A retired NYPD homicide detective told Fox News Digital that significant cultural and policy shifts in 2020, including bail reform and George Floyd backlash, are contributing to low homicide case clearance rates across the United States. According to the Murder Accountability Project, which tracks unsolved homicides, the homicide case clearances …

GENEVA – Switzerland and Libya reached a new low point in their relations Friday as the Swiss government announced that two of its citizens are being held at an undisclosed location in the Arab country. The information came two days after Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz met with Libyan leader Moammar …

LONDON – The world is endlessly fascinated with Jack the Ripper — but what about his victims? On Tuesday an online genealogy company published census information that casts light on the lives of the women murdered by the Victorian serial killer. The company findmypast.com trawled records of Britain’s 1881 census …

LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles County sheriff’s investigators have finished an inquiry into whether coroner’s employees illegally leaked or sold private information related to the investigation of Michael Jackson’s death. Sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said Friday no criminal violations occurred, though employees may have violated department policies. Officials launched the …

ST. LOUIS – A child whose mother is accused of hiding him in a crawl space in his grandmother’s home for nearly two years will remain in state custody for now. But a southern Illinois judge made it clear Tuesday that the goal is to reunite 6-year-old Ricky Chekevdia with …

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Alabama Attorney General Troy King said Friday he would seek a capital murder charge against an Alabama man who is imprisoned in Australia after pleading guilty in the drowning death of his wife during a honeymoon scuba dive there. King announced he would pursue the capital charge, …

NEW DELHI – Airline passengers across India went through extra security screenings Friday and sky marshals were placed on flights as the government put its airports on high alert amid reports that Al Qaeda-linked militants planned to hijack a plane. A hijacking, especially one launched by Pakistan-based militants, would send …

An Ohio father is facing a felony charges for allegedly putting his 7-year-old daughter in the dryer, closing the door and turning it on, Fox8.com reported. Prosecutors told the Cleveland station after the girl told her school teacher her dad put her in the dryer, the school contacted children’s services …

While police in South Hadley, Mass., investigate whether cyber bullying was to blame for the suicide last week of 15-year-old Phoebe Prince, the teenager who had recently emigrated from Ireland suffered a final indignity – disparaging remarks believed to be posted by classmates to a Facebook page created in her …

NEW YORK – For sale: One severely water-damaged jet, hero not included. The banged-up US Airways plane that Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger deftly landed on the Hudson River a year ago after a flock of geese disabled its engines is being auctioned off. Click here to see photos. Insurance firm …