The man known as the Sticky Note Bandit has now pulled off three heists in less than two weeks throughout the Houston area, according to federal authorities.
The Illinois Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the state's move to cashless bail is constitutional, clearing the way for a sweeping criminal justice law to take effect.
A man was shot and killed Monday night just outside the District of Columbia's Catholic University amid a rash of violent crimes by the college this month.
Pamela Smith was named Monday as the acting head of the Metropolitan Police Department by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, making her the District's first Black woman to serve as chief of police.
Two teenagers were caught separately defacing Rome's Colosseum in the past week, less than a month after a British tourist was detained for doing the same.
Police in Montgomery County, Maryland, said last week they arrested six D.C. residents in connection with a series of retail store thefts that took place in Rockville and Bethesda.
A passenger took control of a small plane and guided it to a crash landing Saturday in Massachusetts after the pilot suffered a medical emergency, authorities said.
Despite frequent arrests and recommendations by prosecutors that the man accused of shooting and killing a Kentucky teacher on Catholic University's campus last week be locked up, D.C. judges repeatedly returned the 22-year-old felon to the streets of the nation's capital.
A man was shot and killed Thursday near Howard University Hospital in what District of Columbia police said was an attempted robbery that turned deadly.
A driver struck and killed a pedestrian Wednesday at a crosswalk near the District of Columbia's National Mall after the suspect fled from a traffic stop, authorities said.