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The wife of slain Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements told CNN Wednesday that she refuses to be angry over the news that the parolee believed to have killed her husband was released from prison four years early because of a clerical error.

A psychiatrist, who treated suspected mass killer James Holmes, warned police a month before the Colorado theater shooting that Holmes had made homicidal statements and was a danger to the public, according to documents released this week.

Many people in Mingo County, West Virginia, likely know Rosie Crum the way that Frances Crawford does.

A 51-year-old man had between 500,000 and 1 million full-length child pornography videos and images inside his central Florida apartment, said authorities, who accused him of downloading and sharing the illicit materials.

A Mississippi police detective and the murder suspect he was interviewing were killed Thursday, a law enforcement spokesman said, following an outburst of gunfire inside the Jackson police headquarters.

A man convicted of murdering three men who answered a Craigslist ad to work on an Ohio cattle farm was sentenced to death Thursday morning, Summit County Court Bailiff Brian Scheetz said.

Colorado authorities are questioning two associates of the man suspected in the killing of the state prisons director, a law enforcement source close to the investigation said Thursday.

Peter Bergen says the killing of Colorado's prison director fits with a pattern of increased extremist violence

On shaky, grainy video recordings, a group of men show off a stash of pills, pop open Budweiser tall boys and shoot dice for stacks of cash. One injects what appears to be heroin; another displays a large-caliber pistol, ejecting four bullets from the chamber to show that it's loaded.

A man suspected of killing a West Virginia sheriff remained hospitalized early Thursday, with officials describing his condition as "touch and go."

A veteran New York police officer is accused of equipping a robbery crew with state-of-the art New York police equipment and helping them loot drug dealers out of a million dollars.

CNN's Erin McLaughlin reports on the two men convicted of planning to kill singer Joss Stone.

Investigators arrested a suspect but were still searching for a motive Wednesday after a West Virginia sheriff known for his tough stance on drug dealers was shot dead in his patrol vehicle.

Brian Banks wore the uniform of a prison inmate for more than five years, serving time for a rape he didn't commit. This week, he learned he'll be wearing an Atlanta Falcons jersey.

Authorities continue to look for the person who killed an Army civilian employee in a parking lot outside a Fort Knox building, in a shooting that they said stemmed from a personal dispute.

It's been five days since Kaufman County's top prosecutor and his wife were found shot to death in their own home.

Gun legislation that advocacy groups call the strongest and most comprehensive to be taken up across the nation moved closer to passage early Thursday as the Connecticut House approved the tough gun measure.

Colorado authorities are looking for two members of the white supremacist prison gang known as the 211 Crew in connection with the killing of state prisons chief Tom Clements.

The U.S. State Department is offering $5 million for information leading to the "arrest, transfer or conviction" of three top leaders of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), including it's leader, Joseph Kony, the department announced Wednesday.

Police believe a Louisiana couple abducted their two children early Wednesday after breaking into the Florida home of the children's grandmother and tying her up.