A lone small-town police officer confronted the two Boston Marathon suspects on a dark street after they got out of their cars and started shooting at him, the Watertown, Mass., police chief said Saturday. Read the rest of this entry »

Investigators and the mother of a missing nursing student say a purse found this week does not belong to Holly Bobo. Karen Bobo, Holly’s mother, saw a photo of the purse and told investigators that she thought it belonged to her missing daughter. But Tennessee Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Kristin Helm said after Bobo saw it in person she realized it wasn’t Holly’s. Read the rest of this entry »

Jurors acquitted a U.S. Border Patrol agent of charges he abused an undocumented immigrant. Luis Fonseca hugged his attorney just moments after jurors returned the verdict in San Diego Friday. Read the rest of this entry »

OXFORD, Miss. – The attorney for a man accused of mailing ricin-laced letters to the president and a senator says federal authorities have scant evidence linking her client to the crime. Read the rest of this entry »

Police captured Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, on Friday night after a day-long manhunt using helicopters and heavily armed officers in a Boston suburb. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, apprehended 'covered in blood and hiding in a covered boat in Watertown by homeowner who ventured out after curfew was lifted'. He and law enforcement officers engaged in a furious exchange of gun-fire that began shortly after 7.pm. Over 30 rounds were fired in the exchange - as terrified residents of Franklin Street were evacuated by police. The stand-off continued until approximately 8.45 p.m. when Boston police announced onto Twitter that Tsarnaev had been apprehended. Tsarnaev reportedly surrendered himself to police having been shot twice. He was rushed to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and is reported to have lost a great deal of blood. He is currently in a 'serious condition'. His Miranda rights have been revoked and he is being treated as an exception due to national security. Residents were warned to stay indoors amid gunfire, flash-bang explosions and tear gas. On his apprehension - jubilant crowds took to the streets of Boston to thank police, FBI and law enforcement officials - chanting 'USA!'. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, killed after explosions and machine gun fire on Thursday night. Both suspects are brothers from the Russia region near Chechnya and had lived in U.S. since 2002. Read the rest of this entry »

Tarek Ahmed was working at gas station in Cambridge, Mass. Thursday night when a young man ran into his store screaming. "Call the police! Call the police! These people are trying to kill me!" Read the rest of this entry »

KAUFMAN, Texas – A sheriff says investigators in the slayings of two Texas prosecutors got their big break from a tip about a storage unit that contained guns and a vehicle tied to the crimes. Read the rest of this entry »

A shotgun-wielding man killed his ex-wife in a parking lot in Feasterville, Pa., on Thursday night. The woman had just left a dress shop on Bustleton Pike with her 16-year-old daughter and they were sitting in the car when Kenneth Philipp pulled up behind them, jumped out of his car, grabbed his shotgun and opened fire, according to Lower Southampton Township Police. Read the rest of this entry »

A Virginia judge convicted a high school student accused in a sex-tape scandal on Thursday. The teen was accused of recording girls while he and his friends had sex with them. Read the rest of this entry »