LewisTsePuiLung/iStock(NEW YORK) -- New York City's own inspector general ripped a controversial city program intended to help curb homelessness after a probe showed it left needy families "living in squalor under the...

WABC(NEW YORK) -- An Amtrak maintenance man was working on an electrical line in New York City when he was electrocuted and killed Thursday morning, according to the New York Police Department. The line was supposed to be...

Kuzma/iStock(DENVER) -- A 16-year-old will be tried as an adult for his alleged role in a shooting at a Colorado school that killed one student and injured eight others, a judge has ruled. Alec McKinney, 16, and Devon...

Jovonna Jamison(CHICAGO) -- Two Chicago police officers have now been relieved of their duties as officials investigate an arrest that was caught on camera and showed one of them slamming a man to the ground. The Civilian...

davelmorgan/iStock(NEW YORK) -- One week after a 6-year-old girl was swept away by floodwaters in an Arizona creek, officials say the search for her is transitioning to a recovery effort. "Every soul that's out here...

wsfurlan/iStock(BOSTON) -- A Boston man was struck on the head with a snow shovel and slashed over the eye with a box cutter after allegedly enduring anti-gay slurs from the man who attacked him. Officers received a call...

sphraner/iStock(HONOLULU) -- An armed, active-duty sailor opened fire on three civilian employees, killing two, before he fatally shot himself at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard near Honolulu on Wednesday afternoon. Three...

Auburn Police Department (AUBURN, Ala.) -- The suspected killer of Alabama college student, Aniah Blanchard, said he shot her after she allegedly "went for the gun," according to court documents. Blanchard, the...

carlballou/iStock(PHILADELPHIA) -- A Philadelphia teenager has been charged in the fatal shooting of his twin brother, police said Wednesday. Police charged 18-year-old Fayaadh Gillard with murder in connection with the...

KTRK(HOUSTON) -- At a time when high-tech scams are running rampant, police in Houston are warning residents to be aware of a low-tech swindle after a college student was cheated out of her iPhone by a scammer using a...

BCFC/iStock(POLK COUNTY, Fla.) -- George Zimmerman, the Sanford, Florida, neighborhood watch volunteer who was acquitted for the murder of Trayvon Martin in 2012, and his lawyer have filed a $100 million lawsuit against...

kali9/iStock(WATERTOWN, Conn.) -- A dispute between a Connecticut teenager and her mother’s boyfriend over smoking ended in tragedy, after the man shot and killed the girl and her brother, before turning the gun on...

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Wednesday's storm in Southern California has moved out of California and into the Rockies, with heavy snow this morning. The storm has brought more than 3” of rain from San Bernardino County to...

iStock(WASHINGTON) -- The Trump administration announced a final rule on Wednesday that will limit states’ ability to provide food stamps outside of federal work requirements. The new rule, aimed to reform the...

Whiteway/iStock(PHILADELPHIA) -- More than 475,000 people are petitioning for criminal charges to be brought against two young men who were seen assaulting an injured deer. The online petition, which, at the time this...

Harry Collins/iStock(NEW YORK) -- More than 475,000 people are petitioning for criminal charges to be brought against two young men who were seen assaulting an injured deer. The online petition, which, at the time this...

Martin County Sheriffs Office(INDIANTOWN, Ind.) --  A woman and her dog were saved in a "heroic rescue" after she crashed her car into a body of water in Florida, officials said. The woman, whom police did not...

Rawf8/iStock(BALTIMORE) -- More than two dozen Baltimore, Maryland, corrections officers were indicted Tuesday with allegations that they used "illegal and excessive" force against inmates in state jails. "All 25 of these...

peeterv/iStock(BALTIMORE) -- More than two dozen Baltimore, Maryland, corrections officers were indicted Tuesday with allegations that they used "illegal and excessive" force against inmates in state jails. "All 25 of...

SpVVK/iStock(STANFORD, Calif.) -- An external investigation commissioned by Stanford University found that the ringleader of the nationwide "Operation Varsity Blues" college admission scam tried to lure seven of the...