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Of the 10 cities population 250,000 or more with the highest violent crime rates, Trump has sent National Guard troops to just one: Memphis, Tennessee.

Devyn Michaels, standing in a Las Vegas courtroom Thursday for her sentencing in the death and decapitation of her children's father, announced she’d never stop fighting to prove her innocence.

Washington state’s parole board this week will hear the case of one of the so-called “Hillside Stranglers” who murdered numerous women and girls, including two in Washington, in the late 1970s.

The number of violent crimes reported in Missoula dropped in 2024 with the exception of sexual intercourse without consent, though that reporting category saw multiple victims report a single individual, according to the Missoula Police Department.

An ordinance change lowering a misdemeanor charge to a civic infraction for certain violations of city code survived the Missoula City Council intact on Monday night.

The Missoula City Council could reduce the penalty for certain code violations from a criminal misdemeanor to a civic infraction in cases where a penalty isn't already specifically under municipal law.

With a new mayor set to take office and critical tweets by one council member, the City Council will delay its decision on an urban camping ordinance until early next year.

A Kalispell man who admitted to threatening to kill Montana U.S. Senator Jon Tester in calls to his office was sentenced today to two and a half years in prison in Missoula District Court, to be followed by three years of supervised release, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

Is Oakland in decay, or moving on up? Oaklanders and criminal justice experts defend the city saying a sudden crime wave in July does not undo all the work done to improve "The Town" in recent years.

Tents and trash line streets, public drug use has skyrocketed since the state decriminalized possession of small amounts of drugs in 2020 with the city experiencing record-breaking numbers of homicides in the past three years.