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A man who took several people hostage at a California bank building is dead and all hostages have been freed, police said Wednesday following a roughly 15-hour standoff

A Montgomery County volunteer firefighter intentionally set three fires within 30 hours — including one near the home of his former boss who fired him — and then responded to the scene of two of the fires with his fire company, investigators said

It was one of the strangest Covid fraud cases brought by the Justice Department, with the kind of wild details that seemed ripped from a Hollywood script

Los Angeles prosecutors are investigating sexual assault allegations made against disgraced artist and music executive Sean “Diddy” Combs, an official said Tuesday

One of the rodeo riders whose horse was stabbed over the weekend in a Las Vegas barn said Tuesday she came “face-to-face” with the teenage suspect charged with attacking her mare and two other horses

Mystery men who are “up to no good” have been roaming New York City’s vast sewer system, and city officials on Tuesday warned potential copycats of dangers they’d face exploring Gotham’s treacherous underground

Authorities in Iowa are investigating the fatal shootings of six people who they believe were killed by a relative who took his own life when confronted by police Monday

A teenage competitor is accused of injuring three horses with a knife at a barn near a Las Vegas competition over the weekend, police and horse show organizers said

Videos of men mysteriously emerging from New York City sewers have drawn the attention of police, who insist there’s “no threat to the public,” a law enforcement source told NBC News on Monday

Kash Patel’s girlfriend has filed a lawsuit against MS NOW, accusing it of using “sham” anonymous sources to “push knowingly or recklessly false allegations.”