Video recorded by a 15-year-old girl who witnessed the arrest of a young woman has prompted an investigation into the conduct of two Alaska state troopers.

In footage posted April 29 to YouTube -- entitled "Young woman being arrested for nothing" -- Skyler Irene Waite argues with a...

In a state where capital punishment is legal but seldom used, prosecutors in Colorado considering a death penalty case against James Holmes are weighing more than one person’s life.

“These trials can be something that the victims and families want to see happen, for some sort of closure, even though...

The $1 million reward for deceased cop killer Christopher Dorner will be paid out, if LAPD police chief Charle Beck has his way.

"It is my desire that the reward money be used," Beck said at a press conference in Los Angeles Tuesday. "It had its desired effect, it should...

Sugar Land may be one of the safest cities in America, but that doesn't mean the Texas town's police chief doesn't see his share of action.

Two teens allegedly burglarized a home that turned out to be Sugar Land Police Chief Doug Brinkley's house just days after the fair city...

Sugar Land may be one of the safest cities in America, but that doesn't mean the Texas town's police chief doesn't see his share of action.

Two teens allegedly burglarized a home that turned out to be Sugar Land Police Chief Doug Brinkley's house just days after the fair city...

Days after an assistant district attorney was gunned down on his way to work in Texas, friends and colleagues gave starkly different descriptions of the murdered man.

Some said Mark Hasse was nervous, scared and lethally armed at all times. Others said the 57-year-old was a fearless creature of...

When two masked gunmen ambushed a Texas prosecutor outside a courthouse, it was the fear Erik Nielsen lived with for years.

Nielsen trains state attorneys, and the dangers they live with is a consequence of their job.

He shared this message on Facebook:

Georgia police are refuting claims that slain YouTube gun activist Keith Ratliff was found bound and murdered on a rural road.

Ratliff -- the victim of a single gunshot wound to the head -- was found Jan. 3 in an apparent homicide at the weapons development and testing...

The bumbling bank robber who forgets his wallet at the crime scene, the thief found cooking in the victim's home, naked police chases, even the Walmart meth lab -- there are a few stories you can count on seeing again and again in the world of strange crime.

But catching...

Police in Florida are searching for 2-year-old Miley George, who they believe was kidnapped last week by her father.

Tilly George, Miley's mother, told detectives that the girl's father, Archie Yobnovich, took their daughter for a walk at approximately 5:00 p.m. on Friday and never returned. George and Yobnovich are...

Four months after a 28-year-old Florida trophy wife allegedly stabbed her 73-year-old ex-husband, the old man was charged with stalking her.

Maciej Nowicki is accused of using electronic tracking devices to follow Brygida Scheffler, a buxom blonde beauty of Polish descent.

Scheffler told Deltona deputies that she saw...

When you meet Laura Cowan, it's hard to believe that she experienced perhaps the worst domestic abuse case in California history.

"It was physical, emotional, sexual," she said, holding back tears in front of a packed studio at Anderson Cooper Live on Tuesday.

Cowan's polygamist husband, Mansa Musa Muhammed, forced...

Everybody was wondering what Jerry Sandusky would say as he stared down sentencing on 45 counts of sexual abuse against 10 young boys.

He could have apologized and begged for mercy.

He could have claimed the foster children who testified against him did not know right from wrong, and gave...

Anderson Coopers' daytime show is more family friendly than the twisted serial killers and vile kidnappers we follow here at HuffPost Crime, so my role this morning as the "Anderson Live" Blogger of the Day was slightly easier on the stomach than sifting through police reports, to say the least.

Pete Skelton remembers his son as a gifted mechanic, a talented bass player and “one of the sweetest guys you ever knew.”

“He liked to build bicycles,” Skelton, 74, of Nashville, told The Huffington Post. “He would make them for other kids.”

But around Thanksgiving 2011 when the whole family...

A former Teacher of the Year accused of sexual abuse was a loving role model and prone to inappropriate, sometimes "flirtatious" behavior, according to her former students.

Police in New Jersey arrested West Orange High School's Erica DePalo, 33, last week on charges surrounding an alleged relationship with...

Real smooth.

A 30-year-old Atlanta woman with a history of bulimia accidentally swallowed a butter knife while attempting to demonstrate for friends that she no longer had a gag reflex, according to the New England Journal of Medicine.

The patient told doctors that she was holding the knife...

Real smooth.

A 30-year-old Atlanta woman with a history of bulimia accidentally swallowed a butter knife while attempting to demonstrate for friends that she no longer had a gag reflex, according to the New England Journal of Medicine.

The patient told doctors that she was holding the knife...

A 13-year-old boy reported his mother's alleged murder in a chilling 911 call released by authorities in Ohio this week.

"My dad just killed my mom. He just told me to call you guys," the boy explained to a Grove City police dispatcher on Sunday. "He just ran outside and...

A 13-year-old boy reported his mother's alleged murder in a chilling 911 call released by authorities in Ohio this week.

"My dad just killed my mom. He just told me to call you guys," the boy explained to a Grove City police dispatcher on Sunday. "He just ran outside and...