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The CBD craze is leaving the war on drugs a bit dazed and confused. The extract that’s been showing up in everything from candy to coffee is legally derived from hemp plants, which look and smell an awful lot like that other cannabis — marijuana. They’re so similar, police officers and the field tests they use on suspected drugs sometimes...

Actor Brian Tarantina of the TV show “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” has died, New York City police said. He was 60. New York City officers responded to a report at 12:40 a.m. Saturday from a family member of an unconscious person in a Manhattan residence, police said. Paramedics officially declared Tarantina deceased at the scene of the Hell’s Kitchen home, police...

A rash of suicides by police officers has shaken the New York Police Department, leading the commissioner to declare a mental health emergency and highlighting the problem of untreated depression among law enforcement officers nationwide.

When Super Bowl 53 kicks off less than two weeks from now, legions of police and federal agents will be positioned to protect fans inside and outside the Atlanta stadium where the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams face off. Authorities won’t discuss specifics of their security plan. But they say they will safeguard areas beyond the downtown...

The #MeToo movement is empowering victims of sexual assault to speak up like never before, but what should be a watershed moment for holding assailants accountable has coincided with a troubling trend: Police departments in the U.S. are becoming less and less likely to successfully close rape investigations. The so-called “clearance rate” for rape cases fell last year to its...

The deaths of two young Saudi sisters, whose bodies washed up along the New York City waterfront last month, have shined a light on the often secretive and risky journeys Saudi women take to flee their homes, both within the kingdom and abroad. Tala Farea, 16, and Rotana Farea, 23, ran away from home in Fairfax, Virginia before being placed...

Police arrested a man accused of sexually assaulting a woman inside her apartment in Newark, Delaware, and stealing her vehicle.

Police are searching for a man accused of sexually assaulting a woman inside her Newark, Delaware, apartment and stealing her vehicle.

After days of protest in Sacramento over the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man and one day after authorities said the officers who fatally shot Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge in 2016 would not be charged, the White House’s message was clear: These are not federal issues. When asked for the White House’s response to these incidents at...

It doesn’t take a firearm or a bomb to wreak havoc. All it takes is a driver’s license, a valid credit card, some proof of insurance — and as little as $19.

New York City police detectives are taking a fresh look into sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein.

Pressure mounted Wednesday for Las Vegas police to explain how quickly they reacted to what would become the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history after two hotel employees reported a gunman spraying a hallway with bullets six minutes before he opened fire on a crowd at a musical performance. On Monday, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo revised the chronology...

An engineer at the Mandalay Bay hotel who dodged rounds in the hallway as Stephen Paddock began the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history spoke out for the first time Wednesday, saying he is “incredibly blessed” to escape alive. Engineer Stephen Schuck spoke to the “Today” show in an exclusive interview Wednesday morning, more than a week after the...

Questions about hotel security linger as investigators scramble to unravel what compelled Stephen Paddock to open fire on a country music concert outside the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas Sunday night.

In the aftermath of the Las Vegas concert massacre, police and hotels in our area are revealing the security measures they take during a mass casualty event. NBC10’s Aaron Baskerville has the details.

A former New York City police officer, whose claims of police corruption in the 1970s were chronicled in an Al Pacino movie, joined dozens of current and former officers Saturday at a rally in support of getting quarterback Colin Kaepernick a job in the National Football League. The former San Francisco 49ers player became a controversial figure last year after...

The family of a New York City man killed by a police chokehold is set to meet with Justice Department officials as a federal investigation of the case hangs in the balance.

A former teacher convicted of gunning down her boyfriend will face sentencing this week in a New Jersey courtroom.

In a preview of the upcoming Apple Music television show “The 411,” Mary J. Blige serenades presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on the issue of social injustices.

Law enforcement officials said the work remains valuable because surveillance cameras and bystander cellphones can’t be everywhere, and because crimes that are caught on video don’t always capture the suspect’s face.