The authorities in Arkansas on Monday captured a capital murder suspect who had escaped from a local jail with another inmate, ending a weeklong manhunt. Officers conducting surveillance in Pine Bluff, Ark., just after 11 a.m. saw the suspect, Jatonia Bryant, 23, walking down a street wearing clothes that matched a description that had been…
Thousands of attendees of the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert faced the prospect of more rain on Sunday after a stretch of heavy precipitation that has tested the resolve of its free-spirited participants as most have been stuck at the site and forced to conserve food and water. The police on Sunday were…
Dozens of officers from several law enforcement agencies swarmed Midtown Atlanta on Wednesday, searching for a gunman who opened fire in a medical office building, killing one and injuring four others, the authorities said. The gunman, identified as Deion Patterson, 24, stole a vehicle afterward and fled, the Atlanta Police Department said. He left the…
The man identified by authorities as the suspect in the nightclub shooting in Colorado Springs Saturday night appears to have been arrested last year, accused of engaging in a lengthy standoff with the police after threatening to hurt his mother with a homemade bomb. A man with the same name and age as the club…
Four people were found dead early Thursday morning at two homes that were on fire in Laurel, Neb., and foul play is suspected, the authorities said. Just after 3 a.m. Thursday, the authorities in the city of about 1,000 people, northwest of Omaha, received a call about an explosion in the 200 block of Elm…