CHICAGO - Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson pointed to decreasing violent crime numbers this year and said he's hoping for an ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson floated the benchmark — which has not been achieved since 2015 — after noting this year’s drop in ...

A new series from Mensah M. Dean, The Trace's Philly staff writer, goes beyond the headlines to put the violence in proper ...

Police continue to investigate Monday’s mass shooting in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood that left three people dead and five ...

In a 2-1 decision, a dissenting judge concluded school officials in Illinois allowed recent school shootings, including in ...

BALTIMORE - Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott was sworn in Tuesday for a rare second full term in office. Scott's inauguration ...

The single guilty verdict was a blow to Fulton County prosecutors, who spent more than a year arguing “Young Slime Life” was a violent gang led by the Grammy-winning rapper. YSL, they contended, was ...

Alyssa Naeher ended her national team career with one last win. The stalwart goalkeeper made two critical saves in her final match for the United States, and the Americans beat the Netherlands 2-1 ...

Detroit’s streets are rewriting their narrative. In neighborhoods once defined by violence, where gunshots echoed like a grim refrain, change is now visible in real time. Numbers don’t lie, and ...

California authorities say a 2-year-old boy was fatally shot when his 7-year-old brother found a gun in the glovebox while ...

An interview about the policy impact and political lessons of Richmond Progressive Alliance-led municipal reform efforts in a ...

An Austrian court has ruled that Ukrainian businessman Dymitro Firtash can’t be extradited to the U.S. in a long-running ...