New federal directives aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration and border-related crime may appear straightforward, but how they are received by local law enforcement is far from simple. The ...

Authorities in Cochise County launched an animal cruelty probe after a woman's dog, Sadie, was found dead, bloodied and ...

Although many of them had criminal records, most people who died in custody had not been convicted of the crime they were in ...

A routine facility check at a county jail just east of Atlanta on Monday morning suddenly turned into a manhunt after officials discovered three men, all accused of violent crimes, had escaped the ...

Three escaped DeKalb County inmates were captured together in South Florida after coordinating transportation out of the jail. Investigators say recorded jail phone calls revealed a pickup, a stop at ...

The three inmates who escaped from Georgia's DeKalb County Jail on Monday, including one facing a murder charge, have been apprehended in Florida. Their detention was confirmed by Eric Heinze, ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — There were three overdoses in the Spokane County Jail on Monday, two of them deadly. Martha Lou Wheatley-Billeter, Communications Manager with Spokane County confirmed with KREM 2 ...

Drug overdoses are suspected in the Monday deaths of two Spokane County Jail inmates, according to the county government’s spokesperson. Officials are investigating the deaths and how drugs were ...

The reports below were provided by the Adams County Sheriff’s Office. All suspects are considered innocent until proven ...

William L. Huff, the now 74-year-old man who killed two young girls in Cochise County in 1967, lost his latest bid to get out ...

The last of three inmates who escaped from a Louisiana jail by removing mortar and concrete blocks from a degraded part of a wall earlier in December has been captured, authorities said. Keith Anthony ...

ALFRED, Maine — One little boy’s hand was clasped in his father’s big hand, one little girl grinned at her dad after some initial hesitation, and two mothers wept upon seeing their sons in person for ...