An unarmed man was shot by a Virginia sheriff's deputy about an hour after the same deputy gave the man a ride home, Virginia State Police confirmed to CNN.

© Courtesy The Cochran Firm Isaiah Brown.

An attorney for Isiah Brown, 32, said his client was shot while on the phone with 911 after the deputy -- who had returned to respond to a "domestic incident," per state police -- mistook a phone for a gun.

Brown was taken to a local hospital after the shooting early Wednesday with serious but non-l...

© NYPD. Cops are searching for the person who opened fire on a street in Crown Heights earlier this week.

CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — Police are asking the public's help to find a shooter who opened fire on a Crown Heights street in broad daylight earlier this week.

The suspect was caught on surveillance video firing multiple rounds on Carroll Street near Utica Avenue just before 5 p.m. on Monday, according to police. He then fled toward Rochester Avenue, police said.

There were no injuries or ...

Correction: A previous version of this article misspelled Anuraag Routray’s last name. This version has been updated.

© Kim Raff/FTWP WEST JORDAN, UT - APRIL 17: Monica Martinez tested positive shortly after her first vaccine dose in January – but she had traveled back from the holidays and experienced symptoms the day she went to get her shot. She is photographed near her home in West Jordan, UT on Sat. April 17, 2021. (Photo by Kim Raff for The Washington Post)

The 29-year-old celebrated...

Attorney who sexted client’s 14-year-old daughter disbarred

An attorney who sent sexual requests to a client’s teenage daughter in Pennsylvania has been disbarred by the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Jeffrey Toman, formerly of Cherry Hill, sent his client’s then 14-year-old daughter pictures of his penis, FaceTimed her while masturbating, asked her to send pictures of her in her bikini and asked to come over w...

DJ Whoo Kid was detained by the NYPD earlier this week while he was leaving work at the SiriusXM office in Manhattan. 

Nassau County Sheriffs scooped up the G-Unit affiliate on an outstanding family court warrant on Monday (Aug. 8), reports TMZ. According to the site, Kid had a warrant for missing a court date, and police records showed that he was two years behind on child support. 

Whoo Kid reportedly had to prove that he was up to date on his payments before he was released. 

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CAPE MAY COUNTY — The woman who State Police say used a fake driver's license to withdraw nearly $10,000 from a bank account has been identified.

Angela B. Comfort of Pelham, N.Y. is suspected of leaving a PNC Bank in the Marmora section of Upper Township on Aug. 25 with money belonging to a Pennsylvania woman.

A warrant has been issued for her arrest, State Police said this morning.

Comfort, 23, will be charged with theft by deception, possessing a ...

Sick as this may sound, the super-slick HD depiction of a pseudo-ninja murdering American journalist James Foley is, not least, a recruiting video. In the warped world of new-generation jihadists—especially those coming out of Western cities—hacking off heads has become a status symbol.

That’s why an Australian lunatic among the ISIS forces posted a pic...

Boiling Spring Lakes, North Carolina (CNN) -- A North Carolina detective justifiably shot a schizophrenic 18-year-old because he believed another officer's life was in danger, a group representing police officers said, offering an account vastly different from that of the late teen's outraged family.

The North Carolina Police Benevolent Association laid out its version of what happened in Boiling Spring Lakes in a statement issued Wednesday, three days after Keith Vidal was killed.

The ...