Gun violence is now recognized as a pervasive and growing problem in a country with patchwork regulation and 25% more guns than people.

Researchers have developed a new algorithm that forecasts crime by learning patterns in time and geographic locations from public data.

A Maryland police officer is being hailed after saving a student from an oncoming car Friday, and instead taking a hit herself.

Police Officer Mario Valenti's offer to help a teenager who kept sneaking into X-Sport Fitness to play basketball has drawn praise.

A mom and her son were pleasantly surprised this weekend by a police officer who showed them kindness.

The dog named Tinsley had a purpose: to take police to the scene of an accident, where two people — including her owner — lay badly injured.

Since MySpace was launched in 2003, police have monitored social media searching for suspects and trying to predict crime trends.

While trying to raise some extra cash this summer, two 12-year-olds were duped. Someone gave them fake money to pay for a glass of lemonade.

A police officer who saved the life of a young boy by giving him a kidney has been named this year’s 999 Hero.

Officer Taylor Brandt from Arlington County has saved 9 lives since joining the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia.

Noah Swanger, 9, was escorted to school by officers from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department on his first day of 4th grade.

An Atlanta police officer is getting a lot of attention after a video was posted to social media of her giving shoes to a barefoot man.

Heroic police officers and bystanders were credited with saving lives when an out-of-control car slammed into a mother carrying her child

A 62-year-old Chinese-speaking woman who had, apparently, been abandoned by her family. That's when Officer Ma came to the rescue.

Officer Mark Conklin of the Jamestown Police Department responded to the house fire just after midnight on Monday

A new paper by Oxford University Press, indicates that the presence of adult entertainment establishments may decrease sex crimes

This is a story about a unicorn, a little girl who got scary-sick, and a police officer who did his job — and then some.

When Kokomo Police Department officer Nate Gibson saw a student speed into the school parking lot one day, ...