In the past decade, the Shark Lab has set out buoys that ping when a tagged shark gets within 300 feet, helping them better ...

Maryland will no longer automatically charge some juveniles as adults for several serious crimes.

Brodey Murbarger, a 30-year-old inmate at the state prison in Menard, was convicted of a very adult crime. So it’s ironic ...

At an Anacostia Coordinating Council luncheon, Mayor Muriel Bowser spoke about her support for the continued use of extended ...

Yet over the same period, assaults inside schools rose. A spokesperson for the city’s education department pointed to the ...

A reckless driver call in Mississippi escalated into a full-blown criminal investigation after authorities said a beer can ...

Plans to reopen Jail North for juvenile offenders are on hold as Mecklenburg County leaders shift focus to a growing ...

A residential treatment center in Missouri advertises to adoptive parents that it can help heal struggling children.

There is no “prison crowding” crisis in Colorado. The real crisis is our Democratic legislature’s quest to free as many convicts as it can — public safety be damned. To make that happen, lawmakers ...

Officials are warning about teen takeovers: Are they harmless fun or dangerous gatherings? - ‘These teen meetups aren't going away because social media isn't going away,’ a former New York City detect ...

Along the California coast, from Bodega Bay to Morro Bay, commercial fishing boats have started pulling in salmon for the ...

A Denver man was sentenced to 22 years in prison after pleading guilty to sex crimes involving two 13-year-olds in Larimer ...