Crime and Public Safety

An Army officer is behind bars and charged with assault after a viral video showed him shoving and threatening a Black man who was walking in a South Carolina neighborhood. The US Army is now investigating the incident.

The defense called their own medical expert to the witness stand Wednesday to testify in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged in the death of George Floyd.

A six-year-old boy from Fort Myers who was the subject of a Florida Missing Child Alert on Wednesday was found safe. No additional details were provided. 

A crowd breached the locked doors of the Columbus Police Department’s headquarters Tuesday night, there to protest the deadly police shooting of a Black man named Miles Jackson at a hospital earlier this week.

Daunte Wright’s aunt said during an emotional press conference that George Floyd’s former girlfriend once taught her nephew at a high school in Minneapolis.

A woman confessed to authorities that an Arkansas mother and her 4-year-old son missing for almost 20 years were murdered by her husband, according to reports.

The sheriff of Pasco County said three people were arrested following yesterday's search for a missing girl, including one man whom she later described as her "boyfriend."

Nearly twenty-five years after Kristin Smart disappeared after a college party near California Polytechnic State University's campus, authorities Tuesday arrested her former classmate, Paul Flores, on suspicion of murder. Flores was the last person to see her alive in 1996 before she vanished.

The defense began calling witnesses Tuesday as the trial of Derek Chauvin continues.

A statewide Missing Child Alert has been issued for a 17-year-old girl last seen in New Port Richey.