Assistant Chief Craig Dobson said federal officers were “causing some of the ruckus” at the ongoing protests.

It’s a bit like a handheld 3D printer, with all the accuracy challenges that implies.

Authorities investigating the 1991 murders of four teenage girls at a North Austin “I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt” shop believe they have solved the case through newly available DNA testing, closing the chapter on one of the city’s darkest crimes, the American-Statesman has learned. Top Austin police leaders and cold case detectives plan to announce Monday that they have linked the deaths to a serial killer who died by suicide eight years after the crime. Three officials briefed on the case confirmed the development to the Statesman. The latest revelations in the case will also likely resurrect pain and place a renewed microscope on improper police investigative work decades ago that resulted in the arrest of the four young men linked to the crime, one of whom, Robert Springsteen IV, sentenced to Texas’ Death Row but whose conviction was overturned before he was set to be executed.

The man who captured the video said the scene unfolded in the midst of rush-hour traffic just outside Washington, D.C.

Former French president receives five-year prison sentence for criminal conspiracy over pact with Gaddafi regime

Federal law enforcement turned a person they arrested in the transit hub directly over to ICE. A surge of public lewdness arrests inside a Penn Station bathroom by Amtrak Police has rattled the LGBTQ community and landed at least one person in ICE custody, THE CITY has learned. The surge in arrests by the Amtrak Police, a national police force who are not bound by city sanctuary protections, kicked off in June, targeting a Penn Station bathroom listed on Sniffies, a popular cruising website and app used for gay hookups. Among those arrested was David, a 31-year-old health care worker, who says he was just trying to use the bathroom on his way back from visiting a friend in New Jersey when he felt he was being watched by a man nearby. David, who is gay, was wearing a rainbow Pride wristband as he says he was simply trying to pee when he was arrested.

An inmate who has pleaded guilty to murdering Robert Pickton in prison last year says he did it for the serial killer’s victims. Martin Charest admitted today to fatally assaulting Pickton with a broken broom handle at the Port-Cartier federal penitentiary in May 2024.

Karolina Krzyzak went to Bali to meet the raw-vegan influencers she’d followed for years. She never made it back home.

Elected officials learned two more people died in federal immigration detention this week, bringing the total number of deaths to at least 16.

Kennedy Center interim president Rick Grenell sent in a group of gay conservatives to heckle and harass a Black performer during her concert because she was a “liberal.” Prominent fingerstyle guitarist Yasmin Williams performed at the Kennedy Center on September 18 at a concert she had committed to before the Trump administration’s culture war on the iconic theater. Washingtonian reported that Kennedy Center workers learned that 50 seats at Williams’s show had been saved for the Log Cabin Republicans, a nonprofit group that seeks to simultaneously “support LGBT issues and conservative values.” The center increased security in the venue as about 20 men in MAGA hats took their seats.

Can't wait for the Horst-Weasel-Lied.

At least one victim is dead and two were injured in a shooting at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas. At least two detainees are among the victims, according to sources. Follow here for the latest.

Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises. Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica investigation found.

Speedy megaraptor Joaquinraptor casali had big arms and claws like hedge trimmers that would have made T. rex's forelimbs look puny.

The ancient Romans had a soft spot for physical comedy (aka fart jokes), as exemplified by a bronze figurine of a comic actor.

The former presidential candidate sticks to the script in a memoir that will only cause further bad blood

"Who builds a ballpark next to a gun range?" [A: Cops]

An app for anonymously reporting individuals accused of speaking ill against conservative Charlie Kirk leaked personal data about its users.

With SpaceX and Starlink, Elon Musk controls more than half the world’s rocket launches and thousands of internet satellites. That amounts to immense geopolitical power.

Kristi Noem is the face of Trump’s police state. Corey Lewandowski is the muscle.