Days after he received a full scholarship from Vanderbilt University, star running back Rajaan Bennett was shot to death by his mother’s ex-boyfriend. Homicides may be down, but family violence is up.

A man dubbed the “Granddad Bandit,” suspected in more than a dozen robberies, struck again this week, the FBI said Friday.

The bail for the so-called “sweat lodge guru” facing manslaughter charges has been drastically reduced, his lawyer said.

During emergency drills at Deer Creek Middle School, David Benke used to tell his students that if anything ever happened, he wanted to be able to “do something about it.” On Tuesday, he stopped a gunman.

A former New Orleans police lieutenant is due in federal court Wednesday on charges alleging he helped cover up the facts about police shootings of civilians in the days after Hurricane Katrina.

New Orleans police lined up “like at a firing range” and fatally shot an unarmed man in the back as he fled from them in the days after Hurricane Katrina swept ashore, a witness to the shooting told CNN.

A holdout juror says she feared for her safety so she “folded” under pressure, voting to convict Anthony Marshall of charges that he stole from his mother, Brooke Astor. Marshall,85, appealed on Monday.

Buoyed by the success of an electronic billboard campaign in catching a serial bank robber last year, authorities are trying the tactic again to identify another: a man dubbed the “Granddad Bandit,” suspected in 18 robberies in 12 states.

Najibullah Zazi, charged with conspiring to detonate explosives in the United States, is expected to plead guilty Monday, a government official familiar with the situation said.

A Florida woman has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a lottery millionaire who was found buried under fresh concrete.