JEFFERSON CITY, MO - District Administrator Debra Collins was killed in an automobile accident on US 67 near Fredericktown, Missouri, while en route to Poplar Bluff for a meeting. Her vehicle ran off the road and overturned in a ditch causing her to suffer fatal injuries. District Administrator Collins had served with the Missouri Department of Corrections, Board of Probation and ...

UPDATE: A suspect has died after a standoff with police at a house in St. Louis, police said. Earlier Tuesday, two federal marshals and a police officer were shot and wounded in a gunfight at the same property, and one marshal is in critical condition. St. Louis police confirmed in a statement that a "male suspect is deceased." The statement did ...

FAIRFIELD, Maine — The deputy police chief in the Maine town of Fairfield is on paid administrative leave after he was charged with domestic assault. State Police say 41-year-old Deputy Chief Steven Trahan allegedly grabbed his girlfriend to keep her from leaving his house on Friday. Trahan was released on condition he have no contact with his girlfriend. Fairfield Police Chief ...

OLD SAYBROOK, Conn. -- Police say a Connecticut woman is facing charges for making her son sleep in a locked dog crate because he was acting out and soiling his bed. Kathlyn Anthony of Old Saybrook was released on $100,000 bond following an initial court appearance Monday on a charge of risk of injury to a minor. The 54-year-old woman was ...

NEW YORK - It's a heart-breaking bird's eye view of New York's worst tragedy. Nearly 10 years after the 9/11 attacks, a shocking and powerful 17-minute video taken by an NYPD helicopter on that fateful day surfaced Monday on the web. Obtained by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and leaked to the web, it shows the chopper flying close ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two more criminal cases have been dropped and two other officers named in a widening investigation involving a plainclothes Police Department unit accused of conducting illegal drug raids and falsifying police reports. Members of the unit at Southern Station have been accused by defense attorneys of entering residential hotel rooms without warrants or consent and then lying about ...

NEW HAVEN, CT - This is the first picture of Aaron Thomas, the man suspected of being the notorious East Coast rapist. In handcuffs and guarded by a police officer, Thomas, 39, was pictured today leaving New Haven Superior Court, Connecticut, after his arraignment on a $1.5 million bond. He is suspected of 17 attacks on vulnerable women from Virginia to ...

PORTLAND, OR - A suspected trespasser has been accused of breaking into a house and then calling the police for help when the owner arrived. Timothy Chapek was rumbled when the owner, accompanied by two German shepherd dogs, heard him taking a shower in the house in Portland, Oregon. So instead of facing the man, Chapek, 24, who feared the householder ...

HAMILTON, VA - It wasn't the most inconspicuous of vehicles to choose. But the lure of a fire engine apparently proved too much for a volunteer firefighter in Hamilton, Virginia, who allegedly took four colleagues on a drunken joyride at the weekend. Sean Swanson, 27, was arrested after he nearly crashed into a police patrol car as he sped down the ...