The Department of Homeland Security says that Chinese criminal gangs have made more than $1 billion from text scams sent to US phone numbers over the past three years. Scam texts about fake highway ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mich. (WNDU) - A St. Joseph dentist is facing nine counts of criminal sexual conduct charges stemming from a Michigan State Police investigation that started in late August. According to ...

United States, October 14, 2025-- Massachusetts continues to enforce some of the toughest firearm regulations in the United States. With the passage of An Act Modernizing Firearm Laws (H.4885) in July ...

Iran’s foreign ministry criticizes US President Donald Trump’s call for dialogue, accusing Washington of “hostile and criminal behavior” following his remarks to the Knesset about being ready to ...

OUR COMMITMENT 2020 COVERAGE CONTINUES TONIGHT. A LOT OF BIG RACES ALREADY DECIDED. JUST WANT TO MENTION A COUPLE OF THINGS ON THE BALLOT. THE FAIR CHANCE AMENDMENT THAT PASSED OVERWHELMINGLY THAT, ...

When Christopher Columbus sailed westward from Spain in 1492, he did not expect to find paradise. He was looking for a shortcut to Asia, a new route for spices and gold. Instead, he stumbled onto ...

A Santa Clarita man was sentenced Friday to 17 1/2 years in federal prison in what’s considered the nation’s first criminal case involving a death caused by the synthetic opioid protonitazene.

Oct. 10 (UPI) --The International Criminal Court on Friday rejected an appeal for temporary release by ex-Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte. The pre-trial chamber of the Netherlands-based ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. LOS ANGELES – A former Pacific Palisades resident now living in Florida has been arrested on a federal criminal complaint ...

As states face persistently high rates of absenteeism, lawmakers and educators are wrestling with a thorny question: Should parents and caregivers face criminal penalties when their children miss too ...

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein (D) on Friday signed into law new criminal justice legislation in honor of Iryna Zarutska, 23, who was killed while in transit on the Charlotte light rail in August.

North Carolina’s Democratic governor signed into law on Friday a criminal justice measure that the state’s Republican-controlled legislature approved in response to the stabbing death of a Ukrainian ...