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Jeremy Griffin enters the lobby of he Alba de Vida substance abuse treatment clinic holding an AR-15.

An unarmed guard prevented a gunman from entering a Buffalo treatment clinic

A man walked into a substance abuse treatment clinic in Buffalo with an AR-15. But an unarmed guard stopped him from making it past the lobby and took him outside.

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, pictured at a July news conference in Washington, D.C., said federal and local law enforcement officials plan to meet in Detroit later this month to discuss ways to reduce violence.

U.S. Attorney General: 'This Violence Against All Of Us' Must End

Loretta Lynch condemns the shootings of law enforcement officers in Texas and Illinois, as well as other acts of violence in recent months.

District Attorney Alvin Bragg speaks at a press conference on Sept. 8, 2022.

New York DA investigating Trump calls GOP requests 'unprecedented' and 'unlawful'

Three Republican House chairmen had demanded communications, testimony and documents related to the investigation of the former president.

Scam using money owed and police or lawyers coming to collect via Uber or Lift hits Cape Coral

Cape Coral Police Department said it has received several cases over the last week in reference to scams involving unwitting Uber/Lyft drivers.

In this 1921 image provided by the Library of Congress, smoke billows over Tulsa, Okla.

Oklahoma judge throws out a suit seeking reparations for the Tulsa Race Massacre

The decision by Judge Caroline Wall dashes an effort to obtain a measure of legal justice by survivors of the deadly racist rampage that left hundreds of Black residents dead in 1921.

Videos posted to social media showed ride operators desperately trying to free the stuck Fireball Roller Coaster Sunday in Crandon, Wisc.

Roller coaster riders were trapped upside down for hours after mechanical failure

The oscillating Fireball was just sliding down from its vertical loop at a festival in Crandon, Wis., on Sunday when it stopped unexpectedly, suspending its passengers for hours.

Alabama nursing student Carlee Russell, 25, apologized and asked for prayer after lying about being abducted earlier this month.

Carlee Russell says she lied about seeing a lost child and being abducted

Earlier this month, the 25-year-old Alabama nursing student claimed that she was abducted, blindfolded and forced to undress by two captors.

Officers from the state-run Capitol Police and the city-run Jackson Police Department stand watch outside a Jackson, Miss., church where a community meeting was held to addresses youth crime issues on Feb. 14.

The NAACP is suing Mississippi over an expanded role for state-run police in Jackson

The NAACP says "separate and unequal policing" will return to Mississippi's majority-Black capital under a state-run police department.

Hurricane Ian walloped Southwest Florida in September 2022. The Category 4 storm raked Fort Myers Beach with devastating winds and a 15-foot storm surge.

The 2023 Atlantic hurricane season has begun. Here are the 21 storm names

The hurricane season runs from June 1 to Nov. 30 and NOAA forecasters expect between 12 to 17 named storms. Of those, 5 to 9 could become hurricanes, including 1 to 4 major hurricanes.

First responders who were clearing a crash on a Georgia highway witnessed a scary spectacle, when a motorist drove onto a tow truck's lowered ramp at speed.

A driver's car soared 120 feet after vaulting off of a tow truck's ramp in Georgia

The scary spectacle was captured on video by the body camera of a sheriff's deputy who was helping with another crash on the highway.

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