Chicago top cop recommends firings in Laquan McDonald case

The black teenager was fatally shot by police in 2014 -- police reports appear to contradict video that shows the teen wasn't threatening an officer

• Aug 18, 2016

Rape victim to Darren Sharper in court: "Go to hell"

The former NFL star learned his fate in a New Orleans federal court Thursday after admitting to drugging and raping women in four states

• Aug 18, 2016

Police: Ryan Lochte made up story about Rio robbery

Brazil police official gives new details on American swimmer's story about being robbed at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro

• Aug 18, 2016

Cops: Daughter stabs, burns mom with boiling water

Deputies say a North Carolina mother has died after the Wednesday attack by her 20-year-old daughter

• Aug 18, 2016

Cops: Son intentionally drowned mother in pool

Police responded to the affluent Long Island, New York neighborhood and found the 63-year-old woman dead in the backyard

• Aug 18, 2016

Women with boy in ill-fated waterslide raft speak out

10-year-old Kansas boy was killed on world's tallest waterslide called Verruckt - German for "insane"

• Aug 18, 2016

U.S. swimmers face grilling as Lochte backs off some claims

Brazil authorities take action amid increasing tension with American swimmers over ever-changing account of robbery

• Aug 18, 2016

The growing costs of women in jail

Their numbers have jumped 14-fold since 1970, hurting their families and career prospects -- and sometimes their health

• Aug 18, 2016

Hawaii woman accused of killing twin sister arrested for drunk driving

Alexandria Duval was pulled over in upstate New York after almost striking a vehicle operated by a state police investigator, police say

• Aug 17, 2016

Boston gangster Whitey Bulger asks U.S. Supreme Court to hear his appeal

Whitey Bulger, now 86, led a notoriously violent gang from the 1970s through the early 1990s; was convicted for playing role in 11 murders

• Aug 17, 2016

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