Crime and court news, sourced and attributed.
Matthew Stone, 45, killed eight people at his Erie, Pennsylvania, home on Oct. 9, 2026, including his pregnant daughter and two grandchildren, the coroner said.
Ann Mannix, 65, her daughter Katherine, 24, and husband Kevin Mannix, 68, were found dead Oct. 11, 2026, near Mill Valley in a suspected murder-suicide.
Selma Blair was taken into custody after two flight attendants were hurt on a Delta flight to JFK on Oct. 11, 2026. Her rep cited a medical emergency.
Homeland Security Investigations agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington home on Oct. 12, 2026. Omar called it political intimidation.
Jacob Aaron Hicks, 46, of Tucson is charged with an interstate threat after an email to a TV station warned of White House bombings, prosecutors said.
Federal prosecutors say Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, 18, planned an attack at the Mall of America and was arrested after buying an AK-47 in an FBI sting.
An early-morning fire damaged a Midway game booth at the State Fair of Texas in Dallas. No injuries were reported, and officials said operations would continue.
A 17-year-old from Lethbridge, Alta., faces six charges, including terrorism offences, in an RCMP investigation involving the 764 network.
Two juveniles were wounded in a shooting after Warren Central High School's football game in Indianapolis on Oct. 2, 2026, police said.
False: no morgue worker was arrested after giving birth to a dead man's baby. Fact-checkers have traced the story to satire sites since 2010.
Police charged a 12-year-old boy in an Ewa Beach gun case after he allegedly pulled a firearm on a girl, 13, on Fort Weaver Road, Hawaii News Now reported.
Saratoga County deputies seized 489 pounds of cannabis in a Clifton Park traffic stop on I-87. Two Franklin County men face first-degree felony charges.
A 17-year-old was stabbed outside the Bronx's Taft Educational Campus after arriving with his mother to register for classes. No arrests have been made.
Loaded firearms were recovered from high schools in Queens and Staten Island, while a separate stabbing outside a Bronx school left a teen wounded.
Tyrell Deshawn Valentine, 36, faces a murder charge in the Sept. 6, 2026, shooting death of Manuel De Jesus Martinez in uptown Charlotte, police said.
One dead and seven injured after a house party shooting on Weir Street in Taunton. Officials identified the deceased as 22-year-old Zirovick Depina of Brockton.
A 2-year-old boy and two adults were injured in a Fresno backyard shooting Saturday night on East Washington Avenue. Police have detained a suspect.
Two teenage boys were hospitalized after separate shootings in Chicago on South Dorchester Avenue and South Claremont Avenue Saturday night. No suspects.
One man died and two people were hospitalized after a Buford triple shooting Saturday morning. Gwinnett County police are investigating.
Dover police have identified an 18-year-old Dover man as the victim of a fatal shooting outside a CAVA restaurant, and investigators are asking anyone.
Florencio Ramos Martinez, 42, died after an early-morning assault outside his Grattan Street building in Bushwick on Sept. 4, 2026. No arrest was announced.
Records say a basketball dispute preceded the Aug. 30, 2026, fatal shooting at Hemisfair in San Antonio. A 23-year-old man was charged with murder.
False: no San Diego zookeeper was arrested over a 500-pound gorilla. The story began on a satire site, Lead Stories and Africa Check found.
The claim that a New York rabbi sold foreskins on Craigslist originated on a website that explicitly labels its stories and characters fictional.
