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The Chicago Police Department plans to hire more than 500 additional officers as it struggles to deal with a violent year full of killings and gun crimes, a city official told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

A man pleaded guilty to murder Tuesday in the shooting death of his parents as they slept and the attempted killing of his 8-year-old brother, who was left paralyzed in a crime that shocked an upscale Southern California community.

A former Islamic extremist who now works to steer young Muslims away from militant groups told Fox News Tuesday night that U.S. authorities should have been concerned by the New York and New Jersey bomb suspect's recent trips to Pakistan.

Nashville police say an officer has fatally shot a 43-year-old man who pulled a pistol when confronted.

The top U.S. intelligence official says he could never agree with a decision to pardon Edward Snowden.

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Federal authorities filed charges Tuesday against the 28-year-old suspect in the New York and New Jersey bombings over the weekend, according to court documents.

A Connecticut probate judge charged with choking his wife was accepted into a diversionary program on Tuesday that could result in charges against him being dismissed.

Police in North Carolina have shot and killed a person who they say was armed and posed a threat.

The superintendent of a North Carolina school system says a high school teacher is being investigated after students say he stepped on an American flag as part of a history lesson.

A West Texas judge has decided 11 children of a couple who've faced child welfare investigations in three states will remain in state custody for now.

The Latest on an Illinois terrorism case involving two cousins (all times local): 4:55 p.m.

A Virginia man whose multiple fraud schemes unraveled in part after he used a Hollywood actress' photo on a fake passport has pleaded guilty to identity theft and fraud charges.

Authorities say a 61-year-old New Jersey woman stabbed her male roommate after he refused to have sex with her.

Somalis in a central Minnesota city are trying to square the bright, family-minded young man who went to the mall to buy the new iPhone with the emotionless man who stabbed 10 people and in death is the subject of a terrorism investigation.

A Philadelphia woman has pleaded guilty to plotting to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State.

Florida wildlife officials say they've captured and killed an alligator believed to have attacked a homeless man who was swimming in a river.

One pilot died and another was injured after they ejected from a US Air Force U-2 spy plane that crashed in Northern California Tuesday, an Air Force spokesman confirmed.

A man was charged with murder Tuesday in the 2013 disappearance of a gas station clerk in western Michigan, a case that had stymied investigators until a teenage girl in an unrelated incident escaped from the suspect's van in April.

Texas' top law enforcement officer is defending his troopers after an attorney for Sandra Bland's mother says de-escalation training is part of a $1.9 million wrongful death lawsuit settlement.