Crime

A would-be thief who brazenly walked behind the counter of a convenience store to steal cigarettes and vapes was beaten by staff working at a shop as he tried to leave with his haul in California

Police in Ohio rescued a kidnapped trucker after a high-speed chase and standoff with a couple who had hijacked the truck, resulting in their deaths

British Transport Police admit that they now rarely view camera footage in station cycle theft cases

Alone in an interrogation room, Murad Dervish, the suspect in the shooting death of University of Arizona professor Thomas Meixner, uttered seven chilling words that could prove his guilt

Asa Ellerup, the estranged wife of Gilgo Beach killer suspect Rex Heuermann has reportedly been in touch with him while he awaits trial in Suffolk County jail, though has not yet been to visit him

Police have released pictures of the two suspects behind the alleged plot against the pensioner who lives in the Cypress Hills neighbourhood of Brooklyn, New York City. They are believed to have made off with $3k (£2,400) of valuables

The woman was found dead in a Monterey home in California having died from starvation, while police found her own mother dead in a box under her kitchen table

Fiona Holm was seen walking next to a cemetery after meeting up with friends on June 20, but she was reported missing nine days later

The woman delivered the baby at the Shell Station on South Post Oak Road in Houston. After giving birth the woman left the baby in the bathroom, with another customer finding the infant at around 4:30am before calling paramedics

Former-beauty pageant queen Lindsay Shriver was arrested over the suspected plot targeting her former college football star Robert Shriver in the Bahamas

Blue Butler attacked two men, leaving one with a broken and dislocated ankle, and so a concerned judge told him she could not suspend his 15-month prison sentence

Helen and Michelle McPartland made false allegations amidst an ongoing family feud but, after a thorough police investigation, the sisters were charged with perverting the course of justice

The former president will stand before Justice Tanya Chutkan, who will oversee the case against him – and could send him to prison if he is found guilty

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A teenager broke into an old woman's home and threatened to cut her - but then ended up eating snacks at her kitchen table in a bizarre twist

A 27-year-old man was having some pizza and about to leave a popular Brooklyn nightclub before he vanished and turned up dead, say authorities who uncovered surveillance footage of the man

WARNING - DISTRESSING CONTENT: Body worn footage of Gemma Barton and Craig Crouch's arrest has been made public by police after the stepfather of little Jacob Crouch was found guilty of his murder

The victim managed to escape after beating her hands bloody on the doors of her cinderblock prison in the Oregon home of suspect Negasi Zuberi. He is accused of impersonating a police officer and kidnapping the poor woman

Alice Williams was struck by the black Vauxhall Corsa as she crossed the road with her family in Halifax, West Yorkshire, and relatives have been left heartbroken

At least 10 people have been killed in one operation alone in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as police opened fire at a cluster of favelas, which are working-class neighbourhoods

Thessalonica Allen, 36, roped her children into helping her dispose of their own father's body after she shot him during a fight over a social media post

Shunekndrick Huffman escaped from the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility before breaking into a nearb home and holding a mum and her daughters at gunpoint

Jack Newton was described as a "reckless" and "immature" young man who let his dog viciously bite a woman protecting her pet cats and assaulted a separate woman when she was driving, causing her to crash

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Craig Crouch bragged 'there is always a hierarchy' in the disturbing WhatsApp voice note sent to Gemma Barton, both of whom have been convicted over a campaign of cruelty towards Jacob Crouch

WARNING, DISTURBING CONTENT: A human rights organisation is investigating 360 active cases involving Ukrainian civilians detained in torture chambers across Kherson, with many victims saying Russian soldiers sexually assaulted them