday.

The Department of Forensic Sciences lost its accreditation in 2021 over concerns of mishandling evidence and overall lab practices.

A former lab scientist at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation faces felony charges after she falsified DNA tests in hundreds of cases and sent fraudulent reports to 24 law enforcement agencies ...

Chicago police said two people of interest are in custody in a gruesome homicide investigation on the city's far Northwest Side.

Two persons of interest have been taken into custody for questioning in connection to a murder that has rattled neighbors in Norwood Park, according to Chicago police.

Two people, reported to be illegal immigrants, were arrested Thursday in connection with a man's murder in Chicago over the weekend. George Levin, 63, was found dead by his sister Sunday night, according to local media reports. He had been bound with duct tape, and his legs tied with an extension cord.

ICE has not released details about Chicago arrests this week, leaving Dr. Phil McGraw’s video of Sai Pavuluri’s detention as one of the few tacitly confirmed cases.

The ABC 7 I-Team first reported on the case Tuesday, and the man's new arrest comes after nationwide uproar over the magistrate judge's order for release. Edward Martinez-Cermeno, 24, was first arrested in Schaumburg Sunday on a misdemeanor charge of illegally entering the United States back in 2023.